It wasn't Frumin scaring people out of the race. Elissa Silverman conducted a poll and then got Duncan and Bergmann to bow out. She clearly saw their races as non-competitive and Frumin in the lead otherwise to Goulet. That is how much of a threat Goulet is. |
It's not that Goulet himself is a threat, Eric seems like a decent (if a little strange) person. It's that having a ward councilmember who owes more to actors not just outside the ward but outside the city is going to be a disaster. |
I lived in Ward 2 for many years when Jack Evans was councilmember. Eric Goulet is going to end exactly the same way. |
I’d still like to know what these actors want. Quite frankly, it would serve Goulet to de-mystify and say it’s for clean streets, more cops, less crime, more flowers, I don’t really care but I’d like to know. Everyone is beholden to certain interests and I’m scared the most of those beholden to their own self-interest like getting that next term and will then pander and pander and never stand up for anything |
| Also was he ever close to the corruption thingy that felled Gray? |
the goal is to undermine public education so the electorate is dumb. it is obviously a little different in DC than elsewhere, but ultimately, that is the goal of the right wing billionaires |
Why would he be honest about it? One of the charter school lobby groups paid for a Goulet mailer on affordable housing. Kind of outside their lane, don't you think? If you followed the mini-scandal of DFER illegally sharing their polling data with Goulet, one of the things they shared was how different messages poll. So Goulet was able to create a platform tailored to positions that poll well. Since he absolutely no record of public service in the ward there was no danger of being caught contradicting previous positions. |