Dennis Moore for DC Mayor

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CONGRATULATIONS MAYOR-ELECT ADRIAN FENTY! You and the council member winners of the 2006 elections deserve real praise for your accomplishments on behalf of the District of Columbia electorate. In the coming months before and after your transition, it is my hope that every effort will be made to assist you and the council in an effective effort to empower and improve our city-state. No doubt, genuine and convincing action must be taken to reach out to the more than two-thirds of District voters not participating in the District’s electoral process. I’m praying for your success.


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BEYOND
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WAY BEYOND
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“My plan is a simple one. It is a plan that always puts people first. We live in a major metropolitan capital. Nevertheless, our city-state has a history of major neglect by many public officials --- one or two stores here, a half repaired school there, and genuinely arrogant unaccountable spending everywhere --- none of these failed policies were designed to address the actual everyday needs of diverse hardworking District residents.

Unaccountable officials, administrative arrogance, misguided priorities and shell game budgeting still delays progress toward our real needs. Random and violent crime continues to rise, overpriced basic housing becomes normal, and the educational infrastructure for our children’s future mysteriously disappears behind phony budgets.

We hear the same broken solutions proposed by the same unaccountable leadership. The ugly truth for over 12 long years has been broken policies by the usual unaccountable
so-called leaders pushing all of us further into a socioeconomic divide. The end result is a truly divided unaffordable city suffering from taxation without EXPECTATION.

The first day of a Moore Administration -- with your support -- will take direct, truly responsible, well-planned, and fully accountable action on behalf of the PEOPLE’S best interest and needs.”

Smart, Progressive, People-Focused, Outside-the-Box, Genuine and Unbought...
Mayor For A
New Washington

“Accountability is not an optional choice for casual use by a public official.
It is a leader’s required responsibility and tool for always protecting and serving the real needs of the people. Anything less than that is a corruption of a significant and sacred public trust.”
Dennis Moore
Mayor
For A New Washington

“Real service and full accountability are not great expectations. These are basic requirements for all public servants who serve on behalf of the people whose tax money pays for public salaries. Providing anything less is a fraud against all the citizens
we are paid to serve.”
Dennis Moore
Mayor
For A New Washington

“True leadership and vision is validated when the people recognize that you have provided for real needs beyond their expectations. When this is achieved, it is not the end of a public servant’s responsibility. In fact, it must be more motivation for finding even better ways to serve people.”
Dennis Moore
Mayor
For A New Washington

“Taxation without representation” is not just a slogan about our overdue legitimate right to statehood. Now, it has become taxation without EXPECTATION of real responsible governance. It is a burden created by many of our local public officials with policies that damage genuine long term economic stability, true fiscal responsibility, District-wide community empowerment, public confidence, safety, and a truly functional and fully accountable government for all Washingtonians.”
Dennis Moore
Mayor
For A New Washington

“We can do better because we deserve better. When we commit ourselves to what is best in all of us, everyone of us is empowered by the full-force of all that is best in each person. Then we will have full claim to a real pride in being a resident of America’s most famous hometown as the Nation’s Capital - soon to be the 51st state of New Washington.”
Dennis Moore
Mayor
For A New Washington

“My focus will be on developing immediate and long term financial security. This can be accomplished by continuous investment in infrastructure and major revenue generating projects. My aim is to create real value for every District resident and the public infrastructure that supports us, so that it guarantees long term stability for all families.”
Dennis Moore
Mayor
For A New Washington

“There is no financial, logistical, or political reason that justifies not providing our children with the resources for first class educational achievement. It will be no great effort for me to provide the consistent leadership, will, and resources necessary to empower our children.”
Dennis Moore
Mayor
For A New Washington

“With Ellington Center
I want to develop a minimum of 2,000 full time year-round jobs for DC residents. This project will also create diverse job training opportunities for capable young and older District adults. Innovative, fiscally responsible projects create more District jobs and multiple sources of real revenue. Long term, year-round revenue generating projects reduce the growing tax burden on residents, and expands the sources of reliable and effective funding for people priorities.”
Dennis Moore
Mayor
For A New Washington

“There’s no doubt that we have an untapped source of artistically creative talent throughout our diverse communities. I am fully committed to making DC a world class cultural center for homegrown performing and creative arts. No longer will the spirit and vitality of artistic creativity be reserved for other major US cities.”
Dennis Moore
Mayor
For A New Washington

“Maintaining, honoring and growing our cultural assets will be among several major partnership efforts of a Moore Administration. Beyond the monuments and museums, I envision a New Washington as a vital world class cultural center of inspiring arts and prolific homegrown artists -- with a cutting-edge Martin Luther King Jr. main public library, in its current historic structure centrally located at Gallery Place, that’s digitally linked to smaller 21st century neighborhood branches. This innovation taps into both our heritage and potential, and I will provide new leadership and resources to grow it.”
Dennis Moore
Mayor
For A New Washington

Real Leadership Toward A Family-Friendly DC

10-POINT ACTION PLAN:

Genuine Accountability For All
District Of Columbia Residents
Establishing genuine accountability, real respect for residents, true fiscal responsibility, open government meetings, and constant leadership for people-oriented priorities and policies is the core of my candidacy for District of Columbia mayor -- a public servant who actually serves people -- a mayor who is fully accountable to your interests, not special interests.

Many will say that DC residents don’t want and aren’t ready for any leadership of real change -- the kind of change that genuinely empowers all of us to succeed rather than just survive. I disagree!

This is why the first and every day of a Moore Administration will be committed to guaranteed full disclosure and accounting for all public funds, budgets and spending. As Mayor Moore, I will eliminate any compromises on full accountability, and foster a genuine climate and policy of serving the best interests of every District citizen. This is a commitment, not a campaign promise.

My policies are rooted in the principle of creating public and private prosperity by focusing on the needs of DC residents first. Above all, real accountability and respect for all District residents!

Aggressive Enforcement Against Waste Of Public Funds & Fraud
As Mayor Moore, ending waste and lowering the overall tax burden on District residents, homeowners, job-generating businesses and innovative business growth will be a very high priority.

To insure that your tax money is not wasted, there will be a new standard to investigate, aggressively prosecute and eliminate administrative waste, mismanagement, misappropriation and misdirection of taxpayer funds. A real ‘watchdog’ will be created as a fail-safe Central Accounting and Payroll System (CAPS) to end revenue waste, fraud and shell game budgeting policies.

Every District taxpayer will receive a quarterly printed and online copy of the DC government budget and reader-friendly ‘State of the District’ reports. Producing truly balanced budgets will always be the bottom line. Aggressive monitoring of full funding for school, police, fire, medical and public works budgets will be the new standard. Anti-fraud enforcement will be certain and swift.

As Mayor Moore, my focus will be on developing immediate and long term financial security. This can be accomplished by continuous investment in infrastructure and major revenue generating projects. My aim is to create real value for every DC citizen and the infrastructure that supports us, and ensure long term economic stability with growth for residents and businesses.

Truly Affordable Housing & Home
Ownership For A Family-Friendly DC
If we cannot provide genuinely affordable housing in the District, then what is the point of planning a future? -- a future where DC’s economically diverse residents working hard to earn $10,000 to $100,000 per year, especially moderate income families who also generate major revenue -- can’t afford to stay !

As Mayor Moore, there will be a higher commitment to creating sustainable public and private partnerships that increase citywide construction of truly affordable apartments and homes for family-friendly neighborhoods with real green space. Many of these partnerships, with strict oversight, will allow viable DC community groups to immediately develop abandoned, abused or unused property. Our homeless families need homes, not warehousing.

DC residents will finally have a major role in their community’s development from the beginning and beyond opening day.
I know from experience that equitable resident and developer partnerships create greater community benefits and fiscal stability. History proves that empowered communities create higher value when residents are invested in its development.

My leadership will create a Capital Construction Authority to hire experienced and trainable DC residents to build and restore small schools, affordable housing, and disadvantaged business space. We have far too much badly developed and resident-unfriendly urban space that is a socioeconomic drain on our communities.

A significant part of my affordable housing action plan also involves comprehensive improvements and stricter enforcement of rent control laws. There will be effective enforcement of anti-discrimination and safe housing laws with more severe penalties, including the enforcement of fully functional fail-safe security and fire systems for all multiple family properties.

Increase & Protect Employment
Opportunities For DC Residents
A key part of my 10-Point Action Plan will
be to attract and expand businesses that create permanent work opportunities for qualified District residents.

Developing fully funded self-employment and small business training programs, including employment partnerships to bring businesses and quality jobs to under-served areas will be standard under a Moore Administration.
I will also partner with educators and diverse businesses to create youth and adult training for technical, administrative, small business, home-based business, and service industry jobs.

There will be effective and full time leadership on programs for remedial education, skills training, career counseling and full voting rights for ex-offenders. A most effective way to give ex-offenders a path away from offending society again is a real job and an investment in their future. This simple fact will back-up my continuous investment in diverse technical and nontechnical paid apprenticeship programs for high school seniors and graduates, as well as ex-offenders and displaced adults. Strengthening prosecution against job discrimination will also be a critical element in my DC Works employment plan.

Strengthen Health, Police,
Fire & Emergency Services
Enough cannot be said about the daily
risks, courage and commitments made by our most vulnerable and valuable public servants. I will not play politics, or politricks, on guaranteed full funding for first rate equipment, cutting-edge resources, a $46,000 base salary with a 20-year retirement package, and paid career enhancements for police, fire, rescue, and emergency medical professionals.

A safe and functional city has greater value for residents, visitors, and the business community. As Mayor, I will be committed to creating 16 ward-based 24-hour Community Outreach Policing Service (COPS) programs that establish and maintain strong partnerships and participation from residents. More resources and funding will be provided to target and prevent diverse criminal activity with 8 ward-based plainclothes police units.

I will aggressively seek an increase in penalties and the expansion of enforcement against illegal weapons possession, drug distribution, rape and robbery. Our city-state, under a Moore Administration, WILL have a state-of-the-art forensic crime and cold case Criminal Intelligence Center. The CIC will be just one of several assets in my Overall Public Safety plan. There will also be a stronger and more effective commitment to a comprehensive environmental protection, enforcement, and cleanup program.

A major fully funded Crisis Management Center (CMC) to prepare for, rehearse, respond to, assess, investigate, and prevent diverse disaster threats and events will complete this plan. The CMC will coordinate with, and complement, federal agencies in their disaster management efforts for the Nation’s Capital.

Additionally, I will be most proud of my efforts to upgrade all of DC General Hospital as a world class regional health center to be named Charles Richard Drew Medical Center. In coordination with creating at least 40 small neighborhood healthcare centers, there is no reason to not have a central telephone and Internet access service that allows District residents to schedule any form of healthcare appointments, and receive 24-hour comprehensive family medical advice. Moreover, I hope to have Drew Medical Center serve as a hub for eight ward-based emergency medical facilities to reduce response time and save lives while creating a higher standard of healthcare for all District citizens.

1st Class Neighborhood Schools, Small Classes & Real Academic Accountability
Redeveloping our public school system and publicly funded charter schools into first class and guaranteed fully funded academies -- that support the needs of all DC children -- will be a high priority and major investment in the Moore Administration.

As a father of two, and grandfather of three, providing high quality education choices for every parent will not be a secondary effort under Mayor Moore. Valuing the work of teachers will begin with mandating a $40,000 annual base salary for all teachers, including paid career enhancements, and annual teacher performance assessments. So that teachers don’t have to spend their own hard earned money, this effort will be backed-up by the establishment of fully funded and accountable inventories for diverse teacher supplies and curriculum resources.

Within one year, up-to-date new books, secure-durable wireless laptop computers, fashionable-functional student uniforms, plus on-time building maintenance and repairs will be an everyday standard under my Excellent Schools Plan (ESP). Key to this Plan will be the ISIS system (Information Services Infrastructure for Schools). ISIS will be an innovative tool for empowering students, teachers and parents for online multimedia after-school learning, tutoring, mentoring, real time information, parental advisories, emergency notification, and academic support.

ESP is my mission for resizable walking distance neighborhood schools, with 10-student classrooms geared to student-focused educational excellence -- not mass bureaucracy education.

There is no financial, logistical, or political reason that justifies
not providing our children -- especially our special education achievers -- with the right resources for first class educational achievement. It will be no great effort for me to provide the consistent leadership, student-focused resources, formidable will, and sensitivity needed to equally empower all of our children.

Imagine the exponential benefits of creating personal finance, small business, environmental studies and dispute resolution courses for all school grades. Economics education is one key to personal empowerment. Understanding and protecting our environment insures we’re here to enjoy it. Fully and effectively educating DC’s children expands our socioeconomic vitality.

Real value is also added by creating employer partnerships to establish workplace preschool education centers for working parents. The higher standard of my Excellent Schools Plan is to have our children reading basic books and understanding basic math by age three -- not grade 3. Parents and grandparents, like me, including preschool educators already know this is possible.

This Plan, rooted in higher expectations, will support several effective, innovative and collaborative efforts by our parents, educators and the Moore Administration for DC to have a student-focused education system -- blending the best of public and charter school, academy, high quality choice, and achievement oriented academic environments -- without bureaucratic barriers.

Better Coordinated Family, Youth & Senior Empowerment Programs
It is important to establish an accountable, fully funded and citywide self-support program that locates, assists and effectively empowers disadvantaged families.

I will take aggressive and effective action to simplify access to public services and effective coordination between diverse agencies, organizations and businesses that empower families and individuals to succeed, not just survive. Creating school-based job counseling, life skills mentoring and self-employment training programs will strengthen this effort.

There will be increased focus on strengthening child protection and domestic violence enforcement. This will be followed-up by developing easy and confidential access to monthly house-call mentoring programs on male and female parenting, foster parenting, sexually transmitted disease awareness, healthy life skills, first aid, job searching, and personal finance counseling.

Improve Access & Expand
Senior Citizen Services
As Mayor Moore, I will merge federal, local, private and community resources to fully fund uncomplicated low-cost medication plans, eight ward-based senior health centers and house-call healthcare services.

It will also be one of my priorities to develop a higher standard of services that increase security, crime prevention, outreach, follow-up and better District agency access for seniors.

Since seniors have already made a long term investment in DC, providing free daily Metro bus and train service for all seniors is important. Creating one-stop and house-call services best supports our elders, while simplifying access to diverse agencies, organizations, churches and businesses that assist DC seniors.

But, many of my senior empowerment policies will not be complete until DC has more reduced rate, safe, pleasant and properly equipped housing for seniors. We owe much to the seniors who have sustained our city-state over the years.

Neighborhood Shopping & Cultural Centers
Quality of life in the District is not up to our best standards. Constructing revenue generating moderate low-rise Metroplex Centers (mixed-use neighborhood centers) provide jobs, shopping, and small business space in underserved areas.

My leadership on public/private partnerships will also develop more performance space for local DC artists. In the Moore Administration, fiscally responsible innovative partnerships will begin with Ellington Center -- a year-round megaplex containing an indoor family amusement park, multi-use sports arena, live performance auditoriums, the Capital Life & History Museum, 21st century public library, hotel, 20 theaters, 3 floors of stores, office space, onsite medical care, childcare services, MPD security center, customer service training school, easy Metro access, and underground parking.

Ellington Center, named in honor of DC’s favorite son and America’s national treasure Edward Kennedy ‘Duke’ Ellington, will create a minimum of 2,000 full time year-round DC resident jobs and $250 million in annual District revenue. Innovative, fiscally responsible projects create real jobs and multiple sources of real revenue. Long term, year-round revenue generating projects lower tax burdens on residents and businesses -- and sustains reliable and effective funding for real public priorities.

Project 2012: A Real Statehood Action Plan
I will not be a mayor engaged in policies of symbolism or self-serving political rhetoric about statehood for the District of Columbia. Among my main priorities will be to produce a working
master action plan, functional state constitution,
and a major full time promotional campaign for
the establishment of the state of New Washington by the year 2012. A new standard of focused leadership will make it happen.

There will be formidable efforts made by the Moore Administration to develop, effectively maintain and certify fully functional state-standard DC government systems. A major part of these efforts involve maintaining full and open input from every District citizen.

As Mayor Moore, I will be at the forefront of competent leadership for strong and strategic partnerships with the DC Council, the President, Congress, state senators, governors, mayors and the business community to effectively establish genuine statehood for the District of Columbia -- the 51st state of New Washington.


	PROMISES & CAMPAIGN HYPE vs REAL CHANGE

Pretentious public officials, news media elected candidates and assorted special interests continue to divide and control our city. Behind the headlines, District of Columbia residents are reaching the breaking point of socioeconomic discontent. The hype and deception continues. Recent US Census figures, when sorted and filtered for actual full-time non-transient residents, show the reality of DC population losses in families, permanent residents, and long-term middle-class taxpayers. These losses will create the coming District budget deficits and fiscal imbalances -- especially when much of our money will go to a new baseball stadium, dysfunctional DC agencies, and other revenue wasting mayoral initiatives. Two-thirds of DC Primary voters would not vote for the hype -- or the hypocrisy of democracy, and special interest candidates. Hopefully, most will vote for real change on Tuesday, November 7.
Over 285,000 District voters want real change. District discontent continues and, in many respects, it has increased throughout diverse hard working communities. Though many have chosen to leave DC, it should be no surprise that our rising discontent has less to do with an affiliation to any political party, economic status, ethnic group, ward issue, or the unresolved community complaints passed over by our District public officials.
Our discontent is deeply rooted in the serious lack of real accountability, respect and effective action on the actual common needs of DC residents. This discontent can be eliminated by a mayor with the genuine will, innovative leadership and a real action plan to aggressively and always act in the best interest of District citizens first.
An empowerment oriented progressive Republican mayoral candidate in a major city-state

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long dominated and dependent on Democratic public officials may seem like an impossible challenge -- and received little media attention. But, I confidently believe most District voters are way ahead of the unaccountable officials acting on an alleged “mandate” and “landslide” hype. Can we afford 4 more years of self-serving promises based on shaky records that provided us minimal socioeconomic empowerment? Are low expectations our standard?
Ironically, these same public officials heard, mismanaged and

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paid lip service to the same problems they now claim they want to resolve -- now that they are a mayoral or council candidate. No doubt, we can no longer find comfort in public officials who are again all too comfortable with another four or more years of unaccountable, misguided, pretentious, stale and arrogant District governance.
Older and younger DC voters, longtime and newer residents, as well as families of diverse incomes know the true source behind the decline of truly affordable, safe, prosperous, productive family-friendly living for all District residents. Moreover, we know it is time for real leadership, choice and change.

My mayoral candidacy represents real choice for change. We now know this is the time to make REAL change rather than TALK about it. I am empowered by many District of Columbia residents, like you, who told me the time has come for genuine leadership of change -- a change to policies and priorities benefiting us, the people -- change to a new standard of DC leadership.
Vision without a real action plan is just an empty promise.


	FINALLY! A Public Servant That Serves PEOPLE!

It has always been my contention that the present and future of the District of Columbia resides in the collective potential of its people. The purpose and responsibility of elected public officials is to provide effective leadership and resources that are accountable, forward thinking, and rooted in present day realities -- a mayor focused on serving people. Every DC resident, including the businesses that serve and support us, should be treated respectfully and attentively as a strategic investment for the greater good of our entire city-state. Electing this quality of leadership, integrity and determination for action is what will strengthen and benefit us all. Using the true value of our vote to elect this leadership is the only guarantee.


	Our Exponential Potential

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Nearly 20 years ago, when I first came to permanently live in the District of Columbia from Harlem, there was always a strong sense of what was best about DC, and its greater potential. The sense of family, community, upward mobility, and years of family gatherings with local DC relatives and friends from the 1960s to 80s only strengthened what I already knew. Our hometown, 'The Nation's Capital' and the global center of democracy, can be a real reflection of our true collective potential for genuine socioeconomic empowerment -- our exponential potential.

As Mayor Moore, I will provide a new and higher standard of leadership and motivation that enables diverse District government agencies, proactive public servants, vital community groups, neighborhood associations, families, youth energy, senior wisdom, neighborhood small businesses, DC-based organizations and diverse members of our valuable corporate sector to empower all District residents.

It has always been my contention that the present and future of the District of Columbia resides in the collective potential of its people. The purpose and responsibility of elected public officials is to provide effective leadership and resources that are accountable, forward thinking, and rooted in present day realities -- a paradigm shift benefiting people. Every DC resident, including the diverse businesses that serve and support us, should be treated respectfully and attentively as a strategic investment for the greater good of our city-state.

We have the potential to be a major new state that serves as an example for other sovereign states to follow. History has proven, throughout many civilizations, a society’s greatest potential resides in its people. As I clearly learned from working on Wall Street to K Street, a carefully managed investment produces exponential dividends that enriches and sustains us all. We, and the investment we make in ourselves, are the true source of exponential potential. District leadership that settles for anything less deserves no opportunity to lead.

Dennis Moore
Mayor For A New Washington

Real Choice - Real Change . . . If we cannot provide truly affordable housing in the District, then what is the point of planning a future -- a future where diverse permanent residents who generate permanent tax revenues cannot afford to live here? We cannot afford to continue policies, scams and schemes that are robbing the pockets of District residents. People-oriented priorities will be my priority. I will not compromise on quality affordable housing, first class schools, aggressive crime prevention, citywide resident employment, expanded community-based small business development, functional healthcare access, environmental safety -- and most of all, genuine government accountability. Too many public officials continue to be satisfied with happy-talk hype and pretentious progress. After 12 years, their business-as-usual policies are a corruption of a responsibility provided by District of Columbia citizens.
Educational Empowerment . . . In reality, the miseducation of all District of Columbia children and the mismanagement of our schools are in fact a form social and economic discrimination -- a form of administrative policy that becomes a barrier to future empowerment. Throughout the history of the District, and even the world, education has been society's most valuable socioeconomic commodity. Knowledge is the root of social achievement and economic power. A Moore administration will mandate guaranteed full funding for preschool to college education, including free employment training for adults and ex-offenders. Educated and trained citizens are an economic and social asset. In a fast changing local and global economy, the time is overdue to remove the barriers. We have a responsibility to empower our children.
Aggressive Crime Prevention . . . While growing up, the most important thing I learned about neighborhood crime is -- random violence respects no one -- and bullets don't knock on doors. No crime statistic, no amount of after-the-fact reaction -- and no amount of self-serving political speeches on accomplishments will bring back a life lost to crime. Sooner or later, when an effective anti-crime policy is not in place, street crime and violence invades our home. For the families who lost so much too soon -- for our children who cannot grow in peace and the families who live in fear -- it is time to stop the invasion.
Untapped Potentials . . . The District of Columbia has the highly enviable status of being our hometown, 'The Nation's Capital' and a global power center. Yet, there is room for our untapped potential as a major homegrown center for world class education, business, technology, arts, entertainment and socioeconomic innovation. We owe the struggles of the pasts, the potentials of the present, and the promise of a dynamic future our very best efforts to make our hometown-global-capital a jewel that shines for ALL of us. The bottom line in this election year is making a real choice for real change. My campaign is for District residents who want leadership that will make it happen -- BE about it and not just TALK about it.

There is a rush to lay a large load of concrete and steel, and spend more taxpayer money before Election Day and

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2008 -- despite the lack of thorough environmental impact studies, and guaranteed economic benefits -- beyond the truth that District taxpayers WILL pay for this special interest scam. Expect substantial fiscal imbalances and DC budget deficits after 2007.
But, for now, more of our money will go to escalating excuses to spend more of our money on baseball related projects. As a genuine fiscally accountable Republican, I have great concerns about this taxpayer funded nickel-and-dime deal -- disguised as a revenue generating DC baseball stadium. Another real example of our officials spending the rent money to buy more lottery tickets.
Beyond the hype, happy-talk, and flood of Washington Nationals baseball caps, what happened to that spending cap? -- and what’s behind the doors of those back door deals?
First, the logic of creating the "Office of Baseball" or de facto DC Baseball Commission is pretentious and costly even at $750,000. How many new textbooks or classroom computers will that buy for DC students? How many homeless families can receive permanent housing, rather than warehousing? How much random crime will not be prevented? Where did this “magic money” come from? Where is the real money for a family-friendly DC, and schools? Can you spell f-e-d-e-r-a-l i-n-d-i-c-t-m-e-n-t-s ?
Thinking that another level of bureaucracy will stabilize and validate a bad deal is like putting a crown and gown on a gorilla, then calling it a beauty queen. Was this deal so shaky that only high risk takers would bite? Again, what happened to that “spending cap?”
No doubt, I like baseball -- though less so compared to DC basketball, soccer, hockey and live stage entertainment. The deeper and long-term fiscal truth behind the Washington Nationals baseball stadium is that it's a nickel-and-dime deal hyped as multimillion-dollar baby -- a baby we cannot afford to have, which becomes expensive over time. Remember the Redskins, the Senators, and the RFK-based neighborhood economic benefits hype? Economics 101: Current and future costs must never exceed actual economic benefits.
Having questioned some of the principals at the rarely held public meetings, I am thoroughly convinced that their best financial projections will reap only minimal and seasonal revenue for the District of Columbia. Filtering through the zigzag answers to my direct questions about the stadium's long-term financial benefit, versus the actual cost to DC taxpayers, they admitted their projected benefits are at best "a gamble." Even most risk-taking Wall Street bankers have long ago run away from this type of shaky cost/benefit formula being hyped in this DC stadium deal. Do local public officials think that DC stands for Dumb Citizens? To keep families in DC, and pay for schools and other initiatives, we must develop real revenue generating projects.
Gambling with other people's money -- DC's hard-earned taxpayer revenue -- is not my idea of genuine fiscal responsibility and true accountability for public priorities. My idea of building an Ellington Center on the same footprint of the stadium is designed to produce exponential economic and social benefits. Ellington Center will be a dynamic year-round entertainment, arts, technology and retail shopping megaplex containing an indoor multimedia family amusement park, a multi-use sports arena, 2 live performance auditoriums, the Capital Life & History Museum, 21st century public library, a hotel, 20 video and film theaters, 3 floors of stores, office space, an onsite medical facility, childcare services, DC police security center, customer service training school, easy Metro bus and train access, as well as multilevel underground parking.
My best financially conservative economic projection reveals that Ellington Center will generate at least 2,000 full time sales, administrative, service and professional support jobs for District residents, and a minimum of $250 million dollars in annual revenue -- all in the same stadium construction space. Yet, it can be built for less than $350 million of the nearly $1 billion dollars that taxpayers will be billed for the Washington Nationals stadium. Much of that $350 million for Ellington Center’s construction will be funded by the major entertainment, amusement and retail companies that will jump at the opportunity to have a high profile presence in "The Nation's Capital." The multiple sources of real revenue generated out of sales, property, business and employment taxes from Ellington Center will have an immediate and long-term economic impact on greater funding for genuine public priorities -- priorities like first class schools, truly affordable housing, effective healthcare services, public safety, including a major reduction in resident and business taxation pressures.
This exponential economic benefit is increased when you include the millions more in tourist dollars, as Ellington Center becomes a priority attraction for millions of year-round visitors to the District. Again, I'm talking about year-round long-term socioeconomic benefit, not the seasonal speculative gamble that the stadium deal will gain for Major League Baseball owners -- and the future fortunes of the public officials who backed their deal.
Ellington Center, named in honor of DC's favorite son and America's national treasure Edward Kennedy 'Duke' Ellington, will have the desired economic benefit that diverse District of Columbia residents know is needed for our many people-oriented priorities. Innovative, fiscally responsible projects create more District jobs and multiple sources of real revenue. Long-term year-round revenue generating projects reduce the growing tax burden on residents and businesses. Moreover, it sustains reliable and effective funding for real public priorities. It also maintains a high bond rating and value for DC. Only new, clear-thinking, leadership can see the big picture benefits and long term advantages.
DC's relationship and history with baseball ventures is not a pretty one. The losing legacy that this team had before and since coming to the District is an economic omen that will generate financial nightmares for years to come. Despite the legendary and able skills of ‘Nats’ manager Frank Robinson, these nightmares won’t be soothed by linking the cost of this bad deal with the trickle-down revenue expected from the vocal minority of DC and non-District suburban baseball boosters. When the reality check of year 2008 and long-term bills for this fiasco come due, I wonder how many fans will be fanatical about their decision.
The news photos of near-empty RFK stadium seats don't lie -- unlike the public

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officials who approved this over-hyped high profile boondoggle. Even low-panning TV cameras can't hide what the baseball bean counters already know. As my Dad, an avid baseball fan, used to say about used car dealers who want your money: "The louder and faster they talk, the more they lie."
The deep discontent about how paid and elected DC officials have become drunk over spending our taxpayer money will awaken an angry sleeping giant that will vote in this election year and beyond. Their administrative arrogance, ongoing fiscal irresponsibility, socioeconomic insensitivity, and overall operational unaccountability will fuel the blow-back they didn't predict. No wonder there is a rush to lay a large load of concrete and steel before Election Day this November -- and definitely before a new, clear thinking, fiscally responsible, and genuinely accountable mayor takes the Oath of Office on Inauguration Day this January. Again, DC does not mean Dumb Citizens!
All the reasons, among many more, why I am a candidate for District of Columbia mayor.

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“Leadership is not just the ability and the will to lead. It is best shown by a leader that also listens and acts on the common voices and actual needs of the people. While others campaign to be the next mayor, my candidacy is for the responsibility to be your advocate for real people-oriented policies that empower District residents. ‘Moore For People’ is not a campaign slogan -- it is the core of my mission for a genuinely better and New Washington.”

Dennis Moore - Mayor For A New Washington