‘I Like Bacon — I Just Want That On the Record’

D.C. city councilman Harry Thomas Jr. knows where he stands . Ditto Jack Evans of Ward 2: “I don’t want to solve global warming . . . I just want bacon with my breakfast.”

These are the same comedians who swapped interpretations of the Nativity story  on the City Council floor last Christmas.

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