(Unfortunately, Ms. Cheh's response that she "likes chocolate" - while no doubt intended to be lighthearted and to defuse some of the tension - doesn't help her cause in this situation; it just plays into the sexist stereotype. I bet she wishes she could have that moment back.)

If Mr. Nickles truly wishes to atone for his inappropriate behavior, the right thing to do - to show proper respect for Ms. Cheh as a member of the elected legislature (and for her fellow Councilmembers as well) - would be to cooperate with Council inquiries and investigations, as opposed to ignoring and stonewalling them.

And, in general, to represent all of the government and citizens of the District, not just the Mayor. For an attorney of his reputation and experience and supposed expertise, he seems to have an awful lot of trouble grasping the difference between his previous position (Chief Counsel to the Mayor) and his present one.

She's both arrogant and ignorant (check out the WaPo mag interview where she admits that when she was elected she didn't know who was on the Council). And she shares Peter Nickles' penchant for insisting that the law is (or will be) whatever she says it is. She ignores the law when it would get in her way and invokes it (speciously) when others do things she disagrees with. Yet people assume she knows what she's talking about because she's a law professor and relatively articulate when compared to some of her Tweedledum and Tweedledumber colleagues. But, sheesh, how low do we have to set the bar here?

I prefer Catania and Mendelson. Or let's draw the name of any random Ward 3 voter from a hat next time and odds are we'd get better representation than we have now.

So does Barry get (or lose) points for not sending Hartsock flowers to apologize? I'm going with get -- flowers from Barry would be even creepier than flowers from Nickles.

I heard Cheh sent Nickles a pair of handcuffs to apologize for her "lawless" comment. Hey, Mike, can you get us pictures?

lol.

he dumb.