Help me decide- Frumin vs. Duncan

[Anonymous]

Goulet will not actually be able to stop the high school from opening. However, his promises to do that exact thing should push voters away from him. He has no idea what he's doing, and is just going to try to obstruct (and fail at it) on the city council. Vote for Frumin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I also want help choosing! I want to be a one-issue voter on the issue of getting the new high school built as planned. I am very concerned that the Palisades NIMBYs are going to derail the plan and god knows when (if ever) they will find another site. Meanwhile Wilson is bursting at the seams.

Who is my candidate? Goulet said he is opposed. Frumin seems to support it based on his website. Is he the best shot at getting it done?

Goulet is probably your best bet to ensure that realistic plans are made and delivered.

Frumin will turn every decision into analysis by paralysis.

PP here - you are suggesting that Goulet is the best person to build the high school that he opposes? Right. There must be Goulet campaign staffers tracking mentions on this board.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Frumin has run the more viable campaign, so if you are deciding between the two, and want to ensure the DFER candidate, Goulet doesn't win, then vote for Frumin.

What is DFER?

[Anonymous]

I think either Matt or Tricia are great choices.
I do think Tricia will do a better job of standing up to the NIMBYs throughout Ward 3.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I also want help choosing! I want to be a one-issue voter on the issue of getting the new high school built as planned. I am very concerned that the Palisades NIMBYs are going to derail the plan and god knows when (if ever) they will find another site. Meanwhile Wilson is bursting at the seams.

Who is my candidate? Goulet said he is opposed. Frumin seems to support it based on his website. Is he the best shot at getting it done?

Goulet is probably your best bet to ensure that realistic plans are made and delivered.

Frumin will turn every decision into analysis by paralysis.

PP here - you are suggesting that Goulet is the best person to build the high school that he opposes? Right. There must be Goulet campaign staffers tracking mentions on this board.

DCPS and DGS have not been able to keep their current commitments to school facilities renovation and maintenance. The question is who do you trust more to hold their feet to the fire to deliver on these needed facilities? Only Goulet is equipped to do that.

[Anonymous]

Not Duncan. The Palisades hasn’t been able to solve any long standing issues and has now devolved into camps with unresolvable differences. How is that a recommendation?

I like her and she’s a woman, and perhaps not her doing. But why would we reward a net negative impact? Cause Cheh said so? It’s not North Korea

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Frumin has run the more viable campaign, so if you are deciding between the two, and want to ensure the DFER candidate, Goulet doesn't win, then vote for Frumin.

What is DFER?

https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/556994/a-pro-charter-school-group-is-stirring-up-controversy-again-this-time-with-phil-mendelson-mailers/

They have spent over $1,000,000 on three DC races this spring, including Goulet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not Duncan. The Palisades hasn’t been able to solve any long standing issues and has now devolved into camps with unresolvable differences. How is that a recommendation?

I like her and she’s a woman, and perhaps not her doing. But why would we reward a net negative impact? Cause Cheh said so? It’s not North Korea

Duncan is a lot like Cheh in that she doesn’t listen to any views that differ from her own preconceived notions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think either Matt or Tricia are great choices.
I do think Tricia will do a better job of standing up to the NIMBYs throughout Ward 3.

Except I’m the Palisades where Trish is a NIMBY, to put it charitably. Some might say “hypocrite.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not Duncan. The Palisades hasn’t been able to solve any long standing issues and has now devolved into camps with unresolvable differences. How is that a recommendation?

I like her and she’s a woman, and perhaps not her doing. But why would we reward a net negative impact? Cause Cheh said so? It’s not North Korea

We would have considered Duncan until, as a member of the Cheh’s redistricting panel, she didn’t stand up to Trumpy Bob Ward, his associates, and their plan to gerrymander and split up Ward 3 neighborhoods. She’s weak.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had a similar debate with myself and decided on Frumin. He, and everyone other than Goulet, is further left than I am, but he has a good head on his shoulders and has been advocating around the ward for longer than I've lived here. I'd trust him more than you should trust me!

Frumin seems like a nice guy but what exactly has he been “advocating” or doing all these years. He served on Cheh’s school boundary task force a few years ago, where his only memorable statement was to dismiss Ward 3 schools being removed from the Alice Deal feeder pattern as “collateral damage.”

He helped found a city wide public school advocacy group. He has been on the Washington Interfaith Network Affodabel Housing task force, he has served as an ANC Commissioner including as Chair of ANC 3E. He was on the ANC and helped foster several development projects on Wisconsin Avenue, as well as the AU Law School.

He has served as the Board Chair of the Lisner Home and just got a 93 unit affordable senior housing building through the ANC and Zoning Commission.

He has been on the Tenleytown Main Street board advocating for small businesses up and down Wisconsin Avenue.

These are the things I know of and there are a bunch that I am not as familiar with in the public school world.

Where does Frumin stand on the Suoerfresh Lady Bird development in AU Park?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I also want help choosing! I want to be a one-issue voter on the issue of getting the new high school built as planned. I am very concerned that the Palisades NIMBYs are going to derail the plan and god knows when (if ever) they will find another site. Meanwhile Wilson is bursting at the seams.

Who is my candidate? Goulet said he is opposed. Frumin seems to support it based on his website. Is he the best shot at getting it done?

Goulet is probably your best bet to ensure that realistic plans are made and delivered.

Frumin will turn every decision into analysis by paralysis.

Goulet has absolutely no direct experience with DC public schools and no understanding of what it means to be invested in schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looks like a coordinated pro-Frumin gorilla campaign in this thread. Reminds me of all of the pro-Frumin people who bitterly complained in GGW comments for their Bergman endorsement. I have to hand it to you, you are a very aggressively online group. Unfortunately, you are not reaching likely voters here (or Twitter or GGW comments), so you wasting your breath. You are better off trying to infiltrate the mommy groups at Turtle Park or CC Rec Center.

I’m a mommy so you probably wouldn’t have a whole lot of respect for my opinions. Except that I vote. As do lots of mommies. And Frumin is looking pretty good after reading your post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think either Matt or Tricia are great choices.
I do think Tricia will do a better job of standing up to the NIMBYs throughout Ward 3.

Except I’m the Palisades where Trish is a NIMBY, to put it charitably. Some might say “hypocrite.”

Why don't you be more specific cause I live in the Palisades and I have no idea what you're referring to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had a similar debate with myself and decided on Frumin. He, and everyone other than Goulet, is further left than I am, but he has a good head on his shoulders and has been advocating around the ward for longer than I've lived here. I'd trust him more than you should trust me!

Frumin seems like a nice guy but what exactly has he been “advocating” or doing all these years. He served on Cheh’s school boundary task force a few years ago, where his only memorable statement was to dismiss Ward 3 schools being removed from the Alice Deal feeder pattern as “collateral damage.”

He helped found a city wide public school advocacy group. He has been on the Washington Interfaith Network Affodabel Housing task force, he has served as an ANC Commissioner including as Chair of ANC 3E. He was on the ANC and helped foster several development projects on Wisconsin Avenue, as well as the AU Law School.

He has served as the Board Chair of the Lisner Home and just got a 93 unit affordable senior housing building through the ANC and Zoning Commission.

He has been on the Tenleytown Main Street board advocating for small businesses up and down Wisconsin Avenue.

These are the things I know of and there are a bunch that I am not as familiar with in the public school world.

Where does Frumin stand on the Suoerfresh Lady Bird development in AU Park?

ask him....there i a form on his website