The last time Anding saw Barry, she says, was 13 years ago at a conference in Chicago. She says Barry asked her where she was staying, which she took as a sign he was interested in rekindling their romance.
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All Sections. About Us. B2B Publishing. Business Visionaries. Hot Property. Times Events. Times Store. She may have fantasized about something more than that but I didn't. After I emailed Barry's spokeswoman about this story, Barry called my cell Thursday night to say his personal life is, well, personal, and shouldn't be scrutinized for political implications. He also repeated a point he made in his book — that he hired a lot of women as mayor, and that that's a better measure of his politics.
I'm trailblazing. The implication is, if Barry treats the women in his life poorly but hires and promotes a representative number of women professionally, his personal life should be overlooked or excused. When I read his quote back to him about how "you can't have two people of equal power in a relationship," he responded, "What's wrong with that? The tokenistic way that Barry writes about hiring women in his memoir is reminiscent of Mitt Romney's famous comment back in that he has "binders full of women" on file for hire.
We also involved the Asian, Latino, and African immigrant communities of Washington, and the college kids. In another passage on his hiring practices, Barry denies a motive nobody was considering. But that didn't mean I was sleeping with them. More than once, he's berated local officials for hiring too many women.
In when Rochelle Webb was nominated to head D. He began his attack by noting that when he was mayor, 51 or 52 percent of his Cabinet members were female. Another time he opposed the appointment of Ximena Hartsock as director of the District's Department of Parks and Recreation on the grounds that women don't care about sports as much as men do.
He also questioned why Hartsock, a Hispanic woman born in Chile who'd obtained permanent residency, wasn't a citizen. In an interview Wednesday night, Cora Barry defended his hiring record and argued that his personal politics are a product of the era he was raised in. I told her I'm Power relations between men and women, womens' places, all of that was an evolution. Barry's hiring of women to prominent positions was more notable when he served as mayor in the s, or even when he served a second term in the late s, than it may seem now.
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