Now as for the contracting issue, I will first start to say that I was and have never been a fan of Fenty but to his credit he is getting stuff done. These conversations are a prime example of what is wrong with folks, you want folks to get things done and but when the do you complain about how they do it. Yeah, he may not have done this the way most folks do but you know what most folks don't get it done.

Now as for the dumb ass who mentioned Barry, don't dare talk about if he would have done this, he has done enough bullshit in this city which is horrible just in the past 4 years. This is the same man who gives out grants for campaign contributions and puts women out for not blowing him. Yeah, great example, real talk, Barry aint been good in 10 - 15 years.

Now as for the rest of the contracts and the so called city council, the council is full of crap which is why they are not speaking, when they had the chance to reject the $240 plus million project awarded to Whiting Turner a Baltimore Firm over Tompkins/Turner Builders a DC Based firm, they all sat on their damn hands because like so many others they lack testicular fortitude.

If you all are going to continue to bytch and complain offer some real solutions. While we are on it, we talk and complain about teachers being fired, well lets look at it, DC has had the worse schools in the country for more than 15 years so to be honest there is no teacher who can claim to have received a good review. You all are failing constantly, so who cares if you get fired, real talk most of you all are not DC Residents anyway, I'm tired of my damn tax funds going out of the city anyway.

As for schools, that is Fenty's favorite issue. Perhaps he has latent issues from his childhood. There certainly are a lot of stories that he was ADHD, had an IEP that wasn't met and that he was bullied and would run away from other kids until he got to his front porch where he would talk trash.

Well, some children do go to schools that have been historically better maintained or nicely renovated -- i.e., Oyster, Lafayette, Murch, Eaton, other Ward III and Ward IV schools -- but that is NOT the case for children all over the city. Furthermore, if all schools were equal, Fenty, Rhee and Reinoso would not take advantage of their jobs/status and send their children to out of boundary schools. So ... that speaks volumes. At any rate, until all children receive an equal education in equal buildings with an equal opportunity to succeed, not a damn thing has changed about schools. The marginal three percent of improvement last year is nothing to celebrate. Also, look at test scores in the better off schools and you'll see very little movement from proficient to advanced. And those students' parents have graduate degrees and pay for tutors. So what gives?

Moreover, enrollment numbers are still being fudged because now the chancellor's office is putting out propaganda that the numbers won't be solid until fall. Well, it is fall.

Firing 338 people after hiring 900 during the summer was deceitful and quite frankly insulting to the average person's intelligence, yet so many purportedly well-educated people believe the hype and lies. Pathetic. Continuing to fire people along racial lines and at the top of the chain in terms of experience is illegal and a marginalist practice. No one is "hollering racism or agism" because the statistics speak for themselves. No one ever wants to look at things along those lines so maybe it's a coincedence that 72% of the persons in Rhee's last workplace slaugher just happen to be Black and Hispanic, people largely 40 and over. Still think that's an accident? Well, the younger teachers have come in with the mentality they are better than the 'older' people being pushed out. That's Teach For America, The New Teacher Project and DC Fellowspeak for "We're younger, whiter and therefore better." Speak to some of the children who are being told that they are as ignorant as their parents. Listen to Rhee as she says the parents are as behind as their children. Then think about that.

It is a fact that Fenty's buddies Sinclair Skinner and others are benefitting from city funds. Too many incidents like fire truck donations, party funds and so forth have happened. Finally, it really comes down to what a person's priorities are. For the have nots in DC who are struggling to rear their kids and to make daily bills, there are bigger priorities than recreation centers, fancy school renovations and dog parks. In closing, a lot of the nitpicking the haves make is based on the little extras they want to see in their communities. A lot of people in the city have to choose among the utilities they will pay for the month. They have had to give pets away because they can't afford to take care of them and their children anymore.

So if recreation centers mean a lot more to some than others, which is certainly their right to prioritize, look at baseline priorities. No law says DC must be for the elite but the elite are the priority for Fenty -- and he isn't even elite himself but a want-to-be. There is, however, an unwritten edict that government is of the people, by the people, for the people. Simply put, everyone gets a say, not just the rich who want to play or walk their dogs.