Mayor Barry Won’t Seek Fifth Term
From Times Wire Reports
Marion Barry announced he would not seek a fifth term as mayor. Barry, who held the office for most of the last 20 years, said he concluded he could better fight “the mean-spirited Republican Congress” that had whittled away home rule in the district from “the outside rather than the inside.”
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