Brown's job for campaigning claim looking true to some

A series of D.C. Council hearings on hiring decisions made by the Vince Gray administration has led some council members toward the conclusion that formal mayoral candidate Sulaimon Brown was promised a job by the Gray for Mayor campaign. “This has all the earmarks of a promise of a job,” said Ward 3 Councilwoman Mary Cheh, who supported Gray in his election bid.

Brown was hired by the Gray administration in late January and given a $110,000 annual salary. When he was fired three weeks later, he claimed Gray and Gray for Mayor campaign chairwoman Lorraine Green promised him the job so he would keep up his attacks on then-Mayor Adrian Fenty. He also says Green passed him cash-stuffed envelopes for the same reason.