Sorry, folks: the suggestions that City Paper and friends aggregated to raise funds for Councilmember Michael A. Brown’s (Ind.-At-Large) tax debt are sadly all for naught — Tim Craig reported over the weekend that Brown paid his debt to the city on Friday. (Credit where credit is due, however: “get the Marion Barry show picked up for syndication, and live off the remainder checks” was pretty brilliant.) Brown, who owed the District a little over $14,000 in property taxes on his Chevy Chase residence, paid the bill in full on Friday, the same day that the Post reported on the debt. (Man, what a quirky coincidence!) For Brown, who wants the city to raise income taxes on those making more than $250,000 per year to bridge a massive budget gap, it marks the third time he’s had to pony up for overdue taxes, joining a 2004 IRS lien and a 2007 settlement for taxes he failed to pay in 1999.