Comments on: Documents Reveal More Details on Fenty Travel

By: ANYBODY BUT FENTY

ANYBODY BUT FENTY — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:46:35 +0000

I would hope the sec. for the city is not hiding info....because their is no way fenty, family, seciruty and an extra woman can travel all those places for 2600.00

By: Mike DeBonis

Mike DeBonis — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:55:47 +0000

The two trips to Dallas and Miami together cost $2600. The New York trips were considerably cheaper.

By: Angry Al Gonzales

Angry Al Gonzales — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:37:27 +0000

There is no documentation re expenses of Fenty's "security" apparatus. Also, where is the funding re Fenty's family? Did Fenty or his wife pay taxes on the gifts from the Chinese government or the UAE government?

By: Fred

Fred — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:08:15 +0000

# Tom Says:
June 4th, 2009 at 3:50 pm

More insightful is that the DC Charter school Board has much higher funding than the State Board of Education. Just amazes me that as much as everyone talks about reform no one digs into the weeds and see’s that reform is really elimination of public schools

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Tom - you're right, but many of us have been squawking about that for years.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:13:16 +0000

Eight trips, in total, cost $2,600? That's an average of just over $300 bucks a trip.

How the hell does the Mayor, and presumably some security entourage or at least an assistant, travel to New York, Dallas and Miami 8 times for 300 bucks a pop? I need to get his travel agent working for me.

Not that the actual cost would be a ridiculous amount of money in the grand scheme of things. But it was never about the money. It's about the fact that we don't know what the hell is going on with him, ever, and he acts like there's no reason we should care what our mayor is doing.

By: Downtown rez

Downtown rez — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:04:16 +0000

That's because it's not, Tom.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:50:49 +0000

More insightful is that the DC Charter school Board has much higher funding than the State Board of Education. Just amazes me that as much as everyone talks about reform no one digs into the weeds and see's that reform is really elimination of public schools

By: Mike DeBonis

Mike DeBonis — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:23:09 +0000

Never said it was insignificant! Never heard of it though; thought that would be the case for others, so offered a little context.

By: Q

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:18:45 +0000

$2600 of City taxpayer financed trips!?! That's all they could find, geez, come back when you got some real info! That little bit of money is almost an insult. Either Fenty is doing a good deal of hiding information or this is a NON-STORY! LL, the rain must be on your brain today.

BTW, what's with the slight towards Paul Quinn College? Just because it is an HBCU and has less than 1000 matriculating students doesn't mean it is insignificant. No, it is not Georgetown, but it is a college nonetheless.