(Washington Post) — D.C. Council members debated a possible income tax increase Tuesday as a stream of advocates for low-income residents, small-business owners, labor leaders and others lamented the proposed cuts in Mayor Adrian M. Fenty’s gap-closing budget plan. At the all-day hearing, some council members and advocates called Fenty’s spending plan shortsighted and unfair, […]
(Afro) — The dismantling of Mayor Adrian Fenty’s administration, prompted by his 53-46 percent loss to City Council Chairman Vincent Gray in September’s Democratic mayoral primary, is continuing apace. Gray named the team that would facilitate his transition to the city’s helm late last week. And in recent days, hundreds of Fenty hires were given […]
(Washington Post) — They have been compared to the die-hard supporters of Hillary Rodham Clinton who refused to give up after then-candidate Barack Obama secured enough votes for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, hardly a compliment in a city where three out of four voters in the primary that year supported Obama over Clinton. […]
(Washington Post) — If voters in Upper Northwest peer closely at David Hedgepeth’s chest, they can sometimes tell he’s a Republican. Were it not for the elephant pin on his jacket, most Ward 3 residents would not know the Bronx native is hoping to ride the nationwide GOP tide into office in the heavily Democratic […]
(Washington Post) — D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty froze hiring and promotions in city government Monday and restricted discretionary spending within the agencies as he and the D.C. Council begin exploring ways to close a $175 million shortfall. The order by Fenty (D), which comes three days after the start of fiscal 2011, also bans […]
Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter and Adrian Fenty have been accused of not being black enough. Are they taking the black vote for granted or just embracing a universal approach?
Even with a Black man as President, racial politics still a challenge for Black politicians.
(Washington Post) — Once welcomed as a reformist mayor, he developed a leadership style that was criticized as aloof and autocratic. Budget cuts produced clashes with public employees and alienated some of the most important constituencies in the city. Ultimately, the hope he once inspired gave way to suspicion of his “post-racial” brand of politics. […]
(The Root) — Mayor Adrian Fenty’s loss in Washington, D.C., last week was a crying shame. Black wiser heads muse about how the system prevents black people from voting “their interests” — Harvard Law’s Lani Guinier comes to mind — and yet black D.C. residents kicked out a mayor who, along with schools chief Michelle Rhee, […]
(Washington Post) — On the last weekend before the Democratic primary, D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty competed in a triathlon, cut the ribbon at a dog park in Cleveland Park, shook hands in Adams Morgan and Dupont Circle, and attended a premiere of a documentary about his controversial schools chancellor. His chief rival, Vincent C. […]
(Washington Post) — Two days after he won the Democratic nomination for mayor, D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray and the man he will probably be replacing, Adrian M. Fenty, hugged at a party unity breakfast and raised their hands in a show of solidarity. Fenty pledged his support for Gray at the event Thursday, […]
(TBD.com) — D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee is weighing in on the results of the mayor’s race and her potential role in Mayor Fenty’s re-election loss. TBD’s Philip Stewart and ABC 7’s Jay Korff caught up with Rhee at the movie premiere for “Waiting for Superman” at the Newseum. The documentary screened Wednesday night focuses on education […]