[Mintwood-place] mystery solved

Tue Oct 4 22:36:46 EDT 2011

Perhaps "Lamar" can tell us:

Whether Adams Morgan Day was just a break-even proposition again this year

If MainStreet principals have ownership interest in companies hired as consultants/coordinators for Adams Morgan Day

Whether "Lamar" or anyone from MainStreet or MainStreet the nonprofit received any revenue from the hotel developers

Whether Lisa is still as she says "working behind the scenes" to get certain neighborhood businesses closed down by dc government authorities.

Jim Nixon 

Sent from my iPhone

On Oct 4, 2011, at 15:32, "Denis James" <denisjames at verizon.net> wrote:

> Everyone, please see below to see who “Lamar Cousins” really is:
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>  www.mylife.com/lisaduperier     mylife.com/kaliseal 
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> From: mintwood-place-bounces at lists.mutualaid.org [mailto:mintwood-place-bounces at lists.mutualaid.org] On Behalf Of Denis James
> Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 1:22 PM
> To: kaliseal at aol.com; AdamsMorgan at yahoogroups.com; mintwood-place at lists.mutualaid.org
> Subject: Re: [Mintwood-place] no public notice of October 4 ANC 1C PZTCommittee mtg
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> “Lamar”,
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> Why don’t you come out from hiding and reveal who you really are?
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> For someone to have all the details that you seem to have of what happens at this or that meeting over the years, someone like me who knows just about everyone at any given community meeting would surely have been introduced by now or come to know at least who you are.
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> I strongly suspect that this is just a nom de plume of convenience for one of the usual scavengers trying to suck up some of the loose change floating around the proposed hotel project.
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> I stand by my former statements on this subject. I always sign my real name to everything I write. I have no on-line alter-egos.
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> Denis James
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> From: mintwood-place-bounces at lists.mutualaid.org [mailto:mintwood-place-bounces at lists.mutualaid.org] On Behalf Of kaliseal at aol.com
> Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 1:07 PM
> To: AdamsMorgan at yahoogroups.com; mintwood-place at lists.mutualaid.org
> Subject: Re: [Mintwood-place] no public notice of October 4 ANC 1C PZTCommittee mtg
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> Interesting. 
>    Chris when you were on the  Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC), your Committee did not post notices 7 days in advance and neither did the ANC as a whole always do so, and yet neither you nor Denis said anything about the "DC Code" whenever the technicality of notices was not met. (For large, one-time special meetings a higher standard has always been followed.)
>    There have been more total ANC, residential, and developer meetings about this hotel project than any other development project in the history of Adams Morgan. (may rank pretty high city-wide). Your crack about "disservice to the community" is absurd given the total number of meetings, and given the standard you followed you when an ANC commissioner.
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>    Denis, under the previous ANC chair, the agenda of committees was almost never published in advance, and you did not  complain, write about it on the list servs... nor did anyone of us, because a few days notice is fine. Also, everyone knows you have been unerring about publishing, usually more than once, your Kalorama Citizens Association (KCA) meetings on the list servs, and that your meeting for the hotel Vote on "concerns for planning"  is the first time you did not do so.
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>    Your sanctimony does not sit well with many and now causes me me to be less supportive of you than I have been in the past. Since Wes Combs decided to speak up, some others of us feel we should also.
> Regards, Lamar Cousins
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> From: Chris Version II.O <chrisotten2 at yahoo.com>
> To: kaliseal <kaliseal at aol.com>; adamsmorgan <adamsmorgan at yahoogroups.com>; wreynoldsanc <wreynoldsanc at aol.com>; denisjames <denisjames at verizon.net>  Cc: mintwood-place <mintwood-place at lists.mutualaid.org>;
> Sent: Fri, Sep 30, 2011 11:21 pm  Subject: Re: [Mintwood-place] no public notice of October 4 ANC 1C PZT Committee mtg
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> Actually, to clarify as a former Commissioner, ANC's by DC Code are to give at least 7 days notice of publicly held meetings.  In fact for the 2010 December special ANC meeting about the proposed hotel project, because the initial call was not put out within 7 days of the meeting, it had to be rescheduled.
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> This hotel project is of critical importance to the future of our neighborhood.  By not noticing this meeting, it certainly does a disservice to our community -- at least the community that is online.  For those who are not, it seems they are left in the dark almost all the time.
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> Chris O.  202-536-4065
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> From: "kaliseal at aol.com" <kaliseal at aol.com>
> To: adamsmorgan at yahoogroups.com; wreynoldsanc at aol.com; denisjames at verizon.net
> Cc: mintwood-place at lists.mutualaid.org; wcombs at witeckcombs.com
> Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 12:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [Mintwood-place] no public notice of October 4 ANC 1C PZT Committee mtg       
>         Denis, am generally supportive of you, but you look silly and mean spirited for writing this to the listservs.  "What's Up with that" is that ANC committees as a rule usually post their meetings 48-72 hours in advance because no one pays much attention before that.  "What's Up with that" is you are the Pot calling the Kettle black because you held the last KCA meeting with a Vote on the hotel issue and for the first time ever you failed to post notice of the meeting on any ListServ anywhere at any time -- which you always do without fail,  and you did not put any flyers on the street as you usually do. Wesley Combs rightly called you out on this during your own KCA Sept meeting.  "What's Up with that" is you have been in the room when this Oct 4 PZT meeting and date was announced at both the ANC1C Sept 7. monthly meeting and at PZT meeting on Sept 19. 
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> Regards, Lamar Cousins
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> -----Original Message-----
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> From: Denis James <denisjames at verizon.net>
> To: kaliseal <kaliseal at aol.com>; adamsmorgan <adamsmorgan at yahoogroups.com>; wreynoldsanc <wreynoldsanc at aol.com>
> Cc: mintwood-place <mintwood-place at lists.mutualaid.org>; wcombs <wcombs at witeckcombs.com>
> Sent: Sat, Oct 1, 2011 2:23 am
> Subject: RE: no public notice of October 4 ANC 1C PZT Committee mtg
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> As Chris Otten has pointed out, ANC’s by law, must give 7 days public notice of their meetings. If I had not written today, what notice would have been given by the ANC for the Tuesday, October 4, 7 pm PZT meeting at the Festival Center, 1640 Columbia Road, where the Church Hotel and the Comprehensive Plan will be discussed?
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> So, I would hope that more folks than just me would be concerned about notice for ANC meetings. These are publicly elected officials, whose “great weight” affects us in many ways.
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> In fact, the nature and subject matter of these PZT meetings is a topic that KCA and Reed-Cooke Neighborhood Association leadership has repeatedly written to PZT and ANC Chair Wilson Reynolds about, seeking clarity on the topics to be covered and when, and the frequency of such meetings.
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>  But we have had no meaningful response. It is critical that a well-planned public process take place for a project of such size and scope. Additionally, Mr. Reynolds has not named the topics of future meetings on this issue at the earlier meetings you reference, just that a meeting will take place, something that is regularly scheduled as shown on the ANC website.
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> As to your criticism of me and KCA actions, all KCA dues-paying members receive our printed newsletter, mailed 1st class US mail, which announced the meeting and agenda items, and every member who has shared their e-mail address with us also gets timely notice. In addition, it is well known, and published on our website, that KCA meets on the 3rd Thursday of each month, September through June.
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>  I doubt that this is the first time, nor will it be the last, that I don’t go the extra mile and put up street signs and make list-serve announcements for our meeting.
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> KCA, under my leadership is determined to focus its voice to the various government agencies that allow public participation to us as a 501c3 civic association. That is why we passed a resolution on September 15 listing our concerns about Mr. Friedman’s Hotel PUD application, and that resolution has been forwarded to the Office of Planning as our community comment for inclusion in the report they will prepare for the Zoning Commission.
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>  I note that Mr. Reynolds did make a public apology, explanation and further notice of the meeting in question after my initial posting.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Denis James <denisjames at verizon.net>  To: One List <adamsmorgan at yahoogroups.com>; wreynoldsanc at aol.com> Cc: mintwood-place <mintwood-place at lists.mutualaid.org>  Sent: Fri, Sep 30, 2011 1:06 pm
> Subject: [Mintwood-place] no public notice of October 4 ANC 1C PZT Committee mtg
> Wilson,I visited the ANC 1C website today and found a notice for an ANC 1C PZT committee for October 4th at 7 pm at the Festival Center, 1640 Columbia Road, the topic being the Church Hotel proposal and the DC Comprehensive Plan.But no notice here, or on the Mintwood list.What’s up with that?  Denis
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