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In the crowded race for the two at-large D.C. Council seats in the Nov. 4 general election, community activist Robert White and former journalist and think tank analyst Elissa Silverman have emerged as the leaders for the non-Democratic position. D.C. Council member Anita Bonds (D-At Large) is also running for re-election and because of the city's strong Democratic base, she is widely expected to grab one of the two at-large seats.
White, a District lawyer who worked as an aide to D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), has picked up the endorsement of D.C. Council members Kenyan McDuffie (D-Ward 5), Yvette Alexander (D-Ward 7), and David Grosso (I-At Large), and former D.C. Board of Education president and philanthropist and fundraiser Peggy Cooper Cafritz. Silverman, who lives in Ward 6, has gotten the endorsements of the D.C. Chapter of the National Organization for Women, D.C. Working Families, Ward 6 D.C. Council candidate Charles Allen, and Jews United for Justice.
McDuffie said that White's experience...