l Schwartz, a Jewish woman that lived in the wealthy, and for the most part white Ward 3 ran on the Republican ticket against the mayor in 1986. Schwartz, a member of the city council, did make Barry work harder for re-election, but Barry still won with a substantial 61 percent. On November 2, 1986, The Washington Post, reluctantly endorsed Barry’s third term. Although the newspaper cited Barry’s “knowledge, experience and accomplishments” as opposed to rumor and innuendo as the deciding reasons. Barry was no longer an ideal candidate for mayor, in the end however he was the better of the two.Mayor Barry’s third consecutive term, continued right where the second term had stopped. Allegations and questions continued to arise. In mid January 1987, only a few weeks into the new term, another one of Barry’s political allies was caught in scandal. Alphonse Hill, the deputy mayor in charge of finance was charged and would later plead guilty to a total of 11 counts of various criminal acts. They included defrauding the District government, income tax evasion and extortion. In late May of the same year, an FBI investigation showed that Karen Johnson had been paid $25,000 by associates and friends of the mayor for not answering questions about the mayor’s drug use in the 1984 investigation. Exactly six years to the day after the infamous party at “This Is It”, two District of Columbia police detectives, while investigating Charles Lewis, a friend of the mayor, left a downtown hotel room when they discovered Barry was there. Lewis would later be arrested on cocaine charges. He told investigators he had in fact “smoked crack with the mayor” in December 1988. Barry denied the allegations. To further Barry’s troubles, The Washington Monthly dubbed the DC the “worst city government in America.” Barry was being attacked from all sides.Growing speculat...
