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Poll Puts Fenty and Cropp Neck and Neck
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"I'm really excited," he said. "Working with Linda is a joy. She knows every intricacy of every bill in the District. I think she deserves a lot of credit for the way the city has progressed over the last 10 years."
Commissioner Giving Up Bid
Robert Brannum likes being an elected official, and he isn't taking any chances. Rather than give up his Advisory Neighborhood Commission seat, he has decided to abandon his bid for chairman of the D.C. Council.
Brannum, a first-term Ward 5 ANC member, said he announced earlier this week that he wouldn't seek the council chairmanship because he is hatched.
"Everyone I have talked to about this [said] that this is the law," Brannum said in an e-mail statement.
In last week's District Notebook, Brannum said that a lawyer for the Hatch Act unit of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel recently told an assembly of commissioners that they are covered by the federal law that prohibits federal and District employees from participating in partisan politics.
"I was placed in a difficult position from other ANC commissioners because I was put on notice from a [federal] attorney that I was in violation," Brannum said. "The law is the law, and as a public official I could not at the end of the day ignore it."
School board member Tommy Wells , who is running for the Ward 6 council seat, said that he was unaware that school board members were hatched.
"This is the first I've heard of this," Wells said, adding that his school board colleague William Lockridge ran unsuccessfully for Ward 8 and that the Hatch Act issue "never came up."
"I'm surprised, considering how many have run before," Wells said. "Obviously, if there's a ruling, I'm certainly not going to do anything illegal."
