Muriel Elizabeth Bowser (born August 2, 1972) is an American politician serving as the eighth Mayor of the District of Columbia since 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously represented Ward 4 as a member of the Council of the District of Columbia from 2007 to 2015. She is the second female Mayor of the District of Columbia after Sharon Pratt, and the first woman to be reelected to that position.
Five pro-LGBTQ Council members projected winners in D.C. primary
Five longtime LGBTQ supportive members of the D.C. City Council who were up for re-election in the city’s June 4 Democratic primary were the projected winners as nearly all of them were ahead of their opponents by wide margins in the latest vote count released Tuesday night by the D.C.
Board of Elections. The five include Council members Robert White (D-At-Large); Brooke Pinto (D-Ward 2), who was unopposed; Janeese Lewis George (D-Ward 4); and Trayon White (D-Ward 8).
They were each projected as winners by the Associated Press. In the highly competitive Ward 7 D.C. Council race, where 10 Democrats ran for the seat being vacated by incumbent Ward 7 Council member and former D.C.
Mayor Vincent Gray, the outcome was too close to call as of Wednesday morning. But Ward 7 Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Wendell Felder, who was slightly ahead of his two closest rivals with 22.9 percent of the vote, declared victory Tuesday night at his election night watch party, according to the Washington Post.
