It’s official: D.C. Council has repealed Initiative 77, which would have raised pay for tipped workers

After hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign spending, tens of thousands of voters heading to the polls and hundreds of angry calls and emails to lawmakers, a contentious fight over restaurant workers’ pay in the nation’s capital ended with a quick vote by the D.C. Council.

The council on Tuesday gave final approval to legislation repealing Initiative 77, a ballot measure passed by 55 percent of voters in June.