Harry Jaffe: Locals would make great District leaders

On Sunday night, in the back yard of her home on Broad Branch Road in Northwest Washington, Suzannah Creedon told a group of neighbors why she had decided more than a year ago to devote herself to Adrian Fenty’s run for mayor.

“Like Adrian,” she said, “I was born in Washington. When I heard he was running for mayor, we talked and I realized that here was someone who understood the city’s problems and would actually do something about solving them.”