Last Thursday, the D.C. Democratic State Committee's membership gathered to select an interim candidate to fill the At-Large seat on the D.C. Council left vacant when Kwame Brown rose to the chairmanship of the city's legislative body. As we reported on Friday, Sekou Biddle defeated Vincent Orange for the spot after three rounds of voting and furious caucusing in a kitchenette connected to the conference room where the voting took place. (The Post was none-too-impressed with the process, according to an editorial published today.) Beyond the confusions surrounding whether or not the balloting was open or not (party officials claimed they used an "open ballot," but who the ballot would be open to after the fact to remains a mystery), one of the most comical elements of evening's proceedings was how party officials collected donations -- with a glass bowl and paper bag. more ›

Kwame Brown officially claimed the title of D.C. Council Chairman-elect last week, which means he has to give up his At-Large Councilmember position come January. So who will replace him? A special election for a permanent replacement, expected to be an hotly-contested affair with no fewer than fourteen legitimate candidates having their names dropped for the job, will be held sometime in the spring. For precedent: the last time such special elections for Council seats were held was in May 2007, when seats in Ward 4 and Ward 7 -- Mayor Adrian Fenty and Chair/Mayor-elect Vince Gray's former seats, respectively -- were up for grabs. more ›

The District of Columbia's delegates to the Democratic National Convention gathered early this morning at the Crowne Plaza hotel in downtown Denver for a collegial breakfast before heading out to lobby other delegations to support voting rights for D.C. more ›

D.C. Superdelegate Anita Bonds, who is also the chair of the D.C. Democratic Party, formally announced on Tuesday that she will vote for Sen. Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention in August. D.C. Wire reported on Bonds' decision first, and Bonds has since issued a formal statement on the matter. (CORRECTION: The City Paper's Mike DeBonis, aka Loose Lips, was actually the first to report on the Bonds story).

In my role as the DC Party Chairman, I will serve as an automatic or “Super” Delegate with discretion concerning which of our two able candidates to support at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado. Until today, I have remained uncommitted in order to conduct with fairness and without bias our local Delegate Selection Process, which was completed yesterday with the election of our Delegation Chair, Mayor Adrian Fenty. more ›