If you really want Silverman to remain on the Council, don’t cast a 2nd vote

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would like my neighborhood to not be open warfare. Who should I vote for that acknowledges the problem?

open warfare?! what neighborhood are you in?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would like my neighborhood to not be open warfare. Who should I vote for that acknowledges the problem?

open warfare?! what neighborhood are you in?

Anyone who uses that kind of rhetoric undoubtedly lives in the far exurbs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would like my neighborhood to not be open warfare. Who should I vote for that acknowledges the problem?

open warfare?! what neighborhood are you in?

Near the convention center. This week there is most definitely a gang war going on between the 7th street gangs. Not sure what else to call it with alternating murders every day. This city is back to the 90s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would like my neighborhood to not be open warfare. Who should I vote for that acknowledges the problem?

The Navy vet Republican candidate. Most other major cities are acknowledging that democrats have driven their standard of living into the ground, and turning to more central candidates. We should too. I don't like that he supports development though, so I'm also voting for the green party guy. Neither one of them is the same stale nothing burger of current Council ideology. At least they both have something new to say for our city .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m the PP who wants Bonds to lose, and while I agree that it’s unlikely, she got only 36% of the vote in the primary. I suspect a lot of Democrats (like me) will not vote for her in the general and that it will be closer than people think.

The primary is much lower turnout than the general, and there are a lot of voters in D.C. elections who are high-information voters generally, but low-information voters on local issues — basically automatic votes for her. Anyway, in a race with three major candidates and a bunch of others, 36 percent of the vote on Tuesday probably wins reelection.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A bit of strategy at play here if you really want Silverman to be on the Council - don’t cast a 2nd vote for either Bonds or McDuffie. Right now the DC Machine is pushing both Bonds and McDuffie really hard. It’s essentially a 3-way race and only two can win. Lots of people will be voting McDuffie-Bonds.

Therefore, if your top candidate is Silverman, do not give a vote to either of the other two that can potentially bump her off. I didn’t like any of the remaining candidates, so I only cast one vote in the at-large race. Alternatively, you can toss your 2nd vote to one of the low likelihood candidates.

I'll add that if you like Silverman, a good second candidate to vote for would be Schwartzman, the statehood green candidate. Obviously he has no chance of winning but it would be a way to help them keep getting public funding etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would like my neighborhood to not be open warfare. Who should I vote for that acknowledges the problem?

open warfare?! what neighborhood are you in?

Near the convention center. This week there is most definitely a gang war going on between the 7th street gangs. Not sure what else to call it with alternating murders every day. This city is back to the 90s.

Things are going in the wrong direction and fast in crime. But that’s definitely not 90s DC. It’s not even as bad as 2008 Trinidad when they put in the checkpoints.

[Anonymous]

To the OPs point about strategic voting, I cannot help buy think a vote for Silverman would be a wasted vote. Didn’t see a single incumbent defend her and it’s easy to see that this incident will hurt her ability to be effective. Probably not a good strategy to elect someone who would not be effective.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:To the OPs point about strategic voting, I cannot help buy think a vote for Silverman would be a wasted vote. Didn’t see a single incumbent defend her and it’s easy to see that this incident will hurt her ability to be effective. Probably not a good strategy to elect someone who would not be effective.

Silverman was endorsed by:

Charles Allen, https://twitter.com/tweetelissa/status/1589739361750331392

Brianna Nadeau, https://twitter.com/tweetelissa/status/1589725902631731200

and Janeese Louis George, https://twitter.com/tweetelissa/status/1589713463592767489

Silverman has been very effective, notably passing paid family leave which has been so successful that this year the costs were lowered while the benefits were expanded.