Hey, who's that good-government guy? You know, the one who ran for the Councilmember Jim Graham's Ward 1 seat in 2010 and then again in that special election for an at-large spot on the D.C. Council? Starts with a B or something. more ›

Former Ward 1 and At-Large D.C. Council candidate Bryan Weaver and Ward 7 ANC Commissioner Sylvia Brown are planning on filing paperwork this afternoon that would put a measure banning corporate contributions to electoral campaigns before District voters this November. more ›

Part celebration of the District's hometown pride and part protest of the city's longstanding second-class status, organizers of DC Flag Tattoo Day: Flag Day in the Flesh have put the word out to anyone who has a stars-and-bars tattoo -- and even those who don't -- to gather at Dupont Circle at 6 p.m. tomorrow. more ›

It's all said and done -- Vincent Orange won the April 26 At-Large Special Election and will be heading back to the D.C. Council. As usual, we've got some closing thoughts on the last D.C. election until, well, eleven months from now. more ›

Everything -- and we mean everything -- you need to know about tomorrow's special election to select a permanent at-large D.C. Councilmember. more ›

We've said it before, we'll say it again -- at this point, next Tuesday's At-Large Special Election is totally up for grabs. No one candidate has risen up above the rest, and institutional support and endorsements have splintered in a number of ways. more ›

While Bryan Weaver remains the undisputed champion of the longform YouTube local campaign advertisement -- what with the Cool Disco Dan references, "Dirty Old Town" and all -- the above effort from the Joshua Lopez campaign, if somewhat forced, at least proves that Weaver's not the only candidate unafraid to crack a couple "Fully Loaded" jokes at Council Chair Kwame Brown's expense. more ›

With early voting having begun this week and the election day less than two weeks away, the contest for the April 26 At-Large Special Election remains fluid and unsettled, with no one candidate yet rising above the rest. The uncertainties in the campaign to fill the seat once occupied by D.C. Council Chair Kwame Brown is a product not only of the candidates, though, but of the ever-shifting political environment in the District. more ›

A brief programming note: DCist senior editor and special election blogger extraordinaire Martin Austermuhle will join at-large Council candidate Bryan Weaver this morning on WPFW's D.C. Politics program. The program begins at 11 a.m. on 89.3 FM; you can also stream the program live via WPFW's website. more ›

With less than a month left to go until the April 26 At-Large Special Election, the nine candidates vying for the seat vacated by D.C. Council Chair Kwame Brown are struggling to win over what are likely to be a small number of voters that will decide the contest. more ›

During last fall's Council campaign, we called Bryan Weaver's Paul Wellstone homage "the best campaign video you'll see all year." With the above video, released by Weaver's campaign this morning, Weaver's pretty much laid claim to 2011's honors, too. more ›

For those curious, here's how the candidates in the upcoming D.C. Council special election fared on the election season questionnaire handed out by the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance of Washington, D.C. more ›

News this morning from the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics is that while Republican Patrick Mara and Bryan Weaver will likely stay on the ballot for the April 26 At-Large Special Election, Jacque Patterson will most likely be knocked off due to challenges filed by Interim Councilmember Sekou Biddle and Alonzo Edmondson, a supporter of fellow candidate Vincent Orange. more ›

David Schwartzman. Dorothy Douglas. Natale Stracuzzi. Nelson Rimensnyder. Eugene Kinlow. These names are amongst the 1,417 that Interim D.C. Councilmember Sekou Biddle says fellow candidate Bryan Weaver improperly collected in his attempt to get on the ballot for the April 26 At-Large special election. Weaver not only disagrees, but contends that Biddle's challenges of his nominating petitions ensnared hundreds of legitimate D.C. voters and were filed as part of an attempt to bury his small campaign staff in the painstaking work of verifying the names, addresses and signatures of the 3,478 people that signed his nominating petitions. more ›

In February, Ward 1 resident Maria Cardona signed a nominating petition to get Bryan Weaver on the ballot for the April 26 At-Large Special Election. According to Interim Councilmember Sekou Biddle's campaign, however, Cardona is one of 1,417 questionable signatures on Weaver's petitions.

But she's also Weaver's wife. more ›

Interim D.C. Councilmember Sekou Biddle (D-At Large) filed a series of challenges to nominating petitions submitted by Bryan Weaver, Patrick Mara and Jacque Patterson late yesterday afternoon, setting in motion a process that may well find some or all of the trio kicked off the April 26 Special Election ballot. more ›

At a forum hosted by The Georgetown Dish and Georgetown Current yesterday evening, five candidates for the April 26 At-Large Special Election debated each other, touching upon a number of issues including the District's looming 2012 budget deficit and D.C. Council salaries. (Check out our Twitter timeline of the whole debate here.) more ›

First, there were 21. Then 11. Now, only 10 candidates remain in the race for the April 26 At-Large Special Election -- and in the coming week, there's a slight chance that the field may be narrowed down further. more ›

Last week, we reported on an internal spat which broke out amongst members of the D.C. Democratic State Committee over who, if anyone, the group would endorse for the coming April 16 At-Large Special Election. The committee, which selected Interim Councilmember Sekou Biddle in early January, seemed to be leaning towards him; other Democrats in the race cried foul, arguing that the committee hadn't actually held an endorsement vote as called for in its bylaws. Now it looks like the committee is trying to calm internal tensions and move on, though the way it's going about it may not be terribly effective. more ›

...but they're the good kind. more ›

The D.C. Democratic State Committee certainly didn't win any good government awards with the opaque process through which they selected interim Councilmember Sekou Biddle earlier this month, nor have more recent accusations painted the city's preeminent political party in a favorable light. A struggle is now brewing within the party over whether or not Biddle is the party's chosen candidate, bringing to light the darker side of local machine politics. more ›

Talk about crossing the aisle. This photograph, captured last August during the Columbia Heights Day festival at Harriet Tubman Elementary School, features recently announced At-Large Council candidates Patrick Mara, a Republican, and Bryan Weaver, a Democrat, posing after competing in the event's cupcake eating contest. more ›

Bryan Weaver, who creatively, albeit unsuccessfully challenged Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham last year, announced today that he is also jumping into the race for the April 26 D.C. Council At-Large special election. That makes two surprise announcements today; Republican D.C. State Board of Education member Patrick Mara confirmed his own interest earlier this morning. more ›

Bryan Weaver's 2010 campaign for the Ward 1 Council seat will likely be remembered for its humorous videos. But Weaver felt compelled to share this one over Twitter this afternoon -- the clip features Jamal Coates, the man who was killed in yesterday's U Street shooting and car accident, displaying what Weaver called his "comedy stylings." more ›

Yesterday afternoon reports came in about a robocall attacking Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham. The call was anonymous, with no message indicating who was behind it or who financed it. Last night TBD posted the audio of the call, which features a woman's voice telling the listener that Jim Graham paid for an abortion for his chief of staff's girlfriend. The narrator then goes on to describe Graham as "immoral" and "wretched." more ›

Bryan Weaver is a long-time Ward One resident who is running for D.C. Council. Weaver has released a couple of funky YouTube campaign videos, which have previously made the rounds. Weaver faces off against incumbent Jim Graham and challenger Jeff Smith on September 14. The four-term Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner lives in Adams Morgan with his wife and two children. Graham is the favorite to win re-election, but Weaver's first campaign video, featuring the song "Underdog," has seen nearly 80,000 views. more ›

I was quite taken with Bryan Weaver's first campaign video -- an homage to Paul Wellstone and a piece of much-needed levity in an election season that has taken itself far too seriously, far too often. Plenty of other people thought the same: Weaver's charismatic performance has now hit over 77,000 views on YouTube. That's not too shabby for a guy that, until this summer, most people outside of Ward 1 had probably never heard of. more ›

Who cares if he borrowed the script from former Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone -- this campaign video from Bryan Weaver, who's gunning for Jim Graham's Ward 1 Council seat, is pretty damn fantastic. We can't really call it positive politics, since one of the numerous highlights of the video is Weaver standing in front of Jim Graham's iconic convertible and knocking the bow-tied one -- though he never names him -- for never riding the system. But Weaver's three-point stroke on the playground and his too-adorable-for-words daughter almost makes us forget this video is about a Council campaign. more ›

A wide range of District political candidates gathered at One Judiciary Square last night to make their case to members of D.C. for Democracy why the organization should support their candidacies in the September Democratic primary. Everyone from the mayor to would-be shadow representatives showed up to make their case. Endorsements should be handed down in the coming weeks. more ›

Looks like ANC 1C chair Bryan Weaver's previously tentative campaign for the Ward 1 D.C. Council seat is set to become official. Weaver will join the Democratic primary race alongside former school board member Jeff Smith, both of whom are vying to unseat incumbent Jim Graham. An email went out to supporters today announcing a formal campaign kickoff event set for Saturday: more ›