The growing scandal around Marion Barry becomes operatic. Records show the ethically challenged Washington D.C. Council member and former mayor apparently directed nearly $1 million in city funds to groups under the control of his own staff. The newly anti-gay Barry blames the investigation on an openly gay Council member, reports Gay Politics.
Barry is accusing his openly gay colleague, David Catania, of targeting him on unrelated ethics questions because Barry refused to support a measure that resulted in the District government recognizing legally-married same-sex couples, according to report by a local FOX News affiliate. Barry, a longtime supporter of LGBT rights in D.C., has cited dischord between the LGBT community and African-American religious leaders for his current stance on marriage equality.
At stake is nearly $1 million in city funds directed to six alleged non-profit groups in SE Washington DC. Washington City Paper reports: "The [incorporation] documents were drawn up by paid Barry staffers and notarized by a close political ally of Barry." In addition, a woman who managed one of the groups claims Barry's office forged her signature on fraudulent documents. Catania wants the Inspector General to investigate.
The four-times married, ex-convict, tax-evading crack addict caught in an FBI sting with a prostitute recently declared himself one of the city's "moral leaders." Barry, who is currently married, is also being investigated for giving his girlfriend a job and has been charged with stalking her in a public park. Will he also blame this on "teh gays"? And what does fellow "moral leader" and anti-gay crusader Bishop Harry Jackson (@BishopHarry) think about Barry's stalking and extra-marital sexcapades?
Marion Barry is a buffoon and an embarrassment. The only time I had sympathy for him was when he was caught by the FBI smoking crack with a prostitute. I felt that arrest represented a gross abuse of police powers. He was essentially nabbed for being a drug addict. The prostitute was a friend of his that dangled drugs in front of his face. A crack addict won't turn down anyone offering crack. Even some conservatives didn't like what the FBI did.
With all of that being said, he is messed up in the membrane. He is still a crook and a fraud -- whether or not he's on drugs. That will never change. If it were true that a gay councilman is causing problems for Marion, then more power to him. It's about time to collect names and begin to scratch people off the list one by one. This is a war, and it must be fought hard and dirty, taking no prisoners. I just wish that the people of DC would stop voting for this clown. Hasn't he screwed up enough?
Posted by: Ravenback | 15 July 2009 at 12:22
When in doubt, deny. When in trouble, blame the gays. That's Marion Barry's current playbook.
Posted by: Nathan James | 15 July 2009 at 12:50
OMG! I just had a idea for a Great and Highly Comical Broadway Play! Sarah Palin and Marion Barry to star in "Boo Boo and the Fool"! I'm gonna start writing it now.
I don't know which one I'm more tired of, LOL!!
Posted by: Isis | 15 July 2009 at 13:41
lol @ isis
both of them are fools imho
Posted by: Tandio | 15 July 2009 at 13:51
crackhead!
Posted by: FREELEO | 15 July 2009 at 14:13
YEP, BLAME THE GAYS...
Posted by: THEGAYTKEEPER | 15 July 2009 at 15:36
i hate this crackhead fool nearly as much as i hate obama
see the latest broken promise and gay betrayal and gwb cloned move by obama
shame!!!!!!!!!
http://www.alternet.org/rights/141229/obama_puts_evangelical_in_charge_of_national_institutes_of_health_--_will_his_religion_get_in_the_way_of_science/
Posted by: alicia banks | 15 July 2009 at 15:58
Marion Barry is a mess!
I am a DC native and he's always up to something stupid.
But here's the real T. Barry got in bed with opposition to a vote that THE ENTIRE COUNCIL was in agreement with EXCEPT FOR HIM and he wants to blame the gay for HIS ethics scandal. But here's the deal Marion: IF HE DID DO IT, ITS POLITICS!!! You can't bite the hand of people who are in conjunction with behind the scenes and then change your vote and your voice to get in bed with someone else and not expect repercussions, can you?
You do know how to spell repercussions, Councilman Barry? It's spelled:
P-A-Y-B-A-C-K!
It's about time somebody stood up to you and your gutter street politics and poor-people-pimpin'! It's Catania was the one who was FINALLY MAN ENOUGH TO STAND UP AGAINST YOU AND YOUR "I RUN DC" MENTALITY, THEN THATS MY KIND OF MAN!!!
Posted by: TheRevKev | 17 July 2009 at 12:56
Barry was all with the gays when he needed the votes. Now today he is singing a different story. Rev. Wilson of Union Temple distance himself far from Barry when he was getting ready to run again. You would think he would have been in Barry corner after all Barry did for him when he was Mayor of DC. The funny thing is like they say Kama is a b!tch and it will come back and bite ya. I am going all the way with Councilman Catania.
Posted by: Anuksulaman | 21 July 2009 at 10:10