In 2004, she chaired COG’s National Capital Region Emergency Preparedness Council. She served as chair of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments’ Board of Directors as well as president. While being a Republican, she often and consistently seemed more progressive than her Democratic colleagues. On the District Council, where she served a total of four terms, she chaired committees on public works and the environment, on local, regional and federal affairs. Her experience is deep and real and runs across a broad range of issues. “I know with all my heart that I would be a great mayor, and I have the experience to prove it. “I want to be mayor of this city,” she said. Some media observers have called her decision to run an exercise in nostalgia, which she dismisses. She says she did not decide to run on a whim, or out of some lingering anger over her last campaigns, six years ago, in which she lost the Republican Primary, and then lost a write-in campaign. “I’m telling you, I feel like I have the energy of a teenager,” Schwartz said over lunch. This is likely the most engaging, appealing and effective part of her campaign. This good will and warmth may or may not translate into votes. And it’s fair to say that the people who know her, like her. People really do know Carol Schwartz, and not just from her travels throughout the city in this campaign. Catania and Schwartz, both former Republicans, are running as Independents. Schwartz, Muriel Bowser, the Democratic Primary winner back in April, and David Catania, the long-time, at-large District councilmember, have made it a point to get personal face time with prospective voters throughout the city. She is not alone either-this campaign, long-running since the April primary and slow to gain traction and has seen all three candidates fanning out into forays into the city’s neighborhoods for one-on-one contacts, to street corners and Metro Stops, going door to door, or to meet and greets.
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