Mayor Muriel Bowser, the three-term mayor of Washington, D.C., announced on Tuesday that she was not going to run for a fourth term in next year’s election.
Ms. Bowser, 53, who was born in Washington the year before its residents were granted the right to vote for their mayor, has been in office during some the city’s most eventful years under self-government. First elected in 2014, after eight years on the District of Columbia Council, Ms. Bowser has been mayor during both Trump administrations, having to parry some of the most serious threats to the district’s autonomy in decades.
In a video on social media announcing her decision, the mayor talked of creating more housing in the city and her administration’s efforts to keep D.C. professional sports teams inside the city limits..
“We also brought our city back from the ravages of a global pandemic,” Ms. Bowser said, referring to Covid-19, “and summoned our collective strength to stand tall against bullies who threaten our very autonomy while preserving home rule. That is our North Star.”
Campbell Robertson reports for The Times on Delaware, the District of Columbia, Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia.
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