Martin Austermuhle
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- On Tuesday, the D.C. held both its local and presidential primaries. On the Republican side, Mitt Romney won the primary in a landslide. In the local races, incumbents swept the contests in all but one race—the At-Large fight between Councilmember Vincent Orange and Sekou Biddle—which will remain unsettled until at least next week. (Biddle faces tough odds, and fellow challenger Peter Shapiro fended off allegations that he played the role of a spoiler.)
- In other DCision ’12 news: good government activists gathered over 10,000 signatures for an initiative that would ban corporate cash in local campaigns, the incumbent D.C. shadow senator proved that being outspent by a factor of 10 doesn’t mean you’ll lose your bid for re-election, Marion Barry blew up Twitter after winning re-election with over 70 percent of the vote, we debated whether an April primary was too early, and a recall effort against Mayor Vince Gray and D.C. Council Chair Kwame Brown was called off.
- The Boss brought his musical resurrection to the Verizon Center, Metro launched an anti-sexual harassment campaign, the Redskins stuck with the same ol’ uniform, a Metro aficionado rode the entirety of the system, Google rolled out a virtual tour of the White House, a D.C. food truck was towed for having lots of unpaid parking tickets, and the Capital City Diner announced that it may stay local (despite many misguided rumors).
- Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley proposed spending money to study a D.C. United stadium in Baltimore (and we discovered that it’s not “the” D.C. United), D.C. signed a crafty contract to purchase two new streetcars, graduation rates at D.C. schools fell (and school officials applauded), a Navy jet crashed in Virginia Beach, and two D.C. United players explained why they wore hoodies before a game.
- In what was sadly the biggest news of the week, Barry slammed Asian-American business-owners and defended himself against critics before finally issuing an apology.
