Jack Evans to run for D.C. Council after resigning seat amid ethics scandal
Jack Evans is mounting a political comeback for his old seat on the D.C. Council, after resigning this month before his colleagues could expel him from office over repeated ethics violations.
Evans, who stepped down on Jan. 17, filed paperwork Monday with the D.C. Board of Elections to again seek the Ward 2 council seat he held for 29 years. He resigned on the eve of an expulsion vote that would have made him the first D.C. Council member removed from office.
Elections officials have scheduled a June 16 special election to serve out the remainder of Evans’s term, which runs through next January. It comes two weeks after the Democratic primary for the full four-year terms for council seats, which will be decided in November.
Evans filed to run in both the primary and the special election, sparking outrage from his former council colleagues.
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