Marion Barry

This article is about the former mayor of Washington, D.C. For the former U.S. House member, see Robert Marion Berry. For the fruit, see Marionberry.

Marion Barry
Member of the D.C. City Council for the 8th Ward At-large (1975-1979)
Incumbent
Assumed office January 2, 2005
Preceded by	Sandy Allen
In office January 2, 1993 – January 2, 1995
Preceded by	Wilhelmina Rolark
Succeeded by	Eydie D. Whittington
In office January 2, 1975 – January 2, 1979
Preceded by	None
Succeeded by	John L. Ray
Mayor of the District of Columbia
In office January 2, 1995 – January 2, 1999
Preceded by	Sharon Pratt Kelly
Succeeded by	Anthony A. Williams
In office January 2, 1979 – January 2, 1991
Preceded by	Walter Washington
Succeeded by	Sharon Pratt Kelly
Personal details
Born	March 6, 1936 (1936-03-06) (age 75) Itta Bena, Mississippi
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	Blantie Evans (1962–1964) Mary M. Treadwell (1972–1977) Effi Slaughter (1978–1993) Cora Masters (m. 1994)
Children	Marion Christopher Barry[1] Tamara Masters Wilds (stepdaughter) Lalanya Masters Abner (stepdaughter)
Alma mater	LeMoyne–Owen College Fisk University
Profession	Investment Banking
Religion	Baptist
Website	dccouncil.us/barry/

Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr. (born March 6, 1936) is an American Democratic politician who is currently serving as a member of the Council of the District of Columbia, representing DC's Ward 8. Barry served as the second elected mayor of the District of Columbia from 1979 to 1991, and again as the fourth mayor from 1995 to 1999. In addition to his current term, Barry also served two other tenures on the D.C. Council, as an At-Large member from 1975–79, and as Ward 8 representative from 1992–95. In the 1960s he was involved in the Civil Rights Movement, serving as the first president of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).

Barry came to national prominence as mayor of the national capital, the first prominent civil-rights activist to become chief executive of a major American city;^[2] he gave the presidential nomination speech for Jesse Jackson at the 1984 Democratic National Convention. His celebrity transformed into international notoriety in January 1990, when Barry was videotaped smoking crack cocaine and arrested by FBI officials on drug charges. The arrest and subsequent trial precluded Barry seeking re-election, and Barry served six months in a federal prison. After his release, however, he was elected to the D.C. city council in 1992 and ultimately returned to the mayoralty in 1994, serving from 1995 to 1999.

Despite his history of political and legal controversies, Barry remains a figure of enormous popularity and influence on the local political scene of Washington D.C. The alternative weekly Washington City Paper nicknamed him "Mayor-for-Life," a designation that remained long after Barry left the mayoralty.^[3] The Washington Post has stated that "To understand the District of Columbia, one must understand Marion Barry."^[4]

Early life and activism

Marion Barry was born in Leflore County, Mississippi, the third of ten children.^[5][6] His father died when he was four years old, and a year later his mother moved the family to Memphis, Tennessee,^[6] where her employment prospects were better.^[7] He had a number of jobs as a child, including picking cotton, delivering and selling newspapers, and bagging groceries.^[6] While in high school, Barry worked as a waiter at the American Legion post and at the Boy Scouts earned the rank of Eagle Scout.^[6][8]

Barry attended LeMoyne College (now LeMoyne-Owen College), graduating in 1958.^[5] While at LeMoyne, his ardent support of the civil rights movement earned him the nickname "Shep", in reference to Soviet propagandist Dmitri Shepilov.^[5] Barry began using Shepilov as his middle name.^[5] In 1958 at LeMoyne, he criticized a college trustee for remarks he felt were demeaning to African Americans, which nearly caused his expulsion.^[6]

Barry also earned a Masters of Science in organic chemistry from Fisk University^[5] in 1960. Barry is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.

After graduating from Fisk, Barry joined the American civil rights movement, focusing on the elimination of the racial segregation of bus passengers. He was elected the first chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Barry began a doctoral program at the University of Kansas, but he quit the program when white parents opposed him tutoring their children.^[6] He began doctoral chemistry studies at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, the only African American in the class.^[6] There too he was prohibited from tutoring white children, and his wife was not allowed to work at the school.^[6] He quit the program in favor of his new duties at SNCC. During his time leading SNCC, Barry led protests against racial segregation and discrimination.^[6]

In 1965, Barry moved to Washington, D.C. to open a local chapter of SNCC, where he was heavily involved in coordinating peaceful street demonstrations as well as a boycott to protest bus fare increases.^[8] He also served as the leader of the Free D.C. Movement, strongly supporting increased home rule for the District.^[8][9] Barry quit SNCC in 1967, when H. Rap Brown became chairman of the group.^[8] Two years later, Barry and Mary Treadwell cofounded Pride, Inc., a federally funded program to provide job training to unemployed black men.^[6] Barry and Treadwell married in 1972, and separated five years later.^[6]

Barry was active in the aftermath of the 1968 Washington, D.C. riots, organizing through Pride Inc. a program of free food distribution for poor black residents whose homes and neighborhoods had been destroyed in the rioting. Barry convinced the Giant Food supermarket chain to donate food, and spent a week driving trucks and delivering food throughout the city's housing projects. He also became a board member of the city’s Economic Development Committee, helping to route federal funds and venture capital to black-owned businesses that were struggling to recover from the riots.^[3]

Marion Barry married Effi Slaughter, his third wife, just after announcing his candidacy for mayor in 1978. The couple had one son, Christopher Barry. The Barrys divorced in 1993, but she returned to Washington and supported him in his successful bid for a city council seat in 2004. Effi died on September 6, 2007, after an 18-month battle with acute myeloid leukemia.^[10][11]

Barry's mother, Mattie Cummings, died at age 92 in Memphis on November 8, 2009.^[7]

Entry into politics

Elected to the school board in 1972,^[5] Barry served as Board president for two years, reorganizing the school system’s finances and building consensus on the board, and overseeing the installation of Barbara Sizemore as the city’s superintendent. Upon establishment of Washington's Home Rule in 1974, Barry was elected an at-large member of Washington's first elected city council, and while serving as a council member became chair of the District of Columbia Committee on Finance and Revenue. He was re-elected in 1976.

While serving on the D.C. city council, Barry was shot on March 9, 1977, by radical Hanafi Muslims (from a breakaway sect of the Nation of Islam) when they overran the District Building.^[6] Barry was shot near his heart during the two-day 1977 Hanafi Muslim Siege in which hostages were held by the terrorists and which was finally defused by the FBI and Muslim ambassadors. Having credentials as an activist, legislator, and "hero" in a hostage crisis, as well as an early endorsement from the Washington Post,^[12] Barry followed in Washington's mayoralty when its first elected mayor, Walter Washington, fell out of political favor in the 1978 election. Running with the campaign slogan “Take A Stand” and the promise to improve the “bumbling and bungling” Washington administration, Barry won the Democratic primary election against his main rivals Mayor Washington and council chairman Sterling Tucker in a vote so close that final tally was in doubt for over two weeks.^[13] He went on to defeat his Republican opponent Arthur Fletcher and two other minor candidates in a landslide general election in November.^[14] He was only the second person elected to the position.

First term, 1979–83

Barry’s first four years in office were characterized by increased efficiency in city administration and government services, in particular the sanitation department. Barry also instituted his signature summer jobs program, in which summer employment was made available to every school-age resident. At the same time, Barry straightened the city’s chaotic finances and attacked the deficit by introducing spending controls and laying off ten percent of the city’s workforce.^[15] Each year of his first term saw a budget surplus of at least US$13 million.^[16] DC political reporter Jonetta Rose Barras characterized the first Barry administration as "methodical, competent, and intellectually superior."^[2]

However, unemployment rose dramatically during his first administration, as did crime rates, in part because many of his layoffs were centered in the police department (with 1,500 terminations by 1981). Barry's campaign promise to "take the boards off" public housing – i.e., to rehabilitate dilapidated and condemned public housing units – was slow in fulfillment. The city's deficit was a constant problem as well: Barry had recalculated the Washington Administration's claim of a $41 million surplus and found that the city was actually $285 million in debt,^[2] a long-term accrual that even his annual surpluses were unable to surmount by the end of his term. In addition, graft and embezzlement among Barry appointees such as Employment Services Director Ivanhoe Donaldson began late in Barry's first term, although it would not be discovered for several years.^[3][17] Barry himself was touched by a number of “mini-scandals,” including travels whose financiers he often kept secret, and the first reports of his cocaine use at downtown nightclubs.^[15]

In 1982, Barry faced re-election against a challenge from fellow Democrat Patricia Roberts Harris, an African-American woman who had served in two cabinet positions under President Jimmy Carter, as well as from council members John L. Ray and Charlene Drew Jarvis. In the primary election held September 14, 1982, Barry won by a landslide, with over 58% of the vote,^[18] then went on to win 82% of the vote in the November 11 general election against Republican candidate E. Brooke Lee.^[19]

Second term, 1983–87

Barry’s second term was much more troublesome than his first. Though Washington experienced a massive real estate boom that helped alleviate the city’s fiscal problems for a time,^[4] government spending skyrocketed; the administration managed to post a fifth straight budget surplus,^[16] but the next year struggled with a $110 million deficit.^[20] Much of the disparity was caused by Barry's policy of combatting unemployment by creating government jobs; The city government’s payrolls swelled so greatly that by 1986 nobody in the administration knew exactly how many employees it had.^[3]

Wasteful contract spending also became a problem in the second Barry administration; in his first term Barry had made a point of insisting that any firm wishing to do business with the city have minority partners, and shepherding legislation requiring 35% of all contracts to go to minority-owned firms. The policy was modified in his second term such that the administration gave contracts to Barry’s political connections and high-end campaign contributors to the tune of $856 million,^[16] but without any oversight from the city. As such, the cost of services such as heating oil for the public schools inflated 40 percent, without any guarantee that the goods and services were being provided. City councilman John A. Wilson commented that “What started out to benefit the minority community at large has meant some politically influential blacks can move out to posh suburbs.”^[3]

Major scandal caught up to the mayor in his second term. Several of his associates were indicted for financial malfeasances, including former administration officials Ivanhoe Donaldson and Alphonse G. Hill. Barry also began to be plagued by rumors and press reports of womanizing and of alcohol and drug abuse; in particular, stories abounded of his cocaine use in the city’s nightclubs and red-light district. In 1984, Barry’s onetime lover Karen Johnson was convicted of cocaine possession and contempt of court for refusing to testify to a grand jury about Barry’s drug use.^[21] Nevertheless, Barry’s second four years in office had some high points, including the District’s entry into the open bond market with Wall Street’s highest credit rating,^[15] and Barry’s nomination speech for Jesse Jackson at the 1984 Democratic Convention.^[21]

Third term, 1987–91

By the time of Barry’s third mayoral election in 1986, his stranglehold on city politics was such that he faced only token opposition from the Democratic Party, in the form of former school board member Mattie Taylor, whom Barry defeated easily and did the same with Republican candidate Carol Schwartz in the November 4 general election.^[3][22] For the third time, Barry received the endorsement of the ‘’Washington Post’’, but “with far greater reservations and misgivings” than at any time in the past^[23]

By his third term, however, Barry was openly suffering the effects of his alcohol and cocaine addictions; he would later admit that 1987 was the year he lost control of his addictions.^[3] His public appearances were marked by slurred words and glassy eyes, while aides began scheduling all of his daily events later and later in the day as he began arriving to his office as late as lunchtime, and nodding off to sleep at his desk. His ability to function as mayor had become so impaired that even his closest associates urged him not to run again, going so far as to attempt to instead create an endowed professorship for him at the University of the District of Columbia. In the wake of Barry's inattention, the city declined badly. Notoriously, Barry was attending the Superbowl in California when a winter blizzard struck Washington in January 1987, leaving city crews to badly mishandle the road clearing.^[3][15]

In 1987 crack exploded in the city, as did territorial wars among drug dealers; 1988 saw 369 homicides in DC, shattering records that were broken again with 434 homicides in 1989 and 474 in 1990, making Washington's murder rate the highest in the nation.^[24] DC government's employment and deficits grew even as city services suffered; in particular, there were frequent press reports of deaths occurring because police lacked cars to get to crime scenes, and EMS services responded slowly or went to the wrong address.^[2][3]

1990 arrest

See also: List of federal political scandals in the United States and List of state and local political scandals in the United States

By late 1989, federal officials had been investigating Barry for six years on suspicion of illegal drug possession and use; that fall, they were able to make cases against several of Barry's associates for past cocaine use, including Charles Lewis – a native of the U.S. Virgin Islands who was implicated in a drug investigation involving Barry and a room at Washington’s Ramada Inn in December 1988 – and a former girlfriend, ex-model Rasheeda Moore.

Barry captured on a surveillance camera smoking crack cocaine during a sting operation by the FBI and D.C. Police.

On January 18, 1990, Barry was arrested with Moore in a sting operation at the Vista Hotel by the FBI and D.C. Police for crack cocaine use and possession.^[25] The incident was widely broadcast on television, showing an enraged Barry excoriating Moore, who had become an FBI informant. The outburst, in which Barry muttered, in part, "Bitch set me up," became a popular quote associated with Barry.^[26]

Barry was charged with three felony counts of perjury, 10 counts of misdemeanor drug possession, and one misdemeanor count of conspiracy to possess cocaine. The criminal trial ended in August 1990 with a conviction for only one possession incident, which had occurred in November 1989, and an acquittal on another. The jury hung on the remaining charges. Six or seven jurors (of whom two were white and the rest black) believed that the evidence against Barry was overwhelming and that he had displayed "arrogance" during the trial. Against these, five black jurors were convinced that the prosecution had falsified evidence and testimony as part of a racist conspiracy against Barry, and even disputed factual findings that had not been contested in court.^[27][28] After scolding the jurors for not following his instructions, the judge declared a mistrial on the remaining charges.

As a result of his arrest and the ensuing trial, Barry decided In June 1990 not to seek re-election as mayor.^[29] Barry was sentenced to a six-month federal prison term in October 1990.^[30] After his arrest and through his trial, Barry continued as mayor. He even ran as an independent for an at-large seat on the council against 13-year incumbent Hilda Mason.^[31] Mason, a former ally who had helped Barry recuperate after the 1977 shooting, took the challenge personally, saying, "I do feel very disappointed in my grandson Marion Barry."^[32] Mason was endorsed by a majority of the council members^[33] and by Jesse Jackson, who was running for shadow senator.^[34]

Barry was sentenced to six months in federal prison shortly before the November election,^[35] which he lost – in the first (and to date only) electoral loss of his career – despite doing well among the voters of Ward 8.^[36] His wife and son moved out of the house later that month.^[37] In October, 1991 Barry surrendered himself at a correctional facility in Petersburg, Virginia. After an alleged sexual misconduct resulted in his transfer to another federal prison in Loretto, Pennsylvania, midway through his sentence, Barry was released in April 1992.

Post-conviction

Barry was released from prison in 1992, and almost immediately upon returning to the District filed papers to run for the Ward 8 city council seat in that year's election. Barry ran under the slogan "He May Not Be Perfect, But He's Perfect for D.C." He defeated the four-term incumbent, Wilhelmina Rolark, in the Democratic primary, winning 70 percent of the vote, saying he was "not interested in being mayor",^[38] and went on to win the general election easily.

1994 mayoral campaign

Despite his earlier statements to the contrary, observers of Barry's council victory expressed beliefs that he was laying ground for a mayoral run in 1994.^[39] Indeed, Barry fulfilled expectations when he formally announced his candidacy for mayor on May 21, 1994 and was immediately regarded as a serious challenge to the unpopular incumbent mayor, Sharon Pratt Kelly.^[40] Despite much opposition, including an abortive effort to recall his 1992 council election,^[41] Barry won a three-way Democratic primary contest for mayor with 48% of the vote on September 13.^[42] The victory, coming after Barry's videotaped crack use and conviction, shocked the nation, carrying front page headlines in newspapers as far away as the Los Angeles Times and Boston Globe.^[2]

Though facing a credible challenge from Republican councilmember Carol Schwartz, who received the endorsement of the Washington Post^[43] and captured 42% of the vote, Barry was victorious in the general election with 56%.^[44]

Another oft-repeated Barry quote came in the aftermath of his electoral victory, in which he counseled those voters who opposed his mayoral campaign to "get over it.".^[45]

Mayor (fourth term), 1995–99

Barry was sworn into office on January 2, 1995, and was almost immediately confronted with a financial crisis.^[46] The budgetary problems of his previous administrations had only increased during Kelly's term, with city officials estimating a fiscal 1996 deficit between $700 million and $1 billion.^[2] In addition, city services remained extremely dysfunctional due to mismanagement. One month into his term, Barry declared that the city government was "unworkable" in its present state and lobbied Congress to take over the areas of its operation that were analogous to typical state government functions.^[47] Wall Street, which Barry had convinced just after his election to continue investing in municipal bonds, reduced the city's credit rating to "junk status."^[2] Instead of implementing Barry's proposals, the newly Republican Congress (who had come to power on promises of decreasing federal spending) placed several city operations into receivership and created the District of Columbia Financial Control Board to assume complete authority over the city's day-to-day spending and finances, including overrule of the mayor's fiscal decisions.^[48]

The next two years were dominated by budgetary and policy battles between Barry and the Control Board — along with Chief Financial Officer Anthony A. Williams — for power over the District of Columbia's operation. The conflict was ultimately settled when in 1997 the Clinton Administration and Senator Lauch Faircloth agreed on legislation that rescued the city from its financial crisis but stripped Barry of all authority (including hiring and firing) over nine District agencies, making them directly answerable to the Control Board. Barry was left with control of only the Department of Parks and Recreation, the public libraries, and the Board of Tourism, as well as the ceremonial trappings of his office — a condition he characterized “a rape of democracy.”^[49][50]

Barry declined to run for a fifth term in office in June 1998, stating his belief that Congress would not restore home rule to DC while he was mayor.^[51] He was succeeded by city CFO Anthony A. Williams.

Return to DC Council

After leaving office, Barry performed consulting work for an investment banking firm.

On March 6, 2002, Barry declared his intention to challenge at-large council member Phil Mendelson in the Democratic primary.^[52] Within a month, he decided against running, after an incident in which U.S. Park Police found traces of marijuana and cocaine in his car.^[53]

On June 12, 2004, Barry announced that he was running in the Democratic primary for the Ward 8 council seat, a position he held before becoming mayor. Barry received 58% of the vote, defeating the incumbent council member, Sandy Allen, on September 14, 2004.^[54] Barry received 95% of the vote in the general election, giving him a victory in the race to represent Ward 8 in the Council.^[55]

During the 2006 mayoral election, Barry endorsed Adrian Fenty despite Linda Cropp hiring many members of Barry's former political machine. Recently, however, Barry has publicly clashed with Fenty over DC United's proposed soccer stadium in Barry's Ward 8. Barry is the stadium's most outspoken supporter on the council, whereas Fenty has attempted to distance himself from his initial support for the project.^[56]

In July 2007, Marion Barry was chosen as one of fifty wax statues to debut in the Washington D.C. franchise of Madame Tussauds Wax Museum. Barry was chosen by a majority of Washington residents and tourists from Tussauds' "Top 10 Wish List," in a contest that pitted him against Cal Ripken, Al Gore, Denzel Washington, Carl Bernstein, Halle Berry, Martin Sheen, Marilyn Monroe, Nancy Reagan and Oprah Winfrey.^[57]

Barry ran for re-election in 2008 and easily held off all five challengers in the Democratic primary: Ahmad Braxton-Jones, Howard Brown, Chanda McMahan, Sandra Seegars and Charles Wilson.^[58] No Republican or Statehood Green candidates filed to run in the Ward 8 council race.

Vote on gay marriage

See also: Recognition of same-sex unions in the District of Columbia

In May 2009, Barry voted against a bill committing Washington, D.C. to recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere. During his 2008 reelection campaign, Barry had told members of the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, the city's largest LGBT political group, "I don’t think you should make [supporting the bill] a litmus test. But if a bill like that were to come up, I would vote for it."^[59] Following his May 2009 vote against recognizing gay marriages, Barry was criticized for what activists believed to be an apparent flip-flop.^[60] Councilman Phil Mendelson said he was surprised by the vote because Barry had signed on as a co-introducer of the marriage bill.^[60] Barry said his position had not changed and warned that the council needed to move slowly on this issue. Citing his belief that the local African American community is overwhelmingly opposed to gay marriage, "All hell is going to break loose", Barry said. "We may have a civil war. The black community is just adamant against this."^[60][61]

Legal problems

Failures to file tax returns and pay taxes

On October 28, 2005, Barry pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor charges stemming from an IRS investigation. The mandatory drug testing for the hearing showed Barry as being positive for cocaine and marijuana. On March 9, 2006, he was sentenced to three years probation for misdemeanor charges of failing to pay federal and local taxes, and underwent drug counseling.^[62][63]

In 2007, federal prosecutors sought to have his probation revoked for failure to file his 2005 tax return. U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah Robinson refused, saying that prosecutors had not proved that the failure was willful, even if Barry was aware he had missed the deadline.^[64] According to Judge Robinson, sentencing Barry to jail without proving that he willfully failed to file his taxes would contradict precedent set by the United States Supreme Court.^[64]

On February 9, 2009, prosecutors filed a motion in federal court to revoke Barry's probation for not filing his 2007 tax return, which violated his probation.^[65][66] According to one prosecutor, Barry has not filed his taxes eight of the last nine years.^[67] In an interview with Bruce Johnson of Channel 9 News, Barry said he has been undergoing four-hour dialyses three times a week as treatment for a problem with his kidney.^[68][68][69] At that point, a kidney donor had been identified, but the operation had yet to be scheduled.^[68] Barry said the reason he did not file his taxes is because of distractions from his medical problem, although he noted that there is "no excuse" for not filing.^[69] If the presiding judge approves the prosecutors' motion, Barry's probation could be extended by two years or he could be sentenced to several months in jail.^[66][70] On February 17, WTOP-FM reported that, according to Barry's attorney, Barry had filed his federal and District tax returns for 2007.^[71] The same day, Barry was admitted to Howard University Hospital to prepare for a kidney transplant the next day.^[72] On February 23, prosecutors filed a motion to order Barry to appear in court on April 2,^[73] which the judge approved.^[74] Barry was released from the hospital on February 27,^[75] but he was readmitted on March 2 due to large amounts of air in his abdominal cavity and also due to Barry's complaints of serious pains,^[76] both of which were caused by the combination of medications Barry was taking after the operation.^[77] Barry was released from the hospital on March 6.^[78]

Alleged traffic violations

On September 10, 2006, Barry was stopped by Secret Service Uniformed Division police officers after stopping at a green light and running a red light.^[79][80] According to a Secret Service spokesman, the police officers pulled over his car, smelled alcohol, and administered a field sobriety test.^[79] Barry was then taken to the U.S. Capitol Police station for a breathalyzer test.^[79] The Secret Service said that the Breathalyzer test did not give an accurate reading, but Barry later said that it gave a successful reading of 0.02%, which is less than the legal limit of 0.08%.^[79] The police officers asked Barry to give a urine analysis, which Barry refused.^[79] The officers gave Barry a ticket for running a red light and failing to submit to a urine analysis.^[79] He was also charged with driving an unregistered vehicle and misuse of temporary tags.^[81] Barry pled not guilty to the charges.^[82] Prosecutors offered Barry a deal to drop the charge of driving under the influence in exchange for a guilty plea from Barry; he declined.^[83] A judge found him not guilty of the charges.^[81]

On December 16, 2006, the Park Police pulled over Barry for driving too slowly, which Barry later said was because he was trying to figure out where to enter an elementary school's parking lot for a nonprofit foundation's event.^[84] After looking up Barry's record, the police officer told Barry that his license had been suspended and ticketed Barry for operating a vehicle on a suspended license, despite Barry's insistence to the contrary.^[84] Two days later, the D.C. Department of Motor Vehicles confirmed that Barry's license had not actually been suspended and said a computer glitch must have caused the error.^[85]

Alleged personal benefit from contract to girlfriend

On July 4, 2009, Barry was taken into custody by the Park Police after political consultant Donna Watts-Brighthaupt, his ex-girlfriend, claimed he was stalking her.^[86] Barry was arrested and charged with "misdemeanor stalking". Following an interview with authorities, he was released on citation and told he must appear before the Superior Court of the District of Columbia on July 9.^[87][88] However, all charges were dropped on July 8.^[89]

An investigative report by Special Counsel said that Barry had personally benefited from a contract that he had awarded to his then-girlfriend Donna Watts-Brighthaupt.^[90][91] The report stated that Barry had awarded a contract to Watts-Brighthaupt, who then repaid money owed to Barry with the proceeds of the contract.^[90] When interviewed by the Special Counsel, Watts-Brighthaupt admitted plagiarizing substantial portions of her study from a publicly available study by the United States Department of Education.^[91] The Special Counsel report also said that Barry had requested 41 earmarks in 2009 worth $8.4 million, some of which were paid to organizations "rife with waste and abuse."^[92] The report also said that Barry had impeded the investigation by refusing to respond to questions and by telling witnesses not to respond to questions and not give subpoenaed documents to the Special Counsel.^[93]

Barry responded to the Special Counsel report by saying that he had violated no written rules or procedures on such contracts^[94] and that there was no conflict of interest.^[95] Barry apologized for his "very, very poor judgment."^[95]

In response to the Special Counsel report, several council members said they would like to hear a response from Barry before considering a censure. On March 2, 2010, the Council of the District of Columbia voted 12–0 in favor of stripping Barry of all committee assignments, ending his chair of the Committee on Housing and Workforce Development, and removing him from the Committee on Finance and Revenue.^[96]

Electoral history

Main article: Electoral history of Marion Barry

See also

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• List of Alpha Phi Alpha brothers
• List of Eagle Scouts (Boy Scouts of America)
• List of mayors of Washington, D.C.
• List of members of the Council of the District of Columbia

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External links

• Official website for Council Member Barry
• Biography of Mayor Marion Barry – District of Columbia (Archive)
• Marion Barry: Making of a Mayor
• The Barry Years: 40 Years of Committed Public Service
• Smith, Sam (1998). "Marion Barry: Some Notes". The Progressive Review. http://prorev.com/barryx.htm. Retrieved 2008-08-02. 
• Dream City: Race, Power, and the Decline of Washington, DC, 1964–1994, published in Washington Monthly, as a review of the book by Tom Sherwood and Harry Jaffe.
• Dolan, Michael (1995-01-06). "Visible Man: Can Marion Barry survive salvation?". Washington City Paper. http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/display.php?id=5546. Retrieved 2008-08-02. 

Council of the District of Columbia
First group of four	At-Large Member, Council of the District of Columbia 1975–1979	Succeeded by John L. Ray
Preceded by Wilhelmina Rolark	Ward 8 Member, Council of the District of Columbia 1993–1995	Succeeded by Eydie D. Whittington
Preceded by Sandy Allen	Ward 8 Member, Council of the District of Columbia 2005 – present	Incumbent
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Preceded by Walter Washington	Mayor of the District of Columbia 1979–1991	Succeeded by Sharon Pratt Kelly
Preceded by Sharon Pratt Kelly	Mayor of the District of Columbia 1995–1999	Succeeded by Anthony A. Williams

Persondata
Name	Barry, Marion
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Date of birth	March 6, 1936
Place of birth	Leflore County, Mississippi
Date of death
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