Vincent C. Gray

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Mayor Vincent C. Gray speaks in front of a Parkmobile sign after an announcement of the completion of pay-by-phone parking across the District. (Pratik Shah/The Washington Times)

Mayor Vincent C. Gray speaks with students and supervisers working with the District Department of Transportation during an announcement of the completion of pay-by-phone parking across the District. (Pratik Shah/The Washington Times)

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Parkmobile USA Inc CEO Albert Bogaard shows Mayor Vincent C. Gray how to use the Parkmobile app on the iPad just before Mayor Gray announced the completion of pay-by-phone parking across the District. (Pratik Shah/The Washington Times)

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Parking enforcement officers ride their bikes and segways just before Mayor Vincent C. Gray announced the completion of pay-by-phone parking across the District, in Chinatown on Thursday, July 28, 2011. (Pratik Shah/The Washington Times)

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Mayor Vincent C. Gray said Wednesday that the city's zoning commission approved an emergency proposal for the city's sole federal firearms licensee. (Pratik Shah/The Washington Times)

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D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray (right) talks with Frank Smith, founder and director of the African American Civil War Museum, at the reopening ceremony at museum's new location at 1925 Vermont Ave. NW in Washington on Monday, July 18, 2011. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)

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D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray has withdrawn a security contract with the District, currently held by U.S. Security Associates, citing D.C. Council concerns about employment practices. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Carolyn Lynch (center), a resident of Washington's Ward 7, talks with Mayor Vincent C. Gray before he leaves the Palisades Recreation Center in Washington, which was the ending point of the Palisades July Fourthh parade. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times file D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray.

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Sulaimon Brown arrives on June 6, 2011, to testify before a D.C. Council committee at the Wilson Building in Washington about allegations that he was paid off by Mayor Vincent C. Gray, then promised a government job. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Sulaimon Brown waits on June 6, 2011, to testify before a D.C. Council committee at the Wilson Building in Washington about allegations that he was paid off by Mayor Vincent C. Gray, then promised a government job. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray (dark suit) chats with Gregory McCarthy, Washington Nationals vice president for government and municipal affairs, as D.C. Council member Yvette Alexander (top, right), of Ward 7, awaits the Nationals Youth Baseball Academy groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday at Fort DuPont Park in Southeast. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Private art collections such as the Corcoran Gallery of Art would have to pay a 6 percent tax on ticket sales under the 2012 budget proposal submitted by D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray. (Associated Press)

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Mayor Vincent C. Gray promised that all contracts for more than $1 million would go to the D.C. Council for review, but a contract for school security remains unchecked. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray said his highly publicized sit-down protest and arrest last week "was spontaneous combustion." (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS A Capitol Police officer talks to D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray before he was arrested Monday for "impeding traffic" during a protest on Capitol Hill of the restrictions placed on the District as part of the federal budget deal. "D.C. deserves to be free," Mr. Gray said.

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Mayor Vincent C. Gray says a council member's accusation about his hiring of a member of the D.C. Office of Motion Picture and Television Development is "very objectionable." (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Mayor Vincent C. Gray (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Mayor Vincent C. Gray (left) and Council member Jack Evans talk following the ceremony to mark the start of construction on CityCenterDC, a mixed-use development project that will be located on the site of the former convention center. The city estimates that some 3,700 new jobs will be created by the project. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)