David James Wyatt
10/12/09

Good-day. I thank all of you who were able to vote on a workday. I did and went back to work in the private sector. I ran an issues-oriented campaign that attracted no attention from the newspapers which kept declaring that District Seven was a four-person race. I mailed out over 8000 letters: one to each person who voted over the past five years at a cost of $8,500.00. that letter is posted on this web page.

If you did not receive a letter, there were dirty tricks played in this election causing some voters to write-in my name in the at-large race; other to not receive the letter with remittance envelope for the purpose of allowing me to recover the cost of the mailing; banks refused to set-up a campaign account for me to deposit donations; and campaign signs were vandalized.

Someone was afraid of my candidacy: the newspapers; the government; the police who harass black men at will in Roxbury; and this race is not over. Councilor Turner has to accept or reject a plea bargain this week which may include his agreement to step down prior to the election. If Chuck rejects a plea bargain there is still a chance that he may step down during his trail in March causing a special election and lost time for solutions to be found for District Seven's core issues.

Should Mr. Turner accept the plea bargain, I shall notify you of the option of writing-in my name on the November ballot. This shall be done by telephone at a cost of $500.00. I ask you to consider this option carefully; remembering the dirty tricks that were employed against us in September; also, I ask you to donate a dollar to my campaign fund: Campaign for David J. Wyatt, 62 Weaver Court, Roxbury MA 02119-1223, toward the cost of new signs and the cost of the previous mailing; more, if you can.

Respectfully yours,
David James Wyatt




9/19/09

Good day. Thank you for taking the time to read this letter and to appreciate the urgency of the message herein.

First, I am a candidate for elected office who you already know. I was one of nine candidates running for At-Large City Councilor in 2007 and I was second on the ballot, just below the name, Stephen J. Murphy. I crisscrossed this city, appearing at ten or more forums with eight other At-Large candidates. My accomplishments and ideas about city government appeared in the two daily newspapers and every weekly neighborhood newspaper prior to the election of November 6, 2007. In additions, I appeared on two neighborhood television broadcasts to gain support from voters of this city. I have ben thoroughly betted by over ten different news organizations and nothing they said reflected adversely upon my character.

This year, I am a candidate for District Seven City Councilor. As an African American man, I believe in due process, not a lynching. With that being said, you and I have witnessed on popular elected official drop out of her race and leave her supporters with no viable alternative. Should the incumbent be re-elected, Mr. Turner shall still face a number of days shuttling between City Hall and Federal Court in Worcester. This is away from where we need him on an hourly basis to beseech the Mayor for equitable police and financial support in the communities beset with stabbings and shootings. Should Mr. Turner elect to terminate his candidacy just short of the November election, there ought to be someone whose name be upon the ballot who has attended the majority of his district meetings, attended his rallies in support of C.O.R.I. reform, can fill shoes respecting the Education Subcommittee, which he has chaired various time, and who can provide the Boston City Council with a strong and informed voice from within the African American community, which is why District Seven was created.

There are no apparent flaws in the character of the three candidates on the ballot who seek to fill the District Seven seat and I have enjoyed their support in the past. I only seek to ensure that voters in District Seven consider the issues we have to deal with who can best accomplish solutions, should that awesome responsibility devolve upon them. Ability should trump popularity in this day and age.

Therefore, on September 22, 2009, I am asking you to take time out of you daily routines to take the extraordinary step of writing in the name, David J. Wyatt, if you believe, after reading the following, that these issues require the special act of writing in that name.

Over the past two years, I have been associated with the Egleston Square Main Streets board. There are many of these organization in Boston. I believe that the branch at Egleston Square was spending its time and resources on the economic development of Jamaica Plain to the impoverishment of Roxbury, the neighborhood that egleston Square is seated in. The members of that Main Streets board tried to eliminate the term "Roxbury" from their brochures and street signs. When annual elections were held, it resulted in no African Americans being elected to posts. Furthermore, when the post of Executive Director became available, it was filled by a Caucasian woman. All of this took place in the neighborhood of Roxbury, the signature black community in Boston.

I wrote letter of protest concerning this matter to the mayor and contracted the national Main Streets organization in Washington, but these protests about the cheating of Roxbury fell upon rocky soil. An employee of Urban Edge, a landlord in Boston that loaned money to Egleston Square Main Streets, suggested that I needed "help" of some kind of strongly suggesting the equal time and money should be divided between Jamaica Plain and Roxbury by that organization. Suppose I could meet with them as the District Seven City Councilor; would that make a difference in how resources are being distributed by City Hall to need communities? Please consider this on September 22, 2009 if you plan to vote, which I hope you do.

I consider the questions of race, ethnicity, and color very carefully. I am not an angry activist; however, I just do not see the reason to allow African Americans to be redisenfranchised by greedy developer or universities. I intended to be heard on these questions that make some uncomfortable, those who work for landlords who are trying to place Roxbury outside of the price range of citizens who families have lived here since being removed from Beacon Hill, and since Revolutionary times.

Here at Jackson Square, several community developers, Urban Edge being one, are trying to build an ice skating rink. This development was supposed to be decided upon by a community advisory committee (CAC) authorized by Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA). However, the "friends" of the rink overrode the process and secured funding to build, irrespective of neighborhood input. The majority opposed a rink being so close to the Melnea Cass Ice Skating Rink, which has existed for decades for any inner-city youth to take advantage of.

The funding was secure with the help of former Senator Dianne Wilkerson, at the request of the Friends of the Kelly Rink. I am not sure if this abrogation of proper procedure shall stand. Urban Edge is suppose to keep the elected board of the Academy Homes One Tenants' Council informed about BRA development that abuts the community in which I reside. I was told to expect to be briefed on these Jackson Square matters at the July or August meetings of the AHITC elected board, in which I am a member. However, no such undertaking by Urban Edge has come to pass. Our community is not receiving due respect in this matter by Urban Edge even though we cleaned up our act and paid for more than twenty security cameras to cover every inch of Academy Homes One, hired on site security, and cooperated with the police captain in our police district 100% of the time. All of these changes were voted by citizens between Jackson and Egleston Squares. Senator Wilkerson used to attend meetings of the Academy Homes One Tenants' Council and stroll our grounds. We can't afford to surrender one more strong voice and fighter for the black community of which I am a constituent. If, however, this be our destiny, the next candidate for that post of strong leader and advocate should already have an interest in these issues and questions of respect and turf. The Boston Globe and the Jamaica Plain weekly newspaper in the past two years have contacted me for information on what steps have been taken in and around my community when, tragically, shootings and stabbings occur. This is an interest of min and an area of extreme concern to every law-abiding citizen that fatefully becomes the province of the District Seven City Councilor, who should be a source of advice to the Mayor and to the other elected officers of Boston.

I believe that I have the respect and the goodwill of the candidates for mayor and the subcommittee chair of the Public Safety City Council Subcommittee. I have been vetted by the news organizations and have been found by them to be a "go to" person in District Seven and in this city.

Concerning public safety, in the past two years I have walked the streets of District Seven in concert with religious groups that do the same to visibly oppose crime and to offer peaceful solutions to violence that took the life of the man in Dorchester on August 29, 2009. This is not something that everyone can do. I have no dependents, and so it is easier for me to risk my safety this way, as I told a full room at Florian Hall two years ago. I attended the meetings of the oldest crime committee in the city of Boston, which meets at the basilica where Senator Kennedy had his funeral mass. There is, however, an abiding need to keep focus upon human and civil rights for all because of the few police officers in our midst who Q.E.D. regard blacks as sub-humans whose cries for assistance can be ignored in favor of those calls from the rich or powerful. The existence of these malefactors became an accomplished fact during the concern over how the police treated Harvard Professor Gates. They control the distribution of resources to our communities, or non-distribution. I can be trusted to be assertive and informed upon these issues of respect and of turf because I am already in this fight. It would be a great help if it were to be my privilege to carry this fight to city hall as the District Seven City Councilor.

I work nine hours per day, Monday through Friday, in the private sector as a delivery person, not newspapers, as was misrepresented by "the Baystate Banner." I did deliver newspapers between 2005 and 2007 for "the Boston Herald" until they reduced costs by having their paper delivered by the deliverer of "the Boston Globe". At a certain point, the owner of "the Boston Herald" became aware that I had been a victim of discrimination when my promotion to assistant manager was blocked for invalid reasons. He also became aware that I was enduring abuse at the hands of his supervisors, at least one of which used the "N" word about me. Since 2006, Mr. Purcell has employed a huge staff of lawyers to uphold the use of discrimination and racial epithets in the workplace. We are currently in Federal Court in Boston trying to settle this matter, or failing to try this matter in court. The judge in this matter is currently denying me the information I need to win this case without having to proceed to trial. She is acting in support of the large staff of lawyers opposing me. She is also palpably acting in support of racial discrimination and the use of the "N" word in the workplace.

I hope to be able to win this fight that is nothing less then a fight for the civil and human rights of all people, along with my current duties which include, delivery person, tenants' council member, advocate for more financial resources distributed within the district, write-in candidate for District Seven City Councilor, et cetera. Right now, the problem is the lack of respect that blacks and other minorities receive in the court system as stated by Judge Nancy Gertner to an audience at Boston University in 1995. While she made that speech, she denied a default judgment to a black plaintiff against the city of Boston where the city's lawyers had failed to answer a complaint or to make an appearance after 180 days.

Many of you have had the same experiences as I have. I think that it is appropriate for a city councilor to know civil rights law, especially if representing District Seven. I hope to bring this expertise to the job. There are still some judges who are trying to discriminate in the courthouse on the basis of race, color, and ethnicity who need a reason to act correctly. Seeing a city councilor before them may be an important first step in amending their ways.

What I have just divulged to you are my qualifications for asking for you efforts to have my name placed upon the ballot for the November election. I am currently taking part in this because it needs to be done correctly by an efficient city councilor. To you who may be white, I ask you, does the city council need a popular tribune to oppose what adversely effects the poor, those who cannot vote, and those not as fortunate as you? If you are black, help yourself by voting this time, unlike the last time when Roxbury as ridiculed for not voting.

This mailing is an expensive undertaking for me. I respectfully requested a donation of at least one dollar to cover the cost of this letter. Also, check the website for any major developments in my campaign. Please make out any check sent to me to Campaign for David J. Wyatt. My address is 62 Weaver Court, Roxbury, MA 02119-1223.

I will be available for voters to meet with at the Harriet Tubman House on the corner of Columbus and Massachusetts Avenues on September 20th from 2:00 - 5:00 pm, for a meet and greet.

Thank you for your attention to these matters.

Yours truly, David James Wyatt