A day later, LL's ready to assess the fallout from Marion Barry's unprecedented smackdown:

Here is the full supplemental report from investigators Robert S. Bennett and Amy R. Sabrin, which incorporates and responds to Ward 8 Councilmember Marion Barry's challenge to their original report.
For Barry's response, see page 18. For the response of Barry confidant Anthony Motley, see page 27.
Bennett, for the record, "found nothing in [Barry's response] that [...]

All I'm saying is it would make a great frame for a mystery novel. Local art school announces it won't be using that extension campus after all, thanks, and is selling it to a family that will turn it into an art museum/boutique hotel. The same educational institution then announces it's presenting an exhibition of [...]

LL learned today that Anthony Motley has a different crisis-management strategy than his patron, Marion Barry.
Both have been forced to respond to findings of misdeeds contained in Robert S. Bennett's report on council contract and earmarks. But where Barry issued a short statement yesterday in the sanctuary of a church, taking no questions, Motley today [...]

LL was finally able to clear up with Anthony J. Motley today why embattled Ward 8 Councilmember Marion Barry's been tooling around in a 1997 Mercedes registered in his name.
"It's my car," he says. And Barry's driving it, essentially, as a loaner.
It's happened on two occasions, once when Barry own Mercedes broke down some [...]

Anyone who carries on personal and political dealings with Ward 8 Councilmember Marion Barry lives under something of a cloud: Sooner or later, you're going to be interrogated or investigated by authorities. Girlfriend Donna Watts-Brighthaupt, key aide Brenda Richardson, other staffers—they all come in for some prime-time analysis in the report issued earlier this week [...]

With a mere 15 months remaining until Primary Day 2010, LL thought he would run down who is thus far committed to electoral runs—committed, in the sense of actually having filed papers with the Office of Campaign Finance.
Mayor

Incumbent Adrian M. Fenty—Duh. Dude's got at least $2 million in the bank.
Sulaimon Brown—D.C. Wire had the scoop [...]

Well, that didn't take long: Anthony Motley will be running as an independent for an at-large council seat in 2010.
As first reported by LL last month, Motley is the first non-incumbent to declare for the 2010 at-large race, but there was some question over whether he would run as a Democrat or not. Motley is [...]

DCision 2010 begins in earnest: We have our first official D.C. Council challenger.
That would be the Rev. Anthony Motley, the Congress Heights minister and civic activist. Earlier this month, he sent a letter to a select group of friends, informing them that he has "decided to launch a campaign for an At-Large City Council seat [...]