by Mark Smiley | Oct 21, 2016 | Main Articles
Tapes Caught Her Allegedly Dissembling In Front Of City Council
by Mark Smiley
Jeanne Price often sits next to Mohammad Ali Kheirkhahi, principal of M.A.K. Investments
Denver resident Jeanne Price, who many allege to be a paid operative for Mohammad Ali Kheirkhahi of M.A.K. Investment Group, LLC (M.A.K.), has been seen as a highly unpleasant fixture at Glendale City Council meetings ever since the dispute arose over M.A.K.’s desire to build a massive apartment complex on Colorado Boulevard. The City Council finally decided at the August 16, 2016, meeting to begin to expose Price for who they believe she really is.
The Chronicle reported on her activities in the February 2016 issue (“Persian Rug Merchants Have Denverite Jeanne Price Digging Hard for Dirt”).
What outraged many of the members of Glendale City Council was that fact that she approaches the podium to speak at most City Council meetings and makes what they believe at times outrageous and scurrilous allegations about City Council members and city employees during the “Public Comments” section of the meetings.
Glendale Mayor Mike Dunafon stated, “The ‘Public Comment’ section of every meeting is supposed to allow for everyday citizens to be able to present their thoughts on the city and issues of concern to them. It is not for a paid operative from Denver to libel the city and everyone in it with outrageous allegations.”
Among the accusations by Price that the City Council believe to be false and libelous are, that (1) the City Council had met in “Executive Session” over half the time in the last four or five years; (2) the City Council had refused to state what matters the Executive Sessions concerned; (3) in violation of the Colorado Open Records Act, Price had been denied access to the minutes of the City Council over the last several years; and (4) the City Clerk had willfully misrepresented what she had said in prior Council meetings.
It is illegal under Colorado law for a city council to meet in executive session e
xcept for a very limited number of instances such as personnel matters or to receive legal advice concerning pending or ongoing litigation. It is also illegal not to state what subjects are to be discussed at an executive session. Finally, it is illegal under the Colorado Open Records Act to refuse to supply copies of records clearly in the public domain including minutes of public meetings.
At the August 16, 2016, meeting when Price approached the lectern to harangue the Council, the mayor indicated he wanted the City Clerk to read her exact accusation at a prior Council meeting concerning the Council convening in Executive Session over 50 percent of the time. Price quickly denied she had ever made such an allegation declaring, “I said I’d been here over the last seven or eight months and it seemed to me you spent a lot of time in Executive Session. I did not say in the last five years.”
The City Clerk then read from a transcript the recording of the meeting of what Price had, in fact, said which was, “More importantly, it’s just my observation having read four or five years of your minutes, that this Council spends more than half of its time in Executive Session, and that is a unique situation in my experience.”
Caught in what would appear to be a direct lie did not appear to phase Price. She declared, “I have a recording of what I said and what I said was ‘this Council’ with great emphasis meaning the people sitting up there last September were spending a lot of time in Executive Session, compared to other times. I have the recording. I am happy to share it with anybody.”
At the City Council meeting on September 6, 2016, the deputy city manager played the actual tape in which Price declared exactly what the City Clerk had read and not what was alleged by Price. She then told an incredulous audience that what was played was just 20 seconds of a three-minute statement. The mayor indicated the city would play the entire three minutes at the next city council meeting which would show that Price was lying once again but Price had no response.
As to the actual Executive Session allegation itself, the city clerk reported that in the last five years the City Council had met for a total of 9,660 minutes and only 395 minutes were in Executive Session or 4 percent of the time. The City stated that almost all such Executive Sessions regarded receiving legal advice concerning lawsuits filed against the city by Price’s alleged employer M.A.K. and Mohammad Ali Kheirkhahi. Moreover, in contradiction of her allegation the City Council did, in fact, state what subjects were to be discussed in Executive Session each and every time.
Finally, as to Price’s allegation she was illegally denied access to copies of Council minutes, the City Clerk noted that all the minutes from 2013 forward were, in fact, up on the city website for anyone to look at and moreover pursuant to Price’s CORA request she was provided the minutes going back to 2002, as well as the actual recordings in many instances.
Councilman Scott Brock
Mayor Mike Dunafon indicated that “it was important for the public to see who and what Jeanne Price really is, but even I did not expect to see her incredible sad pathologies so fully on display.”
“Jeanne Price’s wild accusations have become tiresome,” said Councilmember Scott Brock. “The public needs to know that these allegations are obvious lies. She has lost all credibility with this Council and she digs herself and M.A.K. a deeper hole every time she gets up to speak.”
When inquiries were made to Jeanne Price soliciting a response on her accusations and her conduct at the last several City Council meetings, she declared in an email to the Chronicle for attribution that “I love October.”
by Peter Boyles | Oct 21, 2016 | Blasting with Boyles
It came to pass in those days, that the Republican Party has long doomed itself, and headed to the trash heap of history feeds up like the Phoenix bird out of its own ashes, emerges our hero, the modern Siegfried Republican stalwart Donald Trump. As I am writing this column in the middle of October I am about to predict everything that is important on your ballot as you read this and want to brag about being a winner as opposed to being a loser and making intelligent choices, follow along.
I watch Republican party moralists, other newspaper people and other radio talk show hosts, many of them I know and I know their private lives as well, seizing the moral high ground of Donald Trump’s language and alleged assaults on women. Suddenly, the left and some laughable Republican former office holders, decry Trump’s behavior — the smell of that permeates the entire state.
These are the people that say nothing about rap music, 50 Shades of Gray, any other sleazy thing that slithers out of Hollywood, and please never forget how many Democratic and Republican operative powerhouses slipped down to any one of the four locations of (“Players and Sugar”) to get their pay to play with a 22-year-old hooker. These are the same people seizing the high ground on Donald Trump. My prediction, Donald Trump will be beaten and beaten handily. The good news is I hope the Republican Party rots in hell. They do not deserve your vote. If you knew the private lies of these self-important men it would gag a maggot. As they call it further down the ballot, there are some really great young men running as Republicans that I would love to see win. Tragically, they will also lose.
In this last year, I have met two of the finest young men I know who are brave enough to climb into these congressional races. George Athanasopoulos and Casper Stockham both running for Congress are decent, fine young men, dedicated hard chargers who will get their hats handed to them as well. I have gotten to know these men, travelled with them, know their families and know their hearts and they will be beaten by Ed Perlmutter and Diana DeGette, respectively. But if you could find your way and you live in the 1st or the 7th, vote for these young men. At least perhaps we can light a fire that these other creeps can’t put out.
This has been a very angry year for me. I have watched the media’s foolishness, the lack of integrity of political parties, the influence of big money and what will eventually come to an ultimate great sadness. The week I am writing this, Donald Trump is spending his time tweeting about Saturday Night Live and Paul Ryan. Hillary Clinton on the other hand, dances in the moonlight, seems overly prepared for debates and frankly, beats Trump hands down. We have had bad electoral outcomes in the past. In this country, the late great Barry Goldwater who scolds said if he won there will be rioting in the streets of America and young Americans would die in Vietnam. He of course, lost and those things, in fact, happened.
I have no idea who Hillary Clinton is and, of course, no one knew who Barrack Obama was. Unfortunately, I believe we will find out who Hillary Clinton is.
Other things on the ballot — for God’s sake, if they have anything to do with RTD, give them nothing. You need only to recall “the train to the plane.” Isn’t that enough.
Wait there’s more:
- Amendment 69, the Colorado Care Initiative, that dog won’t hunt. Have you people learned nothing about Obamacare.
- Amendment 70, minimum wage, just say no.
- Amendment 71, requirements for initiated constitutional amendments, say yes to that. And stop the little creepoids from walking up to you with clipboards in Cherry Creek and asking you to save the whales.
- Amendment 72, cigarette and tobacco taxes, vote that down also. If you are not smart enough not to smoke, I can’t do much for you.
- Proposition 106, medical aid and dying, for God’s sake we do it for our dogs.
So let’s get a wrapup. Trump’s got no shot, so vote for him. Stay as far away from the Republican Party as you can. Stop these fools from getting more of your tax dollars, especially RTD. And hope for the best next time. And while we are at it one more … the only person worth their salt in the Senate Race is Lily Tang Williams. She grew up under the Maoists and the Red Guards. Here’s a woman who knows where we are headed. I wish she was running for Governor.
Let’s see how good I am about predicting.
— Peter
by Mark Smiley | Oct 5, 2016 | Editorials
With the daylight hours shortening and the leaves beginning to fall, the large group of young so-called “travelers” will begin their annual migration to cities with warmer weather, leaving the 16th Street Mall to Denver’s more “traditional” homeless who are older and, generally speaking, a great deal less violent with marijuana and alcohol being the drugs of choice rather than the heroin and meth preferred by some of the young travelers.
It has been an in-teresting summer down at the Mall which was originally envisioned as a mecca for tourists coming to Colorado, and in particular Denver. Walking down the Mall this summer one could enjoy the fresh, pungent odor of urine while being accosted by highly aggressive young panhandlers and even physically assaulted by individuals carrying pipes. If you were eating on one of the patios or restaurants adjoining the Mall you stood a chance of your food literally being taken off your plate by a traveler. It got so bad that even the older Denver homeless were demanding that Denver do “something” about the chaotic situation.
The situation got worse and worse until some of the violence was captured by a KDVR camera crew and a reporter and broadcast on the nightly local news. Other news outlets soon began covering the story and a call went out to the mayor of Denver (who was on a mission in Rio De Janeiro to find out about what was involved in holding the Olympics) to tell him trouble was brewing back in River City.
To his credit when Mayor Hancock returned he held a press conference at which he made it clear that he found the situation untenable and he intended to take action. No wonder. The problem has been festering for a long time on the 16th Street Mall.
In 2015 the Denver City Council was presented with a report from Visit Denver, the official marketing arm of The Convention & Visitors Bureau, which noted how visitors complained about the “homeless, youth, panhandling, safety, cleanliness, and drugs, including marijuana consumption.” In one communication to the bureau a visitor noted: “I’m sorry but I would never consider putting attendees in danger by holding a convention in your city. We were staying at Embassy Suites downtown on 16th and last night witnessed a group of about 30 teenagers attack a man walking along 16th Street.”
Part of the problem are the somewhat spineless downtown business groups such as the Downtown Partnership whose spokeswoman asserted amazingly to a television reporter that the violence and assaults on the Mall are part of the wonderful “urban experience” that Denver provides to visitors.
The mayor did significantly increase the police presence on the 16th Street Mall which caused many of the travelers to move to the Cherry Creek bike path resulting in a massive increase of used heroin needles on the bike path. Denver Parks and Recreation issued a temporary directive allowing police to give 90-day suspensions from park use for persons caught dealing or using drugs in the parks, but suspensions could be appealed.
Even that tepid response was, of course, too much for the highly sensitive Editorial Board of The Denver Post whose main job is to make as Denver thoroughly miserable as possible for the residents, while generally being in the back pocket of the Administration and the high density real estate developers that control the city. (See The Denver Post September 7, 2016 lead editorial.)
The dispute highlights a decayed society that no longer can protect itself or its children. Parasites like John Parvensky, President of the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless since 1986, have exploited the massively government funded Coalition for his own enrichment, with the goal appearing to be to attract as many homeless to Denver as physically possible in order to increase the funding for the Coalition and Parvensky’s scandalous salary.
Visitors to Denver are often shocked by the number of panhandlers and beggars throughout the city. You often hear city officials assert that begging is a constitutional right for which they can do nothing. In actual fact the United States Supreme Court has never asserted that public panhandling is somehow protected by the 1st Amendment but simply that governments cannot prevent organized charities from soliciting funds as stated in Riley v. National Federation of the Blind of Carolina.
Of course the ACLU will sue Denver if it even attempts to prevent even aggressive panhandling, but Denver gets sued all the time anyway. The ACLU is infamous for cowering when government actually attempts to quash citizens’ real 1st Amendment and other rights as when Roosevelt issued an executive order interning Japanese-American citizens during World War II or when the U.S. government in the 1950s went after individuals for simply being a member of or having been a member of the Communist Party of America. The ACLU is a gutless organization when the rubber really meets the road, but in in the meantime it’s great for suing small municipalities with limited budgets for having inoffensive Christmas displays.
In between the endless ACLU lawsuits, the young heroin chic travelers would stop coming to Denver as they look for cities with great weather that are easy marks. Stop being an easy mark and they go away. But, of course, Denver would risk, as the spokeswoman for the Downtown Partnership indicated, visitors being deprived of the wonderful “urban experience” of being physically assaulted on the 16th Street Mall and the opportunity of starting their own collection of used heroin needles from the Cherry Creek bike path. But as the old saying goes “you can’t have it all.” Will Denver muster the courage to fight the good fight? Don’t count on it. The Administration is too busy destroying neighborhoods with excessive density and no parking.
— Editorial Board
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