The City Council doesn’t want him back. His own pastor has endorsed his opponent. There are questions about his health. Other inquire about past financial dealings. But yet former Mayor Marion Barry continues on in his quest to recapture his old Ward 8 council seat. Despite missing a widely publicized protest at the Sudanese Embassy, Barry has been busy. The Post dives right in and explores all things Barry.
Barry draws a lot of double takes these days. He gets them when he’s working on a T-bone steak at Players Lounge in Southeast Washington, or when he’s shaking hands outside his campaign headquarters on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, or when he’s pushing a shopping cart through the Safeway on Alabama Avenue SE. He looks more frail than the last time he was in the public eye, the waistline of his pants cinching under his belt, his swagger slowed by age and circumstance.
