[Rick Lee]

Well, I did have a stack of unpaid DC parking tickets show up on my credit report. But each time I either refinanced or bought a house, the lender brought them to my attention but said they didn't require me to pay them to close the loan. My credit score is excellent and I see no way they can make me pay. I view DC's local gov't. to be about as honest as that of Mexico and I just refuse to pay them. Once I got a ticket there in a cousin's car, so I had to pay it and I wrote "Marion Barry's Crack Fund" on the memo line of my check. THis was when he was still mayor. It hasn't gotten much better since then.