Muriel Bowser bad for DC

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Anonymous wrote:Bowser was literally the “moderate” Democrat in the primary. The rest were waaaaaay more lax on crime.

vote Republican.

After you guys staged a coup and tried to ban abortion? No thanks.

You are setting this city up for failure. There are many Republicans who are not Trumpers--I would bet any who are running for DC City Council are pretty moderate on social issues, you could, you know, read their platform, just likely to take Allen-esque stance on the soaring crime. It's difficuly to "fix a party". Can you "fix" the DC Democratic party for us, given what a batsh*t crazy job they're doing? Please go on and "fix" it.
I voted ALL moderate independent, Republican or write-in on the last round of elections. The Democrats who have run in this city since the excellent Tony Williams (a technocrat who I very much doubt has any party ideology ) and so-so Adrian Fenty (did a nice job on parks and recreation) have been a HUGE fail for our city. But do carry on. --DC Native

Sorry--just "less likely" to take an Allen-esque stance. ^ Yes, we had Catania, and there was an ex-Navy guy (Republican) who ran for Ward 3 city council last go round, but noooooooooo - we had to vote in Mr. PickleBall. I am a Republican and I don't know any Trumpers at ALL, and though there may be some super wealthy ones who live in DC - likely came as part of the last administration and have stayed on for whatever reason- I would guarantee very few are interested in civil service so I wouldn't really fear them, you know, taking over the city government. Knee jerk anti-Republicans, I question your ability to research candidates and read platforms. So much easier to just jerk those knees around.

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Who would do better?

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Anonymous wrote:It’s the people who VOTED for Bowser, who are bad for DC.

Most of you on this forum are to blame.

So true!

Remind me, who was the much better candidate on the ballot running against her? As bad as she is, the rest were weak on crime, even more bumbling, et cetera.

Not this past election, but David Catania opposed her before. He was a reasonably strong candidate - too bad he didn’t win.

He last ran for Mayor 10 years ago. His continued involvement in politics has been... dicey. He last chaired the campaign to have Kathryn Allen replace Elissa Silverman... but it turned out that more than half of the signatures collected for Allen were fraudulent. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/board-boots-business-backed-council-candidate-from-dc-ballot-citing-signature-fraud/2018/09/11/553453aa-b48e-11e8-a2c5-3187f427e253_story.html

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:It’s the people who VOTED for Bowser, who are bad for DC.

Most of you on this forum are to blame.

So true!

Remind me, who was the much better candidate on the ballot running against her? As bad as she is, the rest were weak on crime, even more bumbling, et cetera.

Not this past election, but David Catania opposed her before. He was a reasonably strong candidate - too bad he didn’t win.

He last ran for Mayor 10 years ago. His continued involvement in politics has been... dicey. He last chaired the campaign to have Kathryn Allen replace Elissa Silverman... but it turned out that more than half of the signatures collected for Allen were fraudulent. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/board-boots-business-backed-council-candidate-from-dc-ballot-citing-signature-fraud/2018/09/11/553453aa-b48e-11e8-a2c5-3187f427e253_story.html

The POINT is that no one of any quality opposes these nut cases because DC ites say things like "I would never vote for a centrist independent" or "I would never vote for a Republican" because abortion, gay marriage (as if a couple of non Democrats in city government are going to make it their PRIORITY to roll that back. OK--you have a city run by far left san francisco liberals. Are any of them even FROM here? But hang on to those principles.

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Under Muriel "Crime for All" Bowser, DC has become a little banana republic. Besides crime, corruption is a huge problem in her administration, especially in the issues related to housing and developers. Here is the last example:

D.C. Housing Authority wrongly omitted from city financials, auditor says

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/01/05/dcha-audit-dc-government/

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Anonymous wrote:Under Muriel "Crime for All" Bowser, DC has become a little banana republic. Besides crime, corruption is a huge problem in her administration, especially in the issues related to housing and developers. Here is the last example:

D.C. Housing Authority wrongly omitted from city financials, auditor says

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/01/05/dcha-audit-dc-government/

There is a not-insignificant chance that Bowser gets indicted in the fall out from “Johnny Business-gate.”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s the people who VOTED for Bowser, who are bad for DC.

Most of you on this forum are to blame.

So true!

Remind me, who was the much better candidate on the ballot running against her? As bad as she is, the rest were weak on crime, even more bumbling, et cetera.

Not this past election, but David Catania opposed her before. He was a reasonably strong candidate - too bad he didn’t win.

He last ran for Mayor 10 years ago. His continued involvement in politics has been... dicey. He last chaired the campaign to have Kathryn Allen replace Elissa Silverman... but it turned out that more than half of the signatures collected for Allen were fraudulent. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/board-boots-business-backed-council-candidate-from-dc-ballot-citing-signature-fraud/2018/09/11/553453aa-b48e-11e8-a2c5-3187f427e253_story.html

The POINT is that no one of any quality opposes these nut cases because DC ites say things like "I would never vote for a centrist independent" or "I would never vote for a Republican" because abortion, gay marriage (as if a couple of non Democrats in city government are going to make it their PRIORITY to roll that back. OK--you have a city run by far left san francisco liberals. Are any of them even FROM here? But hang on to those principles.

Wow, so you think DC is strictly wedded to Dems only? That's pretty weird since I routinely see DC Statehood / Green Party also getting votes. A candidate who doesn't want to run as a Dem would be better off running as Independent / Third Party than Republican tho.

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Muriel inherited the corrupt Marion Barry political machine, and revitalized it:



As someone who lived in DC through the Barry years (both his pre and post-prison years), it was bad. Really bad. There were constant exposes of his corruption. His administration was corrupt from top to bottom.

No surprise Bowser’s administration is inept, at best, and likely as corrupt as Barry’s.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s the people who VOTED for Bowser, who are bad for DC.

Most of you on this forum are to blame.

So true!

Remind me, who was the much better candidate on the ballot running against her? As bad as she is, the rest were weak on crime, even more bumbling, et cetera.

Not this past election, but David Catania opposed her before. He was a reasonably strong candidate - too bad he didn’t win.

He last ran for Mayor 10 years ago. His continued involvement in politics has been... dicey. He last chaired the campaign to have Kathryn Allen replace Elissa Silverman... but it turned out that more than half of the signatures collected for Allen were fraudulent. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/board-boots-business-backed-council-candidate-from-dc-ballot-citing-signature-fraud/2018/09/11/553453aa-b48e-11e8-a2c5-3187f427e253_story.html

The POINT is that no one of any quality opposes these nut cases because DC ites say things like "I would never vote for a centrist independent" or "I would never vote for a Republican" because abortion, gay marriage (as if a couple of non Democrats in city government are going to make it their PRIORITY to roll that back. OK--you have a city run by far left san francisco liberals. Are any of them even FROM here? But hang on to those principles.

Wow, so you think DC is strictly wedded to Dems only? That's pretty weird since I routinely see DC Statehood / Green Party also getting votes. A candidate who doesn't want to run as a Dem would be better off running as Independent / Third Party than Republican tho.

Wow, yes I think DC is strictly wedded to Dems. Are you even serious?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s the people who VOTED for Bowser, who are bad for DC.

Most of you on this forum are to blame.

So true!

Remind me, who was the much better candidate on the ballot running against her? As bad as she is, the rest were weak on crime, even more bumbling, et cetera.

Not this past election, but David Catania opposed her before. He was a reasonably strong candidate - too bad he didn’t win.

He last ran for Mayor 10 years ago. His continued involvement in politics has been... dicey. He last chaired the campaign to have Kathryn Allen replace Elissa Silverman... but it turned out that more than half of the signatures collected for Allen were fraudulent. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/board-boots-business-backed-council-candidate-from-dc-ballot-citing-signature-fraud/2018/09/11/553453aa-b48e-11e8-a2c5-3187f427e253_story.html

The POINT is that no one of any quality opposes these nut cases because DC ites say things like "I would never vote for a centrist independent" or "I would never vote for a Republican" because abortion, gay marriage (as if a couple of non Democrats in city government are going to make it their PRIORITY to roll that back. OK--you have a city run by far left san francisco liberals. Are any of them even FROM here? But hang on to those principles.

Wow, so you think DC is strictly wedded to Dems only? That's pretty weird since I routinely see DC Statehood / Green Party also getting votes. A candidate who doesn't want to run as a Dem would be better off running as Independent / Third Party than Republican tho.

DC in reality IS wedded to Dems only. That is simply a fact.

What alternate reality do you live in, PP??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bowser was literally the “moderate” Democrat in the primary. The rest were waaaaaay more lax on crime.

vote Republican.

After you guys staged a coup and tried to ban abortion? No thanks.

You are setting this city up for failure. There are many Republicans who are not Trumpers--I would bet any who are running for DC City Council are pretty moderate on social issues, you could, you know, read their platform, just likely to take Allen-esque stance on the soaring crime. It's difficuly to "fix a party". Can you "fix" the DC Democratic party for us, given what a batsh*t crazy job they're doing? Please go on and "fix" it.
I voted ALL moderate independent, Republican or write-in on the last round of elections. The Democrats who have run in this city since the excellent Tony Williams (a technocrat who I very much doubt has any party ideology ) and so-so Adrian Fenty (did a nice job on parks and recreation) have been a HUGE fail for our city. But do carry on. --DC Native

Oh, not Trumpists?
1. I don't believe you. You're talking about pre-Trump Republicans, not the current crop.
2. So just run of the mill trickle-down economics, anti-public education, anti-union, anti-choice, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ, etc...

No thanks

[Anonymous]

I am not a huge Bowser stan but sometimes she is funny

[Anonymous]

This was also quite funny and surprisingly effective

[Anonymous]

The deputy mayor Nina Albert really outshines Bowser when she speaks. Also, Bowser is bringing Fenty back to help with the gallery place task force? And some of his former staff? Maybe the mayor reads DCUM?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bowser was literally the “moderate” Democrat in the primary. The rest were waaaaaay more lax on crime.

This. Bowser is actually pretty center democrat. It’s our council that is so far to the left. Half the council needs to go.

But yall are crazy if you think Robert white would have been tougher on crime as mayor.

Council and mayor need to realize that affordable housing is not the priority, crime is all they should be focusing on.