Loose Lips did a major cover story on Jack Evans called “Unhappy Jack”. It was a very good piece. In it, LL questioned from where was $50,000 a year of Evans’ income coming. DeBonis followed up with a piece entitled “Jack Evans’s mystery job revealed”. It turns out Mr. Evans is or was getting $50,000 a year to mostly collect the mail for an insurance company. That doesn’t add up to me, but that’s what we have to date.
Yesterday, Mike DeBonis pivoted from his “Move along people, there’s
nothing to see here” of a few days ago to “Hmm, this may be something after all”.
And he reported on Evans having to testify in the re-directing of funds to associates
of Fenty. Drip. Drip .Drip.
Loose Lips posted what seems like a placeholder post on StealALittle’s issue, today. Evans’ Law Firm Had Ties to Convention Center Hotel Deal, After All. Hopefully, his profile of CM Evans – coming soon – will dig deeper.
Mike DeBonis and Alan Suderman finally asked the question of Jack Evans why won’t file his recusal forms on the Convention Center Marriott deal. It turns out CM Evans has had an opinion from the DC Council’s General Counsel, V. David Zvenyach, since April that says even though CM Evans was in violation of the law, it was OK anyway. Thanks Mike and Alan for digging into it in a Post blog post and WCP blog post.
So that leaves some of us Ward 2 residents wondering why it’s OK for CM Evans to wrangle a $200 million subsidy – that Steve Pearlstein of the Post characterized as the DC government seeming to have more interest in than the developers – through-out the writing of the legislation and then recuse himself at the end. It seems to me that if you recuse yourself you shouldn’t be the person pushing the deal behind the scenes.
Peter Tucker of The Fightback Blog interviews Jack Evans: Councilmember Evans Represents the 1%, Not the Occupiers in His Ward.
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