District of Columbia Councilman Trayon White was arrested last week for allegedly accepting a $150,000 bribe, but his name remains on the ballot and there is a flurry of candidates vying to replace him.
The deadline for candidates to be added to the ballot has passed, and White still has until Sept. 12 to drop his name. However, as he is the only Democratic candidate in the deep-blue district and it is a presidential election year, he is likely to beat his Republican challenger, Nate Derenge.
However several of White’s political rivals and other Democratic leaders in Ward 8 are flirting with the idea of running as a write-in for city councilman.
Among the write-in candidates are Markus Batchelor, a former State Board of Education
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