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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you live west of Rock Creek Park, ask yourself how much you've seen Vincent Gray campaigning in your neighborhood in the last two months.  He's written off Wards 2 and 3 and carved his effort back to a get-out-the-base campaign.  Now think of how much of a sympathetic ear you'll get on school boundaries if he is re-elected.[/quote]

Catania is probably praying that Gray wins the primary.  This is a low-turnout primary; nobody other than Ward 7 and 8 voters like Gray, and none of the other current candidates have voters' enthusiasm so hardly anyone is voting.  So, for the first time in forever, we may get a non-Democrat Mayor.  Though, if I'm Catania, I would be very concerned that someone like Robert Bobb would step in to challenge also.[/quote]

Robert Bobb?!  Hardly any name recognition and those who remember him remember a mediocre city administrator.  Catania's not perfect, but he's a solid reformer and takes the oversight function very seriously.  As a Democrat, i like the fact that he's not affiliated with the DC Democratic machinery.  Party turnover in the District Building at least once in two generations might be a good thing.  And he's generally more liberal than most national Democrats.[/quote]

Sadly, race in this city is more important than competency.  Bobb is black.  Catania is not.  Bobb's history in municipal management would immediately make him an effective challenger of Gray.[/quote]

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