News: DC’s First-Ever Elected Attorney General Karl Racine Endorses Janeese Lewis George for DC Mayor

The campaign has raised $68K in new DC donations, secured dozens of local endorsements, and knocked on tens of thousands of doors. 

Washington, DC — Today, DC’s first-ever elected Attorney General Karl Racine endorsed Janeese Lewis George for DC Mayor. 

Lewis George worked as the DC Assistant Attorney General in the Juvenile Section of the Public Safety Division under Racine between October 2016 and January 2019. At the Office of the Attorney General, Lewis George served as a juvenile prosecutor and helped develop the local program known as HOPE Court, a voluntary specialty court for young people who are taken advantage of, chronically absent from school, or struggle with substance misuse. Racine recruited Lewis George when she was an Assistant District Attorney in Philadelphia. 

“Janeese is smart, she works hard, she gets the job done, and she always puts people first,” says Racine.

Racine significantly shaped DC’s legal landscape, remaking an agency that for decades was under mayoral control, and took on big corporations and developers, ghost gun manufacturers, and President Donald Trump. 

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Lewis George has been endorsed by nearly 40 locally-elected officials and organizations, including Free DC, the Metropolitan Washington Council AFL-CIO, Jews United For Justice Campaign Fund, and the Sierra Club. 

In the latest filing report, Lewis George raised roughly $68,000 in new donations from DC residents. Since launching in December, she has raised over $2.6 million in individual donations and anticipated public matching funds. Over 4,700 DC donors have given to her campaign thus far.  

Lewis George has also garnered a lot of volunteer support. Hundreds of volunteers have knocked the doors of 44,000 voters across the District, including 6,000 this past weekend alone. 

In recent weeks, Lewis George also released her policy vision for housing, committing to building 72,000 new homes in an op-ed for Greater Greater Washington; for defending the District, by ending cooperation between local police and ICE and investing in the Office of Federal Affairs to protect local autonomy and win DC Statehood; and for supporting our small businesses.