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[quote=Anonymous]"Two at-large D.C. Council seats up for grabs
On the ballot:

G. Lee Aikin (D.C. Statehood Green Party)
Carolina Celnik (Republican)
John C. Cheeks (Independent)
David Grosso (Independent)
Matthew Klokel (Libertarian)
Robert White (Democratic)
There are six candidates on the ballot running for a four-year term as an at-large D.C. Council member. Voters will pick two.

David Grosso, who has served as an at-large council member since 2013, is one of two independents currently sitting on the council.

Democrat Robert White, who served as legislative counsel for D.C. congressional delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton for several years, defeated former council member Vincent Orange in the June primary. White got an early start on the council — the D.C. Democratic Party voted in September to appoint him to Orange’s seat after the lame-duck council member resigned five months early amid controversy over a position he accepted with the D.C. Chamber of Commerce.

Grosso and White have far outspent the other candidates running for at-large seats.

[b]As of Oct. 31, the White campaign had spent upwards of $175,000 on his bid, according to online campaign expenditure records maintained by the D.C. Office of Campaign Finance. Grosso had spent $146,000 on his re-election bid.[/b]

Online records show John Cheeks’ campaign had spent about $3,500 and G. Lee Aikin about $1,437.

[b]Carolina Celnik, a D.C. lawyer who’s making a bid for one of the open at-large seats, has the distinction of being the only Republican on the ballot in D.C. — aside from Donald Trump and Mike Pence at the top of the ticket.

It has been more than a decade since D.C. voters last elected a Republican to the council — Carol Schwartz won an at-large council seat in 2004.

Celnik has spent about $8,300 on her bid[/b]."

I'll be voting for Carolina Celnik for at-large.  She has spent a lot less than White or Grosso, and so won't be beholden to interests.   We also haven't had a Republican since Carol Schwartz, as I recall did a decent job. DC has a lot of issues to wade through, be it metro, daycare, education or homelessness and I would like to see more diversity on the Council . It could equal some new and needed ideas and voices, [/quote]

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