What were Mary Cheh’s five accomplishments? What were Jack Evans’? |
Liberal by any standard, Mary was able to serve as a circuit breaker for some of the Councils worst instincts on crime, vouchers, and sanctuary city issues. Frumin completely lacks the knowledge or courage to push back on the socialist tendencies of the current Council and Ward 3 is worse for it. |
| Frumin is as useless as Mary Cheh as for Ward 3. they both are idealists who are trying to make the district better (according to their own socialist view of the world) but have no agenda that is specific to Ward 3. Why does every other ward get a council person focused on the needs of their local community but somehow Ward 3 effectively gets another at large council person? |
“Circuit breaker”? Seriously? In other words, you can’t name a single tangible thing that she did. That’s OK, I can’t either. Despite what you’d like to believe, the DC Council and its constituent members really doesn’t matter much. |
I’m genuinely curious as to which council members - past or present - personify what you would like to see in a ward representative. Trayvon White? Jack Evans? |
+1 It is clear the person smearing the DC Crime reform bill never read it, never listened to any of the hearings and testimony which shaped it, not understands the latest theories in crime prevention and criminolgy to understand what the bill actually said and did. And instead, relies on "fox news" style talking points, which is the path of least resistance on a message board. |
I don't see where Frumin is any different for Ward 3 than any other Ward Councilmember is for their ward. He has a strong constituent services team that are responsive to calls and emails from constituents which is the primary role for a Councilmember. The rest is just representative government voting for different bills that come out of different committees that the mayor may, or may not, sign. |
ironic statement given she gave up her office when she was criticized for comments she made about new voucher residents in her neighborhood - so she wasn't able to stop what you are calling the council's worst instincts and it cost her seat. |
She did what she could in ways large and small. Frumin, not so much. https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/574278/cheh-sounds-the-alarm-on-enfranchisement-of-undocumented-residents/ |
Yes. The other poster seems to believe Ward 3 constitutes some kind of jurisdiction and can take its ball and go home if it doesn’t like what the city is foisting upon it. Ward 3 is far wealthier and whiter than anywhere else in the city. The optics of Ward 3 NiMBYs screaming bloody murder about housing vouchers are horrendous. The evisceration of Mary Cheh after she raised a few valid complaints was a lesson that Matt Frumin has wisely heeded. Doing the kinds of things that the other poster apparently wanted would have worked out very badly for the residents of the ward. |
There is no winning with the DC Council and its members, past and present. There are only varying degrees of losing. |
Where do committees come from? |
If you want to literally hear people screaming bloody murder come hang out in the lobby of Connecticut House on the weekends. |
It's not a great situation, by any means. But a Ward 3 council-member sounding off publicly about the shortcomings of the program would be counter-productive. As we know from Cheh. Ward 3 residents should certainly be asking Frumin privately about what he is doing about the issue. But he's wise not to be litigating this on social media. |
LOL! Could it get any worse? |