Jonetta Rose Barras: Tag-team dysfunction in D.C.

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“Those of us on this side of the dais are as complicit in [circumventing contracting and procurement regulations] as the executive,” at-large D.C. Councilman David Catania said last week during the second roundtable probing questionable contracts awarded by the D.C. Housing Authority to companies headed by friends of Mayor Adrian Fenty.

Catania spoke an unacknowledged truth. But city executives haven’t been slouches.

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