A few folks in the legislative wing of the John A. Wilson Building called me last week, complaining about my characterization as a waste of taxpayers’ money the D.C. Council’s “investigation” into the effort by Mayor Adrian M. Fenty’s administration to donate an unused firetruck and ambulance to a small town in the Dominican Republic.

“You made us look silly, like kids,” one person said.

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