Carol Schwartz's primary defeat could kill D.C. GOP

If you drove past the corner of Foxhall and Reservoir roads Wednesday afternoon, and saw a fresh-faced white guy waving and blowing kisses, you would have been witnessing the high point of Republican politics in the nation’s capital. And also the nadir of the local GOP — perhaps its extinction.

The waving politician was Patrick Mara, who knocked off Carol Schwartz in Tuesday’s D.C. Council primary election. Mara came here 11 years ago to work as a Capitol Hill aide, recently got involved in D.C. politics and decided to challenge the pol known around town as Carol.