Gambia-L,

I am sorry for coming in on this issue, for I have being "underground" for so
long, but are we talking here about Rep. Jonnie Ford or Rep. Johnny Ford? Is
there a state or federal Rep. in the United States called Johnny Ford? I am just
curious, because I know that Samba and Sambo are not the same names. If we are
talking about the person on this attachment of mine, (Please see the attachment)
then we should call him Rep. Jonnie Ford and not Rep. Johnny Ford. There is a
vast difference, politically speaking, in the two, more especially in the United
States of America. Jonnie could be short for Jonas or Jonathan or whatever and
Johnny is short for John.
I am now wide awake to be back in the fold, though I have 332 messages waiting
for my perusal.

Thank You

Prince


----- Original Message -----
From: Ebrima Ceesay <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 16:58
Subject: Re: Rep. Johnny Ford and the World Conference of Mayors


Gambia-L:

The unedited e-mail came from a source.

Ebrima

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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Rep. Johnny Ford  and the World Conference of Mayors
>Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001
>
>Ebrima,
>
>Why is it that the World conference of Mayors (WCM)insists on settling for
>pariah states to hold their Annual junkets? At least the partern supports
>the view of the Sierra Club from the posting I sent you on WCM's 1997
>Annual Meeting in Abuja with Abacha as the Key Note Speaker; after Ken
>Sara-Wiwa and dozen Ogoni human right activists and environmentalists were
>murdered by none other than Abacha.
>
>A tremendous amount of work is going on which will likely produce statling
>results. What triggered my curiousity is, if you look at my last posting, I
>said that I have communicated privately in Banjul and by e-mail yesterday
>(now day before yesterday) with Rep. Johnny Ford. Well, my message has been
>returned undelivered and after several searches using every engine
>imaginable, I cannot find a web site for an Organisation with such high
>sounding name as World Conference of Mayors. I find that strange. Alabama
>State Legislature web site has no e-mail addresses for State Reps. unlike
>the US Federal Government and many other State Goverments.  Come on
>Alabama, you can do better than that for your citizens to have immediate
>and easy access to their representatives, inexpensively too.
>
>Another strange thing is that in the Sierra Club piece, the WCM seems to be
>in the habit of not revealing the names of those US polticians who do
>participate in these junkets, sometimes at taxpayers expense, to help prop
>up dictators like Yahya Jammeh, Omar Bongo and Sanni Abacha.
>The WCM have held meetings in both Abuja and Libreville. That former lady
>African-American Senaor from Illinois lost her seat, afetr omly one term,
>because of her cuzzying up to Sani Abacha.  Johnny Ford and his colleagues
>in State and Local Government should be careful  The federal legislators
>are smarter now after the experience of the former lady Senator from
>Illinois.
>
>The struggle against holding the World Conference of Mayors in The Gambia
>has bearly begun. I am soliciting the assistance of the State Department
>mandarins which I hope will bear fruit so that George Sarr can get to work.
>

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