Council Chairman Kwame "Fully Loaded" Brown gently scolded Ward 8 Councilmember Marion Barry yesterday for sending out a press release from a staffer's email attacking one of his challengers in April's election.
News Channel 8's Bruce DePuyt got a copy of a letter Brown sent to Barry, asking him to refrain from possibly violating council rules [...]
That must have been one heck of a party. It's taken a while—like an entire year—but LL finally has the exact tally for how much Mayor Vince Gray spent on his inaugural ball. The cost for the party: $714,575. And that's even with cash bars.
You may recall that Gray promised transparency and disclosure when it [...]
One might assume that Ward 8 Councilmember Marion Barry, who is likely to coast to an easy re-election victory in April's primary, would have little use/need to sling mud at his competitors. Earlier this month, in fact, Barry told Fox 5 that he welcomes any and all comers. "I encourage everybody to run," Barry said. [...]
When it rains, it pours. Or at least it does for Ward 5 Councilmember Harry Thomas Jr., whose debts in 2011 include $300,000 to the District government for allegedly misspending public "youth baseball" money on an Audi and Hooters and an as-of-yet undisclosed settlement with Uncle Sam to clear up $15,000 in unpaid student loans, [...]
There's no LL column in the print edition of Washington City Paper this week—but there's plenty of local politics. Our Annotated Guide to 2011 is an encyclopedic compendium of everything Washingtonians talked about, argued about, and ranted about in the last 12 months. Which, in this year of fully loaded SUVs and FBI raids on [...]
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The last time D.C. heard from Adrian Fenty in an official capacity, he was finishing 37th in the "elite male" category at the D.C. Triathlon in June. (Which, come to think of it, is more or less what he was up to for much of his term as mayor.) If a new poll by Clarus [...]
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Ward 7 council candidate Kevin B. Chavous' brief political career is teetering on the edge of extinction after he was arrested last night on a charge of soliciting a prostitute.
Chavous, 27, was popped by police as part of a "sting" operation last night just after midnight on K Street NE, according to the Post, which [...]
D.C. Watch's Dorothy Brizill can be one tough customer at a news conference. Woe be to any public official who tries to blow her off with a glib answer. But that doesn't mean she doesn't like to partay, as you can see here in a video of her dancing with Council Chairman Kwame "Fully Loaded" [...]
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