Apparently feeling that her life had become uneventful, that it wasn't fulfilling enough for her to lodge complaints against women's domestic violence shelters, or non-profit organizations for low- or no-income families, or alternative schools for troubled children, -- or spending 29 days in jail for violating one of several stalking orders against her – Our Lisa popped up in The Oregonian's online issue last May, where she essayed a featured role as a spokesperson for homeless people during their downtown protest last April and May.
In her 12 May 2008 article, Oregonian staffer Anna Griffin wrote:
Portland laws bar people from overnighting on public property and loitering. But because this is a protest, those rules don't apply. Protesters say their immediate priority is an end to those laws, or at least a promise that city police and private security guards won't enforce them. Several headed indoors and up a floor to speak at last week's City Council meeting.
Griffin then quoted Lisa herself:
"I don't want anything from you. I don't want any free ride from you at all," said Lisa Iacuzzi, part of the group now calling itself the "Homeless Liberation Front." "I have a master's degree. I paid my way for my own education. I don't want anything free."
To anyone who knows Lisa – and this clearly doesn't include Griffin, or the blogsters who have written about Lisa, based mostly on what Lisa has to say about herself -- these statements are as laughable as Lisa's sudden “activism” on behalf of the homeless.
Let's look at Lisa's utterances one by one.
"I don't want anything from you.”
Of course Lisa wants something. Usually it's free meals, free cigarettes, free housing, automatic deference, a couple bucks or a million dollars, but mostly it's attention. Apparently she got it when she was invited to discuss the homeless issue with the mayor, and was later quoted on her favorite subject: herself. This is probably as helpful to the homeless as a windshield wiper on a hippo's ass, but it's certainly a huge puff to Lisa's already oversized ego.
At this point, what she wanted from the City of Portland, was the right to camp in the Park Blocks, a right she didn't need, having previously stolen a homeless man's sleeping bag and driven him from his staked out place in an abandoned paint store on Grand and and Taylor. If she was temporarily homeless, it was due to her habit of abusing the generosity of almost everyone who has helped her.
"I don't want any free ride from you at all."
Nonsense. Of course Lisa wants a free ride. Her recent life history has been that of a number of free rides. Last July, she began entertaining the illusion that if she filed a discrimination charge against the women's domestic violence shelter which housed her, and the non-profit organization which gave her a room, she might stand to gain an even smoother free ride.
As she told two of her former neighbors last October: “Reach offered me $10,000 if I said I wouldn’t sue them. The amount isn’t enough. That isn’t enough for a European vacation! I want $1,000,000 from them.”
A propos of that, Lisa wrote in her 27th October letter to Jill Riddle of HAP: “I am going to own 988 Reach units.”
Lisa Iacuzzi, part of the group now calling itself the "Homeless Liberation Front."
Was Lisa ever a part of that group. Especially as there's no prospect of money in it for her?
"I have a master's degree.”
Lisa routinely claims to have earned an MA in education from PSU. (It used to be “Special Education,” until she read on NAGQ-OAE that PSU offers no such degree.) PSU also offered no degree to Lee/Lisa Mary Iacuzzi. What PSU actually has on Lisa is an outstanding bill for her $5,000 student loan, and a collection agency after her for reneging on the terms of that loan.
That aside, Lisa's lack of education is evident in her conversation, not to mention her writing. The blog entries which are polished by an acquaintance of hers are another matter. So are the blog entries which she pastes from other sites, and passes off as her own.
“I paid my way for my own education.”
Not according to PSU, which now faces retaliatory countercharges from Lisa for –you got it – discrimination. Well, it's cheaper for Lisa than paying what she owes.
“I don't want anything free."
To anyone who knows Lisa, this is like saying the Palestinian Authority doesn't want anything from Israel.
The above is by no means an inclusive list of the lies that are Lisa's life. For example, we haven't even touched on Lisa's so-called “mentorship student” -- previously introduced by Lisa as “my seventeen-year-old girlfriend, Nicole” -- and what mentorship program permitted Lisa to provide vodka and pot to a minor. But those omissions would fill a book.
The Oregonian article can be found at:
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1210562703205000.xml&coll=7
Lacking fins or tail,
the gefilte fish swims with
great difficulty
Not A Good Queer – Or Anything Else
We still rise! (despite morning inclinations to stay in bed)
In her 12 May 2008 article, Oregonian staffer Anna Griffin wrote:
Portland laws bar people from overnighting on public property and loitering. But because this is a protest, those rules don't apply. Protesters say their immediate priority is an end to those laws, or at least a promise that city police and private security guards won't enforce them. Several headed indoors and up a floor to speak at last week's City Council meeting.
Griffin then quoted Lisa herself:
"I don't want anything from you. I don't want any free ride from you at all," said Lisa Iacuzzi, part of the group now calling itself the "Homeless Liberation Front." "I have a master's degree. I paid my way for my own education. I don't want anything free."
To anyone who knows Lisa – and this clearly doesn't include Griffin, or the blogsters who have written about Lisa, based mostly on what Lisa has to say about herself -- these statements are as laughable as Lisa's sudden “activism” on behalf of the homeless.
Let's look at Lisa's utterances one by one.
"I don't want anything from you.”
Of course Lisa wants something. Usually it's free meals, free cigarettes, free housing, automatic deference, a couple bucks or a million dollars, but mostly it's attention. Apparently she got it when she was invited to discuss the homeless issue with the mayor, and was later quoted on her favorite subject: herself. This is probably as helpful to the homeless as a windshield wiper on a hippo's ass, but it's certainly a huge puff to Lisa's already oversized ego.
At this point, what she wanted from the City of Portland, was the right to camp in the Park Blocks, a right she didn't need, having previously stolen a homeless man's sleeping bag and driven him from his staked out place in an abandoned paint store on Grand and and Taylor. If she was temporarily homeless, it was due to her habit of abusing the generosity of almost everyone who has helped her.
"I don't want any free ride from you at all."
Nonsense. Of course Lisa wants a free ride. Her recent life history has been that of a number of free rides. Last July, she began entertaining the illusion that if she filed a discrimination charge against the women's domestic violence shelter which housed her, and the non-profit organization which gave her a room, she might stand to gain an even smoother free ride.
As she told two of her former neighbors last October: “Reach offered me $10,000 if I said I wouldn’t sue them. The amount isn’t enough. That isn’t enough for a European vacation! I want $1,000,000 from them.”
A propos of that, Lisa wrote in her 27th October letter to Jill Riddle of HAP: “I am going to own 988 Reach units.”
Lisa Iacuzzi, part of the group now calling itself the "Homeless Liberation Front."
Was Lisa ever a part of that group. Especially as there's no prospect of money in it for her?
"I have a master's degree.”
Lisa routinely claims to have earned an MA in education from PSU. (It used to be “Special Education,” until she read on NAGQ-OAE that PSU offers no such degree.) PSU also offered no degree to Lee/Lisa Mary Iacuzzi. What PSU actually has on Lisa is an outstanding bill for her $5,000 student loan, and a collection agency after her for reneging on the terms of that loan.
That aside, Lisa's lack of education is evident in her conversation, not to mention her writing. The blog entries which are polished by an acquaintance of hers are another matter. So are the blog entries which she pastes from other sites, and passes off as her own.
“I paid my way for my own education.”
Not according to PSU, which now faces retaliatory countercharges from Lisa for –you got it – discrimination. Well, it's cheaper for Lisa than paying what she owes.
“I don't want anything free."
To anyone who knows Lisa, this is like saying the Palestinian Authority doesn't want anything from Israel.
The above is by no means an inclusive list of the lies that are Lisa's life. For example, we haven't even touched on Lisa's so-called “mentorship student” -- previously introduced by Lisa as “my seventeen-year-old girlfriend, Nicole” -- and what mentorship program permitted Lisa to provide vodka and pot to a minor. But those omissions would fill a book.
The Oregonian article can be found at:
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1210562703205000.xml&coll=7
Lacking fins or tail,
the gefilte fish swims with
great difficulty
Not A Good Queer – Or Anything Else
We still rise! (despite morning inclinations to stay in bed)
Happy 45th, Lisa!
1 comment:
You NAGQ-OAE guys have got to write a book about this Lisa woman. It would be hilarious!
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