Georgetown basketball has the Thompsons and the Ewings, and now Washington neighborhood politics has a dynasty of its own in Kathy and India Henderson, mother and daughter and former and current ANC5B commissioners. Then again, maybe “puppetmaster and puppet” is more appropriate than “dynasty”:

When she relinquished her seat last year to run for city council, [Kathy Henderson] had her teenage daughter, India, run in her place (Henderson told me she “told” her daughter to run). And ever since India won the seat, her mom has exhibited masterful control over the young comish, marching her out of one meeting so a quorum wouldn’t be met.

And you thought Georgetown ANC’s, with its monomaniacal focus on alcohol, was weird.

This post was only partially motivated by my bitterness at having my own ANC commissioner chances dashed by accident of class year.

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