Ah, Marion Barry, the template of the Democrat party since the 1990’s. This Democrat mayor of Washington DC who was caught on video smoking crack in the 1980’s now has a statue erected in his “honor” on Pennsvania Avenue. And guess who pays for it? We the tax payers. What’s next? A statue of Peter Strzok?
| Your tax dollars at work: Statue erected for former crack-smoking DC Democrat Mayor |
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Former Washington, D.C. mayor and city council member Marion Barry will have a statue erected in his memory on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Barry, a Democrat, served four terms as mayor of DC from 1979 to 1991 and again from 1995 to 1999. He served several terms as a member of the D.C. City Council and did so until his death in 2014.
Barry rose to national attention after the FBI filmed him in 1990 smoking crack cocaine with a former girlfriend, as part of a sting operation. His defense after being arrested was, “Bitch set me up.”
After his release from prison in 1992, he ran again in 1994 and won in what was considered an impressive political comeback, the Associated Press reports.