Special election set to fill former D.C. Council member Trayon White's seat
A special election to fill D.C.’s vacant Ward 8 council seat following the council’s expulsion of Trayon White Sr. is set for July 15, with early voting from July 11 to July 14, according to a spokesperson for D.C.’s Board of Elections.
Nominations for prospective candidates will begin Feb. 18 and close on April 17, the spokesperson said.
The news comes the week after the historic ousting last week of the Democratic former council member, following federal allegations that he accepted $35,000 dollars in bribes from an associate with D.C. government contracts. The expulsion — the first in the 51-year history of the D.C. Council — left the seat vacant for the majority-Black Ward 8, which contains some of D.C.’s poorest neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River.
White, 40, has pleaded not guilty to the federal charge. Federal prosecutors allege that in repeated meetings last summer, he accepted cash payments in exchange for promises to help steer government contracts toward an associate, who was an informant working for the FBI. The contracts focused on violence interruption and services for at-risk young people, prosecutors said.
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