Remember Sulaimon Brown?

He was the third-tier mayoral contender who in 2010 accepted money from Mayor Vince Gray’s campaign to relentlessly attack Mayor Adrian Fenty at debates. After Gray’s victory, he was handed a plum job at the D.C. Department of Health Care Finance, which ended up being short-lived—after it was discovered that he was given an appointment he probably wasn’t qualified for, he was quickly fired.

He didn’t go quietly, though, but instead provoked an investigation that led to the downfall of other mayoral appointees who were caught giving jobs to family members. Oh yeah, and he showed up to a D.C. Council to testify on the whole scandal in sunglasses, which he refused to take off.

Anyhow, that’s Sulaimon, and he really hasn’t been heard of much in the last year or so. Until today! Brown just issued a press release announcing his coveted endorsement for the April 23 D.C. Council At-Large race—and it goes to Interim Councilmember Anita Bonds (D-At Large):

[A]t this time I would like to announce my endorsement of Anita Bonds in the race for City Council. Anita Bonds is a real Democrat pure and simple. Although she may not be the perfect person or candidate, she has good intentions and her heart for our city is in the right place. Guilt by association is not a legal bar that any citizen should have to bare. Everyone should be judged on their own merits and that includes Mrs. Bonds. The fact that she knows or has helped in the past Marion Barry or any other Democrat is not sufficient grounds to discount her personally. Her own record of public service to the Democratic Party especially as it relates to the rights of minorities and women clearly shows a vote for Anita Bonds would not be a wasted vote. With that, she has my full support.

Bonds, for her part, tweeted this afternoon that this isn’t something she expected, nor is it something she really wants: “I never solicited or accept,” she tweeted. Last year Brown endorsed D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, who won. Will he have the same effect on Bonds’ chances?

Interestingly, Brown used his endorsement as a means to tell D.C. officials to back off Jeffrey Thompson, the man thought to be behind the $653,000 shadow campaign that helped Gray get elected. He also accuses Councilmember David Catania (I-At Large) of being hypocritical in going after Thompson, since he once accepted money from him: “David Catania is worse than the man he condemns; he is no more than a wolf in sheep clothing and cannot be trusted.”