Are you voting for Fenty or Gray?

[Anonymous]

np here:

Gray x2 in this household.




(white, upper middle class Ward 3 couple who both voted for Fenty last time. Kids in private but watching DCPS for future years)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fenty-- we're urbanists who want high dollar development to make this a bigger/better/faster-paced city, walkability/ urban-appropriate transit priorities, and yes... gentrification. I think Gray is serious and sensible, but we're not his constituents and he won't be serving us or our priorities. We're middle income people who can't afford to bypass DCPS and live centrally (NW slightly east of the park), so we're not about to retreat into isolated low-density car-dominated enclaves without a reduction in quality of life if commerce and recreation advances in central areas stall under Gray.

This is us - 2 more votes for Fenty. For all the good it's going to do.

[Anonymous]

10:41

I was the poster and I read the article this morning. Since I live in MD, I have no dog in this show. I just thought it gave some perspective that I had not seen before in my readings about politics.


But thanks for the accusation. DCUM boards never fail to disappoint that someone will always come out accuse you of something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Demographics: white guy married white wife (~45ish), two kids in DCPS in boundary school Ward 4 resident

2 votes for Gray

[ yes we do exist ! and no we haven't drunk the bull pen kool-aid ]

Be honest now, are either of you teachers?

And who really refers to themselves or their spouses as "ish" when describing age on anoymous board? You're either 45 or you're not.

I call bullshit on the truth of your racial demo info too, because of this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Demographics: white guy married white wife (~45ish), two kids in DCPS in boundary school Ward 4 resident

2 votes for Gray

[ yes we do exist ! and no we haven't drunk the bull pen kool-aid ]

Be honest now, are either of you teachers?

And who really refers to themselves or their spouses as "ish" when describing age on anoymous board? You're either 45 or you're not.

I call bullshit on the truth of your racial demo info too, because of this.

Uh, whoa. I'm not the person you're going after, but I'm a white Ward 4 resident, not a teacher, voting for Gray. I'd call myself 40ish, though I guess you need to know that I'm 39 years 3 months. And I have a kid in DCPS.

[Anonymous]

Fenty supporters, middle class African American husband and wife, Ward 4, 2 kids in private and 1 in public, but may need public in the future, petrified of Gray hiring back the incompetent teachers. I am very disheartened that all the progress that has been made may be going down the tube if Fenty/Rhee do not get another 4 years.

[Anonymous]

Ward 6, both white, mid 40s. Tried DCPS, now 3 kids in charters. Both undecided. DH leaning towards Fenty, me truly undecided. Primary issue for me is whether charters will get adequate buildings. Fenty seems only interested in giving developers surplus DCPS buildings. Not sure what Gray will do. No one from either campaign has addressed the issue adequately for me to vote for their candidate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ward 6, both white, mid 40s. Tried DCPS, now 3 kids in charters. Both undecided. DH leaning towards Fenty, me truly undecided. Primary issue for me is whether charters will get adequate buildings. Fenty seems only interested in giving developers surplus DCPS buildings. Not sure what Gray will do. No one from either campaign has addressed the issue adequately for me to vote for their candidate.

FOCUS (Friends of Choice in Urban Schools) put together a questionnaire asking candidates their opinions on charter issues. It's posted on their website. Vincent Gray is the only candidate who bothered to answer their questions. Here is his response to yours:


1. If elected, what will you do to ensure that surplus school buildings are made available to all the public charter schools that need them before offering the buildings to D.C. government agencies, developers, or others?


As Chairman, I included clarifying legislative language within the FY2011 Budget Support Act to ensure that charter schools have access to public school buildings before other government agencies and certainly before they are offered to private developers.I recognize that this may be the single biggest issue facing the charter school movement in the District of Columbia and as Mayor, I will work with the Public Charter School Board and the entire charter school community to ensure the new legislation is implemented fairly and effectively.

[Anonymous]

If you think the public school children in charter schools should be allowed to have school buildings, much like public school children in DCPS, then there are about 28,000 reasons to vote for Gray.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1 vote for Gray tomorrow. Charter school parent, with school in search of a building. Fenty doesn't return my e-mails, Gray writes back with ideas within the day.

Ha! Let's see if he has 1/2 a second for your e-mails if he gets in.

[Anonymous]

as stupid, arrogant and ethically challenged as fenty is, i voted for him today. and as autocratic as rhee is and as boneheaded as some of her moves have been, she is the reason. our school in ward 4 is better because she's given us the leeway to make it better. cathy lanier, too, has been good for dc. so, nose held, voted for fenty. thouyght of my moderate gop friends who did the same and voted for bush in 04.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ward 6, both white, mid 40s. Tried DCPS, now 3 kids in charters. Both undecided. DH leaning towards Fenty, me truly undecided. Primary issue for me is whether charters will get adequate buildings. Fenty seems only interested in giving developers surplus DCPS buildings. Not sure what Gray will do. No one from either campaign has addressed the issue adequately for me to vote for their candidate.

Gray sat down with a contingent of YY Charter parents to discuss our lack of space. Fenty, or any of his people, would not return a phone call.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:as stupid, arrogant and ethically challenged as fenty is, i voted for him today. and as autocratic as rhee is and as boneheaded as some of her moves have been, she is the reason. our school in ward 4 is better because she's given us the leeway to make it better. cathy lanier, too, has been good for dc. so, nose held, voted for fenty. thouyght of my moderate gop friends who did the same and voted for bush in 04.

Yeah, and look at the fucking shit your moderate gop friends helped us to. Thanks to them, we are grateful for a collapsed economy, two freaking wars, and the scorn of thw world. Way to go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fenty-- we're urbanists who want high dollar development to make this a bigger/better/faster-paced city, walkability/ urban-appropriate transit priorities, and yes... gentrification. I think Gray is serious and sensible, but we're not his constituents and he won't be serving us or our priorities. We're middle income people who can't afford to bypass DCPS and live centrally (NW slightly east of the park), so we're not about to retreat into isolated low-density car-dominated enclaves without a reduction in quality of life if commerce and recreation advances in central areas stall under Gray.

This is us - 2 more votes for Fenty. For all the good it's going to do.

This is us too. Ward 8. Me, biracial, 30...DH 35 black. Child in charter.

[Anonymous]

21:24 poster here. good point, pp. i just dont hear gray talking to me (no, im not white in ward 3). i think the best take on the fenty-gray choice for me is an outlook column by mccartney in the wapo from a coupla weeks ago: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/27/AR2010082702137.html

i think any mayor of this city will be compromised and open to patronage. but i dont want gray's incrementalism, as described in the article. i dont want someone who wants to be liked. i want someone who gets things done. in ward 4, we have fought, talked, cajoled the administration and have gotten movement and response on a whole range of issues. i dont fear a return to marion barry. but i dont want city government to turn its back on me because i'm not from ward 7 or 8.