Good morning, Washington. Perfect. That’s what the Washington Capitals remain. In a matchup with the Detroit Red Wings Saturday night — only the second time in NHL history two teams with records of at least 5-0 faced off — the Capitals popped seven goals on 25 shots, securing a 7-1 victory over the Red Wings and launching the team into the venerated spot of being only the fifth in league history to start a season 7-0-0.
>> Peaceaholics co-founder Ron Moten officially announced Saturday that he will run for the Ward 7 D.C. Council seat currently held by Yvette Alexander. The setting for the announcement was a peculiar one: Woodlawn Cemetery. Moten explained that many prominent Republican African Americans are interred there. WTOP reports that Moten’s campaign flyers include civil rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Booker T. Washington, Harriet Tubman, Jackie Robinson, Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth.
>> The National Park Service, Park Police, Mayor Vince Gray’s office, the U.S. Attorney’s office, and the D.C. Attorney General’s office have been carefully monitoring Occupy D.C. at McPherson Square. According to Tim Craig, it sounds like the protestors will be allowed to stay, so long as they’re being safe and healthy. I assume condoms and cough drops put them on the right track.
>> A battle over Maryland redistricting could reach the Justice Department. Maryland Republicans have accused Governor Martin O’Malley and Democrats of gerrymandering the state’s new congressional districts, claiming the plan passed by the General Assembly and signed by O’Malley creates districts where Democrats can be dependably elected and strips minority groups of their ability to elect minority representatives. On Friday, a spokeswoman for the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department said the department will “take under advisement” any request to investigate potential gerrymandering for party gain.
>> There was a rally outside the White House Saturday — although it’s not clear what, if anything, President Obama heard, since he left to play golf as the demonstrations began. Protestors called on Obama to take the Iranian opposition group Mujahedin-e Khalq, which was once aligned with Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi regime, off the U.S. list of terrorist organizations. The protestors included former Pennsylvania Govs. Tom Ridge and Ed Rendell. The U.S. added the group to its terrorist list in 1997, but was ordered last year by a federal court to reconsider its inclusion. The group claims that it renounced violence in 2001.
>> Fairfax County firefighter Horace Pendergrass, 49, was found dead in his bunkbed at the Crosspointe fire station Saturday morning. There is no indication of foul play.
>> A person was extracted from a storm drain this morning at 1200 6th St NW.
>> What a difference a decade makes.
