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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

City Beat: Mayor KJ and Rhee: lovey-dovey emails and dates with his mom

City Beat: Mayor KJ and Rhee: lovey-dovey emails and dates with his mom

Dates with his mom. Cute text messages. Sundays at home watching "Mad Men."

That sums up the relationship of Mayor Kevin Johnson and Michelle Rhee, according to an interview the couple recently did with Marie Claire magazine.

Johnson told the magazine's Andrea Todd that he and his fiancée "text and email 'lovey-doveys' throughout the day" and that Rhee handles the couple's wardrobe. He said the couple is very compatible and that he has to "restrain myself from firing off an email or making a phone call" when Rhee is criticized in the press.

Their first date was at a rooftop Mexican restaurant in Denver during the 2008 Democratic Convention, despite Rhee's apparent concern that the pair disagreed a lot. Rhee, who runs a national education reform organization based here and is the former chancellor of the Washington, D.C. public school system, said



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