Former DC Mayor Marion Barry (now Councilman) failed to file taxes for 7 years...

No one represents the people of DC better than Marion Barry.

21 posted on 10/04/2005 3:22:14 PM PDT by Rosemont

That'll assure him of another re-election in the hood. Good job, Hoover.

22 posted on 10/04/2005 3:23:03 PM PDT by gathersnomoss

"The bitch set me up".

23 posted on 10/04/2005 3:23:38 PM PDT by gathersnomoss

24 posted on 10/04/2005 3:24:15 PM PDT by Michael Barnes

Shocked, shocked I tell you!

25 posted on 10/04/2005 3:25:32 PM PDT by toddlintown (Your papers please.)

Sources said the agreement does not require any jail time and does not involve any fines but it does require Barry to get his records in order and filings up to date.

Try this as a WASP non-politician and see if the bold applies. Fat chance.

26 posted on 10/04/2005 3:26:21 PM PDT by fuquadukie (If you can't hang with the big dogs, then don't jump off the porch.)

The folks that vote for Barry are losers themselves.

... and they keep asking for an official, voting representative to Congress.

Not going to happen in a few lifetimes.

27 posted on 10/04/2005 3:29:08 PM PDT by Trajan88 (www.bullittclub.com)

That is probably why he does not have any money for taxes.

28 posted on 10/04/2005 3:37:18 PM PDT by jim_trent

But now, sources tell News4 that Barry will plead guilty to a misdemeanor offense for failing to pay federal income taxes for seven years.

Shouldn't that be 7 misdemeanor offenses???

29 posted on 10/04/2005 3:44:31 PM PDT by Minnesoootan

"One of his more famous quotes, "I am not complainin', I am explainin' " Some more comments by the mayor. These are actual quotes taken from Mayor Marion Barry, of Washington, D.C.

"The contagious people of Washington have stood firm against diversity during this long period of increment weather." -- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC

"I promise you a police car on every sidewalk." -- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC

"If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate." -- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC

"First, it was not a strip bar, it was an erotic club. And second, what can I say? I'm a night owl." -- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC

"Bitch set me up." -- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC

"I am clearly more popular than Reagan. I am in my third term. Where's Reagan? Gone after two! Defeated by George Bush and Michael Dukakis no less." -- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC

"The laws in this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist." -- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC

"I am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria or Israel. As mayor, I am an international symbol. Can you deny that to Africa?" -- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC

"People have criticized me because my security detail is larger than the president's. But you must ask yourself: are there more people who want to kill me than who want to kill the president? I can assure you there are." -- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC

"The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice." -- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC

"I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican." -- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC

"What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?" -- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC

"People blame me because these water mains break, but I ask you, if the water mains didn't break, would it be my responsibility to fix them then? WOULD IT!?!" -- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC

"I am a great mayor; I am an upstanding Christian man; I am an intelligent man; I am a deeply educated man; I am a humble man." -- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC

30 posted on 10/04/2005 3:46:26 PM PDT by AMERIKA

Truely anyone evidently can rise to power in America.

31 posted on 10/04/2005 3:50:44 PM PDT by samadams2000 (Nothing fills the void of a passing hurricane better than government)

a misdemeanor?....is it that he just didn't file?

32 posted on 10/04/2005 3:51:36 PM PDT by Sub-Driver (Unelect All NJ Politicians....)

Another Memphis breed Black politician.

33 posted on 10/04/2005 3:54:48 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, Over there, we will be there until it is Over there.")

This could actually be the resume-enhancer he needs to win back the mayor's seat in DC.

34 posted on 10/04/2005 3:55:14 PM PDT by workerbee (A person's a person no matter how small.)

To: samadams2000

"Truely anyone evidently can rise to power in America."

AND... he was elected to councilman after his crack smoking days!

35 posted on 10/04/2005 4:01:55 PM PDT by AMERIKA

This is the problem I have with Democrats, and one of the main reasons I would never vote for any Democrat.

They never hold their leaders to any kind of personal moral standard.

Their moral standard seems to be only, "Will they throw money at me, especially if I am somehow perceived to be disadvantaged?"

36 posted on 10/04/2005 4:05:36 PM PDT by I still care (America is not the problem - it is the solution..)

"the law of gravity is racist"

This explains why my wife says the scale hates her...

37 posted on 10/04/2005 4:05:50 PM PDT by Wiseghy (Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. – Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Is glassware deductible?

38 posted on 10/04/2005 4:06:55 PM PDT by Redcloak (We'll raise up our glasses against evil forces singin' "whiskey for my men and beer for my horses!")

"I haven't commited a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law." Mayor David Dinkens, D, African American Mayor of NYC. about his failure to file income tax returns.

39 posted on 10/04/2005 4:11:57 PM PDT by Roccus (Able Danger? What's an Able Danger?)

Bush obviously intercepted his W-2's. Bush's fault.

40 posted on 10/04/2005 4:13:48 PM PDT by thefactor

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