www.justiceforchandra.com

[rd]

Holy cow, maggie. Just when it couldn't get weirder. What a find.

rd

[benn]

www.justiceforchandra.com did not work for me, but www.justiceforchandra.com/forums did.

Good morning all, and happy Sunday morning. I have been busy in this short lapse here, and I have found a few articles, or subjects, to post about here. --if I can find where I stored them away.

I also looked at three other sites I had not looked at before, not in competition with this site but as complimentary sites. Only one though is really complimentary and that is the websleuths.com/forum. I think that is connected with the CaroleSund Foundation. That is the way I found it anyway.

I posted one message about Chandra at the CyberSleuths Crime Forums, but that was mainly because I could not join the websleuths forum. They are shut down for maintenance this weekend and not taking registrations, so I will have to wait on that. The third site I found was for cold missing persons cases. The Doenut or something I think it is called.

I found one very intersting message at websleuths about DNA, and I am going to post it here. It is printer friendly, so I guess it is all right to post.

Glad to see the new site up and running, a lot of work on your part, rd.

So I will find a spot here for my DNA post.

benn

[rd]

Work still in progress to get everything set up again. Thanks for your patience... :)

rd

[jane]

Thanks for all your hard work, rd!
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[jane]

I thought this woman raises a good point in her letter to the Modesto Bee, following:
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Give Condit money to fund

Published: August 2, 2003, 05:30:12 AM PDT

I read with particular interest the article about Carolyn Condit ("Carolyn Condit sues again," July 25). The article describes her civil case against the National Enquirer, with her winning an undisclosed settlement.
If her motive is to make a case against irresponsible reporting, it might be justified. She would be promoting truth and justice.

A person of true character would offer settlement money to the Sund-Carrington reward fund set up to capture Chandra Levy's killer. This would happen if Condit was serious about truth and justice.

BARBARA DAMEWOOD

Modesto
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Christ

[benn]

She wrote a good letter, with a good idea--let the Condits donate some money to the Sund Carrington Foundation, and she got the letter published.

The Condits are going to have to start speaking out eventually, unless they want a lawyer to talk for them all of the time.

benn

[jane]

I think we lost this article in the move (or when some threads were broken before the move), so I'm reposting:
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quote from the Modesto Bee

Film captures last-ditch Condit effort

By MICHAEL DOYLE
BEE WASHINGTON BUREAU

Published: July 28, 2003, 04:42:33 AM PDT

WASHINGTON -- Gary Condit is coming to the big screen, courtesy of two young filmmakers who enjoyed unusually close access to the Ceres politician during his desperate campaign last year to hold onto his seat in Congress.
Kristina Holland and Aaron Garcia, using a rented camera, captured about 60 hours of digital footage and edited it into the 1 hour, 15 minute "Public Service: The Private Campaign of Gary Condit."

"We just wanted to document something that humanized a family going through a struggle," said Kristina Holland, who grew up in Ceres as a friend of Condit's daughter, Cadee.

The documentary is scheduled for its first public showing Aug. 8 at the Sacramento Film and Music Festival. "Public Service" was not available for preview by The Bee.

"The footage is all kinds of exclusive stuff, stuff we haven't seen before," film festival director Nathan Schemel said. "But it's not a propa-ganda piece. It's not a fluff piece by any means."

After easy victories in seven previous runs for Congress, Condit faced an uphill battle last year as a result of the controversy surrounding Chandra Levy's disappearance.

The 24-year-old Modesto woman went missing in spring 2001 in Washington, D.C., where she had just completed an internship with the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.

Reports surfaced about a Condit-Levy affair, and Condit eventually stopped denying the stories. But he took criticism for not telling police early on.

The case drew national attention for most of the summer, and coverage heated up again for the Democratic primary of March 2002, when Condit ran against his one-time protégé, Dennis Cardoza of Merced.

Cardoza won the primary and then the general election in November.

Between the primary and the November vote, a man walking his dog came across Levy's body in Rock Creek Park in Washington, and the coroner classified the case as a homicide. No arrests have been made.

Holland-Condit connection

In observing the primary campaign, Holland and Garcia had a much better perch than most.

Holland, 27, and Cadee Condit attended Carroll Fowler Elementary School, and while in sixth grade they had a slumber party at the Condit home.

Holland's mother, Clarice, was a close friend of Carolyn Condit's.

"Because I had grown up with the Condits, I had a completely different image of them," Holland said, "and I thought, someone needs to go in there and really humanize these people."

The connections ended up going deeper than that. Condit's statewide political action committee, Justice PAC, reported paying Holland $3,500 last year. The PAC's disclosure report identified Holland as a "campaign consultant."

Holland described the payment as a retainer, made because the Condits were satisfied with the filmmaking relationship. Holland's mother was a paid staff member for the Condit campaign.

Garcia grew up in Sacramento with visions of becoming a comic book artist. Now 30, he met Holland while both were studying film at California State University, Long Beach.

Holland had gone into film after an ankle injury ended her ballet dreams.

Living in Los Angeles, where she now teaches fourth grade, but intrigued by the documen-tary possibilities presented by the Condit campaign, Holland said she began calling and faxing the family in the hope of gaining access.

"They were a little hesitant at first, as you can imagine," Holland said. "At first, they said to come up on the weekends, and we'll check each other out."

Holland and Garcia eventually won the Condits' confidence and scared up money for their project from family members and credit cards.

Nothing like big-time media

"The connection with the fam-ily was there from Day 1," recalled Mike Lynch, Condit's former chief of staff and one of those interviewed for the film. "It certainly wasn't like they were Fox News."

Condit documentary producer Sebastian Munoz said the original cut was three hours, while Garcia noted that he had to choose among multiple story lines amid the raw footage.

Holland said she "didn't rea-lize when we started how long it would take to finish. It's been a ride, man, a serious ride."

Gary and Carolyn Condit, meanwhile, moved to Arizona and earlier this month cele-brated the settlement of Carolyn Condit's lawsuit against the National Enquirer tabloid, in a libel action stemming from coverage of Levy's disappearance.

Last week, Condit filed three more libel lawsuits -- against USA Today and two Australian newspapers, the Daily Telegraph and Herald Sun of Sydney, claiming that they republished reports that first appeared in the Enquirer.

Bee Washington Bureau reporter Michael Doyle can be reached at (202) 383-0006 or mdoyle@mcclatchydc.com.
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Christ

[jane]

Hey, everybody - it just hit me - from the article above:

Holland, 27, and Cadee Condit attended Carroll Fowler Elementary School, and while in sixth grade they had a slumber party at the Condit home.

Holland's mother, Clarice, was a close friend of Carolyn Condit's.

Get it? Clarice!
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[rd]

That I believe jane. She would have been a conduit of information from the Chandra forums, so to speak.

rd

[benn]

If GC continues on long enough eventually he may succeed in shooting himself in the foot. So far he has tried, and missed.

benn

[jane]

How long can those parasites go on without doing some honest work to support themselves?! Wouldn't you think they could have made a quarter of a million go a little further? High maintenance parasites!
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Christ

[rd]

plus they're still living in Gary's house in Ceres, aren't they?

rd

[benn]

[jane]

You're right Benn - it's not nice for me to apply the name parasites to those parasites. Oops! To Garr's heirs.
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[jane]

quote from the Modesto Bee

Camera captures 'Condit Country'

By MELANIE TURNER
BEE STAFF WRITER

Published: August 9, 2003, 06:45:25 AM PDT

SACRAMENTO -- About 200 people gathered at the Crest Theatre on Friday for the premiere of a documentary about embattled Rep. Gary Condit's fight to stay in office.

Many in the audience were friends and longtime supporters of Condit. Others attending were fam-ily members and friends of filmmaker Kristina Holland of Los Angeles.

"Public Service -- The Private Campaign of Gary Condit," was billed as an attempt to give greater dimension to the man who shunned much of the media during the fight to save his political career.

Holland, who made the low-budget film with Aaron Garcia, grew up in Ceres, Condit's home town. She is friends with Condit's daughter, Cadee.

From Los Angeles, she watched with the rest of the country as media coverage on Condit intensified after the disappearance of Modestan Chandra Levy. Levy had just finished an internship with the federal Bureau of Prisons in Washington when she disappeared in spring 2001.

It was later reported that Condit had a romantic relationship with the 24-year-old Levy, which he no longer denies.

Levy's remains were found in May 2002 in a remote area of a Washington park. The congressman has not been linked in any way to her disappearance and death.

Condit lost his bid for re-election; he was defeated by Dennis Cardoza of Merced in the primary.

"It was surreal," said Holland, explaining the experience of following the congressman during his campaign. "I thought, those are people I grew up with. You're talking about my hometown. The image they were portraying didn't match up. You know, 'Condit Country.' It didn't match up."

Condit enjoyed wide support during his 11 years in Congress. Before 2002, he had won re-election easily every two years.

The 27-year-old filmmaker said when she realized Condit was going to "go for it," seek re-election with the odds stacked against him, she wanted to get it on film.

"We wanted to capture how he was going to do this," she said, adding that she and Garcia had no money to follow Condit to Washington, so they drove from Southern California to the Central Valley each weekend from January to March.

The film shows how Condit, wearing a smile during much of the film, surrounded himself with 10 of his greatest supporters -- a "cast of characters," as Holland described them -- in a fight to save his political career.

Former state Sen. Dick Monteith, who lost to Cardoza in the general election, made the trip from Modesto to Sacramento on Friday with his wife, Jeanine, to see the film. Before the show, he said he was eager to see political history portrayed in a documentary.

"California's political history has always been interesting," he said. "That race ended up being not only the focal point of California, but of the whole country. We read all about it, we watched it (on television). Now here is a different perspective."

Said Gus Kanelos of Sacramento, who worked on Condit's campaign: "I'd like to see Gary get back into politics."

The film begins with the voice of a caller:

"You're a murderous, evil, son of a b----. Anyway, dude, don't be running for Congress when you're a murderer. Bye."

The film flashes back to the days of "Condit Country" -- big rallies with lots of supporters, including his eventual rival Cardoza. It shows the anti-Condit protests and the warm support he received from others.

As Election Day grows near, Condit can't go anywhere without being followed by large numbers of reporters with cameras and microphones. At one point his daughter, Cadee, brings servings of chili to the reporters camped out near their lawn.

"They're not the church and their not the courts," the congressman says of the media.

The night of the election, Cadee Condit still is trying to get people to vote for her father. One caller's words stun her into silence. Then she says: "I give everything to God, ma'am. If you're a good Christian woman, you shouldn't judge. How dare you ask me that question."

After she hangs up, Cadee smiles sweetly at the camera and says, "It's the last night. I might as well get mad at a few people."

Lucille Mejia, who coordinated Condit's campaign in Merced, said afterward that the film made her sad. The camera caught a teary-eyed Mejia toward the end, just before Condit lost to Cardoza.

"Sitting here and watching this brought back all the memories of what could have been," said Mejia, who said she gave up a career to help Condit.

But she said she'd do it all over again.
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"There is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known."
Christ