By Tim Craig

Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, May 15, 2010


One of Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's friends launched a Web site Friday to try to undermine mayoral candidate Vincent C. Gray by attacking his record as a D.C. Council member and former city agency head.


Ronald C. Moten, a co-founder of Peaceoholics, said http://vincegray.info is designed to show voters how Gray "helped run the city into the ground" when he led the Department of Human Services in the early 1990s. At the time, the city was often accused of doing a poor job of delivering services, and Fenty supporters say Gray shares in the blame.


"It will show he didn't care about the poor, the homeless and those that needed services," Moten said of the Web site. "If he wins, we will go right back to the old D.C., and all this recent progress will go down the drain."


The site, which Moten described as "only the beginning" of his efforts, includes newspaper stories about the human services agency from 1991 to 1994. Moten has been feuding for months with Gray, the council chairman, over the council's decision to cut city funding for Peaceoholics. He said the Web site is not connected to Fenty or his campaign.