D.C. Councilmember Robert White (D-At-Large); at-large Council candidate Christina Henderson, who’s running as an independent; and gay Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Randy Downs, who’s running for the Ward 2 Council seat as an independent each received a +10 rating on LGBTQ issues this week from the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance.
GLAA, which rates only D.C. Council candidates, scores candidates on a scale of between -10, the lowest possible rating, to +10, the highest possible score.
It bases its ratings on candidates’ responses to a detailed questionnaire as well as on their record on LGBTQ issues. In a development unlike nearly all of its past candidate ratings since the 1970s, an unusually large number of candidates — 19 out of