Make no mistake, this is a seat-of-the pants undertaking. “I’m quite sure I kind of boosted Sunday when I talked to her, and then she probably called other people.” “Carol sort of makes most of her own decisions,” she says. Even Sunday night, Allen says, Schwartz didn’t sound completely convinced. One person who weighed in was former council colleague Sandy Allen, the erstwhile member from Ward 8 and a close Schwartz friend. Schwartz returned to her Kalorama apartment on Sunday afternoon she wrote her write-in speech and that evening spoke to her closest supporters. In the wake of the primary, she told reporters, “I was, you know, pretty disillusioned by the vote count and was just kind of feeling a little down and out.” She left the District Thursday evening for her Rehoboth Beach getaway she did not, however, leave her political echo chamber, saying she heard from “maybe 100” folks urging her to wage the write-in campaign she said she’d never undertake. Her decision came after a week of seclusion. On Monday, in the same room where she had delivered her “reality check,” beneath a row of yellow posters from three decades’ worth of citywide runs, Schwartz launched a write-in campaign. Sure enough, less than a week later, the surreal had returned to SchwartzCenter. The five-minute speech was a rare moment of reality in a Schwartz campaign that’s been mostly surreal. Give the four-term councilmember credit: Her political instincts, at least in this instance, were finely tuned, correctly predicting the race’s outcome even ahead of faulty returns issued later in the evening by the Board of Elections and Ethics. Seconds after the address, Schwartz told LL that she “would never wage a write-in campaign.” “I just want to thank all of you for helping, and I’m sorry we couldn’t pull it through, but life will go on.” Because when they are doing that kind of barrage-that negative, negative, negative-I think it’s hard to overcome that,” she said. It was streaked with fatalism: “Had I gotten out there a year ago, I think wouldn’t have mattered in the long run. Shortly before 9:30 p.m., with about 20 percent of the vote in, Schwartz issued a “reality check” to the crowd. Last Tuesday, supporters of incumbent At-Large Councilmember Carol Schwartz gathered at her U Street campaign headquarters to await the results of her Republican primary tilt against young challenger Patrick Mara. Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription.
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