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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bowser won't be mayor forever, and the Green Team bench is finally thin (thank god). Todd has no chance of following her into office -- he's a cretin -- and very well could get voted off the Council next election.

Once Bowser is gone, all bets are off with regards to this issue.[/quote]
I think you're overlooking the number of politically well connected UMC AA folks in the neighborhood. DC politics has deep roots in SP, and it's not going anywhere without an ugly fight.[/quote]

Yeah, it's not just the mayor.  Someone posted this recently on the SP listserv, in the context of a discussion of gentrification (someone argued that SP was being gentrified, and the below poster disagreed):

"Please remember that Shepherd Park is/was home to two presidents of Howard University, the Secretary of HUD and HHS, a Fed governor, a Pulitzer Prize Washington Post columnist,  the first female mayor of the District of Columbia, a US Marine Corp general, the civil rights attorney for whom the municipal office building at 14th. & U is named, the Executive Director of the regional transit authority, the head of the Smithsonian and more medical doctors, attorneys and judges can one can count, ALL of whom were/are Black."

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A secretary of HUD.  Well, there you go.[/quote]

I think these are mostly individuals who've lived in SP in the past, not currently.  For example, I know the house former mayor Sharon Pratt lived in, and it's currently owned by someone else.[/quote]

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