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By Jim Moran | Saturday, May 9, 2009 | The Washington Post

Alexandria, Virginia is my home town. Jim Moran was the mayor in the ’70s and ’80s when my mom worked for the city’s Commission on the Status of Women, developing programs to train women in trades like carpentry and auto mechanics, and to attain their GEDs after dropping out of school. He’s someone to keep an eye on in politics, with photogenic ‘star quality’, exemplary ethics (served a few years with no salary when his city had financial troubles) and high ideals. Here he entertains the idea of moving the Guantanamo trials to the Alexandria federal courthouse and maximum security detention center – a facility he campaigned for as a source of jobs and – although it is an ugly slab of concrete in the industrial section – prestige for our historic town….BS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/08/AR2009050803168_pf.html