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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]True story:

Circa 1995 there was a big snowstorm that paralyzed the city, (it later came out that Barry had sold all the plows). I walked to work for a couple days. One evening I came home and right in front of my house is a Fox 5 News remote truck, with its satellite antenna up. So I go inside and turn on the TV to see what's going on, and the reporter is saying, "We're live in Northwest DC, where the plows are out clearing the street." And on cue, a plow comes down the street. The camera cuts away, the plow stops, and everyone packs up and leaves.

They plowed half a block, and then left a pile of snow in front of my house. That pile took two months to melt. [/quote]

Or the time in 1987 when Mayor Barry was in California to watch the Super Bowl when a huge snowstorm hit DC. Instead of trying to return, he decided to stay in California to watch the game and then stayed a few extra days as DC was hit with a *second* snowstorm:

https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/468000/today-in-d-c-history-marion-barry-the-super-bowl-and-the-blizzard-of-indifference/[/quote]

Barry was the GOAT Mayor! Okay, maybe not but I seem to be able to laugh about it now. [/quote]

I can't laugh about it because people no longer agree that he was terrible. Doomed to repeat![/quote]

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