that @JackEvansWard2 has any chance at winning back his council seat - the one he vacated just 4 months ago due to his extraordinary corruption - is thanks to @washingtonpost which has long shielded his shady conduct and continues to stand by its friend. http://www.thegeorgetowndish.com/thedish/guest-column-post-slyly-boosting-corrupt-jack-evans-again

. @PostOpinions isn’t openly endorsing Jack Evans as it has for almost three decades, but the influential paper is helping Evans’s candidacy in less obvious ways. http://www.thegeorgetowndish.com/thedish/guest-column-post-slyly-boosting-corrupt-jack-evans-again

the Post endorsed a 27-yr-old from Greenwich who’s never voted in DC and is unlikely to win. By doing this the Post is likely to fracture the anti-Evans vote and keep alive Evans’ chance of reclaiming his seat by winning narrow plurality in June 2 primary http://www.thegeorgetowndish.com/thedish/guest-column-post-slyly-boosting-corrupt-jack-evans-again

The Post is also aiding Evans by not highlighting the fact that, if elected, Evans may be unable serve out his term, because he could be indicted for the very corruption that forced him to resign just months ago. http://www.thegeorgetowndish.com/thedish/guest-column-post-slyly-boosting-corrupt-jack-evans-again

In a story on the Sunday Metro front page, with early voting underway, the Post gave Evans space to say “There was nobody who made money off a decision I made,” a claim belied by the Post's own news stories and those of @JeffAndersonDC1 in @DistrictDig http://www.thegeorgetowndish.com/thedish/guest-column-post-slyly-boosting-corrupt-jack-evans-again

The Post is framing the Ward 2 Council race as one in which the responsible thing to do in light of covid's fiscal impact is cut services (because taxes on the wealthy must never be raised). Cutting needed services is of course Evans' forte. http://www.thegeorgetowndish.com/thedish/guest-column-post-slyly-boosting-corrupt-jack-evans-again

Last month Post columnist Colby King called Jack Evans a “promising” candidate and lamented that, due to his resignation for corruption, he was “[m]issing in action” at a time when his budgetary expertise could aid the city.

He seriously wrote this.

http://www.thegeorgetowndish.com/thedish/guest-column-post-slyly-boosting-corrupt-jack-evans-again