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When we reported last week that Council member Michael Brown (I-At Large) might be pondering a 2010 run against Mayor Adrian Fenty, we got just a little excited for the storyline possibilities. After all, both men are bald lawyers from Ward 4 with twin sons. But today City Desk's Mike DeBonis is telling us something that could only make the coming mayoral showdown that much more exciting -- Council member Kwame Brown (D-At Large) might run. According to DeBonis, Brown's father sent out an email over the weekend looking to get people to "draft" the younger Brown for a run at Fenty's seat. Of course, Brown was coy about the whole thing, though he didn't definitively rule out a 2010 campaign for the city's highest elected position. Should he run? Duh. More than one Brown in the race would be fantastic. Especially if the two Browns had run on a "Brown-squared" platform in the 2008 council election, which they did. Throw in Shadow Senator Michael Brown and you've got the makings of total electoral chaos! Fenty v. Brown v. Brown v. Brown? Yes, please.

Even though the talk of someone taking on Mayor Adrian Fenty in the 2010 mayoral contest has been mostly idle chatter to date, a familiar face might be ready to take him on.

We have an undeniable surplus of Michael Browns in D.C. There's Michael D. Brown, one of our two elected shadow senators.

Update, 3:30 p.m.: The statehood site is now live, though it's pretty basic.

For those of you who grew so weary of Michael A. Brown's incessant robocalling and significant paper trail, well, you can't say that the D.C. GOP isn't on your side -- even if its motives are slightly different.

While we soak in Barack Obama's historic victory over Senator John McCain (who delivered a moving and honorable concession speech), we can't ignore the change that came to our own backyard. Few of the results caught any of us by surprise. We did, though, rid ourselves of a pesky ANC commissioner, though.

We might not have Joe the Plumber or $150,000 in stylish threads, but the final days before a number of local races are decided have gotten plenty exciting. There's internal fighting, a second-time-around endorsement and a drunk-driving charge.

Over the last month, the safe assumption in District political circles was that the two At-large seats on the D.C. Council would be going Brown-squared come November 4 -- current Council member Kwame Brown would keep his seat and Democrat-turned-Independent Michael Brown would finally get elected to something. But things have recently gotten just a little more interesting.

Candidates in next Tuesday's special election to fill two open D.C. Council seats have collectively raised over $1 million in the course of the campaign. Voters will chose council members for Wards 4 and 7, after those positions were left empty by Mayor Adrian Fenty and at-large Council Chairman Vincent Gray. Voters in D.C. Public Schools' Second District will also elect a school board representative. In Ward 4, ANC Commissioner Muriel Bowser leads the pack...

It was on April 27, 2005, that we took our first of many stabs at the District mayoral race. And it's tomorrow, some sixteen months after we first tried to guess who would throw their hats in the ring, that voters will finally have their say. Voters in the District and Maryland go to the polls tomorrow to vote in primaries for everything from senators to council-members to ANC representatives, with more than 800 candidates...

We knew it all along. Granted, we were off by a few weeks, but we called it. (Pat on back for us.) Michael Brown, a perennial long-shot in the mayoral contest, is dropping out today, reports the Post. This morning we received a cryptic announcement from his communications director, stating that Brown would "make a major announcement regarding the future of his campaign" today at 2 p.m. Then again, we received pretty much the same...

A couple years ago, D.C. had two Kwame Browns in the news, a local politico and a mediocre hoopster, which might have caused a few people to comment how it was great that a pro athlete was getting involved in local politics. Thankfully for the Wizards, one of those Kwame Browns moved on. However, D.C. now has two Michael Browns in local politics. The other day we saw this poster on the street, which confused...

Brown Not Out: Well, we're a little red-faced today. Yesterday we guessed that mayoral longshot Michael Brown was bowing out of the race. He did, after all, send us an email in which he announced that a press conference held yesterday would include "major announcement regarding his plans for the future." Coupled with his fast-shrinking campaign finance account, we thought, "This guy is toast." How wrong we were. Brown didn't duck out of the race....

Written by DCist contributor Christopher Durocher In anticipation of the September 12 District primaries, the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance (GLAA) of D.C. released its ratings for mayoral candidates last week. The ratings, which score candidates from +10 to -10 based on their support for the GLBT community and its issues, ranked D.C. Council Chair Linda Cropp the top candidate with a +9.5 rating, while Councilmember Vincent Orange found himself at the bottom of the...

Late yesterday afternoon we received a call from mayoral hopeful Michael Brown's campaign office. "Tomorrow, 11 a.m., outside the Wilson Building," was about as much info as we could get out of the campaign volunteer. The call was followed up by an email adding that the press conference would include a "major announcement regarding his plans for the future." Uh oh. We might be jumping the gun here, but we're guessing that Brown, who we...

It goes without saying -- the District is a town full of Democrats. They occupy the majority of the elected offices, have the most registered voters by a long shot, and reliably vote for Democratic presidential candidates. In the most recent analysis of the voter registry, the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics reported that 73.5 percent of registered voters were Democrats. Republicans could only claim 8 percent, the Statehood Green Party 1.6 percent, and...

Happy Day After the Fourth of the July, Washington. We hope you managed to get some sleep last night despite the all-night fireworks marathons taking place in many city neighborhoods. Not that we're complaining — since the view of the National Mall fireworks from the north was largely obstructed by a giant cloud of smoke, locals putting on their own displays pretty much saved Independence Day for many of us. There will be more...

As more than 13 historic inches of rain fell on Washington early this week, the waters rose and transportation on both road and rail ground to a halt. Highway, VRE, MARC, and Metro officials struggled to keep traffic moving as flooding, downed trees and debris, and even mudslides tried to thwart them. Unfortunately for commuters, their efforts did not always succeed. And as we all know, when Washington can't commute, Washington is not happy. Photo...

Yes, it's been quite some time since we caught up with District politics, especially given that it's an election year. But here are some updates and tidbits. Fenty, Cropp, Fenty, Cropp: For those of you following the District's mayoral contest, the city's political establishment has whipped itself into a frenzy trying to predict whether Linda Cropp or Adrian Fenty will win the Democratic primary in September. Up until recently, the general consensus was that Cropp...

Well, being that it's Friday, make that three happy thoughts. But given that today marks the start of the World Cup and the last day that we'll hopefully ever have Tom DeLay in Washington, it's looking to be a great day. Host country Germany kicks off the tournament against Costa Rica -- this DCist's favored team -- today at noon, at which time DeLay will be packing boxes in his Capitol Hill office and trying...

Written by Andrew Wiseman The Logan Circle churches may have a new argument in the battle over parking enforcement: religious freedom. The neighborhood echoed with calls of "newcomers" and a lack of respect this Sunday as local pastors and politicians addressed at least 100 churchgoers in the latest salvo of the Logan Circle parking controversy. Behind a banner saying "Rally for Religious Freedom, Saving the Soul of the City" pastors and parishioners from Logan...

Should we just call the election now? Probably not. But Linda Cropp walked away with a small, symbolic victory yesterday, emerging the leader of a straw poll sponsored by the Ward 6 Democrats. Cropp walked away with 42 percent of the 203 votes, trailed by Marie Johns, who took in 21 percent and Adrian Fenty who received 17 percent. Michael Brown and Vincent Orange trailed behind, with 7 and 4 percent of the votes, respectively....

Last Friday was the second of five dates (January 31, March 10, June 10, July 31 and August 10) on which declared candidates for public office in the District have to detail their fundraising efforts and campaign expenditures. Last we checked, Adrian Fenty and Linda Cropp were fundraising like champions, helping make the race the most expensive in District history, with more than $2.3 million raised by the five mayoral candidates as of mid-February. The...

Making fun of the Washington Times has always been like shooting fish in a barrel, but Patrick Gavin at Fishbowl DC notes that soon we may not have the Times to kick around anymore, or train our house pets on. Founded by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon in 1982, the paper has long bled money, losing perhaps over $2 billion during its publishing run while being kept alive by cash infusions from Moon's Unification Church....

This week was all about Unbuckled. A good time was had by all (see the evidence here). Earlier in the week we sat down for a little Q&A with the bands involved: Olivia Mancini and the Housemates and The Hard Tomorrows. Thanks so much to them and to all of those who came out. Our election coverage is ramping up. This week we discussed Jim Graham's decision to remain in Ward 1, A. Scott Bolden's...

We're all suckers for the outsiders and underdogs in political races. We all know them -- the candidates who don't already occupy an elected office, who seek to break into the system instead of merely moving up in it. They threaten elected coups, promising to move into office and shake things up like only an outsider can. And so we meet Michael Brown, the self-styled outsider of the District's mayoral contest. Tall, well-dressed, bald-headed and...

Various candidates for public office in the District maintain blogs. Adrian Fenty has one, Michael Brown claims to have one, and Marie Johns is trying to get hers off the ground. The most active of the bunch, though, is A. Scott Bolden, who is currently challenging Council-member Phil Mendelson for his coveted At Large seat. Bolden has been blogging off and on since late October, and has used his online perch to comment on everything...

Today, the Wonkettes have answered reader requests to take on the struggling Post effort to chronicle local political news, blog-style. It seems that the Post's D.C. Wire has been on an unintentional hiatus for over three days, and their commenters are letting them hear about it. Wonkette reposts this excerpt, from the comment stream of the Wire's latest post (on February 17): 3+ days and counting. They manage to put out a paper every day,...

Tonight the five Democratic mayoral hopefuls are set to square off against each other in a 90-minute debate at American University starting at 7:30 p.m. But unlike past debates, we can bet three of the candidates won't be on top of their game. While the majority of the city lay peacefully in bed last night, candidates Linda Cropp, Adrian Fenty, and Vincent Orange were hashing it out over the stadium lease, whose final vote came...

This past week brought January, that month of cookouts and picnics, beach trips and suntans, to a close. The local groundhog said winter is going to stick around for six more weeks. We're not one to trust wildlife for our weather forecasts; then again, the groundhog knew shit was bad in New Orleans long before Michael Brown. This week in DCist, we announced the long overdue return of Unbuckled, and we set up our own...