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Can't Clatsop County trade for this DA?
« Thread Started on Feb 25, 2009, 2:58am »

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• NOVEMBER 15, 2008
The Exonerator
The Dallas D.A. is Reviewing Old Cases, Freeing Prisoners -- and Riling His Peers

By JENNIFER S. FORSYTH and LESLIE EATON
DALLAS -- Craig Watkins may be the only prosecutor in America who is making his name getting people out of prison.
As district attorney of Dallas County, Mr. Watkins is using DNA evidence to investigate more than 400 guilty verdicts notched up by his predecessors. His office's Conviction Integrity Unit, launched last year for this purpose, has so far cleared six men wrongly convicted of rape, murder or robbery.


In the past two decades, more than 200 convicts nationwide have been freed thanks in part to DNA testing. The tests involve taking biological material such as blood from the person convicted and comparing it to a sample left at the crime scene. These efforts are usually spearheaded by defense lawyers, not prosecutors.

Mr. Watkins, who became the first African American district attorney in Texas when he was elected in 2006, said in a recent interview that he has been accused of being "a criminal-loving DA, a hug-a-thug DA." But he says such criticism of him and his office misses the point: "We have the constitutional obligation to seek justice."

Each exoneration has pushed Mr. Watkins further into the spotlight. He has been interviewed by television crews from around the globe. The Democratic party in Texas considers him a rising star, though Mr. Watkins says he hasn't made any decisions about running for statewide office.

But the exonerations have also brought intense scrutiny of the 40-year-old Mr. Watkins, who spent most of his career as a small-time defense lawyer. Critics, including some fellow prosecutors, say he seems too eager to besmirch his predecessors' reputations for the sake of a little publicity. They note that politically, these cases are easy targets: None of them were tried by him.

"Where I think he's doing a grave disservice is trying to create this image that the criminal-justice system is fatally flawed and that only people like Craig Watkins can save it," says Joshua Marquis, the district attorney in Clatsop County, Ore., who serves on the board of the National District Attorneys Association.

Mr. Marquis says Mr. Watkins could make other prosecutors' jobs harder by contributing to what he considers the public's false impression from TV cop shows that most prosecutors are bloodthirsty and routinely railroad defendants. In fact, he says, the percentage of people who are wrongly convicted is "very small."


OH BROTHER, AND THIS JACKASS IS WHO WE ARE STUCK WITH? WHAT DID WE DO TO DESERVE THIS HORRID LITTLE MAN?


Brian Harkin for The Wall Street Journal
Dallas Prosecutor Craig Watkins says he's been called a 'hug-a-thug D.A.'


Mr. Watkins says his office is simply shining a light on a problem, and that progress requires being honest. "You have to gain the public's trust," he says.

He points to his overall record, which is similar to his predecessor's. According to court data, 61% of capital-murder cases his office has handled so far have resulted in convictions; the previous district attorney, Bill Hill, got convictions in 55% of capital-murder cases during a comparable period of time. Mr. Watkins has convicted 48% of murder cases and 34% of sexual-assault cases involving an
adult, compared to 48% and 31%, respectively, for Mr. Hill.

Freed After 27 Years

One difference is that Mr. Watkins more often opts for alternative methods of punishment. For example, 40% of drug-possession cases have been given deferred adjudication during Mr. Watkins's tenure, compared with 29% for a comparable period under Mr. Hill's. Deferred adjudication typically lets first-time, non-violent offenders avoid jail time by completing probationary requirements such as drug-treatment programs.

"It's about, 'OK, We're going to punish you and the punishment is for a purpose, but at the end of the day because you made a youthful indiscretion, we don't want you to have this criminal history and be here for the rest of your life,' " says Mr. Watkins.

James Woodard is among Mr. Watkins's supporters. Imprisoned for 27 years for the 1980 rape and murder of his girlfriend, Mr. Woodard always said he was innocent. He said his requests for DNA testing were denied by Mr. Hill, the former district attorney.
A few days after Thanksgiving last year, Mr. Woodard was told to change into civilian clothes and go see the warden of his east Texas prison. He was taken to Dallas, where he met with Mr. Watkins the next morning. "He told me that they were going to do a test," Mr. Woodard says, referring to a DNA test. "And if things work out he will try his best to free me. Without him, it would have never happened." Mr. Woodard was freed in April.

Mr. Hill says he can't discuss specific cases, but he says his staff was overwhelmed by thousands of requests for DNA tests once Texas authorized them in 2001. Even those the office thought were without merit were submitted to a judge, Mr. Hill says, adding that during his tenure more than 10 inmates were cleared. "If you read the paper, you'd think he did them all," Mr. Hill says of Mr. Watkins.

While it's true that Mr. Hill and other prosecutors sometimes end up exonerating defendants after they've been convicted, few prosecutors take it upon themselves to review old convictions.

That's in large part why Mr. Watkins's approach marks a change for Dallas, criticized for decades as a convict-at-all-costs county. It gained national notoriety in 1988 with the release of "The Thin Blue Line," a documentary recounting the case of a man railroaded by prosecutors and wrongly convicted of murdering a police officer.
Dallas County has had a string of district attorneys with tough-on-crime reputations stretching back to the legendary Henry Wade.

Mr. Wade held the position from 1951 through 1986. He prosecuted Jack Ruby for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald and was the named defendant in Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court case that decriminalized abortion.

Mr. Wade was famous for never losing a case he personally prosecuted, and for getting juries to impose the death penalty nearly every time he asked. His staff of assistants was almost as successful, and all told, won convictions in more than 150,000 cases.

Shifting Political Winds

Mr. Watkins grew up in Dallas and was only 19 when Mr. Wade left office. After graduating from Texas Wesleyan University School of Law in Fort Worth, he worked briefly in the Dallas City Attorney's office and as a public defender. In 1997, he set up his own law practice where he handled everything from criminal defense to real-estate closings, to personal-injury cases. The office was in Fair Park, a mostly black neighborhood south of an interstate that historically served as a dividing line in this largely segregated city.

When he first ran for district attorney in 2002 and again during his successful campaign in 2006, Mr. Watkins focused on the hardships faced by the city's minority communities. He promised to change the culture of local law enforcement to rely more on alternative sentencing.

Mr. Watkins did not have strong ties to the white establishment during his political climb, and he was not endorsed by the local newspaper. Few gave his second bid for the district attorney's office much of a chance in 2006 when he faced off against long-time prosecutor Toby Shook, a Republican who had spent 23 years in the district attorney's office.



Associated Press Craig Watkins, seen here presenting documents connected to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, has set up a Conviction Integrity Unit.


But the political winds in Dallas County were shifting. Unhappiness with the Bush administration's policy on the Iraq war was growing, and trickling down to local politics in this long-time Republican stronghold. Some voters, especially in the growing Hispanic population, were outraged by revelations that in dozens of cases, Dallas police officers framed Mexican immigrants for possessing "drugs" that turned out to be chalk.

That year saw a Democratic sweep, with the party winning 42 judgeships and the district attorney's office.

By 2006, a dozen people had already been exonerated in Dallas County thanks to DNA testing. That was largely thanks to a crime lab that had preserved physical evidence in cases going back for decades. A law enacted in 2001 allowed convicts to petition courts to have old evidence like rape kits tested using modern DNA science. That alone unleashed a flood of requests. Judges, however, could turn down these requests, and prosecutors often opposed them.

A Painstaking Process

Soon after Mr. Watkins was sworn in, DNA evidence cleared a man in a pending case. Disturbed, Mr. Watkins asked the Innocence Project of Texas to begin reviewing all DNA requests, even those that had been rejected previously. The non-profit group is affiliated with the Innocence Project, a national organization that works with inmates who are trying to prove they were wrongly convicted.

In May 2007, Mr. Watkins hired Mike Ware, a longtime criminal-defense lawyer and law professor, to set up and run a formal unit inside his office to conduct investigations and order tests.
Reviewing these cases is a painstaking process, in which DNA testing is usually just one step. There are files to pore through and witnesses and victims to re-interview. Each case can take as long as a year to complete. Then there's the matter of finding the real perpetrator if a conviction is overturned.

"Many times, you bring these cases to district attorneys and they say, 'You can't go see my file. I won't do anything.' There's a knee-jerk reluctance to revisit anything," says Barry Scheck, co-director of the Innocence Project. He thinks this will eventually change, and that Dallas County's aggressive approach will serve as a model for others. "Watkins takes the view that if he can correct a wrongful conviction, that's a good thing." Dallas County has had more exonerations than any other county in the country, according to the Innocence Project.

At a recent meeting in Mr. Watkins's office on the top floor of the hulking brown criminal courthouse near downtown Dallas, prosecutors debated which labs to hire and which DNA testing techniques to use for a particular case.

Mr. Watkins, who is 6 feet 5 inches tall, slouched in a chair, fidgeting with a rubber band around his wrist and asking the occasional question.

"How long did this guy stay in jail?"

"Did he go to trial or did he plead?"

"Can we find out who did it?"

Mr. Watkins says he doesn't believe in most instances that his predecessors deliberately convicted the innocent. But in some of the cases he has looked at, he says, "it's pretty evident the person didn't do it, and you have to wonder what was going through the prosecutor's mind at the time."

Such statements infuriate some former prosecutors. "These cases were prosecuted just like they were in New York and California," says Mr. Shook, the former chief assistant district attorney. "It wasn't a situation of 'Let's just get 'em whether they are innocent or not.' "

Most of the exoneration cases date from a time before DNA science existed, says Mr. Shook, and reflect the problem with relying on eye-witness identifications, rather than a rush to judgment on the prosecutor's part.

Longtime county commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, a Republican and former prosecutor from the days of Henry Wade, says defense lawyers and the Innocence Project could handle the DNA cases without the help of the district attorney's office. That could save taxpayers the nearly $500,000 a year that the county added to Mr. Watkins's $36 million budget at a time when many departments' budgets are under strain, he says.

But for Frederick Heath, Mr. Watkins's work is a worthy investment. The pastor of the Eighth Street Baptist Church in suburban Grand Prairie, Texas, Mr. Heath served as foreman on the jury that convicted James Curtis Giles for rape, assault and robbery in 1983.

Mr. Giles was cleared last year by DNA testing soon after Mr. Watkins was sworn in. It was the case that prompted the district attorney to establish the Conviction Integrity Unit.

Rev. Heath says the jury was compelled by the fact that the victim identified Mr. Giles in a photo array. He now regrets the verdict and says "no one in his right mind" would want to put an innocent man in prison.

The pastor didn't vote for Mr. Watkins in 2006, but says he likely will in the future: "He's doing what every DA should do."



Can you imagine Marquis admitting he was wrong, say, if someone were to come forward and say they were the ones that pushed that guy off the cliff at Ecola State Park? Or saw him when he fell? Can you imagine Josh Marquis ever apologizing for wrongfully using his office?
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As I recall, the gal convicted of pushing her boyfriend off the cliff admitted pushing him. I think her defense was she didn't mean for him to actually fall. Anyway, to answer the question, Josh Marquis is far too arrogant to ever admit he made a mistake or apologize. What did we do to deserve him? I don't know. We must have all kicked a puppy in our collective childhood. We can only hope the word is getting out to other attorneys around the State that there is a high level of dissatisfaction with our DA and someone will run against him when he's next up for election. Is it next year? I intend to work tirelessly for his or her campaign.
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Feb 25, 2009, 8:39am, Avid Reader wrote:As I recall, the gal convicted of pushing her boyfriend off the cliff admitted pushing him. I think her defense was she didn't mean for him to actually fall. Anyway, to answer the question, Josh Marquis is far too arrogant to ever admit he made a mistake or apologize. What did we do to deserve him? I don't know. We must have all kicked a puppy in our collective childhood. We can only hope the word is getting out to other attorneys around the State that there is a high level of dissatisfaction with our DA and someone will run against him when he's next up for election. Is it next year? I intend to work tirelessly for his or her campaign.



She confessed, and Marquis bragged about this on Court TV, while being led up the Ecola Park path after begging the officers to not bring her up there because of her fear of heights. They told her she had to go up and walk through the details again (even though they had already told her she was free to go at any time). They kept her up on the cliff telling her it prob wasn't her fault, confess that she gave a push, didn't mean to make him fall, etc... She finally "confessed" and they arrested her. I don't believe she "confessed" again. Her family said that she was terrified of heights and they couldn't believe she would have gone up there with him and pushed him off.

I think the only records we have access to are the Daily A's, really reliable since we all know who writes their court stories. Maybe someone can dig out the actual court records, but you have to sign for them and then he knows you are looking.

Wait around and see if it shows up again on Court TV?

I think we all kicked quite a few puppies to deserve this devil incarnate.

Lawyers of Oregon, WE WANT TO ELECT YOU the new DA in Clatsop County! Candidates for the May 2010 primaries begin filing the second week of February 2010!!! Third week of March 2009 is last day to file for candidacy.

Governor will be running, Senator Johnson's seat will be open. As well as Representatives.

County Commissioners Raichl, Hazen and Samuelson's seats will all be up for re-election.

Astoria, Cannon Beach, and Seaside Mayors are all up for election, two seats on Astoria City Council and two on Gearhart, three on Seaside, and two on Warrenton City Councils.

You think the fanatics are already geared up for this? You betcha!
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« Reply #3 on Feb 25, 2009, 3:14pm »

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Quote:Lawyers of Oregon, WE WANT TO ELECT YOU the new DA in Clatsop County! Candidates for the May 2010 primaries begin filing the second week of February 2010!!! Third week of March 2009 is last day to file for candidacy.




WHOOPS!
Make that:

Lawyers of Oregon, WE WANT TO ELECT YOU the new DA in Clatsop County! Candidates for the May 2010 primaries begin filing the second week of February 2010!!! Third week of March 2010 is last day to file for candidacy.
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« Reply #4 on Feb 25, 2009, 4:36pm »

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Uh-Oh!

Looks like Bartoldus is gearing up for Clatsop County Budget review again.
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« Reply #5 on Feb 25, 2009, 6:08pm »

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Looks like McGee broke his pledge to not post here again. Must be close to 100 times, now.
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« Reply #6 on Feb 25, 2009, 6:42pm »

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Feb 25, 2009, 6:08pm, Jerome Kensington wrote:Looks like McGee broke his pledge to not post here again. Must be close to 100 times, now.



And you have a problem with that "Anonym"?

101 times now "Anonym"
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« Reply #7 on Feb 25, 2009, 6:54pm »

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It's Carrie, believe it or not, it's not polite to call a woman by her last name. Stop the harrassing of her on her every move she makes, she has a skill for writing and telling the truth!!!
Carrie has my vote as far as her dissatisfaction with our da.
Sounds like she had quite a fight on her hands, trying to remove her family(kids) out of the home of her sister who was hooked on drugs.
Was your hate for the da along the same lines or something worse ,or was it some " trip "you were on?
I give her credit being open and honest, unllike yourself.
I don't want any response from you, you are a creep who lies.

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« Reply #8 on Feb 25, 2009, 8:35pm »

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Feb 25, 2009, 6:42pm, McGee wrote:
Feb 25, 2009, 6:08pm, Jerome Kensington wrote:Looks like McGee broke his pledge to not post here again. Must be close to 100 times, now.



And you have a problem with that "Anonym"?

101 times now "Anonym"



No problem at all, it's rather amusing to me, but it's obvious you have a problem with keeping your word.
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« Reply #9 on Feb 26, 2009, 1:15am »

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Feb 25, 2009, 4:36pm, McGee wrote:Uh-Oh!

Looks like Bartoldus is gearing up for Clatsop County Budget review again.



no meaning to disparage ms bartoldus, but she isn't the only one who can operate browser windows. cut ' paster taster does a fine job of it too. anyone can put 2 and 2 together and figure out that the democrats are making a huge run for quite a few seats. with repubs like rohn in their corner the fanatics will be running the county in a year. that's what the post is about.

McGee you are about as republican as your 2004 precinct seat was.
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« Reply #10 on Feb 26, 2009, 7:31am »

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Hey everybody, Assy McGee is back!
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« Reply #11 on Feb 26, 2009, 8:43am »

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Assy, we missed you.


Feb 21, 2009, 8:32am, Concerned Citizen wrote:
Feb 21, 2009, 8:27am, goosed wrote:I hope you are all familiar with this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assy_McGee







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« Reply #12 on Feb 26, 2009, 10:48am »

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Feb 26, 2009, 7:31am, Better Guest wrote:Hey everybody, Assy McGee is back!



Can anyone nutshell an explanation of why O'l Assy is so obssessed with Carrie B.?
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« Reply #13 on Feb 26, 2009, 12:44pm »

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Maybe, because Carrie has been vocal with her dissatisfaction with Josh Marquis, and now years later Mcgee targets anyone who is not satisfied with his actions.
All the more reason to post anon when talking about Josh Marquis, lng most conversation. I understand at one time Mcgee had a "war" going against Josh Marquis and was over zealous & very active trying to recruit anybody who would listen.
Mcgee also mananged to have some guys isp disconnected. I understand they were e-mail buddies for awhile.
He's hooked on revenge , he's hooked on attacking people & the subject matter and trys to convince the public his rants are the gospel, he uses other article, pages and pages.
He is one strange person.
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« Reply #14 on Feb 26, 2009, 2:03pm »

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Feb 26, 2009, 10:48am, concerned citizen wrote:
Feb 26, 2009, 7:31am, Better Guest wrote:Hey everybody, Assy McGee is back!



Can anyone nutshell an explanation of why O'l Assy is so obssessed with Carrie B.?



He has a "problem" with women, been locked up for assault and divorced 4 times.
Hey McGee, those fundraising parties you throw for the republican party at your house still haven't been reported to the IRS and elections office, as required by law. I just checked and you're several years delinquent.
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« Reply #15 on Feb 26, 2009, 5:21pm »

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Feb 26, 2009, 2:03pm, Uppertown Bub wrote:

He has a "problem" with women, been locked up for assault and divorced 4 times.





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« Reply #16 on Feb 26, 2009, 9:56pm »

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Feb 26, 2009, 2:03pm, Uppertown Bub wrote:

He has a "problem" with women, been locked up for assault and divorced 4 times.



GREAT GOOGELY MOOGELY!!!

MCGEE IS A FIEND!!!
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« Reply #17 on Feb 26, 2009, 10:50pm »

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Feb 26, 2009, 9:56pm, SCREAMING EAGLE wrote:
Feb 26, 2009, 2:03pm, Uppertown Bub wrote:

He has a "problem" with women, been locked up for assault and divorced 4 times.



GREAT GOOGELY MOOGELY!!!

MCGEE IS A FIEND!!!



It doesn't say that McGoober assaulted any women, and the particulars need to be verifiable before anyone starts accepting this as fact.
Still, I bet he's busy filling out some paperwork for the IRS, which is probably why he hasn't been tossing turds here tonight.
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« Reply #18 on Feb 26, 2009, 11:12pm »

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Feb 26, 2009, 10:50pm, Jerome Kensington wrote:

It doesn't say that McGoober assaulted any women, and the particulars need to be verifiable before anyone starts accepting this as fact.
Still, I bet he's busy filling out some paperwork for the IRS, which is probably why he hasn't been tossing turds here tonight.



So, what I'm reading here is that some are saying McGee might be some kind of junior league Jack The Ripper and others are saying that might not be the case even if has gone to jail for assault. Still others are saying McGee is a tax evader. Now, on NCO I remember reading this...this...this McGee, or whatever he calls himself, is actually trying to get elected to the Port Commission. My question is, is McGee even morally fit to live among decent folks let alone be allowed to serve in public office?
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« Reply #19 on Feb 27, 2009, 1:07am »

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Oh, good golly people. Half the new comers here are from the witness protection program, and half of those people in the program are criminals themselves.

He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone! The guy who was having problems and got his internet disconnected was really having mental issues. McGee, honestly, may have saved his life. Whether that was his intention or not is not known. Having watched the dude disintegrate one would think McGee would have the courtesy to not stalk other women, but maybe he is having problems of his own.

IF he has anger issues that he was charged for, in another area of the country, he's been living here for at least a decade w/o any such charges. That's what matters, here. If that weren't true, then people should just kill themselves the first time anyone gets into trouble. Or we shouldn't be fighting measure 11 or 57. Just lock all the idiots who make stupid choices up.

As for me, my God didn't die and leave me in charge of judging others "morals". Someone else's "moral decency" really is none of my business. What is my business is if I am paying for someone's actions or behavior with my tax dollars.

Commissioners, councilors, mayors, whether county, city, or school/college directors, NONE of them get paid diddly squat for putting up with constant ridicule of their private lives or personal conduct. What is the biggest budget in this community? And it aint SQUAT compared to the hell that VOLUNTEERS have to put up with to try to manage it for an ungrateful bunch of people, over half of whom don't even get off their lazy asses to cast a ballot to elect anyone, and the only time they do vote is when some fear mongers force them to.

Whatever McGee may have done in the past, let it go people. Rag on his current behavior. Yeah, he hated the DA's donkey. He told EVERYONE the guy wasn't doing his job. Now he says the guy IS doing his job. When he was telling everyone Marquis wasn't doing his job he couldn't say how he wasn't doing it, and now he can't say anything Marquis does right. Yeah, Marquis got his kid out of a real tight pinch. Like any dad, he is grateful as all hell, and like any dad, he aint going to talk about it. He'll take the hit for it, instead. There's that for those of you all worried about his "morals" he's a decent enough dad and a doting grandad.


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« Reply #20 on Feb 27, 2009, 6:41am »

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I think his DUII was within the last ten years. If his resume is this impressive so far, just think of all the stuff he's done and hasn't been arrested for.
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« Reply #21 on Feb 27, 2009, 9:32am »

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Physical abuse is never an excuse! (man or woman).
It is not fair if Marquis was generous helping his son, what about the public's kids who needed a 2nd look?????
How is the "son" doing now????? Did Marquis's help work?????
All of Mcgee's troubles he brings on himself! He brings himself into the public eye, harrassing Carrie and her beliefs .
Mcgee is hell bent dividing our county!


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« Reply #22 on Feb 27, 2009, 9:27pm »

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June 15, 2007
Letter: Don't be bullied
I beg the county commissioners to not be bullied by the public temper tantrums and strong-arm tactics that Josh Marquis is pulling ("What's in the water at the courthouse?" The Daily Astorian, May 17).

Instead, the commissioners should be very angry that this man is taking this tactic to advertise his displeasure.

His good friends chastising the commissioners? The only reason that pulls any weight is he has made sure his good friends are the media. The voters of Clatsop County should pay special attention to how Marquis treats the people you voted for. And, in the case of most of these people, you even had a choice as to who to pick!

If Marquis had been a team player, had cared about Clatsop County, he would have come into June's meeting ready to work with the commissioners. Marquis is now going to hit the commissioners with a media blitz to bully them into giving him his $13,000 stipend. It will be protection money if paid, to keep the media that Marquis has so diligently cozened all of these years off their backs.

What I ask is that each time a person sits on a jury, remember how Marquis operates.

I ask that voters remember that the only reason he is in office is because no one ran against him (realistically, in politics, why does that happen?) and that he didn't beat anyone to get where he is at.

I ask his staff to remember that he didn't thank the budget committee for retaining your jobs for you or okaying the rest of the budget.

I ask the commissioners to consider the fact he is trying to bully you.

I ask everyone to look at the fact that he is looking out for only one person: Josh Marquis.

To Ray Larson in Kentucky ("Petty politics, The Daily Astorian, June 8): You often read The Daily Astorian, do you?

Oh, no? "Someone" leaked this huge media story of a district attorney not getting his stipend to the Associated Press wire?

Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.

CARRIE BARTOLDUS
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Feb 27, 2009, 1:07am, Helen Westenfield wrote:Having watched the dude disintegrate one would think McGee would have the courtesy to not stalk other women, but maybe he is having problems of his own.




He's definitely has got problems of his own-that is evident, but it doesnt give him or anyone else a greenlight "to stalk other women". Everybody has got some kind of problems in life to deal with and most folks learn to deal with them in socially acceptable terms-but this...this...this McGee (if that is his real name) goes sideways down wierd street behind his excrement. Yeah, he is a real nut. I wonder if there's a community nutwatch? Like where a group of concerned citiizens can kind'a keep an ever vigilant yet clandestine eye upon troublesome nuts. Might be worth running it by the mayor and city council next time there's a meeting to get something like that going.
Do you think McGee and his ilk would object to being made to wear orange jumpsuits?
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A nutwatch in Astoria? Good way to get hospitalized for exhaustion.
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How's Mcgee son doing, did the help from the da work to improve sons life ? Marquis would receive votes if he were to help ALL son's, daughter's. Why is a known trouble maker so special?
Why was Mcgee so against marquis?



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Yesterday at 9:58am, a person wrote:How's Mcgee son doing, did the help from the da work to improve sons life ? Marquis would receive votes if he were to help ALL son's, daughter's. Why is a known trouble maker so special?
Why was Mcgee so against marquis?






He was looking at Marquis without the rose colored glasses being glued on.

Once the glasses were afixed he has never been able to see Marquis for what he really is.




You do know how to tell a Marquis follower don't you?




They wear rose colored glasses, drink kool aid and carry fly swatters.



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Feb 27, 2009, 6:41am, Josh Price wrote:I think his DUII was within the last ten years.



Has he even lived in Clatsop County for ten years? What was the outcome of his case, diversion/treatment? Jail/probation?
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I don't agree , I'm intersted why Macgee son would receive special treatment from the DA? The DA is so against drunk driving!
Our jails/prisons would not be full if the DA would show everyone the same courtesy.
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Yesterday at 4:42pm, GUEST wrote:I don't agree , I'm intersted why Macgee son would receive special treatment from the DA? The DA is so against drunk driving!
Our jails/prisons would not be full if the DA would show everyone the same courtesy.



McGee's son did not do ANYTHING wrong. However, he was in the wrong place at the wrong time and if the DA had acted his normal, case hungry self, McGee's son could have had a very difficult time of it. McGee knows this and is eternally grateful that Marquis chose to do the right thing.

That McGee cannot quietly be grateful and chose to curb his own ire when he does see injustice should be enough, however, he cannot remain quiet on a subject that inflames people. His own quirky traits desire to speak up. We are saying what he knows is true but can no longer say his self. So, what does he do? Whenever things die down he is the one that stirs the pot. Gets Marquis' name out there and all the dirt that Marquis has done comes out, again.

McGee LOOKS like he is Marquis' defender. Marquis cannot be mad at him. However, whenever you look at who is stoking the fire it is McGee.

NCO goes months and months without mentioning the DA or the county budget, or anything about any animosity between the two. But who is it who brings the DA into the conversation? McGee.

With a friend like him, one doesn't need enemies.

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