Comments on: Meet Arkan Haile: A Candidate for DC City Council Seat

By: Aariam

Aariam — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:40:01 +0000

Great person you are and you are “Arkan”like your name.

By: ALBASSA

ALBASSA — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 07:56:07 +0000

i think he will be a “voice” for the large horn of african community. lets vote the brother in!!!!!!

albassa hunde

By: Rahel

Rahel — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 04:04:21 +0000

Will there be a debate? If so, when and where?

By: Endrias

Endrias — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 19:29:58 +0000

He certainly is well educated in big business and law, but I wonder how much community work has he done. Grassroots work is essential to making it in politics.

By: DeMorning DeBonis: Feb. 17, 2011 | DC-ON.us

DeMorning DeBonis: Feb. 17, 2011 | DC-ON.us — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:14:56 +0000

[...] Ballot petitions are in for the April 25 26 at-large council election. Here’s who made the cut: Democrats Sekou Biddle, Tom Brown, Dorothy Douglas, Calvin Gurley, Arkan Haile, Josh Lopez, Vincent Orange, Jacque Patterson and Bryan Weaver; Statehood Green Alan Page; and Republican Patrick Mara. Let the challenges begin. Meanwhile, Alan Suderman writes in Loose Lips this week on why there aren’t any women running (save Douglas, whom he rightly notes has an “exactly 100 percent chance” of defeat). “[W]hile there’s general agreement that it sucks that there are so few female candidates, there’s no clear idea as to why women don’t run. Maybe, says Ward 4 council member Muriel Bowser, it’s because women don’t find the rough-and-tumble aspect of District politics appealing. ‘Women are turned off by nasty politics. And we’ve had a good dose of that lately,’ says Bowser, who volunteers her time with a group called Running Start, a nonprofit that encourages young women to enter politics.” In other at-large news: DCist writes that all the filers “should feel proud that they got this far.” And the Georgetown Dish laments Wayne Dickson‘s failure to file. Tadias, an Ethiopian American magazine, profiles Haile. [...]

By: DC Abesha Man

DC Abesha Man — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:54:01 +0000

He seems like a decent, hard working regular guy. He is smart, he seems to understand the issues. He will be a fresh face on the council but most importantly we do need more than one sympathetic ear. Why not? We already have on in Jim Graham, who has been a solid friend of the community. But Arkan will be an excellent addition. Let’s give the brother a push. If he doesn’t deliver, then we will vote him out. That’s democracy!

By: Friend of the Arkan Campaign

Friend of the Arkan Campaign — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:49:03 +0000

Washington Post:
“Tadias, an Ethiopian American magazine, profiles Haile.”
Mike DeBonis: Feb. 17, 2011
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/debonis/2011/02/demorning_debonis_feb_17_2011.html

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 01:48:30 +0000

Great. Hope he wins he would truly be a change to the norm but it’s a numbers game he got my vote.

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By: Guest

Guest — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:56:26 +0000

As an immigrant citizen, I think it is vital to vote for the young man who can voice on our behalf and bring some kind of representation for the Horn of African community in the DC city counsil.

Let us help him elected!