Erin Palmer

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Anonymous wrote:I heard her on Kojo and she was TERRIBLE! Total lightweight. I was open to her, but compared to Mendelson, she was out of her league. That, and she doesn't want to get rid of the encampments. That's a deal breaker for me.

She seemed really nice and sincere, but not ready for primetime.

Her farther suffered from addiction and was homeless. She wants people rehoused. She doesn't want the city to clear encampments WITHOUT providing housing during a pandemic. This was a CDC recommendation re: spread. They just create new encampments.

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I would vote for her if she could say something like "I will definitely not support council efforts to close schools again and move to return normalcy to kids." Hell, I'd vote for Mendo if he said that.

One issue voter right now.

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Anonymous wrote:Look at the endorsements. She is another hard-left progressive of the Charles Allen, Brianne Nadeau, Robert White ilk. No meaningful positions on addressing the rising crime rates in the city except for "violence prevention programs". No private sector business experience at all (I do not count being a junior associate at a large law firm as being exposed to the reality of meeting a payroll). I just read through her naive and one-sided view on housing in the District. Apparently it has not occurred to her that part of the reason that landlords have difficulty maintaining buildings is that DC's absurdly one-sided tenant-friendly eviction and rent control laws make it difficult to (a) make enough money on older buildings in order to make needed capital and maintenance improvements and (b) evict tenants who trash apartments and create pest, mold and other issues which affect other units. I would like council people who are actually able to think through issues, instead of reacting to everything with knee-jerk bleeding heart liberalism.

Boo hoo, too bad for you. Rent control is popular policy in DC and is going nowhere. Nobody said you had to like it.

How are landlords supposed to keep up their properties? Seriously? The buildings aren't free. No all buildings are owned by companies.

But aren't all rent controlled units owned by companies? Or at least by people who are running a buisiness for profit? You need to own more than 4 units to be subject to rent control.

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Anonymous wrote:Look at the endorsements. She is another hard-left progressive of the Charles Allen, Brianne Nadeau, Robert White ilk. No meaningful positions on addressing the rising crime rates in the city except for "violence prevention programs". No private sector business experience at all (I do not count being a junior associate at a large law firm as being exposed to the reality of meeting a payroll). I just read through her naive and one-sided view on housing in the District. Apparently it has not occurred to her that part of the reason that landlords have difficulty maintaining buildings is that DC's absurdly one-sided tenant-friendly eviction and rent control laws make it difficult to (a) make enough money on older buildings in order to make needed capital and maintenance improvements and (b) evict tenants who trash apartments and create pest, mold and other issues which affect other units. I would like council people who are actually able to think through issues, instead of reacting to everything with knee-jerk bleeding heart liberalism.

Boo hoo, too bad for you. Rent control is popular policy in DC and is going nowhere. Nobody said you had to like it.

How are landlords supposed to keep up their properties? Seriously? The buildings aren't free. No all buildings are owned by companies.

But aren't all rent controlled units owned by companies? Or at least by people who are running a buisiness for profit? You need to own more than 4 units to be subject to rent control.

Won't someone think of the poor landlords??

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Anonymous wrote:Look at the endorsements. She is another hard-left progressive of the Charles Allen, Brianne Nadeau, Robert White ilk. No meaningful positions on addressing the rising crime rates in the city except for "violence prevention programs". No private sector business experience at all (I do not count being a junior associate at a large law firm as being exposed to the reality of meeting a payroll). I just read through her naive and one-sided view on housing in the District. Apparently it has not occurred to her that part of the reason that landlords have difficulty maintaining buildings is that DC's absurdly one-sided tenant-friendly eviction and rent control laws make it difficult to (a) make enough money on older buildings in order to make needed capital and maintenance improvements and (b) evict tenants who trash apartments and create pest, mold and other issues which affect other units. I would like council people who are actually able to think through issues, instead of reacting to everything with knee-jerk bleeding heart liberalism.

Boo hoo, too bad for you. Rent control is popular policy in DC and is going nowhere. Nobody said you had to like it.

How are landlords supposed to keep up their properties? Seriously? The buildings aren't free. No all buildings are owned by companies.

But aren't all rent controlled units owned by companies? Or at least by people who are running a buisiness for profit? You need to own more than 4 units to be subject to rent control.

The only reason to be a landlord is for profit. It's not fun.

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But aren't all rent controlled units owned by companies? Or at least by people who are running a buisiness for profit? You need to own more than 4 units to be subject to rent control.


The only reason to be a landlord is for profit. It's not fun.

It isn't just rent control that discourages small landlords. DC law prohibits landlords from refusing to accept housing vouchers, because under DC law it is illegal to discriminate on the basis of how someone gets their income. That puts smaller landlords into a regulatory system that they might otherwise prefer not to participate in. It is extremely difficult under DC landlord tenant law to evict tenants for any reasons OTHER than non-payment of rent. So, for example, let's take the "housing first" type approach so beloved by our progressive council members---where housing vouchers get handed out to the mentally ill/substance abusers currently encamping in tents around the city. I'm a small business person who has invested most of my life savings into a 4 unit building. I have three stable rent-paying tenants who take care of the property and get along with each other. When I advertise the 4th unit, I get a voucher applicant who moves in and starts wrecking the place. Their drug dealing friends come to hang out and disturb the other tenants. My other tenants move out (who can blame them?). I now don't have enough rental income to pay the mortgage and the operating costs of the building and I have to pay an attorney to try to evict the voucher tenant but--- because they can pay the rent (and Georgetown Law School provides a free legal clinic to help tenants), I am going to have a lengthy and costly fight to remove them. At this point, selling the building to a condo developer starts to look like a preferable alternative.

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Anonymous wrote:I would vote for her if she could say something like "I will definitely not support council efforts to close schools again and move to return normalcy to kids." Hell, I'd vote for Mendo if he said that.

One issue voter right now.

In what universe do you think the Council is going to move to close schools again? That ship has sailed. No one even has the guts to propose a return to mandatory masks in schools when disease spread is high. It’s normal again, whether we like it or not. Time to find a new issue to obsess over.

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Anonymous wrote:I would vote for her if she could say something like "I will definitely not support council efforts to close schools again and move to return normalcy to kids." Hell, I'd vote for Mendo if he said that.

One issue voter right now.

In what universe do you think the Council is going to move to close schools again? That ship has sailed. No one even has the guts to propose a return to mandatory masks in schools when disease spread is high. It’s normal again, whether we like it or not. Time to find a new issue to obsess over.

Yeah, that's the smallest risk ever. If you really want more Mendo, then by all means vote for him. But if you like Palmer's policies better then schools/COVID is just reliving last year's fights.

In fact, she might fund more repairs of schools that need them so that they can be open safely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I follow her on twitter and she calls her kids monsters. I know she means it in a joking way but I still really don't like it. I probably wouldn't have voted for her anyway but funny how something like that really turned me off on her.

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How are landlords supposed to keep up their properties? Seriously? The buildings aren't free. No all buildings are owned by companies.

DC rent control has been the law of the land since the 1980s and benefits tenants just fine.

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Erin Palmer is endorsed by Washington Teachers Union, which is why she opposed reopening. Same with Janeese Lewis George, Robert White, Brianne Nadeau, Charles Allen, and others. It's not just a matter of keeping schools open; it's every educational policy that's pro children vs. pro employment benefits. For example, some of these progressives are trying to eliminate testing under the pretext of spending more time teaching, but the reality is WTU wants testing eliminated so there's no hard data to hold teachers accountable.

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Anonymous wrote:Erin Palmer is endorsed by Washington Teachers Union, which is why she opposed reopening. Same with Janeese Lewis George, Robert White, Brianne Nadeau, Charles Allen, and others. It's not just a matter of keeping schools open; it's every educational policy that's pro children vs. pro employment benefits. For example, some of these progressives are trying to eliminate testing under the pretext of spending more time teaching, but the reality is WTU wants testing eliminated so there's no hard data to hold teachers accountable.

I'm a parent and I want PARCC eliminated because it's a waste of time and doesn't help my kids in the least. I'm not even going to stay with the rest of your right wing talking points. Good luck voting for your Republican, I'm very happy with Janeese Lewis George as my council member, and I'll be very happy if we get Erin Palmer and Robert White in office.

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Anonymous wrote:Erin Palmer is endorsed by Washington Teachers Union, which is why she opposed reopening. Same with Janeese Lewis George, Robert White, Brianne Nadeau, Charles Allen, and others. It's not just a matter of keeping schools open; it's every educational policy that's pro children vs. pro employment benefits. For example, some of these progressives are trying to eliminate testing under the pretext of spending more time teaching, but the reality is WTU wants testing eliminated so there's no hard data to hold teachers accountable.

I'm a parent and I want PARCC eliminated because it's a waste of time and doesn't help my kids in the least. I'm not even going to stay with the rest of your right wing talking points. Good luck voting for your Republican, I'm very happy with Janeese Lewis George as my council member, and I'll be very happy if we get Erin Palmer and Robert White in office.

Exactly. The people testing helps are not in the school buildings. It’s a waste of everyone’s time, and the sooner it’s gone, the better.

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I’m torn. I’m still angry that Mendholson disbanded the education committee. But I also can’t see myself voting for anyone endorsed by the WTU.

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Anonymous wrote:I would vote for her if she could say something like "I will definitely not support council efforts to close schools again and move to return normalcy to kids." Hell, I'd vote for Mendo if he said that.

One issue voter right now.

In what universe do you think the Council is going to move to close schools again? That ship has sailed. No one even has the guts to propose a return to mandatory masks in schools when disease spread is high. It’s normal again, whether we like it or not. Time to find a new issue to obsess over.

Well, when the Council considered closing schools in January, 2022, I began to think all bets are off. I have zero trust that the wackadoodles on the Council won't try something again. Hell, we are still the only place in the country with a vaccine mandate for all schoolkids, despite the fact that the vaccines for the 5-11 set are proving to be fairly useless for the people that get them or for anyone around them.