DCist: Group Of Ward 4 Elected Officials Calls On Brandon Todd To Run His ‘First’ Clean Campaign
Ward 4 Councilmember Brandon Todd has a checkered history when it comes to election laws.
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City Paper: Jack Evans Challenger Is First to Test D.C.’s New Publicly Funded Elections Program
It’s not going well. And a potential second challenger says he would use the public funding option, too.
WAMU: Jack Evans Has A Challenger For His D.C. Council Seat: His Former Campaign Chairperson
Three years ago, Patrick Kennedy chaired D.C. Council member Jack Evans’s (D-Ward 2) re-election campaign.
Washington Post: Patrick Kennedy to run against embattled D.C. Council member Jack Evans in 2020
Patrick Kennedy, who co-chaired the 2016 re-election campaign for D.C. Council Member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2), said Monday that he will challenge the veteran lawmaker who has been ensnared in an ethics scandal.
WAMU: Washingtonians Won’t Get To Vote On Term Limits, Rules Elections Board
Should elected officials in D.C. only be allowed to serve two terms in office? Maybe, maybe not.
WAMU: Dogged By Federal Investigation, D.C. Lawmaker May Face Recall Election
Embattled D.C. Council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) is facing a federal investigation into allegations of influence peddling, a likely reprimand from his colleagues, and calls for him to step down from the Council’s powerful finance…
Washington Post: Jack Evans used to be a sure bet at election time, but a federal probe makes his political future uncertain
In his tenure as the District’s longest-serving council member, a reign now in its third decade, Jack Evans has been subject to periodic questions about his ethical conduct, none of which have prevented him from winning reelection seven…
WAMU: Residents Say D.C. Council Member Improperly Used Email List To Support School Board Candidate
When Ward 4 resident Andrew Hunt received a campaign email from Rhonda Henderson last week, he wondered: How did the candidate for the Ward 4 seat on the D.C. State Board of Education get his email address?
Washington Post: Meet the candidates running to represent Ward 4 on the D.C. State Board of Education
On Election Day in November, D.C. voters decided four surprisingly contentious elections for seats on the D.C. State Board of Education. Those races highlighted divides between the traditional public school system and the city’s robust…
Washington Post Editorial Board: Rhonda Henderson for D.C. State Board of Education
ELECTION SEASON in D.C. is not over yet. On Tuesday, voters in Ward 4 will go to the polls for a special election to pick their representative to the State Board of Education. The unusual timing — less than a month after November’s general…
DCist: Actually, There’s Still One More Election In D.C. This Year
The votes have been counted, the election certified, the incumbents returning to their seats. So what’s going on in Ward 4?
Washington Post: How much was a vote worth in the D.C. State Board of Education races?
How much was a single vote worth in this month’s D.C. State Board of Education elections? Maybe $3? $5? Even $8?
Washingtonian: What Happened to the Washington Post’s Election-Day Clout?
The Post could once make a local candidate's day. Not so much this year.
DCist: Election Day Is Over, But You Might Still Be Seeing Campaign Signs For The Next Few Weeks
Once elections have ended, Yadira Molina finds the remaining campaign signs around the city irritating.
Harry Jaffe on NBC4: Winners and Losers in the DC Election
Call it the Nightmare on the Fifth Floor — the wing of the John A. Wilson Building that Mayor Muriel Bowser’s team occupies.
Washington Blade: First known trans candidate elected to ANC
Ward 3 community activist and transgender rights advocate Monika Nemeth won election on Tuesday to the Advisory Neighborhood Commission in district 3F06, becoming the first known transgender person to be elected to an ANC seat.
Washington Post: Bowser could face emboldened council after failed attack on lawmaker
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s effort to tip the scales in the District’s sole competitive council race was an unprecedented gamble in a city whose mayors have avoided campaigning against other incumbents — and it failed.
Washington Post: Democratic House flip may mean full legalization of marijuana in nation’s capital
Residents of the nation’s capital get no vote in Congress, but the Democratic takeover of the House may come with a consolation prize: recreational marijuana shops.
DCist: ‘Urban Republican’ Michael Bekesha Says Voters Couldn’t Get Over The ‘R’ Next To His Name
Michael Bekesha ran his campaign against Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen as an “urban Republican”—a fiscal conservative who shares his city’s core values, and eschews any association with President Donald Trump.
City Paper: Now What? Mayor Muriel Bowser is both boosted—and hobbled—by election results.
Mayor Muriel Bowser convincingly won reelection Tuesday. But rather than basking in her big win, Bowser managed to step on her own parade. It was a misstep that will affect her already shaky relationship with the D.C. Council.