Mary Cheh endorses Vincent Gray

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Speaking on TBD, formerly News Channel 8, D.C. Councilmember Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3), who represents Upper Georgetown, Glover Park and Foxhall, has endorsed D.C. Council Chair Vincent Gray for Mayor over incumbent Adrian Fenty.

"I voted for Vince Gray and I am going to support Vince Gray and I hope the residents of my ward and around the District also support Vince Gray," Cheh said. "I have worked with him over the past four years shoulder to shoulder, and I have become an admirer. He is a man of integrity, thoughtful and he will be a leader." Cheh, who will start campaigning for Gray in Ward 3 today, accused Fenty of governing through "secrecy and closed-doors," Tim Craig of the Washington Post reported.

Cheh, who is up for reelection this year but has no opponent in the Sept. 14 Democratic primary, has said little publicly about the Mayor's race until this week.

The Fenty campaign responded to the endorsement by attacking Cheh, in an unusually vituperative statement for an incumbent Mayor. "Mary Cheh has chose to align herself against education reform, against public safety and against the improvements of the last three years," said Sean Madigan, a Fenty spokesman. "More importantly, she has shown she is more interested in cutting political deals than in listening to her neighbors."

Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans (D) has endorsed Mayor Fenty.

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