Orange wished to retake his seat in Ward 5

Vincent Orange the former D.C. Council member wanted to return to the District Legislative Body by trying to reclaim his old seat in Ward 5 as the lawmaker and reminding the voters of his successes and experiences that went in vain.


In the interviews, Vincent Orange used to say that VO was back. He planned to announce his candidacy to the public for the Ward 5 seat on or before November 4, 2021. It was an open seat. According to Orange, he did a lot for the ward while he represented it and planned to have an effective representative again for Ward 5.



Faith Gibson Hubbard



Since former two-term Council member Kenyan McDuffie (D-Ward 5) declined to run for a third term, he attempted to become the city's second elected attorney general in 2022. 


In his bid to regain the Ward 5 council position, Orange had opponents as diverse as State Board of Education President Zachary Parker, former Bowser administration leader Faith Gibson Hubbard in the Democratic Party primary, and Ward 5 Democrats President Gordon Fletcher.


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Orange served as Ward 5's representative from 1999 to 2007. He also held the large council member post for the Democrats from 2011 to 2016. Former Council Member Robert White defended Orange in June 2016. Orange did resign from his seat out of concern that he might serve on the legislative body, and because he was the president of the D.C. Chamber of Commerce, the organization that lobbied the Council on behalf of the city's businesses.  


Orange’s Preliminary Platform


Orange had said he wanted to replicate his success as a council member to bring economic development to the ward. According to him, when he came to the Council in 1999, Ward 5 was suffering from a scarcity of food. Through his efforts, the people had giant supermarkets and homes, as well as development in the Catholic University and Fort Totten areas. He also helped to bring about the new McKinley Tech High School and Noyes Education Campus. Orange wanted to focus on increasing green spaces in the ward, ensuring the public safety of the residents, and working with the Brookland Manor community for the betterment of amenities and housing. He had recognized that the ward had changed demographically.    


Orange represented the ward with an 86% black population according to the census of 2000, but in the census of 2020, it was revealed that the population was only 55%. And Orange had said that he wanted to represent Ward 5 for everyone. He said in an interview that, he always had extensive outreach in the ward. He also added Ward 5 as an attractive place to live, and it had all of the amenities. He thought that it was he who laid the groundwork for the creation of the Union Market.


But to his shock, the people of Ward 5 did not choose him. They chose a new face to represent Ward 5.

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