The D.C. Council on Tuesday smacked down Mayor Adrian Fenty’s effort to fill a crucial labor relations board with personal friends and political allies.

The council voted 9-4 to reject Fenty’s nominees for the Public Employee Relations Board and to allow the board’s sole remaining member to make decisions in labor relations cases. 

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