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Jack Evans Goes Out With a Whimper
Screenshot from WUSA9 in 2021.
Jack Evans’ bid for DC Council chairman has ended with a whimper. Unable to collect enough signatures to get on the ballot, Evans dropped out of the race last week, he told WUSA9. This is a stunning rebuke for a man who served a record 29 years on the DC Council as the Ward 2 representative, including an incredible two decades atop the powerful finance and revenue committee.
As finance chairman, Evans prioritized government spending on multibillion-dollar stadiums, while shunning efforts to stabilize DC’s vulnerable residents, which helped fuel the city’s unprecedented gentrification — just as the Washington Post, Evans’ longtime booster, envisioned. Amid his remaking of DC, Evans also enriched his private patrons and himself, an arrangement that caught up with him in his last year in office. But from the moment he was forced to resign in disgrace in 2020, Evans has been trying to claw his way back to power. This latest defeat, if you can even call it that, seems likely to mark the final nail in his........