card more than $25,000 in late payments, penalties, and fees. a second visa card has an overdue balance of 22,000. brown is chairman of the council s economic development committee, and is deeply involved in financial affairs of the city government. in an interview with news4 thursday afternoon, an interview that he asked to be held outside of his government office, brown did not try to explain away the personal debt problems. clearly overspending on three of my credit cards that i have. i take full responsibility. my wife and i have made arrangements with the creditors to fulfill my financial obligations. and we re now living within our mean in a very disciplined budget. and this won t happen again. at the end of the day, i take full responsibility. reporter: it s unclear how or whether brown s personal financial problems will affect his campaign to become the second highest elected official in a city with mounting debt problems itself. d.c. councilmembers such as kwame