"You usually only have 500 to 520 members there, so the majority was there " for Tuesday's vote, said Aziz Kumbi, an independent member of the parliament who used to belong to the ruling party.
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Kumbi, the Georgia Avenue businessman, sold his seafood and grocery store two years ago, packed up his wife and two children and moved to Silver Spring, Md ., driven out by the crime and high taxes of life in the district.
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The majority of the betting public put their faith in last year's champion Hallo Dandy at 14 / 1, Fethered Friend at 16 / 1, and Classified at 20 / 1 with Hill of Slain, Kumbi, Scot Lane, Broomy Bank, Rupertino, Tacroy and Talon considered the only others in the field capable of winning the race.
