Rolling gun battle in Capitol Hill tonight.
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Anonymous
| The entire family has suckled on the DC taxpayer dollars for their entire productive lives. |
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Speaking of being called a Russian troll by what I can only assume is a staffer or a Russian troll, I looked a bit into the people involved. I came across a non-profit allegedly run by an immediate family member which I thought was fair because they receive government grants and it’s all public. I sort of don’t get it: a support reading non-profit (nice) that distributes up to 12,000 books per year (but many minor donations of board books in massive photo ops) and acts as a middleman in connecting children to volunteers to read (admirable, but many less expensive non-profits already do that), relies on volunteers (in a city where that’s plentiful and high schoolers and students have a huge number of hours of service they have to complete so no great recruiting effort is needed) and yet has a budget of $900k of which almost $700k are salaries and wages (what are these other undisclosed wages?), about $100k in office expenses for basically 1-3 people and a NEGATIVE fundraising flow of between 25-250k per year. What am I missing?
Somebody really needs to unpack all the various $ flows in the DC local politics. It could be a fun read or at least a head scratcher. |
Anonymous
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There should be a rule whereby you have had to have non-government and non tax-payer funded jobs for at least 5 years before you can run for office in DC.
Like in the Ward 6 councilman example, it looks like there are the hardworking residents suffering and then a completely unproductive class of local politician fully dependent on the taxpayer dollar for their entire careers, housing and everything else just dumping on them |
Anonymous
| Just so I know, what level of crime in DC warrants a Charles Allen statement — is it 2 dead and automatic weapons discharged more than a 100 times? What would warrant uttering the word “crime”?! Asking for a voter. |
Anonymous
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Seriously why won’t Allen and Nadeau say “crime”?
That’s not the c-word, you people. It’s painful to watch them abuse the English language to fit in the words such as public health crisis, public safety, violence (that one gets rolled out only impersonally like it’s vis major, and only after multiple deaths), where crime and criminals would fit nicely. |
Anonymous
| I feel like to get government grants, you have to be able to demonstrate your nonprofit funds something other than salaries and wages at at lease 50% of the budget (should be 80-90 percent, but have to start somewhere) |
Anonymous
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Is this guy kidding?! What problem has he solved, and what neighborhood feels like home under him?
Dad, husband, & problem solver. Ward 6 Councilmember. Building stronger neighborhoods that everyone can call home. |
Anonymous
| Not a word on his personal twitter |
Anonymous
But you did not though? You first reported the thread without titling the subject: “Please look at Metro DC topic about the violence, etc.” The use of word “violence” is a dead give away on who you are you brainwashed maniac. This thread is not about “violence”; it’s about a rolling gun battle in CapHill, 2 dead, 1 wounded, 100s of bullets, suspects still at a large. Say “crime”. |
Anonymous
There's nothing to talk about. Crime is lower than the 90s and Baltimore is worse. |
Anonymous
| That’s not true. But you said “crime” will you get fired now? |
Anonymous
Yeah and racism is less than the 1860s. What's your point |
Anonymous
| What solution do you suggest to improve safety of residents? |