Linda Cropp struggled to find registered District Democrats in an area of the city, upper Northwest, where Maryland residents are just as common. “No matter where you are in D.C. you get Maryland voters,” Cropp said in Friendship Heights, about 100 feet from the Maryland border.
Her day in Ward 3 only confirmed, Cropp said, that the District keeps 30 cents of every dollar earned in the city. But she said of Friendship Heights, a busy retail shopping hub: “This is where, when you talk to people in Ward 3, you get the most activity.”
The voters to whom Cropp spoke — from the Macomb Street resident who needed a tree trimmed to the mother of three enjoying a cup of coffee — seemed genuinely excited to meet the council chairman and Mayor Anthony Williams. Dozens of Mann Elementary School students adorned themselves in Cropp campaign stickers, as they screamed, “I just met Linda Cropp.”
Cropp urged them to take that message home to their parents. “You just came to Starbucks to get some milk; and look, you met the mayor and a woman who might be mayor,” Diane Shiff, of AU Park, told her three daughters outside the coffee shop on New Mexico Avenue.
