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Preserving a Mayor's Legacy
A Tardy Barry Cries Fowl
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Council member Marion Barry (D-Ward 8) was a little late for a committee meeting Friday. The meeting on tax matters that bore the general public drew a decent crowd of people protesting a cap on tax increases. The protesters complained that the cap would mostly benefit the city's wealthy residents.
Barry, who sympathized with them because Ward 8 is home to most of the city's low-income residents, wasn't present at the start of the meeting to defend them.
Barry explained that his tardiness was due to a stop on Maine Avenue.
No, not the police. Not again.
It wasn't. It was ducks. The former mayor explained:
"Sitting right in the street. Right in the middle of the street. Would not move."
Fellow council members and the crowd laughed.
By the way, Barry was the lone dissenter in the committee on the tax cap.
Staff writer David Nakamura contributed to this report.
