Examiner Local Editorial: D.C. still stalling on campaign finance reform

One of the most important local stories of 2012 is about what didn’t happen in the District of Columbia. The year inauspiciously began with the 2010 campaigns of the city’s top two elected officials — Mayor Vincent Gray and former D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown — under federal investigation. Beginning with the mayor himself, city officials made lots of promises to strengthen the District’s campaign finance laws. But none of those promises has been kept.