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2017-10-31 Home Front: Politix
DC Council Expected to Approve Statue of Former Mayor Marion Barry
It's good to give the next generation things to pull down...
[WMAL] Plans to erect a statue of former DC Mayor Marion The Bitch Set Me Up Barry
... the worst administrator, with the possible exception of Boss Tweed, ever elected to public office and then reelected and reelected when he got out of jail... No. That's not true. Boss Tweed wasn't elected to anything...
 outside the Wilson Building are moving forward.

This week, the City Council was briefed by Arthur Espinoza, the executive director of the DC Commission of the Arts and Humanities at a public hearing about the statue.

While the DC Council has yet to approve the statue, the eight foot clay model has already been sent to the foundry where a mold will be created.

Vince Gray, the councilmember for Ward 7 and former Mayor of DC, said he expects the council vote to be unanimous in favor of installing the statue. "It’s the right thing to do," Gray said.

Marion Barry served three separate times on the City Council, and a total of four terms as Mayor over a span of four decades. He was also known for his work in the civil rights movement. He was long hailed as a champion of the city’s poor, and was known for his programs creating city jobs for residents.
Posted by Fred 2017-10-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 That's pretty amazing. Let's remove the pew plate of George Washington from Christ Church, and commemorate the life of a whore-mongering, drug-dealing, drug addict. That's par for the course in DC.
Posted by anymouse 2017-10-31 00:32||   2017-10-31 00:32|| Front Page Top

#2 A statue to Marion Barry?
Its pediment scarcely can carry
His wisdom. Such riches:
"YOV SET ME UP, BITCHES!"
A likeness so brazen, it's scary.
Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2017-10-31 02:46||   2017-10-31 02:46|| Front Page Top

#3 "VP," even.
Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2017-10-31 02:47||   2017-10-31 02:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Does it have a straw up its nose?
" There is a sort of an unwritten code in Washington, among the underworld and the hustlers and these other guys, that I am their friend." M. Barry
Posted by Classer 2017-10-31 04:34||   2017-10-31 04:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Erect it on the hottest street corner for selling crack in DC
Posted by Cheaderhead 2017-10-31 05:42||   2017-10-31 05:42|| Front Page Top

#6 What is going on in the news in Washington any more questions?
Posted by Crinegum Ulaigum2776 2017-10-31 07:33||   2017-10-31 07:33|| Front Page Top

#7 Washington DC the Sodom of the nation. Leave and don’t look back, if you know what’s good for you.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2017-10-31 10:20||   2017-10-31 10:20|| Front Page Top

#8 Can they pose him in a sort of Soviet style "Hero of the Motherland" pose, pointing the way forward and brandishing a big crack pipe?
Posted by M. Murcek 2017-10-31 11:43||   2017-10-31 11:43|| Front Page Top

#9 Best viewed with a snowy background?
Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2017-10-31 13:28||   2017-10-31 13:28|| Front Page Top

#10 Hopefully in front of City Hall so people can marvel at the legacy it represents.
City Coucil members are paid $132,990 per annum and are affiliated politically as follows: )Note both independents were previously registered democrats)

Phil Mendelson Chairman Democratic 1999 2018
David Grosso At-large Independent 2013 2020
Elissa Silverman At-large Independent 2015 2018
Anita Bonds At-large Democratic 2012 2018
Robert White At-large Democratic 2016 2020
Brianne Nadeau Ward 1 Democratic 2015 2018
Jack Evans Ward 2 Democratic 1991 2020
Mary Cheh Ward 3 Democratic 2007 2018
Brandon Todd Ward 4 Democratic 2015 2020
Kenyan McDuffie Ward 5 Democratic 2012 2018
Charles Allen Ward 6 Democratic 2015 2018
Vincent C. Gray Ward 7 Democratic 2017 2020
Trayon White Ward 8 Democratic 2017
Posted by NoMoreBS 2017-10-31 13:48||   2017-10-31 13:48|| Front Page Top

#11 Not a straw in the nose, but a glass dick in the mouth.
Posted by Chris 2017-10-31 15:42||   2017-10-31 15:42|| Front Page Top

#12 Casting takes energy, and that means nasty greenhouse emissions. Why not save a little money and just put up the clay model?
Posted by james  2017-10-31 19:43|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com  2017-10-31 19:43|| Front Page Top

#13 I do know a plinth from a pediment. Apologies for sleep-posting worse crap than usual.
Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2017-10-31 20:28||   2017-10-31 20:28|| Front Page Top

#14 But plinth would not scan properly, Zenobia F. Unless you went with something like

A plinth that large load scarce could carry
Posted by trailing wife 2017-10-31 21:57||   2017-10-31 21:57|| Front Page Top

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