Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama Tuesday garnered the endorsement of D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty, pledging to lobby hard for full D.C. voting rights and to “reconnect people with their government.”

“Washington shouldn’t just be a seat of government, it should be one of the world’s leading cities,” Obama, the U.S. senator from Illinois, said in an address to about 50 supporters gathered outside the King Greenleaf Recreation Center in Southwest. “In many parts of D.C. you can look down the street and see the Capitol dome. And yet so many of these streets couldn’t be more disconnected from their government.”

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