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Mayor Vincent Gray and local safety officials held a press conference Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012 at the headquarters of the D.C. Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency to announce preparations for Sandy, the so-called "Frankenstorm" that is due to affect the Washington, D.C. metro area, with hurricane-force winds as early as 8 a.m. Monday morning. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray holds up his hands for a double high-five from a new Metropolitan Police Department officer on Oct. 26, 2012, during a graduation ceremony at the Metropolitan Police Academy in Southwest Washington. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray and MPD Chief Cathy Lanier have a private conversation Oct. 26, 2012, during the graduation ceremony for Metropolitan Police Department's recruit class 2012-3. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Pamela Jafari, far left, with Cultural Tourism DC, smiles backstage while guitarist Marty Schwartz takes some video of Mayor Vincent Gray on stage offering remarks at the National Cherry Blossom Festival 2013 launch luncheon on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012 at Hamilton Live in Washington, D.C. The event, which was attended by some 200 festival sponsors and potential sponsors, included musical performances by local D.C. students as well as former American Idol and 2013 festival celebrity ambassador Elliott Yamin. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Baseball memorabilia is seen on the shelves in the office of Washington D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray, at the John A. Wilson Building in Washington, D.C., Friday, Oct. 5, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Washington D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray responds to questions during an interview in his office at the John A. Wilson Building in Washington, D.C., Friday, Oct. 5, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Word of appreciation are seen in a note from Washington Nationals General Manager and Executive Vice President of Baseball Operations Mike Rizzo to Washington D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray, on display in Mayor Gray's office at the John A. Wilson Building in Washington, D.C., Friday, Oct. 5, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Washington D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray stands at the plate as he takes for a portrait Brentwood Hamilton Field in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012, where he played baseball as a child. Mayor Gray, a native of the nation's capital, has a life rooted in baseball. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Kianna Brittingham gets a hug from Washington, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray as she accepts her certificate during a graduation ceremony for a six month drug-addiction rehabilitation program held in Ft. Lincoln Park, Washington, D.C., Thursday, September 20, 2012. Participants still in the program along with friends and family cheered on the graduates and celebrated with a cookout. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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**FILE** Mayor Vincent Gray and D.C. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton share a laugh before a press conference at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, May 17, 2012. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Washington, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, May 29, 2012, to object to actions by House Republicans whom he and Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton say are targeting D.C.'s home-rule authority. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Mayor Vincent Gray and Councilman Jim Graham join others for the ribbon-cutting at the newly renovated Howard Theatre in Washington, D.C., on Monday, April 9, 2012. The theater, which originally opened in 1910, was one of the first places African-Americans could see live musical acts. The club promises to offer live acts again, this time with a full-scale kitchen and bar as well. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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As D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray announces the results of the city's 2011 audit during a press conference at the Wilson Building in Washington, D.C., on Monday, Jan. 30, 2012, D.C. Council Chairman Kwame R. Brown, left, and Natwar M. Gandhi, chief financial officer of the District, sit behind a chart showing the history of the District's surplus and bond rating. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray, at center, announces the appointment of Pedro Ribeiro, left, to the mayor's head of communications and Sheila Bunn to deputy chief of staff, replacing Linda Wharton-Boyd, who was moved to the District's Department of Health, during a press conference. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/ The Washington Times)

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Pedro Ribeiro, Mayor Vincent Gray's new head of communications, right, speaks at a press conference with Mayor Gray, from left, and Sheila Bunn, the mayor's new deputy chief of staff, replacing Linda Wharton-Boyd, who was moved to the District's Department of Health, at the mayor's office in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 21, 2011. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/ The Washington Times)

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Linda Wharton-Boyd, who was moved to the District's Department of Health, speaks at a press conference after D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray announces the appointment of Pedro Ribeiro to the mayor's head of communications and Sheila Bunn to deputy chief of staff, replacing Wharton-Boyd during a press conference at the mayor's office in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 21, 2011. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/ The Washington Times)