Ward 3 virtual candidate forum tonight

[Anonymous]

The Chevy Chase Citizens Association is hosting a virtual Ward 3 City Council Member Forum tonight, October 12, 7-8:30 pm.
Ward 3 will be electing a new Councilmember this November. The Chevy Chase Citizens Association is hosting a forum to explore the policy positions that are most important to Chevy Chase.
Matt Frumin and David Krucoff will share their positions on bike lanes, density, affordable housing, and public safety among others.

Please click this link to join us tonight: https://bit.ly/3Tc8ofr

[Anonymous]

Poor Matt Frumin, tonight he said those mean W3 Republicans (all 14 of them, more or less) were picking on him as being too soft on crime.

Meanwhile, he lectured us again on the "root cause" of crime, the 1968 Kerner Commission, and Charles Allen and Elissa aren't so bad, you know!

[Anonymous]

I thought Frumin was strong and thoughtful. I really don't understand what Krucoff thinks he is offering voters.

He has not been involved in any community activities and doesn't particularly know the Ward very well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought Frumin was strong and thoughtful. I really don't understand what Krucoff thinks he is offering voters.

He has not been involved in any community activities and doesn't particularly know the Ward very well.

It's a vanity campaign.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought Frumin was strong and thoughtful. I really don't understand what Krucoff thinks he is offering voters.

He has not been involved in any community activities and doesn't particularly know the Ward very well.

This is the old insider's line "We don't know you, so you don't belong here". Incredibly, in the primary Frumin and his supporters did it to Goulet, someone who was with the Mayor and the Council involved daily in the most important budget issues and had run for the Council before, and it worked!

Krucoff grew up here, worked real estate all over the Ward and city, even if you took off for college and when he was in MoCo, has lived here as long as Frumin, if not longer. He never left here to run for Congress a thousand miles away, like Frumin.

And what is this great Frumin record of self-appointed community activism? So he decided to make Ward 3 his hobby, good for him. He singlehandedly rebuilt the high school, Murch, a school in Ward 8, he knows of the empty parking spaces in the Cathedral Commons Giant garage. Or so he says. He says he told the Lisner neighbors the expansion was going to happen, it would go where he said, it would be be about as big as he said, "But we can talk about everything else". How is this different from any real estate developer, except Frumin did it as a volunteer?

There's a fine line between community service and being a self-important busybody. Neither one entitles you to a seat on the DC Council.

[Anonymous]

Krucoff literally left DC in the past decade to educate his child in Maryland. So you don't really score points with the idea that Frumin was in Michigan like 20 years ago.

What has Krucoff actually DONE in the Ward? Nothing. He said in the debates that he has been talking about these issues. Well, talk is cheap. Anyone can talk. The question is, what is Krucoff's track record? There is none.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought Frumin was strong and thoughtful.....

And what exactly was strong and thoughtful?

The Frumin self-pitying comparison to Abagail Spanberger?

The paen to the 1968 anti-police Kerner Commission report? [maybe 5% knew what that was, all over the age 65 or got an A in Sociology 101]

Or when he said Krucoff isn't Trump, but he sounds like Trump? If Krucoff had said "You aren't Lenin, but you sound like Lenin", would that have been strong and thoughtful?

I do regret Matt was not able to expand on the virtues of "restorative justice". You were thinking of that?

I was thinking more along the lines of flimsy and pedantic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought Frumin was strong and thoughtful. I really don't understand what Krucoff thinks he is offering voters.

He has not been involved in any community activities and doesn't particularly know the Ward very well.

This is the old insider's line "We don't know you, so you don't belong here". Incredibly, in the primary Frumin and his supporters did it to Goulet, someone who was with the Mayor and the Council involved daily in the most important budget issues and had run for the Council before, and it worked!

Goulet oozed the insider's contempt for "civilians." Like so many people who work in the Wilson building it was clear he felt that what the government does is no damn business of ordinary citizens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought Frumin was strong and thoughtful. I really don't understand what Krucoff thinks he is offering voters.

He has not been involved in any community activities and doesn't particularly know the Ward very well.

This is the old insider's line "We don't know you, so you don't belong here". Incredibly, in the primary Frumin and his supporters did it to Goulet, someone who was with the Mayor and the Council involved daily in the most important budget issues and had run for the Council before, and it worked!

Krucoff grew up here, worked real estate all over the Ward and city, even if you took off for college and when he was in MoCo, has lived here as long as Frumin, if not longer. He never left here to run for Congress a thousand miles away, like Frumin.

And what is this great Frumin record of self-appointed community activism? So he decided to make Ward 3 his hobby, good for him. He singlehandedly rebuilt the high school, Murch, a school in Ward 8, he knows of the empty parking spaces in the Cathedral Commons Giant garage. Or so he says. He says he told the Lisner neighbors the expansion was going to happen, it would go where he said, it would be be about as big as he said, "But we can talk about everything else". How is this different from any real estate developer, except Frumin did it as a volunteer?

There's a fine line between community service and being a self-important busybody. Neither one entitles you to a seat on the DC Council.

This is a blatant lie. He worked with the neighbors and the architect to reconfigure the space so they could get the same number of units but in a way that alleviated the neighbors concerns. The neighbors all appreciated the time and care he took to moderate the situation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought Frumin was strong and thoughtful. I really don't understand what Krucoff thinks he is offering voters.

He has not been involved in any community activities and doesn't particularly know the Ward very well.

This is the old insider's line "We don't know you, so you don't belong here". Incredibly, in the primary Frumin and his supporters did it to Goulet, someone who was with the Mayor and the Council involved daily in the most important budget issues and had run for the Council before, and it worked!

Krucoff grew up here, worked real estate all over the Ward and city, even if you took off for college and when he was in MoCo, has lived here as long as Frumin, if not longer. He never left here to run for Congress a thousand miles away, like Frumin.

And what is this great Frumin record of self-appointed community activism? So he decided to make Ward 3 his hobby, good for him. He singlehandedly rebuilt the high school, Murch, a school in Ward 8, he knows of the empty parking spaces in the Cathedral Commons Giant garage. Or so he says. He says he told the Lisner neighbors the expansion was going to happen, it would go where he said, it would be be about as big as he said, "But we can talk about everything else". How is this different from any real estate developer, except Frumin did it as a volunteer?

There's a fine line between community service and being a self-important busybody. Neither one entitles you to a seat on the DC Council.

Well, seems the fine line might be that a community volunteer doesn’t get paid for their labor and a real estate developer does. That’s why Krucoff is running. Business. Now, a good businessperson can be a good elected official if they keep their hands clean.

Though not using DCPS gives me pause. Neither he nor Goulet have any credibility when it comes to education policy in DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought Frumin was strong and thoughtful. I really don't understand what Krucoff thinks he is offering voters.

He has not been involved in any community activities and doesn't particularly know the Ward very well.

This is the old insider's line "We don't know you, so you don't belong here". Incredibly, in the primary Frumin and his supporters did it to Goulet, someone who was with the Mayor and the Council involved daily in the most important budget issues and had run for the Council before, and it worked!

Krucoff grew up here, worked real estate all over the Ward and city, even if you took off for college and when he was in MoCo, has lived here as long as Frumin, if not longer. He never left here to run for Congress a thousand miles away, like Frumin.

And what is this great Frumin record of self-appointed community activism? So he decided to make Ward 3 his hobby, good for him. He singlehandedly rebuilt the high school, Murch, a school in Ward 8, he knows of the empty parking spaces in the Cathedral Commons Giant garage. Or so he says. He says he told the Lisner neighbors the expansion was going to happen, it would go where he said, it would be be about as big as he said, "But we can talk about everything else". How is this different from any real estate developer, except Frumin did it as a volunteer?

There's a fine line between community service and being a self-important busybody. Neither one entitles you to a seat on the DC Council.

Self appointed? He was nominated to the Lisner Board and the Tenleytown Main Street Board. He founded the city wide education network, and he volunteered for the various DCPS (then) Wilson committees.

[Anonymous]

Did anyone watch the CP ANC debate last night? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSngTiMzfoI

The generational divide was striking.

[Anonymous]

It was, and since the younger people are advocating for the world they want to live in and not the one of their grandparents, we should listen to them. They are more concerned about living healthy and climate change because they have more to lose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It was, and since the younger people are advocating for the world they want to live in and not the one of their grandparents, we should listen to them. They are more concerned about living healthy and climate change because they have more to lose.

We'd be better off ignoring everything both boomers and millennials say. They're just two sides of the same coin of narcissistic bad judgement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It was, and since the younger people are advocating for the world they want to live in and not the one of their grandparents, we should listen to them. They are more concerned about living healthy and climate change because they have more to lose.

Thank you for this. I know people of all generations support change in this neighborhood and are educating themselves about the issues, but it doesn't feel that way sometimes. Like the speaker running against Keith who literally said that the solution to the business struggles on Connecticut Avenue is creating more parking. I'm exhausted.