Muriel Bowser: “Its intent was to expand democracy to D.C. residents, and now it is being held up as a barrier.”

We all need to do what we can in our space, in our lane, to protect our city, to protect our autonomy, to protect our home rule, and get to the other side of this guy and make sure we elect a Democratic House so that we have a backstop to…

to defend our autonomy. We know that our access to democracy is different than anywhere else in America.

We’re not satisfied. We haven’t taken our foot off the gas, and we continue to look for ways to make our city safer.

It's time for me to pass the baton on to the next set of leaders who are going to take our city to the next level