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>> In case you missed it yesterday evening, three members of the D.C. Council called on Mayor Vince Gray to resign following revelations that some of his supporters waged a “shadow” campaign to help him get elected in 2010. David Catania (I-At Large), Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3) and Muriel Bowser (D-Ward 4) each released statements telling Gray to step down.

>> Gray’s 2010 campaign paid people $100 in cash—double the legal limit—to promote their candidate outside District polling places, the Associated Press reports. The payments were documented on campaign finance reports as “consulting fees” to the campaign staffers who distributed the cash.

>> Next week, Mike Daisey will return to Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company to perform his monologue The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, a show that he admitted earlier this year was partly fabricated. Leading the City Paper this week, theater critic Chris Klimek (a DCist contributing writer), who has been one of Daisey’s strongest backers among arts journalists, offers a defense of Daisey.

>> Verizon says that 2 million Northern Virginia residents lost 911 service during last month’s derecho storm because of generator failures and other reasons that are still being investigated, WAMU reports.

Briefly Noted: Nationals discovering that winning is good for business … D.C. Public Schools letting go of librarians … Tuesday night’s storm flooded Bloomingdale and LeDroit Park with raw sewage … Excited for The Dark Knight Rises? The Shadow was one of the Caped Crusader’s earliest influences. … Thies says Gray should stay.

This Day in DCist: Last year, Pepco claimed it wasn’t that bad. (Yeah, whatevs.) In 2010, Chompie appeared.