I am running for DC Council because I believe we deserve a leader who we can trust to serve Ward 2 with integrity and transparency.

For the last two years, I have been working on behalf of District residents as the Assistant Attorney General for Policy and Legislative Affairs for the District of Columbia.  I saw how LGBTQQIA+ victims of hate crimes were left without protection or recourse in the wake of their attacks. I learned how our small business community was being taken advantage of by out of state businesses defrauding our CBE program. And, I represented DC before the National Attorney General community to advocate for statehood, decriminalized cannabis, and data privacy legislation.

To address the needs of our community, I worked to advance workers’ rights, improve environmental justice, and expand civil rights and consumer protections through everything from data breach to hate crime legislation.

I grew up in Connecticut and I am the youngest of three siblings. I attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and earned my undergraduate degree in Business & Hospitality Administration. I then went on to work at a senior living community in New York where I found myself frequently feeling frustrated on behalf of my clients as I helped them navigate through their healthcare options.  This led me to pursue a law degree at the Georgetown University Law Center.

During law school, I served as the Executive Articles Editor for the Journal on Poverty and Public Policy and volunteered at the Landlord Tenant Resource center providing advice to displaced tenants and aggravated landlords. I then advocated for seniors and advanced women’s health issues on Capitol Hill for Senator Blumenthal as his Health and Aging Fellow.

Knowing that I wanted to commit my career to public service, I joined the DC OAG, where I practiced law in our Tax and Finance group litigating cases on behalf of the DC Office of Tax and Revenue. I then moved on to work for Attorney General Racine on Policy, Legislative Affairs, and Legal matters where I was able to work on a broad array of issues plaguing our city.

I am deeply committed to serving the residents of DC and I want to ensure that Ward 2 has a representative on the Council whom they can trust — not only to operate ethically, but also to ensure the issues that matter most are addressed.

Through my experience representing DC residents, I was consistently inspired and impressed our community members’ commitment to equity and advancing justice. We have a lot to be proud of and a lot to work on. I want to be a partner in and advocate for that work.

I felt inspired to get in this race and ensure that an honest, fair, and devoted advocate is at the table. I would be honored and humbled to have your support. 

How To Create A Transformational Customer Journey That Deepens Your Relationship With Your Customers And Keeps Them Coming Back For Life

Want to learn how to empower your business to ethically scale it? My guest is George Bryant who is a New York Times Best Selling Author and one of the most highly sought-after digital marketing consultants in the world to teach his Relationships Beat Algorithms approach to business. George has helped hundreds of the largest companies in the world and thousands of entrepreneurs ethically scale their businesses by deepening their relationships with their customers, and creating transformational breakthroughs that help them accomplish their goals. He believes a company’s financial success is directly dependent on the amount of value they share before AND after a purchase. The Relationships Beat Algorithms approach teaches companies to put relationships before transactions to win.

Aliyah Harris (Clapping) Aliyah was born in San Francisco Ca and was raised predominantly in Italy, until her family moved back to the United States in 2009. Aliyah is the oldest of 6 other siblings and they are all girls lol Aliyah is the graduating class 2020 at Deer Valley High School in Antioch Ca. Aliyah grew up having to be a responsible young adult at a early age to help her mother who was a hard working women with 7 girls striving to attain the resources that was necessary to help take care of Aliyah and  her sisters. Aliyah story is very Inspiring to others who are at risk but determined to stay in her own lane having dreams and aspirations.

F R A N K  V A N  B O G A E R T

SINGER-MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST-

SONGWRITER-PRODUCER

FOR PROGRESSIVE ROCK GROUP

F I S H   O N   F R I D A Y

CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED NEW RELEASE

'B L A C K   R A I N'

Born 1962, Frank Van Bogaert started his music career at the age of 18 with the founding of Belgian New Wave band 1000 Ohm.  In 1981 1000 Ohm scored a big international hit “A.G.N.E.S.”, today still a much-aired New Wave evergreen. By the end of the 80’s and the beginning of the 90’s Frank had also become a much in demand composer of radio commercial tunes and TV series music. This is also the time when he bought Antwerp based ACE Studio.

His management and producer skills quickly catapulted the ACE Studio from a moderate studio to one of the most reputed and busiest studios in the country.  Even today, in these troubled economic times, ACE still stands strong as one of the few top of the range studio’s the country still has left. From mid-90’s on, Frank also began to release Electronic/Cinematic music under his own name. The last decade Frank has been specializing in producing rock music with a preference to Progressive rock, a music style he grew up with and has great affection for.

For those with nostalgic feelings about that warm 1000 Ohm vocal sound, it’s back, just listen to Fish on Friday’s albums.

Black Rain is Fish on Friday’s fifth and arguably strongest album up to date. As usual the production is flawless, and the songs and arrangements are well thought-out. The band, featuring Nick Beggs, Frank Van Bogaert, Marty Townsend and Marcus Weymaere, sounds tighter and punchier than ever before.

As a response to the positive reactions to Lula Beggs' vocal contributions to Fish on Friday’s previous album "Quiet Life", Lula was given a bigger guest role, now appearing on four of the eleven tracks on the album.

Black Rain, comes close (it isn't entirely) to being a concept album about the fast changing, (for some way too fast), world we live in...Our changing environment, refugees fleeing from war and global political madness. Although the album certainly has its dark sides, there is also room for sun and happiness.

As always with Fish on Friday’s artwork, the album is packaged in a beautiful 6-panel digipack with a 16 page booklet designed by Michal Karcz, which truly compliments the music to make every aspect of Black Rain a true work of art and an album for our times.

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HILARY LOFTUS - Healthcare Education Director of “Help our Wounded Foundation”, (HOW), & their Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy & Concussions.

Daughter of the first cardiovascular surgeon in Stamford, CT, Hilary grew up in a medical family. Before moving to south Florida, Hilary worked for a physical therapy service in Connecticut, coordinating their Parkinson’s Dance and Fall Prevention programs. Every day, she is excited about the opportunity to spread the word about hyperbaric oxygen therapy and how it helps people with neurological issues.

I am also a "Sports Mom" as my son played baseball and soccer throughout middle school and high school and I love both sports and dance, have a minor in Dance from State University of New York.  I also have raced sailboats competitively since age 12 and am currently learning to play golf and loving it!

Robyn Sutter was born in Sydney and moved many times including to Bathurst, Canberra, Dubbo, and 9 months in Kent, UK when she was 12-13. Robyn has now lived in Sydney, Australia for 40 years. 

Robyn became a Primary teacher working in  Trangie, Narromine and Parkes, as well as western Sydney areas of Canley Heights, Plumpton, Granville and the Inner West areas of Haberfield, Leichhardt. 

Robyn has a passion for free expression, so went on to do Grad Dip in Ed Studies ( Expressive Arts in the Primary school) and specialised in dance. She choreographed hundreds of performances and developed Whole Language teaching methodology using The Arts as the creative method of immersing children passionately into all subject areas of learning. I also developed a passionate philosophical/educational approach in my teaching which focused on individualised learning.  

Growing up interests - running, tennis, soccer, athletics, hurdles, piano 

Young adult interests - piano, disco dancing, amateur theatre

Late 40s - took up running again. Began sprinting as a hobby

50-60 - trained and competed in sprints and hurdles in Masters Athletics events in Australia and overseas, began writing a book about my passion to run.

Kate Davis MS, RDN, CSSD, LDNis a registered dietitian nutritionist who is board-certified as a specialist in sports nutrition (CSSD). She is the owner of RDKate Sports Nutrition, where she works with athletes and athletic teams both in-person and via video chat across the United States. Kate has previously consulted with middle school, high school, NCAA Division I, II & III, Olympic, Paralympic, NFL and NBA athletes. Previous and current clients include Grand Valley State University,the NBA G-League,USA Womens Hockey, USA Paralympics and several individual competitive athletes of all ages. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’ online Sports Nutrition Care Manual and sits on the CSSD Exam Review Board. She has been quoted in media outlets such as Chicago Athlete, Competitive Runner and Runner’s World magazines, was an expert reviewer for the 6th edition of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’ Sports Nutrition Practice Manual (released 2017) and was an expert contributor to the book #HeySportsParents! (released 2018). Kate received her bachelors degree in dietetics and her masters degree in human nutrition with an emphasis in exercise physiology from Michigan State University.

In her spare time, Kate enjoys competing in running and triathlon and playing soccer, volleyball and snowboarding. She also loves gardening, cooking and “working” her most important job: raising her 3 beautiful children with her husband, Ron.

Visit her website at www.RDKate.com, where you can learn more about her services, navigate to her blog and connect with her on Twitter or Facebook.

John O'Connor has tried over 70 cases in federal and state venues throughout the country, with highly enviable success in complex, contentious disputes. Retained by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company as trial counsel in key cases, he achieved a pretrial dismissal in each concluded action. A former Federal Prosecutor, Mr. O'Connor was appointed lead outside counsel in certain S&L crisis litigation, defended a California Attorney General in campaign-related litigation, and successfully represented Golden State Warriors basketball Coach Don Nelson in significant contract claims. His greatest successes have been in the satisfactory resolution of closely-held business disputes.

Mr. O'Connor has held the highest Martindale-Hubbell "AV" rating for over 25 years, and has consistently been named a "SuperLawyer" by his Northern California peers. He has tried cases at the highest levels of practice since 1972.

Mr. O'Connor currently serves on the Board of Directors of Graduate Theological Union, The Lincoln Club of Northern California, and Alliance for Smiles, Inc.

LEGAL ANALYST/AUTHOR: John O'Connor, Postgate: How the Washington Post Betrayed Deep Throat, Covered Up Watergate, and Began Today's Partisan Advocacy Journalism He served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Northern California from 1974-1979, representing the United States in both criminal and civil cases.

A recent headline in The New York Times — a paper of record for the anti-Trump Resistance — was adamant:
“Barr Dismisses Trump’s Claim That Russia Inquiry Was an Obama Plot.”

Only one problem with the headline: Barr didn’t dismiss it. Barr did not say there was no plot.

The Russia collusion investigation tore the country apart. It cost some $40 million and lasted almost three years, leading to partisan impeachment proceedings against Trump, which failed to result in a conviction. Run by special counsel Robert Mueller, it found no credible evidence to accuse any American with colluding with Russia in the 2016 election.

But the hysterical media and partisan finger pointing that came with it did accomplish something of value.

It allowed Obama and establishment Democratic Party bosses to escape blame for backing Hillary Clinton and losing the White House to Trump. If they could blame Russia for Trump, they could herd anti-establishment Democrats like the Bernie Bros into a safe space and keep control of their party. And so, it was done.- Chicago Tribune

TALK TO DEEP THROAT'S LAWYER!

Deep Throat’s lawyer discovers the Washington Post betrayed his client—while covering up the real truth about the Watergate scandal.  

The conventional wisdom of Watergate is turned on its head by Postgate, revealing that the Post did not uncover Watergate as much as it covered it up. The Nixon Administration, itself involved in a coverup, was the victim of a journalistic smoke-screen that prevented mitigation of its criminal guilt. As a result of the paper’s successful misdirection, today’s strikingly deceptive partisan journalism can be laid at the doorstep of the Washington Post.

After Deep Throat’s lawyer, author John O’Connor, discovered that the Post had betrayed his client while covering up the truth about Watergate, his indefatigable research resulted in Postgate, a profoundly shocking tale of journalistic deceit.

In an era when numerous modern media outlets rail about the guilt of their political enemies for speaking untruths, Postgate proves that the media can often credibly be viewed as the party actually guilty of deception. Americans today mistrust the major media more than ever. Postgate will prove that this distrust is richly deserved

BIO: John O’Connor is an experienced trial lawyer, practicing law in San Francisco since 1972.  He has tried cases in state and federal court throughout the country. He served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Northern California from 1974-1979, representing the United States in both criminal and civil cases. Among his interesting assignments have been representation of the government during the OPEC oil embargo of the 1970s; writing Fifth Amendment and “state of mind” briefs for the prosecution in United States v. Patricia Hearst; representing the FDIC, FSLC and RTC during the savings and loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s; representing California Attorney General Dan Lungren in campaign-related litigation; defending R.J. Reynolds Tobacco in significant smoking and health litigation; representing Coach Don Nelson in litigation with Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban; and representing W. Mark Felt regarding the revelation of his identity as Deep Throat.