Close to 100 people turned out on Tuesday night, Sept. 24, at D.C.’s Crush Dance Bar for an LGBTQ “Meet and Greet” event where candidates running in D.C.’s Nov.
5 general election mingled with attendees before speaking briefly about why they were running for public office. Among the candidates appearing at the event were D.C.
Council members Robert White (D-At-Large), Christina Henderson (I-At-Large), and Brooke Pinto (D-Ward 2), who are running for re-election.
Also appearing were incumbents and challengers running for the city’s congressional delegate seat, seats on the D.C. Board of Education, the Shadow non-voting seats for the U.S.