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D.C. Council
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JOHN KELLY’S WASHINGTON
Why do some dog owners
censuring Barry
would remain a member of the
pooh-pooh the need to clean up?
Referring matter to U.S.
housing committee.
Brown, a freshman with the
attorney, taking away least seniority, does not chair a
chairmanship possible
standing committee. He heads
J
ulia Randall is standing on inconsiderate people see nothing special committees on statehood
Boundary Bridge, a wrong with leaving it where it and the taxicab industry. He took
pedestrian span in a pretty lays. Why? by Nikita Stewart the lead on taxis after council
corner of Rock Creek Park “That’s the big question,” Julia member Jim Graham (D-Ward 1)
where the District and says. The D.C. Council is likely to voluntarily relinquished over-
Montgomery County touch. The Julia is 74 and a retired vote Tuesday on censuring Mari- sight after the arrest last year of
sun is slanting through the trees executive trainer who lives in on Barry, stripping him of his his chief of staff, Ted G. Loza, for
on this recent Sunday morning. Chevy Chase. She helped found committee chairmanship and re- allegedly taking bribes on taxi is-
Heaps of snow glisten like Friends of Rock Creek’s ferring public corruption allega- sues.
diamonds. The sinuous creek Environment, a citizens group tions against him to the U.S. at- “Clearly, he has a historical
burbles. devoted to preserving the lovely torney’s office — actions that perspective I don’t have,” Brown
“I can’t tell you how many strip of green. Un-picked-up could severely reduce his author- said of Barry. “The thing about
people come here on the way to poop has always been an issue, ity and extend his legal troubles, politics is you never know what’s
taking their dog to be put down,” and so in 2004 the group several council sources said going to happen until you get on
Julia says of this peaceful spot. persuaded Maryland-National Monday. the dais.”
“They just come and sit here for Capital Park and Planning to Barry (D-Ward 8), whose polit- Brown, who said he would
a while.” install dispensers that disgorge ical career has been defined by consider “bringing one or two
It is peaceful. And it would be free Mutt Mitts. There are five setbacks and comebacks, apolo- people” from Barry’s staff “for
even more peaceful if you didn’t dispensers between Boundary gized last week for using “poor transitional purposes and conti-
have to dodge the dog turds that Bridge and the Mormon temple; judgment” in securing a $15,000 nuity,” served as interim chair-
dot the landscape like so many about 500 bags are taken each contract for an on-again-off- man while Barry recovered from
Angolan land mines. week. again girlfriend. The apology a kidney transplant in February
For example, look there, in the It seemed to work. Poop levels came a week after Washington 2009.
middle of the bridge: A messy dropped. But then this snowy attorney Robert S. Bennett re- At that time, federal prosecu-
coil of brown dog poo is melted winter came, and fecal hell broke
JOHN KELLY/THE WASHINGTON POST
ported the findings of an in- tors were making their second
into the snow like a piece of loose. In Rock Creek Park, Julia Randall, left, and Noriko Miyagawa vestigation into council ear- request in two years to revoke
uranium China Syndroming its “Poop was just piling up, really wonder how to get more people to pick up after their dogs. marks, concluding that Barry Barry’s three-year probation on
way toward the Earth’s core. piling up,” Julia says as Jackson, misused public funds and vio- misdemeanor tax charges be-
Julia gives a disgusted shake her shepherd/collie mix, Noriko pulls out her own poop bounding ahead of them. Julia lated conflict-of-interest rules in cause he failed to file a timely
of her head, then walks off to wanders off to sniff something. bag, a clever contraption that offers them a flier. awarding the contract to Donna 2007 tax return. They wanted
hand out more fliers. As in so many other ways, the she stocks up on whenever she “We don’t have pockets,” says Watts-Brighthaupt and earmarks him placed in jail or in a halfway
Julia is on a crusade to get dog snow has brought out the worst visits her native Japan. one, not wanting to break her to organizations in Ward 8. The house but backed off after learn-
walkers to pick up their dogs’ in people. Whether dog owners, Called the Handy Clean Bag, stride. She admits that they report also said Barry personally ing that those sites could not
droppings. The fliers she’s been gripped in a winter-weather it’s a two-part device in which a don’t have poop bags, either. benefited from the contract and
handing out all morning are frenzy, have thrown out the old biodegradable soft paper bag is Julia presses a Mutt Mitt upon impeded the investigation.
headlined “Scoop Your Poop” rules of etiquette or whether the sheathed in a plastic reusable them, then sighs after they’re Though he maintains that he
An investigation
and offer “3 BIG FAT reasons for dog droppings are just more bag. You grab the poop, take it gone. “A lot of people say, ‘Well, broke no laws, Barry acknowl-
into council
scooping”: sanitary (E. coli, visible on a blanket of white, it’s home, eject the paper into the my dog’s already done it this edged he later received “several
Giardia, salmonella, roundworm hard to say. But the effect is toilet and flush. morning.’ ” As if anyone can thousand dollars” from Watts-
earmarks
and hookworm are “commonly clear. That’s right: In Japan, they predict with much certainty the Brighthaupt for loans he made to
associated with dog waste”), “There are so many poops,” dispose of dog poop at home. alimentary ways of an animal. her, according to a supplemental
concluded that
aesthetic/safety (“reduces the says Noriko Miyagawa, who’s (They also carry water bottles to After about 90 minutes, Julia report Bennett filed with the
appreciation of the parks for walking her Doberman, Mason, wash away dog pee.) has decided to call it a morning. council on Monday. Council
Marion Barry
all”); and environmental (“dog with husband Yoshio Miyagawa. As I watch the canine parade, She hopes she’s educated a few members also received written
waste, if left unscooped in our “The other day, I stepped on I see the various ways owners poop scofflaws. She opens the responses to Bennett’s initial re-
misused public
watershed, poses an adverse poop with these,” Noriko says, carry this essential item. Some hatch on her Subaru to put away port from Barry and Rev. Antho-
funds and
impact on our waterways”). raising a hiking boot to show a keep the bags in their pockets. the remaining fliers, then grabs ny J. Motley, a Barry confidant
Most people take the fliers, sole wrapped with a stretchy Some knot them, cravat-like, a few Mutt Mitts. “I think I’ll go who received $54,000 in pay-
violated
although a few give the sort of wire contraption that provides around the dog’s leash or collar. back and pick up that poop by ments from the earmarks.
dismissive look that suggests traction on the ice. “It was And some don’t bother at all. A the bridge.” Frederick D. Cooke Jr., Barry’s
conflict-of-
they think that what they do or horrible. It took forever to pair of female joggers clad in To pick up a strange dog’s attorney, said the council should
don’t do with their dog’s doo is clean.” black and pink Lycra trot up, a poop? That’s dedication. not sanction his client because
interest rules.
nobody’s business. Some Julia offers her a Mutt Mitt. medium-size black dog
kellyj@washpost.com policies regulating earmarks and
personal-service contracts are handle someone in Barry’s med-
nonexistent, and a code on con- ical condition. In May, U.S. Mag-
flict of interest does not apply to istrate Judge Deborah A. Rob-
LOCAL DIGEST
“romantic relationships.” inson extended his probation by
Most council members do not two more years.
appear to have been persuaded Federal prosecutors have al-
MARYLAND had sustained some type of trau- years ago of a BRAC Zone near been charged with burglarizing by Barry’s position. Council ready been looking into the re-
Man fatally stabbed
ma to the upper body, police said. Andrews Air Force Base. The two it just two months after Wone’s Chairman Vincent C. Gray (D) cent council probe, sources have
Police said a family member zones will enable the community killing. worked most of the day Monday told The Washington Post.
in Langley Park area
had reported Cooper missing “to compete for private invest- — Keith L. Alexander crafting a resolution that would According to Bennett’s report,
Jan. 24. ment and better attract commu- address sanctions against Barry Barry personally delivered a
A man was killed Sunday night Detectives are working to find nity development,” Brown said. VIRGINIA and reform the earmarks system. check to Watts-Brighthaupt,
in an area of Langley Park that a motive and suspect in the case, — Ovetta Wiggins
has long been a source of trouble police said.
Bus strike possible
He had contacted council mem- drove her to the bank and waited
bers over the weekend but said for her to cash it. Barry main-
for Prince George’s County po- — Matt Zapotosky THE DISTRICT
in Pr. William area
he did not want to be rushed into tains, however, that he received
lice, authorities said. a decision Tuesday. no “personal gain.”
Officers were called to the Bus operators for the Potomac The resolution is expected to But Bennett’s supplemental re-
8100 block of 15th Avenue about
Enterprise Zone
Men in Wone case
and Rappahannock Transporta- include approval of Michael A. port included a harsh retort:
11:30 p.m. on a report of un- in Pr. George’s grows
want separate trials
tion Commission could strike Brown (I-At Large) as the new “This claim does not withstand
known trouble, authorities said. Three men charged with con- Wednesday if they don’t reach a chairman of the Committee on scrutiny. It disregards evidence
When they arrived, they found Maryland Lt. Gov. Anthony G. spiracy in the 2006 slaying of new contract agreement by mid- Housing and Workforce Devel- that Council member Barry used
Juan Perez Ramirez, 35, with stab Brown announced Monday that Washington attorney Robert night March 2. opment, now headed by Barry, his office to secure a public con-
wounds. Ramirez, of the 8100 Camp Springs and Suitland will Wone have petitioned a D.C. Su- The American Federation of council sources said. They spoke tract for his financially-dis-
block of 14th Avenue in Langley become part of Prince George’s perior Court judge for separate State, County and Municipal Em- on the condition of anonymity tressed girlfriend, thereby mak-
Park, was taken to a hospital, County’s Enterprise Zone. trials. ployees, the union representing because they were not author- ing it possible for her to repay
where he later died. “By expanding Prince George’s In a filing Friday, Joseph Price, the roughly 150 bus operators, is ized to comment publicly on the the several thousand dollars he
Police said the killing County’s Enterprise Zone to in- Dylan M. Ward and Victor J. Za- negotiating a new contract with case. Several council members testified he loaned her. He thus
stemmed from a “personal dis- clude Camp Springs and Suit- borsky each petitioned Judge First Transit, the agency PRTC have endorsed stripping Barry of used his office to obtain personal
pute” but declined to provide de- land, we are giving the busi- Lynn Leibovitz to have their uses to operate the local and the chairmanship, said the gain.”
tails. nesses an important incentive to cases heard separately. A hearing commuter buses that serve the sources, who added that he
stewartn@washpost.com
Last year, police recorded two complement the job creation we has been scheduled for March 12. Prince William County region.
homicides in the 8100 block of are experiencing because of The men were charged with PRTC officials said that they
15th Avenue and a third in the BRAC,” Brown (D) said in a state- covering up the Aug. 2, 2006, kill- are not privy to the details of the
8500 block. ment. ing of Wone, who had stayed negotiation but that a plan is in
— Matt Zapotosky Maryland’s Base Realignment overnight at their house in the place to maintain bus service
and Closure (BRAC) is expected 1500 block of Swann Street NW Wednesday if operators strike.
Missing Clinton man
to bring 3,000 primary jobs to in Dupont Circle. First Transit has outlined a con-
Andrews Air Force Base and Prosecutors said that Wone tingency plan that would include
found slain in pickup thousands more related jobs to was drugged, raped and fatally using any operator who decides
the surrounding communities. stabbed during the evening. The not to strike, newly recruited op-
A Clinton man was found dead Businesses in the Enterprise men said an unknown person erators who have just completed
in a pickup parked on Hamlin Zone are eligible for income-tax broke into their home and at- the First Transit’s training pro-
Street on Thursday, and detec- and property-tax credits. tacked Wone. gram and supervisors of the tran-
tives are investigating it as a Prince George’s also received No one has been charged in sit agency who are licensed to op-
homicide, authorities said. renewal of its Enterprise Zone the slaying. erate buses.
Just before 4 p.m. Thursday, and Focus Area, which includes In the filings by their attor- PRTC officials said First Tran-
Prince George’s County police areas along the International neys, the men said they wanted sit would also recruit operators
were called to the 8700 block of Corridor/Gateway Arts District; separate trials because police in- from other bus companies in the
Hamlin Street in the Glenarden the Port Towns and Annapolis terrogated each man separately area if needed.
area on a report of a suspicious Road Corridor; the Cabin Branch and, as a result, they said they If First Transit can’t find
vehicle. Patrol officers found a and Central Avenue area; and the have the right to be tried sep- enough drivers to operate all
parked 2008 Chevrolet Silverado Southern Area, which includes arately. buses Wednesday, PRTC will
with a man dead inside. Branch Avenue and Marlboro In a filing last month, prosecu- send out a rider express e-mail,
Police identified the victim Pike. tors said they were looking at the post information on
RICKY CARIOTI/THE WASHINGTON POST
Monday as Vernon T. Cooper, 39, Brown said the expansion of relationship between Price and
PRTCtransit.org and have a re- D.C. Council member Marion Barry apologized last week for using
who had “an extensive criminal the county’s Enterprise Zone will his brother, Michael, who had corded message at 703-730-6664. “poor judgment” in securing a $15,000 contract for an
background.” The Clinton man complement the designation two keys to the house and who had — Jennifer Buske on-again-off-again girlfriend.
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