In early results, Bowser leads Gray in D.C. mayor race

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Source: Washington Post

Muriel Bowser, the seven-year D.C. Council member, was leading Mayor Vincent C. Gray in Tuesday’s Democratic primary, according to preliminary Board of Elections results late Tuesday night.

With more than 45,000 votes counted, Bowser jumped ahead of Gray by 43 percent to 34 percent.
As the results flowed in, Bowser appeared on stage before a crowd of supporters assembled in Ward 8, thanking her staff and rejoicing in the early results.

Across town, hundreds of supporters, staffers and reporters filled about a third of the expansive underground ballroom at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill where Gray was scheduled to speak.



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1. I like Bowser

That's some good news.

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3. What are some of her positions you like. I don't know much about her

If she shares the positions of Fenty, a man she apparently was aligned with, on education she'd never get my vote.

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5. Not treating the city government as a jobs bank for cronies, for one

Gray is from the Barry machine which is still sadly alive and well. For all the noise, he also wasn't particularly different on education from Fenty, with the exception that he wanted more city council responsibility for the schools.

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6. On education

Her sound bite is "Alice Deal for all" (Alice Deal is a successful middle school in Northwest DC). She's said she'll keep Henderson on as chancellor (Gray evaded that question but the assumption is he would too) -- and Henderson is the "more Rhee than Rhee" woman that Gray hired in the first place. She manages to do her "reform" thing without alienating all the teachers.

That said, there was a lot more to Fenty than education, and a lot of Washingtonians see the Gray administration as a step back into an era we don't want to return to.

[DeSwiss]

2. Gray concedes primary Bowser beats incumbent.....

Bowser beats incumbent.

- Now all they have to do is find a Republican in DC to run against the winner. Sado-masochism is not pretty. Usually.

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7. Catania is running as an independent

That could make things interesting.

[lib87]

4. Mr. Walmart Lost?

Bye sir!

Hello Bowser.