Posted on 10/30/2017 5:55:20 PM PDT by PROCON
WASHINGTON (WMAL) — Plans to erect a statue of former DC Mayor Marion Barry outside the Wilson Building are moving forward.
This week, the City Council was briefed by Arthur Espinoza, the executive director of the DC Commission of the Arts and Humanities at a public hearing about the statue.
While the DC Council has yet to approve the statue, the eight foot clay model has already been sent to the foundry where a mold will be created.
Vince Gray, the councilmember for Ward 7 and former Mayor of DC, said he expects the council vote to be unanimous in favor of installing the statue. “It’s the right thing to do,” Gray said.
Marion Barry served three separate times on the City Council, and a total of four terms as Mayor over a span of four decades. He was also known for his work in the civil rights movement. He was long hailed as a champion of the city’s poor, and was known for his programs creating city jobs for residents.
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Why commission a statue? You can buy a urinal direct from Kohler. Probably find one for free in a demolition or recycling store.
The Statue will be erected between those of Robert Mugabe, Ray Nagan and Idi Amin
The 3rd world lives in America.
Boy that didnt take long!
Funniest thing ever! Ah yes. The tax evading bribe taking crack smoking peeing in the park stalker felon to be memorialized in bronze at taxpayers expense. ( all of the aforementioned charges he was arrested and convicted of) Still shaking the City down from the grave. At the base will no doubt be his infamous quote “The b*****set me up!”
I’m sure that when the statue goes up, folks will be inserting crack pipes between its fingers. Just the same as the statue of René Lévesque up in Québec City always winds up with cigarettes stuck between its fingers.
As long as the Mayor Crook For Life is wearing an orange-stripped suit, the statue’s fine with me. After all, he set a record for screwing his people/constituents more times than John Holmes did in his movies, and they loved it.
“Thank you Brother Mayor. Can I have some more?”
The man was like an earthquake, really into cracks.
If it’s an accurate portrayal, there will be a CRACK in it.
On the city council 3 times and mayor 4 times yet all he will be remember for is smoking crack with a prostitute in a motel room and getting filmed doing it.
Pretty sure he went to jail over it too. Now they want to erect a statue of him in DC? Bizarro world strikes again!!
Barry entered alcohol instead of drug rehab because he only smoked crack when he was drunk.
Gonna be the local landmark for drug dealers and hookers....”Meet me at ‘The Barry’ at 9”....
Not only are the inmates running the asylum, it appears they (at least one) gets a statue!
LOL, yup perhaps with a school tour being there too.
It would be an example to the kids of the D.C. "free-market".
I hope they put a coke spoon and crack pipe on the statue. It’d be such a realistic representation.
LOL, good one, Doug!
:)
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