That’s D.C. United coach Ben Olsen stunting in the background of this team photo following a Washington Kastles charity event last night at Kastles Stadium in Southwest Waterfront.
Once in a while, America’s leading gasbag, Rush Limbaugh, likes to wade into D.C.’s local politics. Why? Who knows? It’s not like he gets it right.
Political commentator and vocal statehood advocate Mark Plotkin has left WTOP, the Post’s Erik Wemple reports.
Even though WTOP’s Mark Plotkin got all worked up about it, Mayor Vince Gray was invited to the State of the Union, just not by the White House. But he had other plans Tuesday night.
Photo by christaki As we return from the Fourth of July weekend, many of us are still recovering from celebrating America’s independence and a system of representative government that guarantees that each and every citizen can have a voice in the policies and decisions that affect their lives. But of course, no Independence Day is free from irony for District residents — while one of the rallying cries of the movement for independence from…
The Post’s Reliable Source reported yesterday that WTOP Political Analyst and longtime voting rights agitator Mark Plotkin cornered Obama advisor David Axelrod at the Radio and Television Correspondents’ Association dinner last Friday and pressed for the president to put the “Taxation Without Representation” tags on the presidential limousine. Axelrod didn’t seem to think much of the personal appeal, telling Plotkin, “That’s your thing.” Plotkin also found RNC Chair Michael Steele and followed up on…
WTOP Political Analyst Mark Plotkin was raising hell on behalf of D.C. voting rights all over town today. First, he went to the aforementioned D.C. school voucher press conference hosted by Sens. John Ensign (R-Nev.), Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), and Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.). In typical Plotkin fashion, he lobbed pointed questions at the Senators, along with the D.C. students they had brought along as props, on the voting rights bill, causing him, as D.C. Wire…
City Desk reports that reporter Mark Segraves was unceremoniously booted from one of the council’s administrative meetings yesterday, and by council Chair Vincent Gray no less. Gray claimed that the meeting was closed to press because it dealt with matters of the council’s operations, including personnel matters. Segraves countered that several issues from the council’s January 6 breakfast meeting—which was open to the press%mdash;were put off and were to be dealt with at yesterday’s…
Up until last year, the D.C. Council’s weekly breakfast meetings were closed to the press and the public. The meetings, which then council Chair Linda Cropp claimed were merely social in nature, were thought of by local reporters as the place where city politicos hammered out sensitive deals — and did so away from the prying eyes of the District’s residents. Even though that has now changed, we’ve never really gotten much of a sense…
If there are two things most people know about WTOP Political Analyst Mark Plotkin, it’s that one, he’s not very tech-savvy, and two, he’s passionate aboout District voting rights. So passionate, it seems, that he even got himself kicked out of the White House yesterday. According to fellow WTOP reporter Mark Segraves’ account of the incident, Plotkin, along with the rest of the D.C. press corps and various local elected officials, attended an event at…
