Phil Mendelson

Coming into the June primary, Loose Lips must admit that he didn’t think Erin Palmer had much of a chance in her bid against Council Chairman Phil Mendelson. Consider this a mea culpa. Palmer didn’t actually succeed in toppling Mendelson, of course, but her strong performance against one of...

A new, $309 million contract calling for the upgrade of 75,000 local street lights easily passed the D.C. Council Tuesday, over the vocal objections of one notable critic: Phil Mendelson. The Council chairman has spent the better part of the last week raising doubts about the deal, a unique public-private...

Yesterday Council Chair Phil Mendelhson tweeted: “Today I, along with several colleagues, asked the Mayor to reverse her decision to drop the city’s indoor mask mandate. We are concerned this decision puts our most vulnerable residents at risk. Children over 5 were able to get a vaccine barely 2 weeks...

WASHINGTON DC (WDVM) — This week, the DC Council held their first legislative meeting since August and came with it, a packed agenda to pass a broad range of legislation. On Capitol Review, DC Council Chairman Phil Mendelson tells Tasmin Mahfuz what DC residents can expect this fall in regards to COVID and virtual schooling, […]

A lunch meeting at Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steakhouse in CityCenterDC laid some of the groundwork for D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson’s challenger for the Democratic nomination in 2022. At an auction benefiting a neighborhood school, Erin Palmer bid on, and won, the opportunity to dine with the Council chair. They sat down in the summer of 2019, right around the time former Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans’ ethics scandal, which ultimately forced him from office, was heating up.

There are many labels that have been slapped on DC Council Chairman Phil Mendelson throughout his decades-long political career. He has been accused of suffering the all-trees-no-forest syndrome, of being a nitpicker, and of being a transactional-ist who is focused only on sealing a deal or sidestepping controversy. Few people...

D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) filed papers this week to run for reelection in 2022, seeking a fourth term that would make him the longest-serving chairman in council history. Mendelson, a council member since 1999, was first elected chairman in a 2012 special election. He said in an interview...

On Monday, March 22, Council Chairman Phil Mendelson testified on behalf of the DC Council before the House Oversight and Reform Committee, on the topic of DC Statehood. You can view his testimony here: