Rev. Willie F. Wilson Endorses Clark Ray for DC City Council, At-Large– Rev. Wilson: “Clark and I Have Built a Bridge Together”
Washington, DC – Rev. Willie F. Wilson, pastor at DC’s Union Temple Baptist Church, has endorsed Clark Ray for DC City Council At-Large.
Rev. Wilson is a highly influential pastor, with a decades-long track record of activism for social justice at the local, national and international levels. Rev. Wilson’s Union Temple Baptist Church, located in Anacostia, hosts a congregation of over 2,000, and operates over forty ministries. Rev. Wilson has also served as a counselor and spiritual adviser to international heads of state and local and national government leaders.
For the past two years, Clark Ray and Rev. Wilson have collaborated and worked together to provide services for DC’s senior citizens, expand youth education and job opportunities, and to create strategies for productive alternatives to stiffer jail sentences for youth offenders.
“We’re a city of many walks of life, faiths and opinions, and it says something that Clark Ray and I have built a bridge together,” said Rev. Wilson in making his endorsement.
“Clark’s a man of faith,” Wilson continued. “Clark has been a tireless advocate for this city’s most vulnerable residents, a man of compassion and empathetic understanding, someone who knows how the city works and has demonstrated an ability not to just complain about problems, but to solve them.
“Clark is an outgoing individual with a unique ability to bring together divergent–and what some would write off as irreconcilable–groups. I am proud to endorse Clark and I will vigorously work for his election and personally canvass my community on his behalf.”
Ray said, “I look forward to working in partnership with Rev. Wilson to build bridges throughout all communities and neighborhoods as we heal and solve the problems of our City. I’m gratified that Rev. Wilson and others who toil daily in our neighborhoods, who are connected with people and their problems, have embraced my push for real transparency in education reform, more community policing and outreach programs, and solutions that will make our neighborhoods stronger, safer, better places to live.”
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