>Also like Clarke, those four lawmakers have been highly focused on neighborhood concerns on Council rather than ideological pursuits. They would likely continue Clarke’s practice of defaulting to the wishes of district Council members on local issues, a tradition known as councilmanic prerogative.
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>District Council members enjoy a less chaotic path to reelection and tend to stay in office longer. Consequently they have maintained a decades-long stranglehold on the Council presidency. Council has not had a president who was an at-large member since Paul D’Ortona in the 1970s.

It writes itself.