“I think I’m a candidate of substance. I don’t think [Michael Brown] puts the effort in to give a full thought,” David Grosso told me recently. “If you want to make a big difference, you have to be there and be present.”

He gets no argument from me for his shot at the incumbent at-large D.C. councilman he hopes to unseat in the Nov. 6 general election — although Democrat Vincent B. Orange Sr., who is up for re-election also, deserves some criticism.

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