Obama and Gray meeting at Mystics game in August. Photo courtesy the Gray campaign.
D.C. Mayor-elect Vince Gray, fresh off an invigorating 15-hour legislative hearing, is scheduled to start eating lunch with President Barack Obama any second now. The President, who last met with Gray at a Washington Mystics game in August, invited the District’s executive-to-be to the White House last month.
The meeting is in a private dining room and closed to the press, so we’re left curious what the two will discuss. Obama’s ideas about how to close the District’s budget gap? Will the two discuss today’s Courtland Milloy column, in which Milloy called the Commander-in-Chief a “milquetoast”? Will Gray express relief that there aren’t a whole bunch of leaked cables documenting the midnight streetcar switcheroo? Nothing quite so dramatic, probably — Gray told the Post’s Tim Craig that he planned to chat with the leader of the free world about “voting rights, federal funding for early childhood education and the planned relocation of the Department of Homeland Security to the campus of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Southeast Washington.”
Which, in turn, leads us to wonder — fellow D.C. residents: if you had 45 minutes to bend Obama’s ear about the city he lives in, what would you want to talk about? Leave your ideas in the comments.