[WardFive] Fw: PRESS RELEASE: Norton Statement on the Loss of Marion Barry

Albrette "Gigi" Ransom

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From: "Amar, Jonathan (Rep. Norton)" <Jonathan.Amar@mail.house.gov>
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Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Norton Statement on the Loss of Marion Barry

Contact: Jon Amar – o: 202-225-8050, c: 202-225-814                                                                                            November 23, 2014

Norton Statement on the Loss of Marion Barry

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today offered condolences to Cora Masters Barry, Marion Christopher Barry, and the family and loved ones of Ward 8 councilmember and former mayor of the District of Columbia, Marion Barry.

"From my earliest encounter with Marion Barry, when he was the first chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee until I came back home and found him mayor of my home town, I have seen Marion take hold and write his signature boldly on his own life and times and on the life of the nation's capital.  Many took his struggle to personify in some way their own, endearing him and making him a larger-than-life figure as he became a creator of post-home-rule D.C."

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