Carol Schwartz is all alone. She’s the last Republican on the council. David Catania, like Schwartz an at-large member, has defected from the Republican Party, and, like Sen. Jim Jeffords of Vermont in 2001, has become an independent, the Post reports.
Catania, who is openly gay, has been in disagreement with the Republican establishment over President Bush’s support for a constitutional provision that would outlaw same-sex marriage. This summer, the D.C. Republican Party denied him an official spot on the District’s delegation to the GOP convention in New York. Catania is supporting the presidential bid of Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry.
