"The case dates back to August 2007, when Roy filed a lawsuit against five members of the Alexandria City Council -- Johnson, Everett Hobbs, Myron Lawson, Louis Marshall and Charles Frederick Smith Jr. -- after they voted to override Roy's veto of an ordinance that would have allowed the council to hire its own attorneys." id.
Although the Town Talk reports, no doubt from what Jacques told it in yesterday's TV show, that "Roy, meanwhile, said this lawsuit isn't against the council, and that Johnson is the suit's only remaining defendant". id. My cursory review of the suit record shows that this isn't true.
All of the original defendants in that lawsuit remain, except for Louis Marshall who was just dismissed this month.
"The mayor said he wants a judge to establish whether Johnson violated the City Charter when he wrote a letter to Roy on Dec. 31, 2010, that stated all of Roy's division heads had been terminated." id. Quite a change from when Jacques said in October of 2010 that Roosevelt was the best Christmas present he had ever received. Also, Jacques said that the council entered into "false investigation after investigation" and made "lots of accusations" that never have been proven due to the actions of Johnson. id.
The real truth to all of this, however, is that Jacques revived the 2007 lawsuit with the enrollment of his brother, Chris Roy, Jr., as one of his attorneys in retaliation for the City Council issuing subpoenas for its investigation of the Alexander Fulton expenditures. The Council never accused Jacques of any wrong doings as they were only investigating it. We didn't see the end of that investigation because Jacques' lawyers argued that the subpoenas had been wrongfully issued for the December 1st hearing and later that same moth Councilman Harry Silver became the president of the Council and hasn't brought the matter back up.
Also, from my cursory review of the online suit record, Councilman Ed Larvadain, III and Councilwoman Mitzi Gibson do not appear to have been sued by Jacques. It appears that they were only issued subpoenas.
In the words of the immortal Sgt. Joe Friday of Dragnet fame, more of the true facts will come out on February 6th. This is certainly not a way of Jacques showing his collegiality is it?
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At least we can be proud of being recognized as one of the top 100 adventure cities in the country: http://adventure.nationalgeographic.com/weekend-getaways/best-adventure-towns-list
ReplyDeleteWith JR (Maurice) at the helm, every day is an adventure!
The FULTON(ROY) HOTEL is the "ANCHOR" around the neck of the COA moving forward with progress. COA has lost conventions, will loose more conventions for our Fine RIVER FRONT CENTER, someone said build
ReplyDeletethe River Front Center and we will draw the conventions, O REALLY! The top 100 adventure cities
in the country, what # are we? What we are know for
around the country is that we have a DUMBASS MAYOR
who stands by "HIS WAY or the HIGHWAY", this is so
sad for the COA! RECALL RECALL RECALL AND SOON!!!!!
An example of the conventions where given on the Ksyl radio show this am... major conventions have left and in one or two cases they have gone to other hotels here in Alex. I think someone said this am that they have only 7 employees working at the Fulton.What a WASTE
ReplyDeleteRoosevelt had no right at all to fire the Mayor's entire staff. I think, more than likely, the letter was written by Mr. Ed Lavardain, and Roosevelt was dumb enough to sign it and send it. Roosevelt deserves to be sued.
ReplyDeleteRoosevelt and Ed had no authority to fire anyone as they worked for the mayor. In fact, nobody was fired.
ReplyDeleteDo you think that you can sue someone just because you get a smart ass letter from them?
An employee of the Fulton came on later and said that it has about 20 employees hired on a has needed basis.
AS needed "BASIS" for what, no one stays at the dump
ReplyDeleteconventions that have came, no on checked in, those
that are coming(Conventions) will not check into this dump hotel! So why in the world would 20 people
be on standby wasting their time sitting by a phone
hoping for a call!! Until the COA get from under this and ROY stop wanting to control every breath the Council takes, we will forever be out the vision
of CONVENTION SEEKERS!!! So sad for COA!!