The scandals that have plagued the District’s top elected officials in recent weeks have undercut the city’s hard-won credibility with creditors and on Capitol Hill, where Republican lawmakers are itching to retake control of D.C., analysts and officials said. “The scandals involving the mayor, the council chairman and the president of the University of the District of Columbia have collectively damaged the District’s ability to move forward on all issues on Capitol Hill and have created a negative view of our decisions on Wall Street,” Ward 2 Councilman Jack Evans told The Washington Examiner on Sunday. Evans heads the committee on finance and revenue. “In the last two weeks, we have really hurt our ability to make progress.”

D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown is still dealing with the fallout from the two “fully loaded” Lincoln Navigators the city leased at his request and UDC President Allen Sessoms has been caught taking high-priced trips on the taxpayer-backed school’s tab.