When even the D.C. Council says an initiative is too progressive to be put into law, you know it must be nuts.

The Council passed legislation Tuesday that would repeal the ballot measure known more commonly as Initiative 77. Tuesday’s vote, which is the first one of several motions required to overturn the law entirely, passed by a margin of 8-5. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser, a Democrat, says she would sign the repeal.