D.C.'s fiscal stewards?

Some D.C. Council members and residents may be alarmed by recent news that the city missed out on more than $100 million because Chief Financial Officer Natwar Gandhi apparently failed to properly implement a portion of the 2000 Tax Clarity Act. But that stunning revelation hasn’t distressed Mayor Vincent C. Gray, Council Chairman Kwame R. Brown or finance committee head Jack Evans. Despite the city’s fiscal woes, they haven’t demonstrated any Willie Sutton-esque determination to go get the money. Mayoral spokeswoman Linda Wharton Boyd said Gray “has directed the attorney general to work with the CFO to find a constructive solution” to the problem. Brown said he is “very concerned” but is “waiting for the CFO’s response.”