Alright, let’s do this.
I’ve been holding off on covering the most recent embarassment to Washington D.C. government by the Honorable-my-ass former mayor, current Ward 8 council member Marion “Bitch set me up” Barry until everything was on the table.
Barry’s mouthpiece attorney just finished his presser moments ago so it looks like the time is here.
Before we start delving into this pile of monkey turds, let me give a major hat tip to Mike Debonis at The City Paper who worked his ass off all weekend to pull information out about this story. It’s rare I compliment anybody, but he did some kick ass work.
To be quite honest, I don’t have the stamina to chronicle this trash-TV epic relationship gone wrong. So let me just hit the highlights:
- Barry and the woman, Donna Watts-Brighthaupt, have dated for roughly 6 months
- Trouble started last Tuesday when several councilmembers hosted a Wilson Building screening of CNN’s Black in America documentary. She attended with her ex-husband, Delonta Brighthaupt, and their children. But Barry, when he learned less than an hour beforehand that Brighthaupt would be in attendance, drafted a memo asking that he be banned from the building. He was kicked out of the event. According to Watts-Brighthaupt, “It was embarrassing.”
- Saturday Barry and Watts-Brighthaupt were headed to Rehoboth Beach, Del. to attend a party when Watts-Brighthaupt decided she didn’t want to go with Barry because a reconciliation wasn’t going to happen
- U.S. Park Service Police said they arrested Barry about 8:45 p.m. in Anacostia Park after a woman flagged down an officer to report that a man in a nearby vehicle was “bothering her,” police said. After interviewing Barry and Watts-Brighthaupt, Barry was charged with one count of “misdemeanor stalking,” said Sgt. David Schlosser, a Park Police spokesman.
- Watts-Brighthaupt denies flagging down the officer and accusing Barry of stalking her
Whew! As I said, this nothing more than a steaming pile of monkey turds.
The one thing that still stands out in all of this to me is yet another opportunity for Marion Barry to play the victim.
He got set up smoking crack by the FBI. He got set up by the United States Park Police in 2002 after they “planted” weed and coke in his car. He got set up again by them because he was driving suspiciously slow in 2006. He has been “targeted and set up” by the IRS for not filing taxes and the list goes on and on.
The only constant with Barry is that nothing is EVER his fault. He never has to say, “I’m sorry. I made a mistake. I will do better.” He is ALWAYS the victim.
And yet, the citizens of Ward 8 still elect him. He still gets his 2 cents in on every issue pertaining to the future of D.C.
Sometimes there just aren’t the words to describe how effed up a situation can be. This is one of those.
