AG and at large seats

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:AG thread

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1021229.page

Not a super helpful thread.

Voting for Blank seems appealing.

And what's this sham with the democratic state committee? Seven people running for seven spots? That's a Blank for me too.

I am bullet voting the DC Dems. Andria Thomas has been great and shaking things up. Most of the others are the same-old, same-old.

Where can a non-insider learn about them?

[Anonymous]

https://dcist.com/story/22/05/26/dcision-2022-dc-primary-voter-guide/#AtLarge

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://dcist.com/story/22/05/26/dcision-2022-dc-primary-voter-guide/#AtLarge

That doesn't say anything about the democratic state committee positions

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:AG thread

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1021229.page

Not a super helpful thread.

Voting for Blank seems appealing.

And what's this sham with the democratic state committee? Seven people running for seven spots? That's a Blank for me too.

I am bullet voting the DC Dems. Andria Thomas has been great and shaking things up. Most of the others are the same-old, same-old.

Where can a non-insider learn about them?

Contact your existing ones? In Ward 3, it's Hugh Allen, Shelley Tompkins, Elizabeth Mitchell, and Beau Finley

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm with you on AG. I may just leave that one blank.

For at-large I'm leaning towards Lisa Gore.

What's Gore's position on affordable housing, homeless, and policing?

She is very progressive.

She is. But she’s also a housing expert, having worked as a special agent for the FHA. She actually has real expertise in the subject. From her website:

Lisa rose through the ranks and became a Special Agent in Charge. At that level, she commanded the Operations Division where she led a team of cross-functional staff in providing guidance and operational support to 44 investigative field offices located across the country and crafting national policies and initiatives to combat fraud in FHA and other federal housing programs. Lisa is well versed in the oversight of significant government programs. She led successful efforts in identifying weaknesses and vulnerabilities in federal housing and community development programs and developed Congressional testimony on a range of federal housing matters, highlighting concerns with program efficiency and the proper spending of taxpayer dollars.

Read about her housing proposals here: https://www.gorefordc.com/housing-for-all

I think she’s really impressive and am excited to vote for her.

That's great, we need affordable housing - but a big part of DC's homeless problem isn't a housing problem, it's a drug and mental health problem and they need treatment and rehabilitation before they can even be put in housing on their own.

[Anonymous]

The only info I have informing my vote is that Racine endorsed Schwalb, Spiva was the one to challenge McDuffie’s eligibility, Gore was endorsed by GGW, and I feel Bonds hasn’t done much on the housing committee. I plan to vote Schwalb/Gore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The only info I have informing my vote is that Racine endorsed Schwalb, Spiva was the one to challenge McDuffie’s eligibility, Gore was endorsed by GGW, and I feel Bonds hasn’t done much on the housing committee. I plan to vote Schwalb/Gore.

+1

Also, Spiva is taking big dollar donations whereas Schwalb is using the Fair Election Program. I think for AG, that males a big difference.

[Anonymous]

A man of the people

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The only info I have informing my vote is that Racine endorsed Schwalb, Spiva was the one to challenge McDuffie’s eligibility, Gore was endorsed by GGW, and I feel Bonds hasn’t done much on the housing committee. I plan to vote Schwalb/Gore.

LOL. Based on this, anyone who’s smart would vote the exact opposite.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A man of the people

Is this a criticism of Racine? I don’t understand.

[Anonymous]

No, it is a criticism of Spiva who is taking large dollar donations and spotting his own campaign (that can be paid back after the fact by who knows who) rather than having used the Fair Election program to actually get local DC voters to support his campaign.

[Anonymous]

For those of you faulting Spiva's campaign funding, remember that Schwalb is a long-time partner at a giant law firm and easily could have funded his campaign himself. Instead, he chose to let taxpayers and donors foot the bill. Schwalb is very actively fundraising from affluent people. If you think he is going to be some kind of man of the people, when rich people make up his social circle and client base, good luck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, it is a criticism of Spiva who is taking large dollar donations and spotting his own campaign (that can be paid back after the fact by who knows who) rather than having used the Fair Election program to actually get local DC voters to support his campaign.

So Spiva did exactly what Racine did but somehow only Spiva is the bad guy?

[Anonymous]

Schwalb/Gore. Even the Post thinks that Bonds sucks (as in incompetent). Anyone is better than her.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No, it is a criticism of Spiva who is taking large dollar donations and spotting his own campaign (that can be paid back after the fact by who knows who) rather than having used the Fair Election program to actually get local DC voters to support his campaign.

So Spiva did exactly what Racine did but somehow only Spiva is the bad guy?

Is Racine a candidate this cycle?