Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!enterpoop.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.twt.metro From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: Headline Article Date: Wed, 25 Nov 92 16:20:05 EST Message-ID: Lines: 99 \SE B;METROPOLITAN;THAT'S POLITICS \BY THE WASHINGTON TIMES TUNING IN THE MAYOR That Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly's husband, Jim, is an owner of WKYS-FM probably has nothing to do with the frequency of her appearances on the station. It's curious to note, though, that the mayor is interviewed once a month by the station's news director, John Irving - pre-empting the last 30 minutes of the highly rated Donnie Simpson morning show. This month's appearance was Monday. Mr. Kelly is station co-owner with partners Bertram Lee, a Chicago businessman, and Ron Brown, chairman of the Democratic National Committee. DCRA NEEDS YOU First, City Administrator Robert Mallett wanted to dynamite the D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs. Now he just wants someone to direct it. DCRA has been a seemingly insoluble problem for Mr. Mallett ever since he assumed daily operations of the government. DCRA's first director quit and an acting director, Barbara Brown, was sent over to get the shop in shape. Instead, complaints streamed in: millions of dollars in liquor licenses uncollected and dead people on a list of licensed foster care homes. Mr. Mallett is still looking for ways to cure what ails the massive department charged with regulating businesses, issuing permits and licenses, and hearing complaints involving the rent-control law. Last week, he interviewed about a dozen people in search of a new director. "I haven't found any takers," Mr. Mallett said. "I haven't given up." POSITION WANTED Maybe Mr. Mallett could stroll over to the White House to pick up a few resumes. Plenty of folks there are looking for new jobs, including Bobbie Kilberg, 46, director of the president's Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. The McLean resident announced last week that she will seek the GOP nomination for lieutenant governor in Virginia in 1993. "I think having a woman on the Republican ticket will be an asset," she said. "What I'm about is building the Republican Party up, not tearing it down." DOCTORS' SPIN DOCTOR Former jailbird and ex-Maryland Gov. Marvin Mandel has also been shopping for jobs, but his dance card may be a little too full at the moment to help Mr. Mallett. The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland last week hired Mr. Mandel to be its lobbyist in Annapolis. It comes in addition to his lobbying work for Gtech Corp., the state lottery computer firm, and Systems Control Inc., which is vying for the state's emission testing contract. Not bad for a man who was convicted in 1977 on political corruption charges and served 19 months in prison before being pardoned. His conviction was since overturned. Dr. Joseph Fastow, chairman of the medical board's executive committee, said Mr. Mandel has "had an extraordinary record of service in areas of interest to us." But Gerard Evans, who quit as the medical group's lobbyist in a pay dispute, criticized the decision to hire "someone who has served time in a federal penitenitiary" to represent the state's doctors to the public. SCARCE 'PARTNERS' The brouhaha over the city's "domestic partnership" law, which pitted the religious community against itself and Congress against Mrs. Kelly, hasn't persuaded many folks to sign up. The law, which Congress gutted when it prohibited the city from spending any funds to implement it, is intended to make it easier for nonmarried adults who live together to receive health benefits. The law required such couples to register as "domestic partners" - a move opponents argued is tantamount to sanctioning homosexual marriages or "shacking up." As of Monday, only 27 couples had taken the largely symbolic step of registering - 54 individuals in all, according to DCRA officials. * Compiled by Vincent McCraw with contributions from Jonetta Rose Barras. This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM