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>> Healthcare people, prepare your bids. The District will soon be looking for a new Medicaid contract, now that officials have confirmed that Chartered Health Plan, the company owned by mega-campaign donor Jeffrey Thompson, won’t be renewing its business with the city, the Post reports. Thompson’s home and offices were raided by federal agents in February; he is suspected of being the money behind a “shadow campaign” waged on Vince Gray’s 2010 mayoral bid.

>> Tony George, the embattled head of D.C.’s Office of Tax and Revenue, is quitting, WAMU reports. George has come under fire lately in a series of Washington Post articles detailing a trend of tax appraisers underestimating the value of hundreds of commercial properties and costing the District millions in revenue.

>> The Senate race in Virginia between Tim Kaine and George Allen is the most costly in the nation, The Washington Examiner reports. Outside groups and party committees have spent a combined $24 million on behalf of the candidates.

Briefly Noted: Gay rights and immigrant rights groups’ Maryland alliance isn’t welcomed by all … Fairfax County removes campaign signs from public property … Mendo to have a little chat with Graham about that Metro report … At-large D.C. Council candidate’s signs defaced with swastikas … Prince George’s school board member doesn’t live in the school district.

This Day in DCist: In 2011, the family of a man who died outside the DC9 nightclub filed a $15 million lawsuit. In 2010, the people trying to write in then-dethroned-Mayor Adrian Fenty targeted Capital Bikeshare members.