D.C. Council member and former Mayor Marion Barry is among the dozens of the District’s delegates at the Pepsi Center. Barry and D.C. Democratic Party Chairwoman Anita Bonds were making their way out of the convention arena before Hillary Clinton’s speech when The Examiner caught up with them.
The former mayor was being shuttled around by one of the many DNC-run golf carts. Barry said complications from high blood pressure and his longtime battle with diabetes made it necessary for him to avoid long walks. Barry and most of the rest of the D.C. delegation were sporting “Taxation Without Representation” T-shirts.
He called the reported rift between the Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama camps a “wishful thinking figment of the media’s imagination.”
The 72-year-old former mayor has been a longtime supporter of Bill Clinton but threw his support behind Obama in February.
