If you needed a good reason not to vote for Vincent Gray..

[Anonymous]

I had a rather nasty encounter with a Fenty "paid" volunteer on my front porch. I have a Gray sign in my yard and I made the mistake of answering my door. I finally asked him to get off my property.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had a rather nasty encounter with a Fenty "paid" volunteer on my front porch. I have a Gray sign in my yard and I made the mistake of answering my door. I finally asked him to get off my property.

Did you mean paid "volunteer", or are you raising a question about whether these guys are paid? I'm asking seriously, since I have not followed the issue closely and do not know whether there is documentation or just rumor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had a rather nasty encounter with a Fenty "paid" volunteer on my front porch. I have a Gray sign in my yard and I made the mistake of answering my door. I finally asked him to get off my property.

The door-to-door Fenty folks have been nice to me even though I let them know in no uncertain terms that I will never vote for him again. But I'm a white person in Capitol Hill. Are they being rougher in other neighborhoods?

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:The door-to-door Fenty folks have been nice to me even though I let them know in no uncertain terms that I will never vote for him again. But I'm a white person in Capitol Hill. Are they being rougher in other neighborhoods?

I've also had pretty good experiences with them -- all three times they've come to my door. I always unload on them and they politely type it into their handheld computers. Then, I guess they erase it because the next person never has a clue about the earlier people.

[Anonymous]

Yes, I mean paid volunteers. I think these are part of Moten's "Peacoholics" kids who are being paid by the campaign (and by the city at the same time) to canvass on behalf of the Mayor.

According to the City Paper and DCist, there was well over $800,000 spent in the last reporting cycle on this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, I mean paid volunteers. I think these are part of Moten's "Peacoholics" kids who are being paid by the campaign (and by the city at the same time) to canvass on behalf of the Mayor.

According to the City Paper and DCist, there was well over $800,000 spent in the last reporting cycle on this.

I thought that was what you meant. It was the quotation marks that threw me off. You probably used them to indicate emphasis, which is not uncommon nowadays, rather than irony, which is how I interpreted it. Sorry for nit-picking.