Harry Jaffe: My friend Phil Mendelson asks how Fenty’s friends get DC contracts

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Readers of my column might not get the sense that Councilman Phil Mendelson and I are buddies.

Of all the pols and cops and businessmen whose chains I have yanked, I have tried to give Phil whiplash on more than a few occasions. “Comrade Phil” I called him, because he seemed to take the ultraliberal approach to law enforcement.

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