Adrian Fenty

This year was no different. This blogger strolled up and down 18th St., NW Sunday after to take in this year’s politicking. Thie blogger stumbled upon a scene unfolding in this year’s best bit of unintentional political theatrics. Below “shadow senator” Michael D. Brown is besieged in this trek into daylight. Brown, of course, has been roundly denounced Phil Mendelson, the man he’s challenging for the Democrats’ At-Large council nomination, for insufficiently drawing the distinction between...Read Full Story

Anthony Foxx's dreams of developing a Streetcar line in Charlotte may have come from none other than his "buddy" DC Mayor Adrian Fenty.Why do you think Foxx keeps running to DC?Apparently he wants to become a Political "Star" like Fenty i.e., Personal Gain.Yes Foxx has found a new political idol and now wants to turn Charlotte into a Washington, DC "lookalike".Let's see Adrian Fenty doesn't really want to help the Homeless or DC's less fortunate and neither does Anthony Foxx.Seems Fenty only...Read Full Story

If the 2010 D.C. Mayoral election ballots were recast now, a new poll says former Mayor Adrian Fenty would have kept his job. Fenty now leads incumbent Mayor Vincent Gray by a 15-point margin among Democratic primary voters citywide, 48 to 33 percent, according to a recent polll conducted by the nonpartison Clarus Research Group. Among all voters, Fenty’s margin grows to an even wider 21 points (51-30 percent). Gray, whose 2010 campaign is under federal investigation, isn't the only one who...Read Full Story

Washington D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty is facing a strong primary challenge from City Council Member Vincent Gray. Fenty and Gray both have outstanding records on LGBT rights but a number of the District's more vocal LGBT activists have criticized Fenty for not being more "visible" in the community. Fenty responded to that and other questions in an expansive interview with the Washington Blade. Watch the interview AFTER THE JUMP ... "I’ve got to do a much better job being more visible in my...Read Full Story

The District's Primary Election Day is four long, hot months away, but up here in Mount Pleasant, yard sign skirmishing has already been engaged. In the race for mayor, along this neighborhood's long tree-lined blocks, D.C. Council Chair Vince Gray and Mayor Adrian Fenty are waging a surprisingly pitched house-to-house battle. (The yard pictured below, on Mount Pleasant's Ingleside Terr., NW betrays the conflicting allegiances of the people living inside.) Fenty's trademark green and white...Read Full Story