She has come out against the current plan for Bloomingdale's McMillan Sand Filtration site.
Washington Post reporter Mike DeBonis reported on it this past Saturday, 11-02-2013.
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Reta Jo Lewis announces D.C. mayoral bid, says she’ll run as an outsider
By Mike DeBonis,
The highest-profile declared mayoral candidate who is not a D.C. Council member put a boldface emphasis on her outsider status at her official campaign kickoff Saturday.
“I’m a different kind of candidate than you might be used to seeing,” said Reta Jo Lewis, who has spent most of her professional life in federal politics. “I do not represent one single ward, or one single constituency or one single interest. I am not all about promising the right favors to the right people.”
Lewis’s remarks won a loud, cheering response from the more than 100 supporters who gathered at the Thurgood Marshall Center in Shaw for her official kickoff. But she has lagged in fundraising behind three legislators vying for the office — Muriel Bowser, Jack Evans and Tommy Wells — and she has maintained a low campaign profile since filing candidacy papers in July.
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Her 18 minutes of remarks were heavy on the broad rhetoric that is common in citywide campaigns, pledging to bridge the District’s many divides. “My whole career has been about inclusion,” she said, “and that’s how I plan to approach this job.”
She did raise two specific grievances with city politicians: criticizing a redevelopment plan for the former McMillan water filtration plant in Northwest and lambasting the recent decision by the D.C. Council to delay the first election of the District’s attorney general until 2018.
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