William Lightfoot earned a juris doctor from Washington University School of Law in 1978.
28 Facts About William Lightfoot
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William Lightfoot successfully challenged the petitions as being collected by someone who was not a District resident, which made those signatures invalid.
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William Lightfoot was opposed to the additional time, saying it unnecessarily delayed the awarding of a cable franchise.
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William Lightfoot held several public forums to hear from residents about the imminent cable television service.
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William Lightfoot said that residents should be able to participate in the process of bringing cable television to the District and learn how it would increase employment and training.
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In June 1986, William Lightfoot announced he would run as a Democrat for at-large member of the Council of the District of Columbia, essentially challenging Betty Ann Kane's reelection.
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William Lightfoot said that Kane had helped big businesses more than working residents.
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Gibson said he was surprised that William Lightfoot had decided to run because he was under the impression that Lightfood had said he would support his campaign.
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In 1988, William Lightfoot ran again for an at-large seat on the Council of the District of Columbia, this time running as an independent.
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William Lightfoot's goal was to unseat Republican Carol Schwartz, who was expected to run for reelection.
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William Lightfoot was elected to the Council with 27 percent of the vote.
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William Lightfoot introduced a bill that would eliminate that strategy by including donations by corporations and partnerships in each owner's total maximum donation.
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William Lightfoot turned down two salary increases that members of the Council were given.
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William Lightfoot was one of twelve council members who voted to end the employment of 2,000 mid-level managers because the government did not have the cash to pay them.
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William Lightfoot was concerned that it would set precedent to give raises to other governmental employees, which would require increases to income tax rates.
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William Lightfoot proposed an amendment to the Charter of the District of Columbia to give the Council the authority to veto line-items from the education budget.
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William Lightfoot was critical of a line-item in the District's budget to pay for an outside security firm to guard the Department of Administrative Services when the Bureau of Protective Services could perform the same job.
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William Lightfoot was on the general election ballot along with incumbent Democrat John Ray, Republican Philip Baten, DC Statehood Sam Jordan, and Independent Brian Moore.
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William Lightfoot was reelected to the Council with 30 percent of the vote.
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In 1993, William Lightfoot proposed merging the Council of the District of Columbia with the District of Columbia Board of Education, creating a larger, united government entity.
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William Lightfoot introduced a resolution calling for the Washington Redskins to change its name.
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William Lightfoot filed paperwork to run for mayor as an independent in August 1994.
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William Lightfoot said that competition would decrease customers' prices and while increasing the quality of service.
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William Lightfoot proposed legislation that prohibited anyone less than 17 years old from being out in public between the hours of from midnight to 6 am on weekends and summers and between 11 pm and 6 am on other days.
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William Lightfoot has first began working for the law firm in 1981.
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William Lightfoot was a co-chair of Adrian Fenty's transition committee in 2006 and Fenty's inaugural committee in 2007.
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William Lightfoot was the chair of Fenty's reelection campaign in 2010.
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William Lightfoot served as the chair of Muriel Bowser's campaigns for mayor of the District of Columbia in 2014 and 2018.