During a nighttime traffic stop that resulted in drunk-driving charges, Shadow Sen. Paul Strauss repeatedly brandished his U.S. Senate badge to police officers, court documents say.
The records also indicate that Strauss' blood-alcohol level was at twice the legal level of intoxication after his Oct. 1 arrest, which was first reported two weeks ago by City [...]

It's been approximately 23 hours since LL contacted Shadow Sen. Paul Strauss for comment on his Oct. 1 drunk driving arrest. After LL left a message on his cell phone, Strauss texted back: "What?" LL replied, "Obtained court docs today regarding oct 1 arrest. Want to get your side." No response ever came.
Since then LL [...]

Shadow Sen. Paul Strauss was arrested for drunk driving on Oct. 1, according to court records.
The arrest took place on the 2000 block of Calvert Street NW, on or near the Duke Ellington Bridge between Woodley Park and Adams Morgan. Records contain few further details regarding the circumstances of the arrest.
Strauss, an attorney by trade, [...]

A few months ago, Damien "Lincoln" Ober launched a campaign to run as a Libertarian against D.C. Shadow Senator Paul Strauss. Ober, a film-maker, bartender and writer, saw the effort as a science-fiction art project. Which may have been why he took the challenge so seriously.
With the help of friends and D.C. Libertarians, he got [...]

A few months back, LL included in his column an item about how the federal Office of Special Counsel declared that the chair of the Board of Zoning Appeals was in fact subject to the Hatch Act—the federal law prohibiting political activity by certain federal and city employees. That opinion [PDF] was sent in response [...]

Late Wednesday, LL's endorsements for the Sept. 9 primary were posted on this Web site. In them, regarding the Democratic shadow senator race, he gave a chilly endorsement to incumbent Paul Strauss, declining to endorse challenger Philip Pannell due to "his record of quitting in a huff every organization he's ever joined."
That was an exaggeration [...]

Damien Ober, the Libertarian challenger to D.C.'s shadow senator, Paul Strauss, has turned in his petitions, hopefully with the 3,000 legit names he needs to get on the ballot. He'll find out if he made it Sept. 8. Ober says he learned a lot about the political process through the arduous work of gathering [...]

DENVER—TV star Hayden Panettiere, LL has learned, is scheduled to join the D.C. delegation for a luncheon this afternoon hosted by the District's shadow delegation.
Panettiere is buds with Shadow Sen. Paul Strauss, whom she met earlier this year while lobbying Congress on saving the whales. She taped a short YouTube voting-rights PSA with Strauss at [...]

Damien Ober, an aspiring Libertarian candidate for DC's shadow senator seat, has a new video up that hints at a potential scheme to infiltrate the Libertarian mainstream (obvs., that's sort of a contradictory idea). Like his other videos, which I wrote about this week, this one is intentionally mysterious. So I won't make any conclusions. [...]

Robert Brannum, the Ward 5 education activist and serial-hearing-testifier, has dropped his challenge to two-term incumbent Shadow Sen. Paul Strauss. Brannum made his announcement at the Ward 5 Democrats meeting Monday night in North Michigan Park.
"I did not have the time to put into an effective citywide campaign," Brannum told LL, citing a need to [...]

Today is the first day candidates can pick up petitions for the Sept. 9 primary, and the big news is this: Ward 8 resident and longtime statehood activist Eugene Dewitt Kinlow plans to challenge incumbent Paul Strauss for his shadow senator slot.
LL was at the Board of Elections and Ethics' door bright and early this [...]

 
Cinch that tie up, next time, Senator.
(BTW, I'm getting really good at spelling "Hayden Panettiere.")

The Shadow Delegation somehow roped Heroes' Hayden Panettiere into recording a PSA reminding you, District taxpayers, to donate to the D.C. Statehood Delegation Fund, which is used to support the doings of Shadow Sens. Paul Strauss and Michael D. Brown and Shadow Rep. Mike "Close Enough to Panettiere" Panetta.

The footage was shot back in January, [...]