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FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2009, file photo, District of Columbia City Councilman David Catania speaks to the media after the council approved same-sex marriage in their final vote on a bill legalizing the unions in Washington. Catania, a former Republican running as an independent, will face fellow D.C. Council member Muriel Bowser in the general election for mayor this November. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

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D.C. Councilmember David Catania talks with reporters after he filed paperwork Wednesday to run for mayor of the District of Columbia, Wednesday, March 12, 2014, in Washington. Catania filed paperwork to run for mayor as an independent in the midst of a fundraising scandal involving Mayor Vincent Gray's 2010 campaign. (AP Photo/Brett Zongker)

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Councilmembers David Catania (D-At Large), left, and David Grosso (D-At Large), right, speak to each other over breakfast before a Committee of the Whole Meeting at the Wilson Building, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, February 4, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Councilmembers David Catania (D-At Large), left, and David Grosso (D-At Large), right, speak to each other over breakfast before a Committee of the Whole Meeting at the Wilson Building, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, February 4, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Councilmembers David Catania (D-At Large) arrives to the council chambers before a Committee of the Whole Meeting at the Wilson Building, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, February 4, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Washington, D.C. City Councilmember David Catania (At Large), center, walks in the Palisades July 4th Parade, Washington, D.C., Thursday, July 4, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** Councilman David Catania questions a witness during a hearing held by the D.C. Council Monday, March 28, 2011, in Washington, D.C., about the hiring processes in Mayor Vincent Gray’s administration. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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the washington times D.C. Council member David Catania calls the contract to be voted on Tuesday a “sideshow, a distraction” from the real issues facing United Medical Center.

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Washington Mayor Vincent C. Gray (center) arrives with D.C. Council member David Catania (right) and other D.C. representatives at the New Hampshire Statehouse in Concord, N.H., on Friday, Jan. 27, 2012, to advocate for D.C. statehood. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Washington Mayor Vincent C. Gray (from left) and D.C. Council members David Catania, Michael A. Brown and Vincent Orange stand for the Pledge of Allegiance before advocating for D.C. statehood in front of the New Hampshire House of Representatives Committee on State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs at the New Hampshire Statehouse in Concord, N.H., on Friday, Jan. 27, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)