Kisha Preston

         Walter Washington, Marion Barry, Sharon Pratt Kelly, Anthony Williams, Adrian Fenty. The one thing all of these people have in common, the have had the privilege of being the Mayor of the nation’s capital, Washington DC. All were elected by the citizens of the city to lead DC into great things. They all promised many things that they were going to do. They all came in with many outlooks of how things needed to be done. How a government that in some instances had run wild needed to be fixed.  They all left office with some level of failure and criticism on some things. But did any of them accomplish what they originally set out to do?             Walter E. Washington was appointed Mayor-commissioner in 1967 by the President of the United States. In 1974, he ran for Mayor in the first DC mayoral election and was elected.  While he was beloved by many, eventually he was accused of not being relatable to the black community of DC and was seen as a puppet for the US Government. He lost the democratic Primary in 1978 to the man who would become the next mayor, a councilman who was vocal about Walter Washington and his leadership.             Marion Barry followed in Washington's mayoralty when its first elected mayor, Walter Washington, fell out of political favor in the 1978 election. Running with the campaign slogan “Take a Stand” and the promise to improve the “bumbling and bungling” Washington administration....