Looks like there was a tiny bit of drama at this weekend’s Ward 8 Democrats mayoral forum. The event, which marked the first straw poll of the 2010 campaign season, featured seven candidates, including incumbent Adrian Fenty, who we hear got booed by a significant portion of the crowd. But the real brouhaha took place during the straw poll, as WAMU’s Patrick Madden reports. Previously registered Ward 8 voters went for D.C. Council Chair Vincent Gray by a healthy margin, but toward the end of voting, a troop of younger Fenty supporters with freshly filled out voter registration cards tipped the scale for Fenty.

Nikita Stewart says the latecomers were organized by Fenty pal and Peaceoholics founder Ron Moten. As we noted over the weekend, Moten recently launched a website attacking Gray’s record.