DC Demographics and Lawyer Leaders

by fwinstead | September 4, 2007 at 09:40 pm

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WASHINGTON — Washington DC Mayor Adrian Fenty loopholes the law to keep his General Counsel, Peter Nickles in office despite Nickles' residency deficiency. Is the public well served by people who rule from afar?

Mayor Fenty was born in DC and still lives there. Based on 2000 Census data, Mayor Fenty lives in a neighborhood with a racial makeup very simlar to the city. However, Fenty's top lawyers; Attorney General Linda Singer and General Counsel to the Mayor Peter Nickles live in areas very different from Mayor Fenty's Washington.

Linda Singer lives in a part of DC where the White population percentage is 2.66 times the city's percentage. In Singer's Census Tract 7.2% of her neighbors are African American compared to the city's 60%.

Peter Nickles does not live in Washington, DC. The General Counsel to the Mayor of the District of Columbia lives in Great Falls, Virginia. The White population percentage of the Census Defined Place, Great Falls, Virginia is 2.88 times the DC percentage. Nickles neighbors are 1.2% African American.

Mayor Fenty lives in the real DC. His lawyers live in the Bizarro World DC.

Year 2000 Census Data

Adrian Fenty Linda Singer Peter Nickles Title Mayor Attorney General General Counsel to Mayor elected appointed by Mayor appointed by Mayor

Residence 4xxx 17th St 2xxx Brandywine St Great Falls NW, DC NW, DC Virginia

Census Area Washington Census Tract Census Tract Census Defined Place Demographics DC 26 13.01 Great Falls

White 30.8% 31.7% 81.2% 88.8%

African American 60.0% 61.5% 7.2% 1.2%

Native American 0.3% 0.2% 0.1% 0.1%

Asian 2.7% 1.8% 7.7% 7.4%

Pacific Islander 0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1%