As promised, outgoing Mayor Anthony Williams has withdrawn most of his recent nominations for boards and commissions out of respect for his successor.
“As my administration is winding down, I have decided in deference to the incoming Mayor to defer making some new appointments,” Williams wrote in a letter to D.C. Council Chair Linda Cropp.
That led the mayor to withdraw 29 nominations he had introduced since the summer, including several for high-profile seats.
First introduced in mid-June, the reappointment of Wilma Lewis, chair of the Board of Elections and Ethics, was yanked from council consideration.
Lewis is unlikely to be reappointed to the position under an Adrian Fenty administration, sources told The Examiner.
Also pulled were four nominations to the D.C. Sports and Entertainment Commission — including one slot for Williams’ spokesman, Vince Morris — four appointments to the D.C. Taxicab Commission, four to the Historic Preservation Review Board and two to the Police Complaints Board.
Soon after his primary victory, Fenty, the Democratic mayoral nominee, requested that Williams stop naming people to boards and commissions.
The mayor left six nominations on the council’s docket “due to a need to maintain quorum and an ability to continue operating effectively” until the end of the year, he wrote in the letter to Cropp.
