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[quote=Anonymous]If 'the people he represented' meant the political hacks, the cronies, the connected, the shifty operators, the no-show contractors, and the leeches who only know how to suck the lifeblood out of local government, then yes, Barry perhaps did "good" for them.  For "the least, the lost and the last" -- Barry's professed constituency -- he did terribly.  How much of the directed, wasteful, no-deliverables D.C. 'consulting' contracts resulted in better public schools, housing or services for them?  Barry's sticking-it-to-the-Man-schtick may have given some voters a sugar high, but for the poor who were dependent  on city services, Barry mis-served them badly.  For all of his bloated DC city workforce (and Barry's administration lacked even an accurate count of the number of District employees), the D.C. government couldn't even pick up the garbage or open the schools on time.  Barry basically bankrupted D.C., earning it the name Dysfunctional City.  If it hadn't been for the federal control board (and Tony Williams as the CFO), D.C. would have turned out like Detroit, but with worse roadways.[/quote]

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