Jonetta Rose Barras: Ensuring election integrity in the District?

The D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics is investigating signatures that appeared nearly two years ago on the D.C. Republican Committee’s presidential nominating petitions. It’s all very strange to Paul Craney and me. But judge for yourself.

Craney, the committee’s executive director, and its chairman, Robert Kabel, had been giving Mayor Adrian Fenty grief about his proposal to raise taxes, following the revelation of a multimillion-dollar revenue shortfall for fiscal years 2009 and 2010. They thought that rather than create additional burdens for residents, the mayor should cut his salary, which is larger than some of the nation’s governors.