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Affiliation | Democratic |
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Name | John Capozzi |
Address | , District of Columbia , United States |
Email | None |
Website | None |
Born |
00, 1956
(68 years)
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Contributor | U Ole Polecat |
Last Modifed | Juan Croniqueur Jun 15, 2023 02:03pm |
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Info | The unctuous, youthful Capozzi is like Robert Redford in the 1972 film, The Candidate. He is smooth, charming, hard-working, a tireless campaigner, and politically ambitious. But he leaves his audiences hungry for an issues-oriented message. Newcomer Capozzi has tried to build a political base by enmeshing himself in the statehood movement and internal Democratic Party politics.
In 1992, he ran unsuccessfully for the unpaid post of "shadow" statehood lobbyist to the U.S. House of Representatives. He managed to win the office two years later, just as the Republican takeover of Congress and the city's financial insolvency wrecked hopes for statehood. In 1996, Capozzi, a computer-personnel headhunter, ran an impressive campaign for an at-large seat on the D.C. Council. Capozzi campaigned virtually everywhere throughout the city, which won him kudos, if not votes. He has also waged a protest campaign against home-lending giant Fannie Mae to get the profitable nonprofit to pay corporate income taxes in D.C. Congress exempted Fannie Mae from paying $300 million in local, but not federal, taxes because it never expected the government-created lender to become so profitable. Capozzi led a group of protesters to Fannie Mae's 1996 stockholders' meeting in Dallas.
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