This is where supporters of D.C. mayoral candidate Anthony Williams (no relation to Armstrong) have come to celebrate their man’s victory. Spirits are high — and not merely because of Williams’s crushing defeat of his Republican rival. All night, partiers have been buzzing about the North Carolina Senate race and the fate of Lauch Faircloth. Since the Republican congressional takeover, Faircloth has been merciless in hounding the District’s inept city government.
Those days are over. Soon-to-be-former mayor Marion Barry is at the microphone to spread the good news. “I just spoke to Alexis Herman,” Barry purrs, “and she told me that Lauch Faircloth lost.” The crowd erupts and Barry slashes the air with his outstretched hand. “Lost! . . . lost! . . . lost! . . . lost! We’re buying Sen. Faircloth a bus ticket back to North Carolina — to live with the pigs!” Barry is relishing the triumph, before himself retiring to parts unknown.
Reported by the staff of THE WEEKLY STANDARD
