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Holder Visits Presumptive D.C. Mayor-Elect Gray

By Andrew Ramonas

Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday visited the D.C. City Hall to congratulate the winner of the city’s Democratic mayoral primary on behalf of the Barack Obama administration, The Washington Post reported.

Holder told presumptive Mayor-elect Vincent C. Gray that he is “looking good, man” when they saw each other in the city hall lobby, according to the newspaper. The Attorney General, who said he voted for Gray, met with the presumptive mayor-elect for about 20 minutes behind closed doors.

The Attorney General said before the meeting he planned to ask Gray what he would like the president to be “focusing on” and “what things specifically he wants the Justice Department of focus on.”

“I want to congratulate our presumptive mayor and talk about how the Obama administration is committed to making sure we do all we can with regard to public safety and continue what I think is a good relationship between the administration and the city government,” Holder said, according to the Post.

Full post as published by Main Justice on September 23, 2010 (boomark / email).