Kenyan or Janeese?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't care about Mamdani---I'm not a New Yorker and they can choose whomever they want as mayor. I do live in DC (and have for over 30 years) and I don't want JLG because I dislike her policy positions, particularly on crime. She voted AGAINST making it easier for landlords to get faster evictions of violent tenants who have committed violence against other residents and staff. She is in favor of an asinine idea to close 18th Street in Adams Morgan to traffic. Those of us who remember the old pedestrian mall area of the 1990s around 9th & F (pre-Verizon Center)---know that closing streets to all traffic just results in a hellscape of passed out addicts and their dealers and forces city businesses, who already have standard city challenges of getting deliveries, etc. out of business. Her policy platform is a laundry list of "freebies" designed to tug on progressive heartstrings---free childcare for all, free downpayment assistance, more rent control and absolutely no practicality about how to pay for it (especially since DC already has the largest individual tax burden in the DMV). Her platform tells me that she has no idea (and no interest) in making sure that DC continues to attract and retain businesses. DC for years has funded its over-spending by the real estate taxes generated by the downtown office buildings. Since Covid, those buildings have plummeted in value, resulting in much lower tax revenues. One of her platform goals is to create more grocery stores in Wards 5, 7, and 8---that has been a rallying cry for years but the retailers don't want to be there (and in fact have closed stores) because of the rampant theft. She conveniently ignores that part. Basically I think she's a leftist populist lacking common sense.

Thank you for answering. I think basically my question is, do you also think Mandami is a leftist populist lacking common sense?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Janeese solidly won the forum held at the GWU Mt Vernon campus on Tuesday night. She has very serious oratory skills and won over an audience that seemed quite skeptical initially given the various efforts to depict her as a tax-and-spend socialist. Kenyon’s responses got better as the evening progressed, but he was very inspiring.

This astroturfing is exhausting.

DP, how do we know you're not the one astroturfing?

Because I'm not gushing about my boss's "serious oratory skills" "solid[ly winning] a forum held at the GWU Mt Vernon campus on Tuesday night"? It's like an intern used ChatGPT to come up with a glowing Yelp review.

To be more clear: if this was a real human person who attended the forum and wanted to report back about what they observed, they would talk about a particular issue or answer that they thought she responded to well. Not bland platitudes about how incredible she is and how she obviously won everyone over even though she's facing skeptics. It's just so completely typical at this point that it's all "SHE'S GREAT" with zero substance. Great on what? What question did Kenyon answer poorly at the beginning of the night? How did you see the audience was won over? Oh, no details whatsoever? 'kay.

Serious "and then everybody clapped" energy.

I think you've cried wolf about "that's a Janeese staffer!" too many times and just aren't credible.

And yes, I am a person, voter, and parent of kids in DCPS. I didn't go to that same event as the other poster but have heard both Janeese and Kenyan speak and the other poster's perspective seems reasonable.

I've said this exactly once, actually. The reason you've seen multiple people say this is because this is what her office does, every election cycle. Those of us in Ward 4 who have lived through it before recognize it.

But I'm glad that the PP came back to say she cannot remember a single thing that JLG said, which differentiates her from "bland and canned" McDuffie. Makes perfect sense!

I’m not sure what Janeese did or didn’t do to upset you so much, but your assumption that anyone who has anything good to say about her must be on her payroll tells us a lot more about you than anything else. Feel free to point out which of her positions you disagree with or recount specific interactions that left you unsatisfied, but please avoid making ridiculous accusations that you would never ever be able to back up.

Everyone who likes her isn't on her payroll. The people who refresh this thread to post about how she ::gestures vaguely:: CLEARLY dominated a debate that no one knew was happening with zero anecdotes about her dominating performance or substance about the positions she took, or the people who came on the last election thread to scream BOOYAHH SHE'S OBVIOUSLY THE HOMETOWN HERO BECAUSE SHE OUTRAISED HER OPPONENT BY FOURTEEN PERCENT on the day that fundraising submissions were due every quarter are on her payroll. The ones who call anyone who isn't in love with her a MAGA plant or a Fox-watching Repbulican are on her payroll.

Here are some specific interactions: two kids were shot on a city bus commuting home from school and she sent an immediate, 5-paragraph email about how the City not funding rec centers to keep teens out of trouble were the real problem. The shooter was an adult man, the kids who were shot were 6 and 9, she's a gd idiot who doesn't even bother to learn what's happening before leaping to a talking point. The shooter was never arrested, she never addressed the fact that she spread misinformation and had no real reaction or plan for gun violence other than "it can't be the shooter's fault," and gun crimes have gotten consistently worse every year since she took office in Ward 4.

She voted for the Second Look Act over the objections of many in her Ward, and when the Post ran an article about how traumatic it was for victims of very violent rape to be forced to testify about what happened to them every single year because the perpetrator is now always up for parole, she accused a constituent who asked her if the article made her regret her vote of "bullying a young mom" rather than respond maturely to a question about her literal job.

When a kid got run over in front of Truesdell, she organized an emergency traffic safety walk that night in . . . Shepherd Park. Three weeks later when another kid got run over 2 blocks from Truesdell she organized another emergency traffic safety walk in . . . Shepherd Park. There's your progressive hero, only gaf about the neighborhood where she thinks the money lives in her Ward. The only silver lining of her becoming Mayor is going to be watching your shock when she spends all her time in Ward 3 kissing babies and looking for checks.

[Anonymous]

Wow, you guys really hate Janeese.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, you guys really hate Janeese.

She loves criminals and I don’t.

[Anonymous]

I voted for her the first time, but she's been lousy at her job representing Ward 4 (poorly prepared, bad at responding to school needs and family needs in the Ward), shows up late to community meetings and seems bored and disinterested, and is now spouting white-supremacist talking points, so it's a hard pass. Is Kenyan better? On some things, yes. Rini Sampath seems as qualified as either of them. Maybe ranked choice will be her friend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I voted for her the first time, but she's been lousy at her job representing Ward 4 (poorly prepared, bad at responding to school needs and family needs in the Ward), shows up late to community meetings and seems bored and disinterested, and is now spouting white-supremacist talking points, so it's a hard pass. Is Kenyan better? On some things, yes. Rini Sampath seems as qualified as either of them. Maybe ranked choice will be her friend.

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Anonymous wrote:Janeese solidly won the forum held at the GWU Mt Vernon campus on Tuesday night. She has very serious oratory skills and won over an audience that seemed quite skeptical initially given the various efforts to depict her as a tax-and-spend socialist. Kenyon’s responses got better as the evening progressed, but he was very inspiring.

This astroturfing is exhausting.

DP, how do we know you're not the one astroturfing?

Because I'm not gushing about my boss's "serious oratory skills" "solid[ly winning] a forum held at the GWU Mt Vernon campus on Tuesday night"? It's like an intern used ChatGPT to come up with a glowing Yelp review.

To be more clear: if this was a real human person who attended the forum and wanted to report back about what they observed, they would talk about a particular issue or answer that they thought she responded to well. Not bland platitudes about how incredible she is and how she obviously won everyone over even though she's facing skeptics. It's just so completely typical at this point that it's all "SHE'S GREAT" with zero substance. Great on what? What question did Kenyon answer poorly at the beginning of the night? How did you see the audience was won over? Oh, no details whatsoever? 'kay.

Serious "and then everybody clapped" energy.

I think you've cried wolf about "that's a Janeese staffer!" too many times and just aren't credible.

And yes, I am a person, voter, and parent of kids in DCPS. I didn't go to that same event as the other poster but have heard both Janeese and Kenyan speak and the other poster's perspective seems reasonable.

I've said this exactly once, actually. The reason you've seen multiple people say this is because this is what her office does, every election cycle. Those of us in Ward 4 who have lived through it before recognize it.

But I'm glad that the PP came back to say she cannot remember a single thing that JLG said, which differentiates her from "bland and canned" McDuffie. Makes perfect sense!

I’m not sure what Janeese did or didn’t do to upset you so much, but your assumption that anyone who has anything good to say about her must be on her payroll tells us a lot more about you than anything else. Feel free to point out which of her positions you disagree with or recount specific interactions that left you unsatisfied, but please avoid making ridiculous accusations that you would never ever be able to back up.

Everyone who likes her isn't on her payroll. The people who refresh this thread to post about how she ::gestures vaguely:: CLEARLY dominated a debate that no one knew was happening with zero anecdotes about her dominating performance or substance about the positions she took, or the people who came on the last election thread to scream BOOYAHH SHE'S OBVIOUSLY THE HOMETOWN HERO BECAUSE SHE OUTRAISED HER OPPONENT BY FOURTEEN PERCENT on the day that fundraising submissions were due every quarter are on her payroll. The ones who call anyone who isn't in love with her a MAGA plant or a Fox-watching Repbulican are on her payroll.

Here are some specific interactions: two kids were shot on a city bus commuting home from school and she sent an immediate, 5-paragraph email about how the City not funding rec centers to keep teens out of trouble were the real problem. The shooter was an adult man, the kids who were shot were 6 and 9, she's a gd idiot who doesn't even bother to learn what's happening before leaping to a talking point. The shooter was never arrested, she never addressed the fact that she spread misinformation and had no real reaction or plan for gun violence other than "it can't be the shooter's fault," and gun crimes have gotten consistently worse every year since she took office in Ward 4.

She voted for the Second Look Act over the objections of many in her Ward, and when the Post ran an article about how traumatic it was for victims of very violent rape to be forced to testify about what happened to them every single year because the perpetrator is now always up for parole, she accused a constituent who asked her if the article made her regret her vote of "bullying a young mom" rather than respond maturely to a question about her literal job.

When a kid got run over in front of Truesdell, she organized an emergency traffic safety walk that night in . . . Shepherd Park. Three weeks later when another kid got run over 2 blocks from Truesdell she organized another emergency traffic safety walk in . . . Shepherd Park. There's your progressive hero, only gaf about the neighborhood where she thinks the money lives in her Ward. The only silver lining of her becoming Mayor is going to be watching your shock when she spends all her time in Ward 3 kissing babies and looking for checks.

Yeah, you just accused me of being on her payroll again. GFY.

[Anonymous]

I'm getting kind of pissed that George Soros is paying people money to post on DCUM but I'm getting nothing. Very unfair. Or very untrue. Either way.

[Anonymous]

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I don't care about Mamdani---I'm not a New Yorker and they can choose whomever they want as mayor. I do live in DC (and have for over 30 years) and I don't want JLG because I dislike her policy positions, particularly on crime. She voted AGAINST making it easier for landlords to get faster evictions of violent tenants who have committed violence against other residents and staff. She is in favor of an asinine idea to close 18th Street in Adams Morgan to traffic. Those of us who remember the old pedestrian mall area of the 1990s around 9th & F (pre-Verizon Center)---know that closing streets to all traffic just results in a hellscape of passed out addicts and their dealers and forces city businesses, who already have standard city challenges of getting deliveries, etc. out of business. Her policy platform is a laundry list of "freebies" designed to tug on progressive heartstrings---free childcare for all, free downpayment assistance, more rent control and absolutely no practicality about how to pay for it (especially since DC already has the largest individual tax burden in the DMV). Her platform tells me that she has no idea (and no interest) in making sure that DC continues to attract and retain businesses. DC for years has funded its over-spending by the real estate taxes generated by the downtown office buildings. Since Covid, those buildings have plummeted in value, resulting in much lower tax revenues. One of her platform goals is to create more grocery stores in Wards 5, 7, and 8---that has been a rallying cry for years but the retailers don't want to be there (and in fact have closed stores) because of the rampant theft. She conveniently ignores that part. Basically I think she's a leftist populist lacking common sense.


Thank you for answering. I think basically my question is, do you also think Mandami is a leftist populist lacking common sense?"

I don't know enough about Mandami to voice an opinion on that. I think any populist position needs to be back up by budget realities and a realization that if your only answer as a state or a city is more taxes, you will quickly find businesses and higher income residents voting with their feet. That happened in DC all during the 1970s, 1980s and early 90s when Marion Barry used the city coffers as a patronage jobs program and divorced the concept of "job" from the concept of "work". People were collecting city paychecks and never coming to work. The corruption and graft, which still permeates DC government more than the surrounding jurisdictions, was off the charts. If you think DCPS is bad now, 30 years ago none of the school buildings had been renovated and schoolbooks sat in warehouses because DCPS was too incompetent to actually get the books to the schools. The high taxes coupled with the failure to provide basic city services first drove away the white middle class and then the black middle class---that's how Prince George's became the wealthiest majority minority county in the US. Tony Williams, who has been DC's best mayor by a long shot, set about cleaning up the inefficiencies and bloat in DC government. That's why you no longer have to wait in line for 4 hours to get your car inspected, which used to be the norm 30 years ago. The Wharf, the Verizon Center/Penn Quarter area, 14th Street, H Street---all that development (and tax revenue for the City) came about due to his vision.

[Anonymous]

Neither.

Gary Goodweather instead. This city needs someone who hasn't been doing an insipid job on the council.

[Anonymous]

I think McDuffie is going to come out as the winner. I think everyone voting for other candidates are going to rank everyone except JLG and she will get shut out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think McDuffie is going to come out as the winner. I think everyone voting for other candidates are going to rank everyone except JLG and she will get shut out.

Those making predictions with their money disagree with you: https://polymarket.com/event/who-will-win-the-2026-democratic-dc-mayoral-primary

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Neither.

Gary Goodweather instead. This city needs someone who hasn't been doing an insipid job on the council.

Yuck.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think McDuffie is going to come out as the winner. I think everyone voting for other candidates are going to rank everyone except JLG and she will get shut out.

Those making predictions with their money disagree with you: https://polymarket.com/event/who-will-win-the-2026-democratic-dc-mayoral-primary

Is there anyone actually excited about McDuffie? It feels like getting excited about a cardboard box. No thanks

[Anonymous]

I am not excited about Kenyan but I am REALLY not wanting JLG. Lesser of two evils.