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How the Gun Lobby Shot Down D.C.’s Congressional Vote
When Ilir Zherka took over as executive director of DC Vote in 2002, one of his friends jokingly told him, “Either you’re really smart because you have a job for life—you’re never going to accomplish this goal—or you’re really stupid because you think you can win.”
Perhaps both. But just this spring, he seemed close to proving his cynical compatriot wrong.