During a recent tour of the Washington Nationals new baseball park that’s currently under construction, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty refused to wear a safety construction helmet, despite being asked to do so several times over by officials on the scene. As pictures from the tour show, most other attendees wore the protective hats while touring the dangerous scene. Fenty, an admitted exercise freak, has long been known by city residents to be vain. But this is ridiculous.

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The Institute for Legal Reform tells Big Head DC that the Chung family has been forced to close another one of their drycleaning businesses as a result of the infamous $54 million dollar lawsuit filed against them by Judge Roy Pearson, who said they lost a pair of his pants. He lost his original case, but is appealing.

“The Chung family’s action today to close their Custom Cleaners store due to a nearly three-year battle against Judge Pearson’s abusive lawsuit is a sad reality and another reminder of the real effect that frivolous lawsuits have on businesses across the nation,” says Lisa A. Rickard, president of the organization. “The Chungs have now shuttered two of their three stores due to this lawsuit.”

“What is worse is that Washington DC’s Consumer Protection Act, the law that Judge Pearson is using as a weapon against the Chungs, is still in effect,” she adds. “This law was designed to protect the citizens of the District of Columbia, but instead is being used as a weapon against them.”

The organization now calls on Mayor Adrian Fenty and the Washington, D.C. City Council “to quickly amend this law to bring common sense back to the consumer protection laws.”

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In Washington City Paper editor Erik Wemple’s ongoing quest to apparently prove that the Washington Post is a big, bad, rotten, dirty scoundrel, he co-writes a piece this week about reporters from smaller news outlets who are angry that DC Mayor Adrian Fenty allegedly shares his newest news with WaPo first. He even quotes Post reporter David Nakamura as saying his media counterparts should “work harder” to get the big scoops.

Then, Wemple hits it really hard, saying Nakamura is ”a journalist who’s working for a grand disseminator of information. If you’re Fenty, a quick interview with Nakamura may well yield the following: A1 placement, prominent play on a Web site that gets a gazillion pageviews per day, all kinds of viral Web circulation, plus wall-to-wall coverage on Washington Post Radio. It’s a bounce that WTOP, the Examiner, the Washington City Paper, the Northwest Current, the InTowner, WRC-TV, and DC Watch—combined—would be hard-pressed to match.”

Yeah, Fenty is totally playing his media strategy all wrong. Wemple’s got us convinced, like, for sure. Next Fenty scoop to City Paper, hands down.

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Jordan Baker is liveblogging the mayor eating crumpets right now at Busboys & Poets. This is not to be missed, kids!

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Big Head DC can now exclusively confirm that Mayor Adrian Fenty has chosen drag queen Cookie Buffet to be the interim director of Washington’s Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Affairs.

The man behind the Cookie, Christopher Dyer, told us this afternoon that he’s soon heading to New York to take in an opera and enjoy his “last weekend of freedom” before beginning the new job.

Despite his namesake, the plump power broker promises to be anything but cookie-cutter, and has long been used to tapping on the drag queen glass ceiling. “A typical performance by Cookie Buffet is NOT a typical drag performance,” according to CB’s Wikipedia entry. “Dyer usually does very little to effectively present a feminine image, generally wearing shapeless dresses coupled with a beehive wig and untraditional make-up reminiscent of the character Mimi from The Drew Carey Show.” Read more…

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