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Mayor Adrian Fenty‘s wife Michelle Fenty spoke to reporters at the Newseum after today’s mayoral debate to defend Fenty’s work on behalf of the District. She’s been almost completely absent from the campaign trail for the entire election, but with polls showing Fenty far behind D.C. Council Chairman Vincent Gray, she gave an emotional plea to the city to give her husband a second chance.

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