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Washington Mayor Arrested in Protest
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New York Times (NY) |
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Monday, April 11, 2011 |
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The New York Times |
WASHINGTON — Mayor Vincent C. Gray was arrested for disorderly conduct on Monday while protesting provisions of Friday night’s budget deal in Congress, his spokeswoman said.
Mr. Gray joined other city representatives, including Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District of Columbia’s delegate in Congress, and city residents in a protest that blocked Constitution Avenue near the Hart Senate Office Building, said Linda Wharton-Boyd, his spokeswoman.
Sgt. Kimberly Schneider of the Capitol Police said Mr. Gray was among 41 people arrested. Mr. Gray’s daughter paid his $50 bail, Ms. Wharton-Boyd said, and he was released from custody by Monday night.
Demonstrators protested what residents and officials here say was a sacrifice of the city’s interests in exchange for a budget deal. Democrats agreed to allow Republicans to revive a ban on the financing of abortion from local money and to impose a school voucher program that city officials say Washington does not need.
City officials, including Mr. Gray, had expressed outrage at the deal, which they called a sellout by Democrats who just two years ago helped the city remove the ban on abortion financing, which had been in place on and off since 1988.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/12/us/politics/12mayor.html?s cp=1&sq=dc%20mayor&st=cse
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