Can we recall ANCs???

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Any dreams of statehood evaporated with the crime bill fiasco.

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Anonymous wrote:Once statehood is achieved, the plan is for the ANC’s to populate the lower house of the State of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth’s legislature

There already is a state of Washington?????

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Anonymous wrote:Any dreams of statehood evaporated with the crime bill fiasco.

And good riddance to it, too!

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Anonymous wrote:They can be recalled, but the best thing you can do is to hold them accountable. Go to the meetings, ask questions. Our ANC generally HATE single family homeowners and are always acting against their interests, so those people need to show up and let their voices be heard.

Certainly if there's one demographic that's notoriously underrepresented at public meetings, it's people who own the single-unit detached houses they live in!

Actually, one of the persistent issues here is that ANCs tend to be young people who have all the time in the world on their hands, and they schedule meetings at times that are impossible for people with children (who tend to be the ones who live in single family homes) to attend. So, yes, they are underrepresented at these meetings.

Our ANC schedules meetings during the dinner hour. Typically, I'm rushing from work, to/from kids activities and then trying to get dinner ready then. Such times may work for incels with time on their hands but not for busy parents.

Are you a single parent? If not, what is the other parent doing while you are doing this, and why can't the other parent attend the meeting? Also, how old are your children, and if they're not small children, why are you doing things for them that they could do for themselves, every now and then, while you (or their other parent) are at a meeting?

No parent would ever ask such stupid questions

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Anonymous wrote:ANCs should realize that they are a glorified 311 service. They are there to tell us why the garbage wasn't collected or how to get rid of a mattress someone left in an alley. That's it. No one elected them to do anything more than stupid grunt work.

This.

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Anonymous wrote:They can be recalled, but the best thing you can do is to hold them accountable. Go to the meetings, ask questions. Our ANC generally HATE single family homeowners and are always acting against their interests, so those people need to show up and let their voices be heard.

Certainly if there's one demographic that's notoriously underrepresented at public meetings, it's people who own the single-unit detached houses they live in!

Actually, one of the persistent issues here is that ANCs tend to be young people who have all the time in the world on their hands, and they schedule meetings at times that are impossible for people with children (who tend to be the ones who live in single family homes) to attend. So, yes, they are underrepresented at these meetings.

Our ANC schedules meetings during the dinner hour. Typically, I'm rushing from work, to/from kids activities and then trying to get dinner ready then. Such times may work for incels with time on their hands but not for busy parents.

Are you a single parent? If not, what is the other parent doing while you are doing this, and why can't the other parent attend the meeting? Also, how old are your children, and if they're not small children, why are you doing things for them that they could do for themselves, every now and then, while you (or their other parent) are at a meeting?

No parent would ever ask such stupid questions

What about dog parents? They go to ANC meetings too.

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Anonymous wrote:They can be recalled, but the best thing you can do is to hold them accountable. Go to the meetings, ask questions. Our ANC generally HATE single family homeowners and are always acting against their interests, so those people need to show up and let their voices be heard.

Certainly if there's one demographic that's notoriously underrepresented at public meetings, it's people who own the single-unit detached houses they live in!

Actually, one of the persistent issues here is that ANCs tend to be young people who have all the time in the world on their hands, and they schedule meetings at times that are impossible for people with children (who tend to be the ones who live in single family homes) to attend. So, yes, they are underrepresented at these meetings.

Not sure which ANC you are in but that’s the opposite of ours. Meetings are at 7pm and many people with children attend (and many commissioners/committee members have kids too).

Just put your kids in a cargo bike and take them to the meeting. Problem solved.

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Anonymous wrote:They can be recalled, but the best thing you can do is to hold them accountable. Go to the meetings, ask questions. Our ANC generally HATE single family homeowners and are always acting against their interests, so those people need to show up and let their voices be heard.

Certainly if there's one demographic that's notoriously underrepresented at public meetings, it's people who own the single-unit detached houses they live in!

Actually, one of the persistent issues here is that ANCs tend to be young people who have all the time in the world on their hands, and they schedule meetings at times that are impossible for people with children (who tend to be the ones who live in single family homes) to attend. So, yes, they are underrepresented at these meetings.

Our ANC schedules meetings during the dinner hour. Typically, I'm rushing from work, to/from kids activities and then trying to get dinner ready then. Such times may work for incels with time on their hands but not for busy parents.

Are you a single parent? If not, what is the other parent doing while you are doing this, and why can't the other parent attend the meeting? Also, how old are your children, and if they're not small children, why are you doing things for them that they could do for themselves, every now and then, while you (or their other parent) are at a meeting?

No parent would ever ask such stupid questions

Actually these are very standard DCUM questions, though not typically in the context of ANC meetings specifically.

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Anonymous wrote:Our ANC chair has disdain for homeowners and car owners and does not even attempt to hide it. Get involved folks. Make your voices heard.

If it's the same chairperson as in our ANC, she's bonkers.

Are you my neighbor? My ANC represents no one but her own nutty self.

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We should just get rid of ANCs. They cause more problems than they solve.

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Our ANC treats his constituents' opinions as something to either ignore or overcome, which I don't think is how democracies are supposed to work.

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Anonymous wrote:There are ANCs who got elected with literally 10 votes.

The majority of ANC commissioners run unopposed and could get elected literally with one vote.

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Anonymous wrote:Our ANC treats his constituents' opinions as something to either ignore or overcome, which I don't think is how democracies are supposed to work.

They don’t have any power or authority. Go complain to your city councilor instead.

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Anonymous wrote:They can be recalled, but the best thing you can do is to hold them accountable. Go to the meetings, ask questions. Our ANC generally HATE single family homeowners and are always acting against their interests, so those people need to show up and let their voices be heard.

Certainly if there's one demographic that's notoriously underrepresented at public meetings, it's people who own the single-unit detached houses they live in!

Actually, one of the persistent issues here is that ANCs tend to be young people who have all the time in the world on their hands, and they schedule meetings at times that are impossible for people with children (who tend to be the ones who live in single family homes) to attend. So, yes, they are underrepresented at these meetings.

Our ANC schedules meetings during the dinner hour. Typically, I'm rushing from work, to/from kids activities and then trying to get dinner ready then. Such times may work for incels with time on their hands but not for busy parents.

Are you a single parent? If not, what is the other parent doing while you are doing this, and why can't the other parent attend the meeting? Also, how old are your children, and if they're not small children, why are you doing things for them that they could do for themselves, every now and then, while you (or their other parent) are at a meeting?

No parent would ever ask such stupid questions

What about dog parents? They go to ANC meetings too.

Wait someone actually birthed a dog?

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Anonymous wrote:ANCs are the worst. They're all 25 year old Green Party nutjobs.

I’m not sure what we did wrong with this generation. But when I was a 25, single, childless, nonprofit working, apartment renter I had the self awareness to realize I had absolutely no qualifications to serve in elected office.