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April 16, 2009 1:31 PM
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Brian sent you a message.
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Happy Easter! I just wanted to take this opportunity to say, "thank you" to all of you whom shown support and offered words of encouragement as I have endured major public scrutiny over the last 8 weeks. Recognizing, that as a "Public Official", public scrutiny is something I must deal with and at the same time be held accountable.
The most recent article published in the Buffalo News was filled with slander and inaccuracies and put me off as a "Deadbeat". Everyone that knows me know that if there is nothing more important to me, my kids are my pride and joy! I proud my myself on knowing this to be a fact and more importantly, knowing that I place my kids before my own selfish needs. More importantly, to see nonsense published makes me wonder who they are talking about, where did this info come from and why did it make front page of the newspaper?
Well let me tell you, this info is attributed to the Democratic Party, one developer, and the news repeated role in trying to pick their own elected officials to represent what is known as districts commonly represented by "blacks!" This is evidenced by the successful attempt to rid the Buffalo Common Council of representatives like, James Pitts, Charley Fisher and Beverly Gray and now the methodical attempt to rid the City of Buffalo of myself and MAYOR BYRON BROWN.
I refuse to allow this to go any further and now have vowed that I will be fighting back, speaking the truth, letting everyone who cares to know what is really going on regularly. Equally important I will be re-doubling my efforts to make the Ellicott District (City of Buffalo) the best district in the City of Buffalo. We can not allow for those that had a small monopoly on this city continue to play these games, choose our Mayor AND Councilmembers or pimp our communities any longer.
THE FIRST THING THAT I AM ASKING IS THAT ALL THOSE THAT HAVE A HOME DELIVERY OF THE BUFFALO NEWS CALL 842-1111 AND CANCEL YOUR SUBSCRIPTION OF THE PAPER. IF YOU ARE IN FACT READING THIS EMAIL, YOU HAVE INTERNET SERVICE AND YOU CAN READ THE NEWS ON-LINE FOR FREE. SHOULD YOU NEED TO PHYSICALLY READ THE PAPER, YOU CAN PICK IT UP AT ANY STORE OR BUY FROM AGENTS STANDING ON MANY OF THE CORNERS. THESE FOLKS GET A % OF THE MONEY THEY TURN IN. YOU CAN HELP IN THIS SMALL WAY TO KEEP THESE AGENTS EMPLOYED AND TAKE MONEY OUT OF THE NEWS POCKET!
This is a very small way you can stand up for your community, show your support for progress and send a clear message to the news that their lies, slander, attacks, and control will no longer be tolerated.
When calling the news to cancel your subscription, let them know that you have had it with their attacks on your community and I encourage you to get 3 others to do the same. WATCH WHAT THIS SMALL DEED WILL DO TO STOP THE NONSENSE OF THE BUFFALO NEWS, I PROMISE!
Image: Screenshot of The Buffalo News story.
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April 16, 2009 1:48 PM
* Try and find one Allentown resident who has an ounce of respect for him.
* It does not suprise me that he is going to turn this into a "Black" issue. Which is a shame for Buffalo's Afrian American community. Total embarrassment for them.
* Asking people to cancel the news is nothing more than a pathetic attempt to cover his guilt.
April 16, 2009 1:51 PM
It's from the Sarah Palin playbook: blame the media. His juvenile language only adds to the sense of desperation.
April 16, 2009 1:53 PM
I am so tired of partisan mudslinging and media bias. But if you are counsilman Davis, why not use facts to refute any false accusations made by the Buffalo News? Playing the race card destroys credibility when you play it in the absence of facts.
April 16, 2009 1:56 PM
1) The article in the news was not slanderous, it would be libel, if anything. I believe the "deadbeat" comment by the News came from a culmination of things, and was never directly related to him as a father.
2) I'm glad he recognizes his "selfish needs." Everything he does is for himself; tax free house, breaking campaign finance laws, etc.
3) His own letter is filled with inaccuracies and grammatical errors.
4) Is this 1943? When was the last time anyone saw a newspaper "agent" standing on a street corner selling a paper? (Not including kids day)
5) Why doesn't he mention that he has missed 1/3 of all meetings held so far in 2009? Good to see hes fighting on behalf of those who live in his district!
April 16, 2009 2:24 PM
If I may steal and modify a line from the police chief of Malibu: "Stay out of city government deadbeat! I dont want to catch your ugly, goldbricking a$$ in my city hall again."
April 16, 2009 2:28 PM
Very sad to see Mr. Davis play the race card on this one. Rather than hurt our towns already strained race relations, he should have defended himself by disputing the News so calld falce allegations about his bad credit.
April 16, 2009 3:00 PM
I just lost the little bit of respect that I had for Brian Davis. What a tool!
April 16, 2009 3:21 PM
This guy is so out-of-touch with reality...WOW! And to pull the race card was the last-ditch attempt by a desparate man. Very sad indeed.
April 16, 2009 3:46 PM
I cannot believe that Brian Davis has the nerve to send a message using facebook, which is replete with misspellings and grammatical errors, while saying that everyone is persecuting him, because he's black. SHAME ON YOU, BRIAN! You had a chance to redeem yourself, but you BLEW IT! Whatever your race, I don't think that anyone could ever muster any respect or support for you to hold any elected office.
April 16, 2009 3:53 PM
Brian Davis is an embarrassment to the City of Buffalo. His actions in recent months are a disgrace, and now on top of everything he responds to the accusations that are being made against him with a Facebook message, a very poorly written Facebook message?! If he is so concerned about the accuracy of the Buffalo News article then why hasn't he spoken out to the media to set the story straight? Instead, he is pointing fingers at everyone else and turning this into an "black" issue. Brian Davis needs to get some ba**s, and fess up to his mistakes. All he has done at this point is teach his children, his "pride and joy," that when something goes wrong you should turn and run the other way, or just pull out the race card.
April 16, 2009 4:14 PM
Dear Mr. Davis
Pay your bills.
April 16, 2009 4:27 PM
Thank God this loser is on his way out. I’m an investor in his district and he has been useless to me since the day he took office. I wonder if it’s because I’m white; he has a reputation for primarily out African Americans. So who is the racist? I have personally been to countless common council meetings regarding issues in his district, and he was NEVER there. He has a reputation among the council as being absentee. His assistants were equally incompetent. I was repeatedly told by his assistants the Mr. Davis doesn’t take appointments, wtf? I could not get a meeting with this man. However, I have seen him out at bars, minus a wedding band, hmm, family man? I wonder if he remembers a young woman named Mercedes. Funny to see Mr. Davis as part owner of a restaurant / bar, a business associate of mine had approached Mr. Davis about opening a bar in his district, and Mr. Davis said he didn’t think he could support it because there are too many bars / restaurants in the area. Don’t you just love hypocrites? How did he get in office anyway?
April 16, 2009 4:30 PM
"Attacks on my community?" Are you kidding? How about maybe you should be an upstanding responsible citizen and they won't write about you. Demone A Smith, legislator, has a $6k tax lein filed by NYS dept of tax, recorded 2/2/2009. Check the ECClerk public records. Me thinks many politicians have something to hide and just want to continue to get elected on their name with the mayor's support.
April 16, 2009 6:00 PM
I haven't been following this story, but I am disappointed by the childish and poorly written response of this elected representative. We all certainly need to pay more attention to the qualifications and quality of the individuals that are put up for election.
April 16, 2009 6:28 PM
The grammar in his letter just shows you can take the boy out of the projects but you can not take the project out of the boy.
Shows how stupid people are if this is what they choose to elect as a leader. Now wonder why the East Side is in such bad shape.
It reads like a blog comment. One would think he would put just a little more time into crafting his message.
April 16, 2009 7:13 PM
A whole lot of people were fleeced by this guy. His family first, and then all his constituents, and then, even worse, everyone that tried to work with him. I disagree with the comment by Really? re "projects." You're falling right into his trap. I had the plesure of meeting with someone that worked with him for their community and was told that he had been almost invisible for about a year and they were left to their own devices but that they kept moving on. Amazing that these people could do so much without him. They are saddened by all these events and mad, too. Their comment was that he should not hide behind secret messages on facebook and come clean. I agree.
April 16, 2009 9:04 PM
So when Parks Commissioner Joseph Giambra was under investigation a few years back, it was because he was white?
April 17, 2009 8:34 AM
The question becomes how soon can we get him out and who will replace him? First we need someone who pays his or her bills, second we need someone who shows up at meetings and represents us, third we need someone who cares about ALL the constituency in the Ellicott District. Stillwter and One Sunset are only two of his larger lapses in appropriate representation.
April 17, 2009 9:32 AM
Making Ellicott the best district? How do you "re-double" zero effort Brian? Want a good barometer of Davis'"efforts" in his district? Take a walk down Chippewa St. and Pearl towards Shea's during the day and see what kind of effort he has made. What a sad excuse for what is supposed to be Buffalo's entertainment District.
April 17, 2009 10:32 AM
Much has been said and posted regarding Brian Davis. No matter what the underlying issues or truths are, we are saddened by these tragic sets of circumstances and believe that whatever affects one individual also affects the entire community.
I and my neighbors have always worked with solutions-based issue remediation methods. These methods have allowed us to meet with a variety of individuals and departments throughout the City of Buffalo.
When it seemed we were no longer getting a response from Mr. Davis or his office on a variety of issues, as long as the past year or so, we continued to work on the same issues by contacting the departments and all other Common Council members directly. We diligently poured over Council agendas to assure we would not miss an opportunity to have our voices heard regarding issues in our neighborhood.
We had representation as recently as March 24, 2009 and on April 7, 2009 when we addressed issues relating to a lodging house attempt to reopen and the proposed deli on S. Elmwood Avenue during the Legislation Committee meetings.
No, we are not happy with this chain of events regarding Mr. Davis, but we continue to work within the community to assure that, no matter whether or not we have representation by our Councilmember, we keep our needs for our community on the front burner.
Our apologies for taking so long with this response but, in applying the principles of due diligence, we waited until more information could become available. As we are not in receipt of further information, we feel it is time to provide a statement from our community organization in the Ellicott District.
Marilyn Rodgers
West Village Renaissance Group
April 17, 2009 5:47 PM
Thank you for the apology, Marilyn. But the late response had been my point. You and the WVRG have a tremendous record of noble community activism. But the issue I’m raising is that when the community needed to do something about the gross abuse of power that Mr. Davis was doing to force the S. Elmwood deli down neighborhood’s throat, the community needed to do something. You more than many know the disastrous effects that delis operated in such a manner can have. However, the time for waiting for more information to act passed long before the scathing expose in the News that has made it politically comfortable to call out Davis on this issue. The neighborhood was supplied with enough information to know how wrong what his office was trying to do was. Knowing is not enough. Observing is not enough. Action needs to be taken on issues like these; neighborhood activism cannot afford to be diluted by politics. Communities need to be put first, not individuals and their allegiances. And so when Trezevant was organizing efforts in the neighborhood on how to defend against Davis and the deli, I saw true leadership from him, while others were content to remain on the sidelines, silent.
Marilyn. I am happy to see that you are on board now and willing to be publicly against the deli. Are you running against Davis in Ellicott?
April 17, 2009 6:44 PM
And what were they supposed to do? This walking, talking, upright idiot had a wall around him and the Mayors ear. We have all had to circumvent around him for years now. Made every issue harder and more difficult, and he was/is/supposed to be working with us to make our city a better place. The guy is trash at it's very worst, the fact that he stooping to the level of the race card makes him even more pathetic beyond words. What is even more insulting is a week later he is still in office. Guess all that supposed "college" education did not teach him class or good grace [along with common sense] as he should of steped down by now out of self respect if nothing else. Just looking at the picture of the smug bast**d makes me sick to my stomach. Loser
April 17, 2009 7:24 PM
Nickel City, I understand where you’re coming from. Please allow me to explain further. When you state the time to act had passed, I see now that you meant action versus the deli and not the Davis allegations. I was referring to the Davis allegations. We had already launched an offensive about the deli prior to the allegations so I guess I am a bit confused as to why anyone would think we hadn’t.
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Since the time we were notified of a possible new deli, neighbors had made numerous calls to the office of Mr. Davis, discovered and supplied the actual inspection documents that were finally in print and online (before this there had been no concrete proof of any action by the city to approve the license or that a license had been applied for), discovered and added to the file during the March 24th meeting of the Legislation Committee a large lien placed on the propsed deli owner that could be used as interpretation of his character, phoned and wrote to the Common Council and other departments and, indeed, addressed the issue.
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We spoke at Council meetings that had the deli issue on the agenda, some folks taking time off work to do so. Let me emphasize - the issue - of the deli. No one had backed down at any time. What someone has done here is take the work of a sub-committee on delis and spun it to make the neighborhood look as if we had backed down. There is nothing further from the truth. The very idea that the one market in particular was using the bounced check as a badge to say “You can’t touch us” was sickening.
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The articles that came out in the past two weeks were astounding and we attempted to get more information on what was included in those articles that provided additional information on Mr. Davis and his personal issues before making a statement that addressed those. That’s the reason for our statement.
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Additionally, there was no mention of the fact that anything had been planned and presented to the neighborhood before March 27th. And, on that date, only three members of the WVRG were present. By that tine we had already been contacted by the Allentown Association and told they were asked their opinion of the new deli and site and had already made our case to deny the license. The Allentown Association deferred to us.
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Please note the date of March 27th and also note that we had already addressed the new deli issue with the Committee on Legislation in Council Chambers on March 24th, condemning the very idea along with the fact that all inspections of the new deli had occurred even before crossing the desks of the Committee.
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On April 7th the Legislation Committee explained that the Common Council has no idea of new deli licenses until after the inspections are made and it is time for the Council to vote on the proposed licenses. To me, this seems too late, but that’s the way the system works for now before someone takes the legislation bull by the horns and changes it to notification of proposed licenses to the offices of various Council members when they are originally filed. Then, for them to perform due diligence prior to the Council vote, they can have their Legislative Aides contact the communities affected by these new applications.
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Did Davis know of the filing beforehand? I guess we’ll never know, but he was questioned, face-to-face, by one local and, I believe, should have investigated it at that time in order to quell any further discord in his District.
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Regarding the other Davis allegations aside from the proposed deli, I and my neighbors cannot make such a determination of truth or fiction off “spin” and wanted to assure all the facts were, indeed, facts. Had there been suspicions? - yes. But, as a group, we had to provide due diligence, if for any other reason, but to act as responsibly as any body should. Once time was allotted for return calls and none were made nor received, as Mr Kelley experienced, we knew it was time for a statement.
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I am very saddened and beyond disappointed that Mr. Davis has not been more forthcoming with any type of rebuttal. However, as was stated in the beginning - what affects one person affects the entire community. Not only has this series of events become a black-eye for Davis, it has become one for our city, as well.
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Me run for Council? This saddens me, too. You see, if I were to do so, it would be fully for the entire district’s sake as I have been working with folks on the East Side of the District as well as here. But, politics and political hacks seem to be heard above the true reasonings for running for any office and that ruins the choices for real candidates that will go above such practices. They have the money - they have the endorsements - the real activists have a hard time overcoming the status quo. Have to think about that one.
April 17, 2009 8:33 PM
One more thing, the most important issue that needs to be addressed, over all others, over the political interplay, over the finger-pointing and who's who is basically this:
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Who is taking care of business in the Ellicott District?
April 17, 2009 11:07 PM
If you are running as a candidate against Davis or in the event of a vacancy, as has been circulating around parts of Ellicott, I’d hope you and the WVRG remember the only one willing to take public action was Attorney Bill Trezevant. I don’t read Nickel City as attacking your record of activism in any way, but to point out where the true, unhindered by politics leadership came from on this issue.
I want to take issue and exception with your broad brush stroke describing potential candidates as merely political and political hacks: Your past Democratic Committeeman days place squarely among the hacks you appear to distain. Oh, you’re in, you’re out and just how many time will you turn, run, and hide?
One additional point: Be careful not to post during working hours, lest someone accuses you of doing non-work related business and politicking from your job; that is if the second floor of City Hall doesn’t make an exception for you.
April 19, 2009 6:27 PM
pile of crap
April 18, 2009 7:58 AM
Sorry to disappoint you, "No Joke," but I only worked a couple of hours yesterday since I have to work a few hours today. No, I know of someone who was publicly ridiculed for using a computer during work hours, such an unfortunate incident.
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As far as Mr. Trezevant is concerned, he has his own way of doing things. Good for him.
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Political hacks? Yes, political hacks. Got out of the political realm a while back due to the bickering and posturing. As I said above, too bad it has to be this way, and you are clearly proving my point, No Joke. I'm sure you'll keep commenting - but will you use your own name?
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Yes, I would love to represent my district on the Council, but how to raise the funds? At this point it seems fruitless. Good way to control the slate - Congrats!
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However, I will continue to work throughout the district, I don't need a title for that or fancy position for that.
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I hope this has become an eye-opener for some that really feel, as I once had, that our election system truly works and that are not aware of what really occurs behind the scenes.
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Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go to work.
April 18, 2009 10:12 AM
WTF!!!! Sure, go ahead and blast someone who has been giving in the past and prescent. At least she addresses the BS head on with her name. Wish she WOULD consider a run.
April 18, 2009 1:17 PM
We need more Marilyns...not less.
April 20, 2009 10:00 PM
people in restaurants shouldn't talk so loud about politics other people will hear you and then some of the people your talking to aren't nesessarily on the same side. its a matter of trust.