Marion Barry: Inconsiderate Parker
LL was hanging out outside the office a few minutes ago when another City Paper employee passed and said, "Marion Barry blocked me in."
Indeed, Ward 8 Councilmember Marion Barry is currently appearing on WPFW-FM, with whom we share our Adams Morgan building, speaking about his personal health issues and issues in the African-American community on the Heal DC program.
Behold his champagne Mercedes E320, complete with Ward 8 councilmember plates, on the City Paper's cramped parking deck:
After the employee went down to the radio offices to complain, an aide came out to move the car into a proper space.
Oh, and here's a tidbit from the interview: "I don't ever want to be mayor again. I don't even want to hear that word," he said. "I just want to be mayor-for-life."
UPDATE, 1:45 P.M.: Here's some detail from the rear bumper, which shows some damage, which may or may not be related to the whole bus run-in thing.
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11:30 am
I. Can't. Stand. Marion. Barry. Any. Longer!
Vote Yavocka Young for the Ward 8 Council seat!!!!
11:47 am
is that the one that the mystery metrobus damaged? maybe someone from the CP should go out and double-check and make sure the body shop did a good job.
12:04 pm
What an arrogant man - just leaves his car wherever he damn well pleases. No wonder the bus hit him; he was probably parked crooked, facing the wrong way, blocking another car in!
1:04 pm
marionberry is the only Democrat I would NEVER have voted for (if I was a resident of his district, that is)
WOSRT. DC. MAYOR. EVER.
1:13 pm
If the Bus really hit it, no witness. I find it funny that Metro was strong armed into paying him for the work, and best part about it, they paid more than the work was actually done for.
1:25 pm
I did notice some damage to the rear bumper. Uploading image above.
9:28 am
The former mayor feels entitled. But, I feel like it's not for what he could boast about (his SNCC membership in the 60's; and the bullet he took in the 70's), but because everything he has done - good or bad - has been a poke in the eye of the regular power brokers in DC. He's Anacostia's champion, but time has passed him by. The rest of us are working to improve the city and he's still leaching off of his anti-establishment notoriety. Today, when you see him, you can see that he's bewildered when young DC residents do not fawn over him.
2:33 pm
RumnMilkshakes, ---where do you get that he is Anacostia's champion? He is an absentee councilman who has let business hit every other ward but his own.
3:01 pm
This got mentioned in the Onion on Thursday (page 20) "Hot Wheels" but can't find it online.