The write-in campaign to re-elect Mayor Adrian Fenty has gathered steam with more than 5,000 followers on a Facebook page and a widening group of outspoken supporters. But those supporters say Fenty won’t get behind them until they can prove they’ve reached a critical mass.
“Fenty won’t have anything to do with us until we’ve built a sizable following,” community activist Lawrence Guyot told The Washington Examiner while standing with a group of write-in Fenty campaigners outside D.C. Council Chairman Vince Gray’s Ward 3 town hall meeting Thursday evening. “He’s done a good job of accepting his primary loss, but we don’t need to do that.”
Guyot is just the latest in a string of community leaders and Fenty supporters to voice their support for the write-in campaign. Fenty’s campaign strategist and Peaceoholics founder Ron Moten made a showing at the rally outside Gray’s town hall meeting, too.
Moten told The Examiner that the campaign is hoping that Fenty will accept it if it reaches 20,000 supporters. Moten wouldn’t say how many overall supporters the campaign has gathered, though.
