What did we tell you about Michael A. Brown and his unstoppable thirst for renaming District streets? That’s right, we called him unstoppable. But while renaming three of the District’s most-used roads in an attempt to promote statehood/confuse the hell out of everyone — quick pop quiz: can you name even one of the convoluted statehood names without cheating? — is one thing, it’s another entirely to introduce legislation to ceremoniously rename a portion of a street after your own father. That’s what Brown has done — as I type this, the city is ceremoniously renaming a strip of 14th Street between Constitution and Pennsylvania Avenues NW after Brown’s late father, Ron, who was once the Chairman of the Democratic Party and U.S. Secretary of Commerce (whose headquarters are near the renamed section of 14th Street) under President Bill Clinton. But considering the elder Brown’s political accomplishments — and the city’s penchant for handing out honorary renaming to, well, pretty much anyone of merit — it hardly feels like something to get all bent out of shape about.
The real question: which major arterial road will Brown’s renaming addiction target next?