Mickey Kaus takes issue with my post questioning Bill Frist’s use of Marion Barry in his 1994 campaign stump speech, and says: “Does Marshall know that in the early ’90s Sasser [Frist’s opponent] was chair of the Senate subcommittee in charge of the District of Columbia — at a time when Congress exercised considerable control 
over the District’s budget (and when federal taxpayers picked up the tab for a large chunk of that budget)?”
To this I would say, yes, I know that. But does Mickey remember that Sharon Pratt Kelly won election as Mayor of Washington, D.C. in November 1990 and didn’t leave office until early 1995 — a couple months after Frist won election.
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Barry was mayor of DC from 1978 to 1990 and then again from 1994 to 1998. In other words, the four years prior to Frist’s campaign were the only four years out of twenty when Barry wasn’t mayor of DC.
