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Article: Washington's Booming Voice; Ol' Yeller Mark Plotkin Fights for the City on WAMU
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- The Washington Post
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- May 30, 2000
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It's noon on Friday, and there's a crazy man yelling out of your
radio. No, no, no. Not that crazy man, the guy who might be in the
"Monday Night Football" booth this fall. Over on the FM band. At
88.5, a public-radio station where you rarely hear a voice raised
above a sober, modulated pitch.
It's Mark Plotkin!
And he's yelling!
It's the "D.C. Politics Hour," and for 10 years now, Plotkin has
been yelling, mostly in support of the District's quest for
statehood. He's a twice-failed D.C. Council candidate, a former
Advisory Neighborhood Commission member, a lifetime Democratic
activist and a cityphile who gets terrified and lost when he has to
drive to the suburbs.
Since 1990, first with ...