Circum Spective

Some Things (and some people) Never Change

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Police say former Washington Mayor Marion Barry has been arrested and charged with stalking a woman. The United States Park Police said Barry, a current D.C. Council member, was arrested Saturday in Washington after a woman flagged down an officer and complained Barry was stalking her. Barry was charged with misdemeanor stalking and released.

Barry's spokeswoman, Natalie Williams, said Sunday that the accusation was "baseless." She says Barry plans to fight the charge and said the accuser is a 40-year-old woman Barry had helped financially. [She is probably a prostitute with whom Barry became obsessed -- "had helped financially" in the past!]

Barry served four terms as mayor. In his third (in 1990), he was videotaped in an FBI sting in a hotel smoking crack cocaine with prostitutes. He served six months in prison and [here's the kicker]...

...wait for it ...

wait for it ...


... in 1994 he was re-elected to the mayor's office.

Oh ...
my ...
God!
What does that say about the average D.C. resident?
You draw your own conclusions, folks.

I remember being completely dismayed and disgusted when I first heard that news in 1994, and now, fifteen years later, I am just as repulsed and nauseated again upon being reminded of it.