Charles Allen faces recall effort

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Anonymous wrote:Did Allen publicly confront the US Attorney or AG when he was sitting next to the for TWO HOURS last week? If they are part of the problem why wasn’t he up in their grills?

NOPE. He did not.

I don’t think Allen is particularly well positioned to take people to task over crime, having pretended it away this entire time.

I mean, his constituents have been getting robbed and slaughtered for two years with no end in sight. He’s sitting next to two of the dudes he says are part of the problem. But nothing? He should get recalled on that alone.

For sure.

They all collude to spin and point fingers and maintain the status quo, I suspect.

They will literally stand shoulder to shoulder and point fingers rather than call people to account or offer solutions. Same story at Frumins safety meetings. They are all there shamelessly finger pointing, and clapping each other on the back.

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The current strategy is to point at Bowser. Not great, but not the main issue. She fought the Council on some of their bigger idiocies.

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What do we need the Council for?

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I’m hoping Mike Gill’s family sues the living daylights out of the District and all the co-sponsors of the bills promoting crime from no chase on, starting with Allen and Nadeau.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m hoping Mike Gill’s family sues the living daylights out of the District and all the co-sponsors of the bills promoting crime from no chase on, starting with Allen and Nadeau.

Unrealistic

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I really hope this gets legs the same way that the DA recall in LA did. Having one of these clowns get their seat jerked away would (a) be a wake up call to the rest and (b) be a good sign overall for the saner parts of the Democratic Party.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m hoping Mike Gill’s family sues the living daylights out of the District and all the co-sponsors of the bills promoting crime from no chase on, starting with Allen and Nadeau.

Unrealistic

Is it?

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It’s weird that it feels like it would just be much harder in the current era, for tons of “progressive criminal justice reform” and “social justice” reasons that many here understand, to just pass a huge bill cracking down on crime like we did in the early 90’s. That crackdown had a huge impact on lowering crime. Now we have loud activists more interested in shouting people down than in taking strong action. We also have mealy mouthed folks like CA who want to appear altruistic, but really make us all less safe.

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Anonymous wrote:I really hope this gets legs the same way that the DA recall in LA did. Having one of these clowns get their seat jerked away would (a) be a wake up call to the rest and (b) be a good sign overall for the saner parts of the Democratic Party.

+1. Even if he alone is not singularly responsible for all the crime issues (which, obviously is not the case), I think that the message this would send would be a powerful one. That people here have frigging had enough. Every time I listen to someone from the Counsel or the AG or Bowser, they are constantly pointing the finger at someone else or some process reason why shit is terrible. It’s so infuriating. While yes, of course no single person or office can do everything, there is just zero sense of accountability. And on the messaging and symbolism front, yes he and Nadeau are the absolute worst. Whether fair or not, the perception of these two is that they are not just apathetic about the crime issue, but they in fact are actively always trying to promote measures that make crime and livability WORSE for the non-criminal residents of the city.

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Anonymous wrote:I really hope this gets legs the same way that the DA recall in LA did. Having one of these clowns get their seat jerked away would (a) be a wake up call to the rest and (b) be a good sign overall for the saner parts of the Democratic Party.

This. He deserves to go for the incalculable damage he’s done to the city, but it’s just as important that it would put the other head-in-the-sand, pro-crime members of the Council on notice.

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Anonymous wrote:I really hope this gets legs the same way that the DA recall in LA did. Having one of these clowns get their seat jerked away would (a) be a wake up call to the rest and (b) be a good sign overall for the saner parts of the Democratic Party.

This. He deserves to go for the incalculable damage he’s done to the city, but it’s just as important that it would put the other head-in-the-sand, pro-crime members of the Council on notice.

+1000 I cannot wait to sign their petition.

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Anonymous wrote:I am yet to hear the one good thing Allen has done

Charles Allen is a Member of the Council of District of Columbia and, years ago, chaired the "Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety". At that time, Allen offered legislation that greatly expanded the lenient treatment of juvenile offenders, who rarely - if ever - serve jail time, even for violent offenses.

Allen lead the committee to re-defined “juvenile offender” from those under 18, to any criminal under age 26 years-old.

He also led the committee to consider property crime, and “decriminalize” it, which was understood by the “juveniles” of D.C. to mean they can simply walk right out of any store without paying, so long as what they were stealing was valued at less than $1,000 (and the most they could possibly face as punishment would be the equivalent of a traffic ticket).

Charles Allen leading the committee and championing these measures (which he calls “criminal justice reform”), makes him especially culpable- in fact the MOST culpable, in creating the conditions for the current crime wave.

Is he solely responsible? No. But he is primarily responsible.

He needs to be recalled, as a small first step in fixing the problem. Thereafter, we need to reverse all the laws he changed.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m hoping Mike Gill’s family sues the living daylights out of the District and all the co-sponsors of the bills promoting crime from no chase on, starting with Allen and Nadeau.

Unrealistic

I can assure you I would. I don’t have to win but I would drag Allen and Nadeau through the courts until there’s nothing left in their campaign or personal accounts

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m hoping Mike Gill’s family sues the living daylights out of the District and all the co-sponsors of the bills promoting crime from no chase on, starting with Allen and Nadeau.

Unrealistic

Is it?

Agree. It’s in fact a rational next step

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I really hope this gets legs the same way that the DA recall in LA did. Having one of these clowns get their seat jerked away would (a) be a wake up call to the rest and (b) be a good sign overall for the saner parts of the Democratic Party.

Agree