Charles Allen faces recall effort

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Amen.

Don’t forget the no chase policy

[Anonymous]

We broke $60k. Keep it coming in spite of the “sanguine” Chuckies

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Summary of scoop:

A person who lives on Capitol Hill has formed a committee "among a group of friends" and "plans to begin fundraising soon" to collect (according to them) 7,500 signatures.

"The other side: Allen points out that he won re-election unopposed in 2022 with over 90% of the vote."

Pleased to be in the 10%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We broke $60k. Keep it coming in spite of the “sanguine” Chuckies

Yes, we know that national republicans want to raise awareness of dc based issues as we approach the 2024 election. This is an easy way for them to do it.

When you can get the necessary signatures and put up a legitimate candidate, that will actually show that W6 residents are in support of this measure.

Or you could make the donor list public - that would also help shed light on who supports this. So far all I see are anonymous messages here and people on X who use pseudonyms

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Summary of scoop:

A person who lives on Capitol Hill has formed a committee "among a group of friends" and "plans to begin fundraising soon" to collect (according to them) 7,500 signatures.

"The other side: Allen points out that he won re-election unopposed in 2022 with over 90% of the vote."

Pleased to be in the 10%.

I like this! For years I've thought of my vote (I do vote every time) as 'not counting' in DC, because I vote for moderate democrats, independents and republicans. Now I will say, "Pleased to be in the ___%". The dissenting voice. Thank you for re-framing that for me. I hope others join

[Anonymous]

It’s fun to watch all these radical ANC Commissioners send supportive Tweets about Charles Allen. They think they’re helping, but they’re really not. Outside out the 25 people who signed their petitions just about everyone is sick of them too. Keep it up please.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We broke $60k. Keep it coming in spite of the “sanguine” Chuckies

Yes, we know that national republicans want to raise awareness of dc based issues as we approach the 2024 election. This is an easy way for them to do it.

When you can get the necessary signatures and put up a legitimate candidate, that will actually show that W6 residents are in support of this measure.

Or you could make the donor list public - that would also help shed light on who supports this. So far all I see are anonymous messages here and people on X who use pseudonyms

Do you know why? Because most of these people are well known and established in their profession. They are unlikely to let’s say point a middle finger at a local business and take a selfie with their ANC buddies. They take trash out at night. Bye “Cheaucescu” Allen. 👋

[Anonymous]

I left the Democratic Party because I don’t want anything being done in my name as a blanket check. I’m yet to vote anything but Democrat but enjoy being Independent. It is atrocious that our system and local elections are hijacked by the two-party primary. Without primaries, people like Allen wouldn’t stand a chance.

Having said all of that, I don’t see the point of the DC Council. I believe the city should be federalized, and the Congress can legislate. We need a gun for hire clean city manager. That’s it. Problem solved. DC could become Monaco. I’m not even above giving anyone under certain threshold a basic income, the flip side being that crime should be punished severely.

I was listening to the El Salvadorian President whom I really want to dislike him but listening to him talk about how criminals of course have human rights and in fact comment disfavorably on the cruel and terrible justice system in the US (he of the super prison) was eye opening. It’s really hard to disagree when he explains that the rights of the honest/honorable people need to come before the rights of the criminals. DC has flipped that script.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We broke $60k. Keep it coming in spite of the “sanguine” Chuckies

Yes, we know that national republicans want to raise awareness of dc based issues as we approach the 2024 election. This is an easy way for them to do it.

When you can get the necessary signatures and put up a legitimate candidate, that will actually show that W6 residents are in support of this measure.

Or you could make the donor list public - that would also help shed light on who supports this. So far all I see are anonymous messages here and people on X who use pseudonyms

It’s an easy way for them to do it because it’s true.

As a lifelong liberal Democrat who is terrified of a second Trump term, I think it would be really nice if the DC Council and Charles Allen in particular could get their act together so we stop being something the Republicans can point to as evidence that cities run by Democrats are a complete disaster.

This would have the added bonus of me not being scared to take the metro, take the bus, drive around in my car, go to work, go to restaurants, etc. Because in the last year, people have been murdered doing all of those things in my neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

After Mendelson's smirky performance yesterday, let's do him next.

[Anonymous]

I just hope Mike Gill’s wife sues Allen and Nadeau jointly and severally with the Council back into Ward 8 - let’s see how long they can offer hugs to criminals there before they’re kicked to the curb (literally) by the no nonsense families there.

Electing people like Allen, Nadeau and Frumin is some “white people bullshit” at its worst. They are already morally bankrupt, it’d be nice to see them properly bankrupted by a civil suit for promoting crime.

I bet we’d never have another Council like this one once they get sued. Hit them where it hurts — their personally lined pockets (with our $$$),

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just hope Mike Gill’s wife sues Allen and Nadeau jointly and severally with the Council back into Ward 8 - let’s see how long they can offer hugs to criminals there before they’re kicked to the curb (literally) by the no nonsense families there.

Electing people like Allen, Nadeau and Frumin is some “white people bullshit” at its worst. They are already morally bankrupt, it’d be nice to see them properly bankrupted by a civil suit for promoting crime.

I bet we’d never have another Council like this one once they get sued. Hit them where it hurts — their personally lined pockets (with our $$$),

Frumin is the worst because he’s had an entire lifetime to figure this out. But he’s fallen in line with the young progressives and their crazy ideas. At the library he talks a big game about crime, but in the Wilson Building he votes with the crazies. He pathetic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Summary of scoop:

A person who lives on Capitol Hill has formed a committee "among a group of friends" and "plans to begin fundraising soon" to collect (according to them) 7,500 signatures.

"The other side: Allen points out that he won re-election unopposed in 2022 with over 90% of the vote."

Pleased to be in the 10%.

Technically you're in the majority, since Allen only got ~14k votes in a ward with over 100k residents. But his supporters will keep throwing that 90% number around like it means something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think you’re a teacher, and think you’re a provocateur from his office or friends’ context. Your style of writing is similar to his. But I enjoy venting about Chuck so all good.

It’s very telling if you are real that you can’t name one thing or wish to engage on education in general or in the Ward.

My education focus is on the fact that our mayor refuses to engage with teachers on a new contract and I'm yet again working on an expired deal, as I have for 7/10 years as an ET-15 in DCPS. Served on the chancellors cabinet under Ferebee, and have been recognized at past standing ovation events. I hope that clears up any confusion about my educational claims.
Council doesn't even have an education dept anymore thanks to mendo so there's not much intersectionality between Allen and what I would like from my govt. what I don't like is all of this angry rhetoric. When I ask people to claim factually what they dislike, they can't. When I ask them what policies of his have led to more crime, they can't. It's disappointing that Charles Allen takes up so much of the discourse when teachers are working without contracts, in overcrowded classrooms, being tasked with academically and socially lifting up the next generation while our mayor ignores us and our fellow citizens bash our students

It’s not the mayor, it’s Kihn

Kihn works for the mayor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We broke $60k. Keep it coming in spite of the “sanguine” Chuckies

Think of all the good that this money could do instead of being wasted on a frivolous recall that the majority of the people do not support.