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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Barry came to national prominence as mayor of the national capital, the first prominent civil-rights activist to become chief executive of a major American city;[2] he gave the presidential nomination speech for Jesse Jackson at the 1984 Democratic National Convention. [b]His celebrity transformed into international notoriety in January 1990, when he was videotaped smoking crack cocaine and arrested by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officials on drug charges. The arrest and subsequent trial precluded Barry seeking re-election, and he served six months in a federal prison. [/b]After his release, however, he was elected to the Council of the District of Columbia in 1992 and ultimately returned to the mayoralty in 1994, serving from 1995 to 1999.[/quote]

Here's our hero: Marion Barry[/quote]

Indeed. America loves nothing more than a great comeback. Just call him the Prodigal Mayor: that would, after all, be the Christian thing to do.[/quote]

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