Politics basically falling apart. For years, behindthescenes, he had been giving to candidates. He had several contracts coming huge contracts with the city, one worth 322 million a year. No one really knew who he was until things came to light in 2011 over problems with the current mayor vincent c grays campaign for mayor in 2010. Here, and i do, you see we have one former City Council Member in prison, one who had a plea and did not have to go to prison but had to pay money who was a City Council Member, Michael Brown, the son of ron brown the former head of the committee, and we have marion barry who was in and out of prison and all of that stuff. Is this a more corrupt town than any other . I personally dont think so. I have been covering politics for a long time. I actually covered politics in new jersey before i came to the District Of Columbia. So i dont think any more corrupt than any other place. But the interesting thing about d. C. , remember, it is not a state. It is a city
The daytoday of the Fenty Campaign and that was the current mayor the time and he was the main opponent of vincent gray who was chairman at the time. So it covered the normal campaign. I was interested in watching fentys downfall. Everyone saw it coming. And it was my job. Shortly after gray took office, i heard from the gentleman suleimon brown, who had run for mayor. He had a job in the administration, which was odd. The next thing you knew, he was fired. Then he was calling and saying do you want to talk . Next thing you knew, he disclosed serious corruption about being paid during the campaign to disparage fenty on the campaign trail. Then there is a federal investigation where they learned that there was something much bigger going on which they called the Shadow Campaign. And that was a parallel operation to the Gray Campaign that was done in secret that was not reported, and it was 650,000. Which is nothing to sneeze at. Allegedly, Jeffrey Thompson was the sole funder. You have
And your staff do throughout the years. And tonight and coming out and doing this for the public so thank you very much. Thank theayor mayor for me very much. Thank you everybody and good night. As i promised, i will be the last person to leave and we can stick around and talk if you want to chat further. A look at president obamas plan for improving the Mortgage Finance system. We will discuss how sequestration is affecting National Defense. Begins aton journal 7 00 a. M. On cspan. Today, the Brookings Institution discusses spending cuts in the 2014 budget and their impact on the pentagon and their strategies at 10 00 a. M. Eastern. Tonight, wendy daviss remarks from the press club in washington, dc and she talks about her future political lands and her 10 our filibuster in the state senate at eight 30 5 p. M. Eastern. At 8 35 a. M. P. M. Theill have the chair of reign Affairs Committee on newsmakers. A. M. Is sunday at 10 00 here on cspan. Mayor adrian fendi and Councilmember Vincent
i m yeun yang. in for barbara harrison. new today, dozens of people in southeast washington have no water. the 12-inch main burst early this morning near the 2700 block of pennsylvania avenue. about 200 customers lost water, including a nearby fire house. crews say water should be restored sometime this afternoon. it will take longer than that for things to get back to normal in the city of rockville. people who live there are under water restrictions because of a massive water main break in potomac. elai elaine reyes reports. reporter: the sprinkler is off and he plans to keep it that way until saturday afternoon. we got an e-mail from the city asking for connecticut certifica certificate vation. reporter: it took crews nearly two days to fix the water main. as a result, 13,000 homes who use rockville s water were asked to conserve it. they asked customers to stop all outdoor watering, use water only when necessary and limit toilet flushing, dishwasher and washing ma