LilMikeSF<p><a href="https://c.im/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> in 1995 <a href="https://c.im/tags/MarionShepilovBarry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarionShepilovBarry</span></a> Returned To <a href="https://c.im/tags/TakeTheOath" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TakeTheOath</span></a> for his 4th Term As <a href="https://c.im/tags/MayorMarionBarry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MayorMarionBarry</span></a> of <a href="https://c.im/tags/WashingtonDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WashingtonDC</span></a> . The caustic & charismatic former 60's & 70's <a href="https://c.im/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> leader had lost much of his sheen and the mayor gig he'd held since 1978 a few years earlier, due to having "violated the public trust" and serve a <a href="https://c.im/tags/FederalPrison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalPrison</span></a> sentence after being videotaped smoking <a href="https://c.im/tags/CrackCocaine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CrackCocaine</span></a> in a hotel room <a href="https://c.im/tags/StingOperation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StingOperation</span></a> set up by federal agents. </p><p>When Marion Barry left prison in 1992, he was met by six church busloads of supporters who prayed for him and cheered him on, and the seasoned slickster quickly re-ascended DC's political ladders and Barry's supporters unfurled the reassuring <a href="https://c.im/tags/CivicMinded" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CivicMinded</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/CampaignSlogan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CampaignSlogan</span></a> "He May Not Be Perfect, But He's Perfect for D.C." </p><p>As Barry ran for his fourth term for mayor, it shocked outside observers and when his critics brought up his past felonious failings, they were told "<a href="https://c.im/tags/GetOverIt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GetOverIt</span></a> ". Union Temple Baptist <a href="https://c.im/tags/MegaChurch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MegaChurch</span></a> Reverend Willie Wilson who helped organize the <a href="https://c.im/tags/MillionManMarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MillionManMarch</span></a> on Washington during Barry's 4th mayoral term said of him ″People are often stigmatized because of transgressions they may have committed and many times observers don’t realize that a human being is an imperfect thing, <a href="https://c.im/tags/MarionBarry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarionBarry</span></a>, while not being perfect, has many good qualities that can be used to the benefit of the <a href="https://c.im/tags/community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>community</span></a>.″</p><p>Barry's <a href="https://c.im/tags/triumphant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>triumphant</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SecondHoneymoon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SecondHoneymoon</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/VictoryCelebration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VictoryCelebration</span></a> was short lived, as the city, which had been plagued by <a href="https://c.im/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> scandals, and led the nation in homicides under his last two admittedly <a href="https://c.im/tags/DrugAddled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DrugAddled</span></a> terms as <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mayor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mayor</span></a>, was now amidst a spiraling 90's <a href="https://c.im/tags/BudgetCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BudgetCrisis</span></a>, and over a billion in debt since he'd last held the reigns of power. Barry's first accomplishment was to float a bond and get <a href="https://c.im/tags/WallStreet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WallStreet</span></a> to lend the city $250 million to keep the empty city coffers paying bills. </p><p>Newt Gingrich's <a href="https://c.im/tags/GOPControlledCongress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GOPControlledCongress</span></a> soon stripped <a href="https://c.im/tags/theChocolateCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theChocolateCity</span></a> of its symbolic vote on the house floor, and the <a href="https://c.im/tags/ClintonAdministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClintonAdministration</span></a> assumed control of the city's operations, hiring, firing, <a href="https://c.im/tags/debt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>debt</span></a> payment liabilities and day to day spending, leaving the former <a href="https://c.im/tags/HomeRule" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HomeRule</span></a> champion mayor <a href="https://c.im/tags/stripped" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stripped</span></a> of all authority other than <a href="https://c.im/tags/performative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>performative</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/oversight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oversight</span></a> of of <a href="https://c.im/tags/ParksandRecreation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ParksandRecreation</span></a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/publiclibraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>publiclibraries</span></a> , <a href="https://c.im/tags/DCTourism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DCTourism</span></a> board and mostly <a href="https://c.im/tags/CeremonialDuties" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CeremonialDuties</span></a>. </p><p>Barry declined to run again in 1998, but stayed active in <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ward8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ward8</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Soufeast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Soufeast</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/DistrictPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DistrictPolitics</span></a> serving as an <a href="https://c.im/tags/outspoken" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>outspoken</span></a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/controversial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>controversial</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/CityCouncil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CityCouncil</span></a> member oft hounded by petty political squabbles, <a href="https://c.im/tags/PressScandals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PressScandals</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/TaxTroubles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TaxTroubles</span></a> for much of <a href="https://c.im/tags/TheNineLivesOfMarionBarry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheNineLivesOfMarionBarry</span></a> until his death in 2014.</p><p>To see a multimedia slideshow and better understand his enduring appeal as <a href="https://c.im/tags/MayorForLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MayorForLife</span></a> to many citizens of DC, and how he arose from poverty to join <a href="https://c.im/tags/SNCC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SNCC</span></a> and emerge from the civil rights struggles in the 1960s to an indefatigable <a href="https://c.im/tags/PoliticalPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalPower</span></a> broker in the nation's capital , visit this link : <a href="https://artsandculture.google.com/story/marion-barry-mayor-for-life-dc-public-library/wwURqe0pMAhWFw?hl=en" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">artsandculture.google.com/stor</span><span class="invisible">y/marion-barry-mayor-for-life-dc-public-library/wwURqe0pMAhWFw?hl=en</span></a></p>