Mayor Bowser’s chief of staff responds to Trump’s attack on local District government management.
The animus/resentment between federal Washington and local DC has persisted for decades given lack of voting rights and especially since the federal control board era in the ‘90s.
The question of whether a president would use the Taxation Without Representation license plates on the limo had been viewed as a litmus test: Clinton put them on The Beast, GWB removed them, Obama put them back in second term. Trump uses them but might not even know.
For Trump to attack local governance as an excuse for his terminated military parade is a particularly low blow for a city that has worked to shed its ‘90s reputation for mismanagement and corruption.
On tensions between local/federal Washington: In 2008, I called up DC superdelegates to Dem convention and asked them basic questions about the city. (What ward do they live in, who was schools chancellor.) They failed spectacularly. washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content…
