DISD Candidate Damarcus Offord Filed an Ethics Complaint Against Mike Rawlins Today

Think about it this way.  You are being tried for a crime.  Whom do you want on your jury: a man of limited intellect who DOES know right from wrong; or  blow dried, picture perfect tool of the monied establishment?

eyewannano0 minutes agoin reply to Wallyjohnson2Who is the HR Asst director. Are you referring to the city of Dallas or DISD. Is this same lady who directed the city of Dallas redistricting? I heard she was assigned to HR

Duhhmarcus Offord is a real dumbass and too slow. My god, I cannot imagine this dumbass deliver a speech to a graduating class at a graduation. They have my permission to throw tomatoes at him. What a joke.

If you ask me, the mayor has made a simple rookie mistake.  He has clearly violated written legal and moral principals.  And some of us will forgive him - after all, .this is his first time serving in a political office...Right?...But this is the way I like to see politics played out..."Under the table double dealing" countered by an old fashioned set of sunny South Dallas knuckles to the nose - in broad open daylight in front of the open eyes of the world. I want to see the mayor shuffle his way out of this mess. Did Frank Luntz teach him enough of that "Orwellian double speak" in that class he payed so much for awhile back to get out of this situation? How will Orwellian double speak do against a figurative set of sunny South Dallas knuckles to the nose?  

And it says so much for big D that the only politician with enough cojones and sense to do the right thing is the baby in the bunch.  Congratulations Mr. Offord! And may you avoid the many cesspools in Dallas politics as you work to represent the people.

Haterz gonna hate.

as least its not a gaping vag!  

C'mon all.. We al know this is a conflict and the Mayor is playing games here. He should know better than that. That's shady shit right there. 

Mayor Rawlins as they say is all hat and no cattle.

Shut up kid.  I run dis biz.

Ethics in Dallas??? Who are they trying to kid?

Whurr duh wite wimmioenz at?

So, which is worse: A young brother who misspells rawlings or a current mayor teetering on an ethics violation with his endorsements via a shady PAC? I'll take the young man w/ vision over a sister in the pocket of the man any day..

First off... I know this f*cker did not say "aka" in an official ethics complaint.  Second, where is the heading or where is his signature??? Forget misspelling Rawlings name, this is out of line from the beginning.  Wow, and you all want him to lead your students.  It doesn't matter that he cannot create a formal document which all high school graduates will have to learn to do (or can google it), it doesn't matter that he doesn't have an economic alternative to not close those schools down.  It's just important to know that he wouldn't have voted to close those schools down. 

Anyways. Section 12A-10 clearly states that any city official (which means, Mayor, Councilmembers even Mary Suhm) cannot use the prestige of that position on behalf of a candidate as well as states that as long as they don't do that, then they can lend their name. What about this do you not get???  He said Mike Rawlings there is no prestige of official position by saying that...

The #2 in his statement is a pretty good argument but again it is not an endorsement bc there is nothing opposing EducateDallas, there aren't any alternatives. You endorse one candidate over another.  You can't endorse quote un quote EducateDallas if there is no alternative choice.  It's merely as he stated "working close together". They are not trying to win anything over another political committee.

The board retreat complaint... c'mon now. It was a DISD not a campaign retreat, so the comments there were in regards to how can the Mayor and City of Dallas help DISD out, not there individual campaigns.

Bottom line is Bernadette Nutall sadly is in trouble and is in jeopardy of losing her seat to this guy. Greater than her loss of her seat will be the loss to the students of District 9, because you (the parents/voters, Mr. Offord who doesnt attend DISD or have children that do as well as Joyce Formen and Juanitta Wallace that don't have children in the district) are mad about 5 under popullated schools being closed down. And even if she did vote to keep them open the vote would have still been 4-3.

demarcus be de manz....he look jes like my son wud luk if I had me sum sons.Obozo.

1. Has anyone listened to Bernadette speak? Her grammar often  leaves a lot to be desired.

2. I was sickened when I heard about this mayor's actions on KERA this morning. Here I was, on my way to school, to give Day #1 of the week of TAKS, and I hear the Mayor try to sidestep his way out of an ethics complaint by saying, "I drove myself to the event..." Or something like that. THAT makes it okay? If you have to cut it that thin, uh-uh.

3. Combine that with speaking with Arne Duncan over who my next boss should be? What, the city is so well-handled, this is his job now? Come over to Buckner Terrace, Mr. Mayor. Explain to me why this part of I-30 is so run-down, so lackingin major retail--you know, so my students would have places to get jobs. You have free time? Get a Kroger's to open over here.

4. Over the last two years, slowly, some of us are chipping away at the Oligarchy that controls this city and DISD. They are so scared, they created a PAC--wait, TWO PACs and donated $10,000 to candidates even before filing deadlines had passed. Why? To scare of opponents. It did not work. Rookie mistake. They won't do that again. But they showed their fear. 

5.  Offord is so young, so naive, you almost have to root for him. In a town where envelopes of "walking around money" float through the black community, where a couple of Hispanic families think they have a birthright to virtually ANY elected office they can fill with yet another relative, and the "business community" has NEVER had an open free-for-all forum to meet with teachers, yet seems to know what it is to run schools---hell, I have to vote for this guy.

So at the same time that this violation is clear, maybe this can get us talking about the fact that some people just legally shouldn't be allowed to express political opinions. I'm thinking of religious leaders here even moreso than the mayor. If they want to advise their congregants on political matters, they should give up their tax exempt status just like other lobbying groups. At some point, people need to be grown ups and realize that taking certain positions within society make a person synonymous with an institution. Jeffress can pretend he goes on Fox News as John Q Secularist giving his personal opinion, but churches have very effectively lobbied to be excluded from employment laws based on the fact that their spiritual leaders cannot have an expectation that their private lives are their own. Which is it? It can't be both.

  get good at ethics mr offord youare gonna need it in disd...just look at the posting below...hmmmmi wonder who the girl is going to be that will have to be on her knees all day???? they emphasis great ORAL skills

http://www.applitrack.com/dall... anyone had any doubt how this superintendent would rule this is pretty much all the proof you will need to see what the future will hold. This guy is oging to spend like drunken sailor paying all of his buddies, consultant contracts will bloat again like when we paid 50K for Steven Covey to speak 2 days, the greasing of hands, etc. A position that only requires a GED paying from 57K-103K she MUST be really HOT! A ged can get you PAID is you got the right rack, shake it right, show enough to tease, oh yeah!!

 Mayor Mike as seen on TV... Both-sides at once.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Something isn't right about this. There's no way this was written by Offord. I'm not impugning the man's intelligence, but this reads like something a lawyer put together. If I were Offord I'd look very carefully at the person that wrote this complaint. Perhaps Bernadette Nutall or Educate Dallas called in a favor to make the young man look bad.

I'm not saying they did or they didn't but if you think something like that isn't possible you haven't been following politics in Dallas closely enough.

I'd give that a 85.

TNB

Business-as-usual, oh-well-what-can-be-done, one-person-can't-make-a-difference....

Maybe those days are seeing the beginning of their end.

We need more Offords to stop accepting the status quo that has created a $1 billion school district that is a corrupt mess.

I don't know him, but I like that someone is not going down against these same-ole, same-ole "business people" without a fight.

Mike Rawlings arrives to forums for SB candidate events with taxpayer paid security detail and in his city vehicle. Who does he think he is, the mayor?

I'm considering filing my own ethics complaint against Mayor Mike Rawlings for sharing confidential city information with Private Citizen Mike Rawlings in violation of Section 12A-6(b) of the City of Dallas Code of Ethics.