Ward 4 Special Election

In the last act of a busy local election year, District voters Tuesday in Ward 4 picked Frazier O’Leary to represent them on the D.C. State Board of Education.

D.C.’s 2018 local elections are finally finished. Frazier O’Leary, the union-backed (and George Pelecanos-endorsed) candidate, won a special election to represent Ward 4 on the Board of Education on Tuesday.

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?

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…

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…

There’s still one more election left in D.C. this year, and the results could turn on the enthusiastic endorsement of D.C. literary royalty George Pelecanos.

The votes have been counted, the election certified, the incumbents returning to their seats. So what’s going on in Ward 4?

Ward 4 voters will head to the polls in 2018 not once, not twice, but three times. Or, at least that’s what we hope happens. In addition to the now-passed June 19th primary and the upcoming general election on November 6th, Ward 4 has a…