Former D.C. parks and recreation chief Clark Ray will run for the at-large D.C. Council seat currently held by incumbent Democrat Phil Mendelson, Ray said Tuesday, setting up what may be the city’s closest contest of the 2010 political season.

The decision to run, Ray told The Examiner, “has been in the making for several months.”

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