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D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray under fire D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray’s tenure has been subject to missteps and controversy, including the latest incident, a growing scandal involving campaign finances.
July 13, 2012
D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D) visits several businesses on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue in Southeast Washington after holding a news conference where he discouraged the sale of “drug paraphernalia.”
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For The Washington Post
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July 13, 2012
Gray at Friday’s news conference. Gray and his allies continue to mount his defense Friday, seeking to repel critics who have called for him to resign after prosecutors disclosed that he was the beneficiary of a vast “shadow campaign” during his 2010 election effort.
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For The Washington Post
July 13, 2012
Gray stops to talk to employees of Hong Kong Delite on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE. Gray has remained mostly mum about the recent prosecutions of campaign operatives for various federal offenses.
Jabin Botsford
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For The Washington Post
July 11, 2012
Gray wipes his brow during his weekly news conference in an alley between 58th and 59th streets NE. The news conference was organized to mark the completion of the alley's rehabilitation as a green alley — one built of permeable concrete to reduce storm runoff from polluting the city's rivers. With the mayor's campaign finances under investigation, the event turned into a media inquisition.
Daniel C. Britt
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The Washington Post
April 9, 2012
From left, D.C. Council member Marion Barry (D-Ward 8), Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), Gray, council member Jim Graham (D-Ward 1), Malik and Chip Ellis of Ellis Development, and ANC 1B Chairwoman Myla Moss cut the ribbon during the official reopening of the Howard Theatre. The return of the cultural icon in Northeast Washington is one of the highlights of Gray's tenure.
Ricky Carioti
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The Washington Post
Feb. 11, 2012
Gray, as part of his promise to be more responsive to the community, held the first D.C. Summit to get ideas from the public on government policy and budget at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.
Marvin Joseph
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The Washington Post
Jan. 27, 2012
Gray testifies in Concord, N.H., before New Hampshire's House State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs Committee in support of a House resolution expressing support for admitting the District as the 51st state. The panel rejected the nonbinding resolution the mayor was speaking for.
Jim Cole
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AP
Dec. 19, 2011
Gray meets with senior advisers at his office at the John A. Wilson Building.
Nikki Kahn
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The Washington Post
Dec. 19, 2011
Gray's administration has faced a series of staffing controversies: He initially employed senior staff members earning salaries that exceeded their immediate predecessors' pay. Several adult children of top campaign and administration aides were hired for city jobs. Some new employees had past legal troubles that were not detected by background checks or were ignored.
Nikki Kahn
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The Washington Post
Dec. 19, 2011
Gray leaves an event at the Hyatt Regency hotel near Capitol Hill. In the wake of the hiring scandal, Gray hired a new chief of staff and deputy chief of staff.
Nikki Kahn
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The Washington Post
Dec. 19, 2011
Gray takes a phone call during an event at Wilson High School in the District. The mayor's staff lacks the star power — schools chancellor Michelle A. Rhee, transportation director Gabe Klein — of the administration of his predecessor, Adrian Fenty. But he seems to be all right with that, saying there is little elbowing in his administration for the spotlight.
Nikki Kahn
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The Washington Post
Dec. 19, 2011
Gray after the event at Wilson High. Gray later expressed embarrassment at being chauffeured around. "That's not me," he said. But he said he knows security is as necessary as shaking hands at public appearances. "I enjoy it," Gray said. "I like being out and about."
Nikki Kahn
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The Washington Post
Dec. 6, 2011
Gray, left, and D.C. Council member Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6) attend a community meeting where discussions about the future development of streetcars in the District. Wells has said that he is exploring a mayoral bid.
Marvin Joseph
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The Washington Post
May 12, 2011
Gray testifies on the District's 2012 budget before the D.C. subcommittee of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Gray distinguished himself from Fenty by trying to rebuild the city's fund balance — a rainy-day account drained by the former mayor to pay for various programs.
Sarah L. Voisin
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The Washington Post
April 11, 2011
Gray and members of the D.C. Council are arrested during a protest on Capitol Hill. The officials were protesting a federal spending deal that imposed controversial riders on the District, including a ban on the city spending its own money to provide abortions to low-income women, as well as a private-school voucher program that has divided D.C. officials.
Bill O'Leary
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The Washington Post
March 6, 2011
Gray takes the podium to deny having anything to do with former mayoral candidate Sulaimon Brown's allegations that Gray's campaign paid him to continue to attack Fenty in the 2010 campaign and that he was promised a city job if Gray won. In May, Gray campaign aide Howard L. Brooks acknowledged that he gave money orders worth $2,810 to Brown and assistant campaign treasurer Thomas W. Gore admitted to obstructing justice by shredding a notebook containing records of payments to Brown.
Marvin Joseph
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The Washington Post
Feb. 16, 2011
From left, Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) meet with then-D.C. Council Chairman Kwame R. Brown (D) and Gray before the start of a Senate committee hearing on a District scholarship program. In June, Brown resigned following bank fraud charges involving his personal accounts, which he also pleaded guilty to.
Douglas Graham
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Roll Call via Getty Images
Jan. 4, 2011
Gray and Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District's delegate to Congress, hold a news conference in the foyer of the House Rayburn Office Building to urge Republican leaders to retain the District's only vote on the House floor by preserving Norton's vote in the Committee of the Whole.
Gerald Martineau
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For The Washington Post
Jan. 6, 2010
Gray sits in his office in the Wilson Building. His inner sanctum has a large desk and a sitting area with seating for eight arranged around a coffee table.
Astrid Riecken
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For The Washington Post
Jan. 2, 2011
Gray, surrounded by family members, is sworn in as mayor of the District during ceremonies at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.
Katherine Frey
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The Washington Post
Dec. 1, 2010
Then D.C. Mayor-elect Gray leaves the White House after meeting with President Obama.
Tracy A. Woodward
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The Washington Post
Nov. 2, 2010
Gray and Kwame Brown celebrate on election night at Love nightclub in Northeast Washington. Brown and another of Gray's political allies, D.C. Council member Harry Thomas Jr., drew the attention of federal investigators. In January, Thomas resigned from the council after being charged by federal prosecutors with embezzlement, which he later admitted to and is serving a prison sentence for.
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For The Washington Post
Sept. 23, 2010
Gray and then-Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee speak with reporters after the two met to discuss Rhee's future in the new administration. The 2010 election was considered to be a referendum of Rhee's tenure, and she resigned after Fenty's defeat.
Marvin Joseph
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The Washington Post
March 30, 2010
At the Reeves Municipal Center, Gray files his paperwork to run for mayor against incumbent Fenty. At right is his campaign chairwoman Lorraine Green.
Mark Gail
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The Washington Post
April 24, 2010
Gray with Green at the Historical Society of Washington, D.C., as he makes the official announcement that he is running for D.C. mayor. Green is a close associate with former campaign aide Howard L. Brooks, who has pleaded guilty to campaign finance irregularities.
Marvin Joseph
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The Washington Post
On July 11, D.C. Council members David A. Catania (I-At Large) Mary M. Cheh, (D-Ward 3) and Muriel Bowser (D-Ward 4), called on Gray to take responsibility for his campaign’s misdeeds and resign as mayor.
Nikki Kahn
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The Washington Post
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