D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray was visibly annoyed when, at his regular press conference, he was asked if his arrest last week was an attempt to direct attention away from his scandal-dominated political narrative. He and his 2010 campaign are being investigated by multiple local and federal agencies.

That seemed a fair question. After all, Gray was never arrested during his tenure as city council chairman. When D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton was unceremoniously stripped of her vote in the Committee of the Whole, he didn’t gather his posse for a smackdown with House Speaker John Boehner. In fact, Gray subsequently had a private get-to-know-you meeting with the Republican leader.

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