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Fenty Lies Low in High-Profile Tax Probe
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Fenty kept to his schedule, holding a news conference about the police department's plans to install laptops in police cruisers.
"By definition, he was frozen out of the process," Lester said. "I don't think you put this at the mayor's doorstep. It preceded him, and there was really nothing he could have done to prevent it."
But Lester said he could see the mayor giving input into reforms that will probably be made.
Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray (D) said the city's monitoring of Gandhi's office has lacked definition because the office was created by Congress during the city's financial crisis in the mid-1990s. Gandhi's office has remained independent.
Gandhi says he knows independence doesn't exist in a vacuum, noting in a staff meeting last week how the office's work affects the city. "I often say that what you do here makes it possible for the mayor and the council" to pursue their programs, he said.
The council is holding an oversight hearing of the office Thursday, but last week city officials appeared mostly to be hands-off.
Hours after he stood with Gandhi, the mayor attended a cocktail party at Mazza Gallerie in Northwest Washington. It was a celebration in which he proclaimed it "Neiman Marcus Mazza Gallerie Day."
Staff writer David Nakamura contributed to this report.
