
D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty is out of town today, and once again, no one seems to know where he is. WTOP’s Mark Segraves has been hammering away on the story all morning, first reporting that Fenty attended American University’s NCAA basketball tournament game in Philadelphia last week without telling anyone, and then following up with news that the Mayor is AWOL again today, and his office won’t even tell the D.C. Council where he is.
D.C. Council Chairman Vincent Gray, who is second in the line of succession to the mayor and the second-highest ranking elected official in town, is in the dark.
“The Chairman was not informed. I am told the Mayor does not inform the Chairman when he is going out of town as a practice,” Gray’s spokesperson Doxie McCoy writes in an email to WTOP.
In an email to WTOP, Fenty’s spokesperson Mafara Hobson wrote that the mayor is on a “personal trip” and declined to answer any other questions.
The last time Fenty went on a “personal” trip, he took his family to Dubai, and only revealed later that he conducted some official business while he was there, and that the government of the United Arab Emirates paid for his travel and expenses.