Union protest outside downtown hotel stops

The steady beat of drums and chanting voices has come to a halt outside a downtown hotel after Ward 2 Councilman Jack Evans stepped in to help broker a deal between hotel management and the protesting union.

The booming protest outside of the Madison Hotel on 15th St., just three blocks from the White House, was driving some of Evans’ constituents to the brink of insanity. One man, sources say, even went as far as to stab one of the inflatable rats the union used to draw attention to its outrage.