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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bowser rose to power as a protégée of Marion Barry.  She inherited what remains of Barry’s once all-powerful DC political machine.

She represents the same dysfunctional “leadership” Barry inflicted on DC.[/quote]

???

She rose in the shadow of Adrian Fenty and was the chosen successor of "the green team" when Fenty flamed out.

Everyone had to pay homage to Barry on a city wide campaign.[/quote]

Exactly. “Bowser was Barry’s protege” is the kind uniformed take you see emanating from people who want to present themselves as saavy outsiders.  [/quote]

Right. Bowser was Fenty's hand-picked replacement in W4; Fenty ran as an outsider bringing new technocratic ideas to D.C. government and a break with the old machine, i.e., Barry. Then the Fenty-Gray campaign in 2010 was a real battle between Fenty and his west of the Park base and Gray, with more support east of the Park and east of the river. And Bowser was essentially Fenty's avatar when she took out Gray in the 2014 primary.

It's true that in the general election in 2014, Bowser pivoted to try to draw more black support in an election against David Catania, and to the extent there's anything left of Barry's machine in Ward 8 now, maybe they back Bowser, but Barry hasn't been a force in citywide politics in a long time — he's been dead for nearly a decade, and he was a fading political power even when he was still living.[/quote]

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