Negro Please: William "Dollar Bill" Jefferson running for re-election

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

You folks know what I wanted to title this post. But this is a respectable establishment. It's funny. When I was working for Washington City Paper we always wanted to do a story on the only place more poorly ran than Washington D.C. (these were the Barry years) on New Orleans. So when I saw that Dollar Bill was running for re-election, I of course thought of Barry. Anyone interested in how William Jefferson should check out this lovely Jason Berry profile from the estimable Washington Monthly.

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http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2008/06/negro-please-william-quot-dollar-bill-quot-jefferson-running-for-re-election/5069/