What is Bowser's political future

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I want Robert White to run again - he learned a lot the first time around.

What evidence do you have of this? In any case, the window for someone to beat Bowser by running to her far left has closed. If he -- or anyone else -- hasn't learned that lesson, he has no chance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Will she run for Delegate, Shadow Senator, be a Cabinet Secy.???

Where does she go from here?

Trump is going to jail Bowser

Stephen Miller and Mike Flynn and Ivan R have been let out to play in a mad kings world

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:She will win if she runs again. She's more popular than anonymous keyboard warriors think. Almost all of her most ardent critics are the city's most mediocre white residents, the kind of low-information people who support Charles Allen and Brianne Nadeau.

What? In 2022, she barely beat Robert White, who ran a terrible campaign and whose prospects were severely diminished by the mysterious decision of Trayon White to join the race. In 2026, DC will have RCV and so she won’t be able to get by through relying on vote splitting. And I can’t think of anything she has done in the past two years that would have made her more popular, but can think of many things she has done (or not done) that have further demonstrated her to be terrible at her job. Her forthcoming efforts to saddle taxpayers with the expense of building a playground for billionaires is not going to endear her to the DC voting public much either. Christina Henderson or Randy Clarke would easily defeat her.

The Wizards, the Commanders/RFK, getting businesses back in DC, reducing crime. There are lots of things that would get her reelected. She is more popular than people think, and Council already said they can’t fund RCV.

Your wish doesn’t make her popular.

I think most of the city would like to feel assured that if they call 911, an operator would pick up the phone.

Are you touting her record in reducing crime as some kind of sick joke? Look up where murders were when she took office and where they are now and get back to us.

Ditto with traffic deaths.

Businesses have fled DC and that is why commercial property values and commercial tax revenue are at historic lows.

She’s been extremely generous to developers and yet housing in DC is unaffordable as ever. Homelessness in DC is rife.

Next to no development has happened EOTR other than the Homeland Security facility and a publicly-funded practice facility that will soon be unused.

The notion that she kept the Wizards in DC is also a sick joke. Her incompetence all but drove them off. Louise Lucas - and her beef with Youngkin - is the only reason we didn’t lose them.

Yes, after 10 years, she finally got Congress to hand over the RFK relic to the city. And her plan for that land? Not to use if for anything that might actually be useful for the city population. But to waste years trying to sell the tax-paying public a handout to her billionaire buddies. Let’s see if that flies.

Honestly, if that’s the kind of performance that wins your support, then you probably don’t deserve to live in a better run city.

And this is before we even start talking about the state of public education in DC, the responsibility for which lies firmly with Bowser. Absolutely no one can tell you with a straight face that DCPS is in a better state than it was ten years ago.

Bowser has appointed a succession of mediocre chancellors, including one incompetent enough to engage in blatant nepotism a few months after taking the job.

The lack of improvement in standardized test scores is pitiful. Only 11% of black DCPS students were proficient in math in 2015 and only 11% of black DCPS students were proficient in math in 2024. And DCPS is one of the best funded urban public school systems in the country.

Bowser spent the entire pandemic catering to the WTU - led by a convicted drunk driver who eventually killed another person and herself driving drunk - to the manifest detriment of DC’s public school children and the public at large. Five years on, test scores, truancy, and youth crime are still at atrocious levels and all because Bowser opted to do what was politically expedient as opposed to what was scientifically defensible.

Every interaction I’ve had with Bowser has left me decidedly unimpressed. And every time she’s injects herself into an issue she leaves little else other than chaos and division. Very rarely do I get the impression that she has the best interests of the city’s residents in mind.

If your point of comparison is Marion Barry or Sharon Pratt, then it’s reasonable to think she’s a decent mayor. But compared to the likes of Anthony Williams or indeed most mayors of large cities across America, she is abysmal. It’s very hard to understand why any reasonably well informed person would defend her record, unless of course they benefit from the largesse of her administration.

[Anonymous]

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Your wish doesn’t make her popular.

I think most of the city would like to feel assured that if they call 911, an operator would pick up the phone.

Are you touting her record in reducing crime as some kind of sick joke? Look up where murders were when she took office and where they are now and get back to us.

Ditto with traffic deaths.

Businesses have fled DC and that is why commercial property values and commercial tax revenue are at historic lows.

She’s been extremely generous to developers and yet housing in DC is unaffordable as ever. Homelessness in DC is rife.

Next to no development has happened EOTR other than the Homeland Security facility and a publicly-funded practice facility that will soon be unused.

The notion that she kept the Wizards in DC is also a sick joke. Her incompetence all but drove them off. Louise Lucas - and her beef with Youngkin - is the only reason we didn’t lose them.

Yes, after 10 years, she finally got Congress to hand over the RFK relic to the city. And her plan for that land? Not to use if for anything that might actually be useful for the city population. But to waste years trying to sell the tax-paying public a handout to her billionaire buddies. Let’s see if that flies.

Honestly, if that’s the kind of performance that wins your support, then you probably don’t deserve to live in a better run city.

Wow, you must be me because this is word for word exactly how I feel, and why I hate the mayor with every fiber of my being. And I was just stopping by to mention to everyone that there are DCPS students in freezing classrooms because some schools don't have properly working heat. Last time I checked, the DCPS buck stops with Muriel. I know she's pretending otherwise, but to those of us with at least half a brain, we know DCPS reports to the mayor and thus the lack of heat is her fault.

Screw you, Muriel. Get lost already.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:She will win if she runs again. She's more popular than anonymous keyboard warriors think. Almost all of her most ardent critics are the city's most mediocre white residents, the kind of low-information people who support Charles Allen and Brianne Nadeau.

What? In 2022, she barely beat Robert White, who ran a terrible campaign and whose prospects were severely diminished by the mysterious decision of Trayon White to join the race. In 2026, DC will have RCV and so she won’t be able to get by through relying on vote splitting. And I can’t think of anything she has done in the past two years that would have made her more popular, but can think of many things she has done (or not done) that have further demonstrated her to be terrible at her job. Her forthcoming efforts to saddle taxpayers with the expense of building a playground for billionaires is not going to endear her to the DC voting public much either. Christina Henderson or Randy Clarke would easily defeat her.

The Wizards, the Commanders/RFK, getting businesses back in DC, reducing crime. There are lots of things that would get her reelected. She is more popular than people think, and Council already said they can’t fund RCV.

Your wish doesn’t make her popular.

I think most of the city would like to feel assured that if they call 911, an operator would pick up the phone.

Are you touting her record in reducing crime as some kind of sick joke? Look up where murders were when she took office and where they are now and get back to us.

Ditto with traffic deaths.

Businesses have fled DC and that is why commercial property values and commercial tax revenue are at historic lows.

She’s been extremely generous to developers and yet housing in DC is unaffordable as ever. Homelessness in DC is rife.

Next to no development has happened EOTR other than the Homeland Security facility and a publicly-funded practice facility that will soon be unused.

The notion that she kept the Wizards in DC is also a sick joke. Her incompetence all but drove them off. Louise Lucas - and her beef with Youngkin - is the only reason we didn’t lose them.

Yes, after 10 years, she finally got Congress to hand over the RFK relic to the city. And her plan for that land? Not to use if for anything that might actually be useful for the city population. But to waste years trying to sell the tax-paying public a handout to her billionaire buddies. Let’s see if that flies.

Honestly, if that’s the kind of performance that wins your support, then you probably don’t deserve to live in a better run city.

And this is before we even start talking about the state of public education in DC, the responsibility for which lies firmly with Bowser. Absolutely no one can tell you with a straight face that DCPS is in a better state than it was ten years ago.

Bowser has appointed a succession of mediocre chancellors, including one incompetent enough to engage in blatant nepotism a few months after taking the job.

The lack of improvement in standardized test scores is pitiful. Only 11% of black DCPS students were proficient in math in 2015 and only 11% of black DCPS students were proficient in math in 2024. And DCPS is one of the best funded urban public school systems in the country.

Bowser spent the entire pandemic catering to the WTU - led by a convicted drunk driver who eventually killed another person and herself driving drunk - to the manifest detriment of DC’s public school children and the public at large. Five years on, test scores, truancy, and youth crime are still at atrocious levels and all because Bowser opted to do what was politically expedient as opposed to what was scientifically defensible.

Every interaction I’ve had with Bowser has left me decidedly unimpressed. And every time she’s injects herself into an issue she leaves little else other than chaos and division. Very rarely do I get the impression that she has the best interests of the city’s residents in mind.

If your point of comparison is Marion Barry or Sharon Pratt, then it’s reasonable to think she’s a decent mayor. But compared to the likes of Anthony Williams or indeed most mayors of large cities across America, she is abysmal. It’s very hard to understand why any reasonably well informed person would defend her record, unless of course they benefit from the largesse of her administration.

You just hate that she's black and you don't care about black kids. MAGA like you is annoying

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:She will win if she runs again. She's more popular than anonymous keyboard warriors think. Almost all of her most ardent critics are the city's most mediocre white residents, the kind of low-information people who support Charles Allen and Brianne Nadeau.

What? In 2022, she barely beat Robert White, who ran a terrible campaign and whose prospects were severely diminished by the mysterious decision of Trayon White to join the race. In 2026, DC will have RCV and so she won’t be able to get by through relying on vote splitting. And I can’t think of anything she has done in the past two years that would have made her more popular, but can think of many things she has done (or not done) that have further demonstrated her to be terrible at her job. Her forthcoming efforts to saddle taxpayers with the expense of building a playground for billionaires is not going to endear her to the DC voting public much either. Christina Henderson or Randy Clarke would easily defeat her.

The Wizards, the Commanders/RFK, getting businesses back in DC, reducing crime. There are lots of things that would get her reelected. She is more popular than people think, and Council already said they can’t fund RCV.

Your wish doesn’t make her popular.

I think most of the city would like to feel assured that if they call 911, an operator would pick up the phone.

Are you touting her record in reducing crime as some kind of sick joke? Look up where murders were when she took office and where they are now and get back to us.

Ditto with traffic deaths.

Businesses have fled DC and that is why commercial property values and commercial tax revenue are at historic lows.

She’s been extremely generous to developers and yet housing in DC is unaffordable as ever. Homelessness in DC is rife.

Next to no development has happened EOTR other than the Homeland Security facility and a publicly-funded practice facility that will soon be unused.

The notion that she kept the Wizards in DC is also a sick joke. Her incompetence all but drove them off. Louise Lucas - and her beef with Youngkin - is the only reason we didn’t lose them.

Yes, after 10 years, she finally got Congress to hand over the RFK relic to the city. And her plan for that land? Not to use if for anything that might actually be useful for the city population. But to waste years trying to sell the tax-paying public a handout to her billionaire buddies. Let’s see if that flies.

Honestly, if that’s the kind of performance that wins your support, then you probably don’t deserve to live in a better run city.

And this is before we even start talking about the state of public education in DC, the responsibility for which lies firmly with Bowser. Absolutely no one can tell you with a straight face that DCPS is in a better state than it was ten years ago.

Bowser has appointed a succession of mediocre chancellors, including one incompetent enough to engage in blatant nepotism a few months after taking the job.

The lack of improvement in standardized test scores is pitiful. Only 11% of black DCPS students were proficient in math in 2015 and only 11% of black DCPS students were proficient in math in 2024. And DCPS is one of the best funded urban public school systems in the country.

Bowser spent the entire pandemic catering to the WTU - led by a convicted drunk driver who eventually killed another person and herself driving drunk - to the manifest detriment of DC’s public school children and the public at large. Five years on, test scores, truancy, and youth crime are still at atrocious levels and all because Bowser opted to do what was politically expedient as opposed to what was scientifically defensible.

Every interaction I’ve had with Bowser has left me decidedly unimpressed. And every time she’s injects herself into an issue she leaves little else other than chaos and division. Very rarely do I get the impression that she has the best interests of the city’s residents in mind.

If your point of comparison is Marion Barry or Sharon Pratt, then it’s reasonable to think she’s a decent mayor. But compared to the likes of Anthony Williams or indeed most mayors of large cities across America, she is abysmal. It’s very hard to understand why any reasonably well informed person would defend her record, unless of course they benefit from the largesse of her administration.

You just hate that she's black and you don't care about black kids. MAGA like you is annoying

From all appearances, the only racist around here is you.

Apparently the only thing that matters to you is that the mayor is a black woman. The fact that her incompetence has hurt black, brown, purple, green, white and fluorescent purple residents of the city doesn’t seem to bother you an iota.

All other things equal, it’s great if DC is led by a black female. But the city’s problems are severe and, to tackle those, we need the best mayor we can get. Would it matter to you if that mayor were a race other than African American?

It’s ironic that you mention MAGA. That would perhaps be a minor historical footnote at this point if certain people in the Democratic Party had not put identity politics ahead of political aptitude, policy vision, and administrative competence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She will win if she runs again. She's more popular than anonymous keyboard warriors think. Almost all of her most ardent critics are the city's most mediocre white residents, the kind of low-information people who support Charles Allen and Brianne Nadeau.

What? In 2022, she barely beat Robert White, who ran a terrible campaign and whose prospects were severely diminished by the mysterious decision of Trayon White to join the race. In 2026, DC will have RCV and so she won’t be able to get by through relying on vote splitting. And I can’t think of anything she has done in the past two years that would have made her more popular, but can think of many things she has done (or not done) that have further demonstrated her to be terrible at her job. Her forthcoming efforts to saddle taxpayers with the expense of building a playground for billionaires is not going to endear her to the DC voting public much either. Christina Henderson or Randy Clarke would easily defeat her.

The Wizards, the Commanders/RFK, getting businesses back in DC, reducing crime. There are lots of things that would get her reelected. She is more popular than people think, and Council already said they can’t fund RCV.

Your wish doesn’t make her popular.

I think most of the city would like to feel assured that if they call 911, an operator would pick up the phone.

Are you touting her record in reducing crime as some kind of sick joke? Look up where murders were when she took office and where they are now and get back to us.

Ditto with traffic deaths.

Businesses have fled DC and that is why commercial property values and commercial tax revenue are at historic lows.

She’s been extremely generous to developers and yet housing in DC is unaffordable as ever. Homelessness in DC is rife.

Next to no development has happened EOTR other than the Homeland Security facility and a publicly-funded practice facility that will soon be unused.

The notion that she kept the Wizards in DC is also a sick joke. Her incompetence all but drove them off. Louise Lucas - and her beef with Youngkin - is the only reason we didn’t lose them.

Yes, after 10 years, she finally got Congress to hand over the RFK relic to the city. And her plan for that land? Not to use if for anything that might actually be useful for the city population. But to waste years trying to sell the tax-paying public a handout to her billionaire buddies. Let’s see if that flies.

Honestly, if that’s the kind of performance that wins your support, then you probably don’t deserve to live in a better run city.

Is this Robert White?

That’s what I was wondering.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Will she run for Delegate, Shadow Senator, be a Cabinet Secy.???

Where does she go from here?

Trump is going to jail Bowser

Stephen Miller and Mike Flynn and Ivan R have been let out to play in a mad kings world

Why do you think she will be jailed?

[Anonymous]

Bowser needs to go.

Robert White is incompetent, develops bad policy ideas, and has shown poor management of his constituent responses and poor management of the Office of ANCs.

Schwalb would be better. Maybe Henderson.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bowser needs to go.

Robert White is incompetent, develops bad policy ideas, and has shown poor management of his constituent responses and poor management of the Office of ANCs.

Schwalb would be better. Maybe Henderson.

DC should not elect a progressive at all

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bowser needs to go.

Robert White is incompetent, develops bad policy ideas, and has shown poor management of his constituent responses and poor management of the Office of ANCs.

Schwalb would be better. Maybe Henderson.

Agree. And Bowser's agency heads are poorly run. Just look at the mess at the MOLC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wait, Fenty went into private equity ?

He ran DC like a private equity firm so it checks. Miss him he transformed DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Prison?

For what? She’s incompetent but not criminally so

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It looks to me like whatever future Bowser does have it won’t be in Democratic circles or future political appointments. Her behavior has been way too self-serving and she has to be PNG in the Biden WH. First by supporting and being the surrogate for Bloomberg against Biden and other Democrats, including fellow Black woman Harris, in the primaries. And now taking shots directly at Biden over Federal WFH policies that are being used by Republicans for ammunition. I’m not sure what is in store for her next but it’s more likely she goes to work for Ft Myer Construction than having any future in Democratic politics.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/01/25/end-remote-work-federal-workers/

Not so sure it won’t be. If the party had listened to her, they’d be sitting in the White House right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She’ll move to another city and try to ruin that one.

Actually, for Baltimore she’d be a step up