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CAPITAL CULTURE: DC mayor's fall from public favor

By Jessica Gresko

Associated Press Writer / September 13, 2010

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WASHINGTON—Before Barack Obama there was Adrian Fenty: a young, energetic, biracial lawyer and Democrat looking to fill a top political post in Washington.

Two years before Obama was elected the yes-we-can president, it was Fenty who captivated the nation's capital, becoming the youngest-ever mayor of this city with so many challenges. When Fenty threw his support behind Obama in 2007, the future president said Fenty embodied the "bottom-up politics that can bring about real change," and said he was trying to do the same.

A friendship seemed to form. The two men lunched at Ben's Chili Bowl, a

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