Kelly Doherty
The major candidates for mayor and D.C. Council chairman promised Monday night that they would push to remove city money from any bank that charges more than 10 percent interest on consumer loans.
Democratic mayoral candidates Adrian M. Fenty and Vincent Gray and chairman candidates Kwame Brown and Vincent Orange made the pledge to the Washington Interfaith Network as part of the group's 2010 election agenda.
Facing more than 800 WIN members representing more than three dozen local congregations, the candidates also agreed to spend more to weatherize houses to spur job creation, create more affordable housing, launch a citywide youth basketball league and stop diverting the city's $100 million Neighborhood Investment Fund to other uses...