Facial Hair Big Winner in Council Election

The big winner in yesterday's Hyattsville City Council elections is undoubtedly facial hair. 

Before yesterday, Mayor Marc Tartaro, in the form of a close cropped beard, was the only Hyattsville elected leader to sport facial hair. Every other sitting city council member was definitively babyfaced either by choice or biological circumstance.

Then yesterday, Hyattsville voters sent four facially hirsute candidates to city council. Now, residents of Hyattsville's Ward 2, Ward 3, Ward 4 and Ward 5 can go about their lives secure in the knowledge that at least one of their ward's two council members has either a moustache or a goatee. Ward 2 will soon be represented by Robert Croslin, who sports a moustache you could sweep a floor with. Ward 3 now has Patrick Paschall, who sports a thinly trimmed goatee. New Ward 4 counterpart Edouard Haba and Clayton Williams both sport a closely trimmed full beard. 

The most fresh-faced ward remains Ward 1. Neither Councilor-elect Bart Lawrence nor Councilor Candace Hollingsworth have any facial hair to speak of.

Facial hair was not a sure bet, either, in this election. Facial-hairless Ward 5 candidate Joseph Solomon secured the two-year term vacancy left by former Councilor Nicole Hinds Mofor over hopeful Pastor Herrera, who sports a prominent push broom moustache.

Editor's Note - Movember moustaches don't count, Councilor Tim Hunt (Ward 3).