D.C. City Council Candidate Hoping Voters Will Look Past FBI Raids on His Home, Corruption Allegations, Recent Forced Resignation From City Council
It’s worth remembering that Marion Barry, the mayor of DC, was caught on camera smoking crack in a hotel room and he eventually became mayor again. So why not? DC voters are very forgiving.
(From Reason)
The veteran city politician filed papers to run for his old council seat yesterday, despite being forced to resign from that same position earlier this month over a corruption scandal involving Evans’ use of his public positions to benefit clients of his private consulting business.
Those corruption allegations already prompted Evans to resign his position as chairman of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s (WMATA) board of directors last June, shortly after an FBI raid on his Georgetown home.
