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2017-10-31 Home Front: Politix
DC Council Expected to Approve Statue of Former Mayor Marion Barry
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Posted by Fred 2017-10-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 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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