Crime on the hill - Charles Allen has got to go

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another one: https://twitter.com/alanhenney/status/1490122085548670976?s=21

I’m sorry, but that response about bike lanes was too funny.

[jsteele]

Today is the deadline for turning in candidate petitions and it appears that Charles Allen will be unopposed.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:Today is the deadline for turning in candidate petitions and it appears that Charles Allen will be unopposed.

Great. Criminals will be pleased. Perhaps there will be an atv parade, mad max style, down Penn Avenue, followed by a “leaf burning under car ceremony” by incorrigible teens who just want to have fun, along with a paintball target game of chance where kids paint happy neighbors houses, and the grand finale will be the “punching of the Gentrifier” outside of the new Safeway on 14th street. But ultimately, it will be the smiles on the faces of people who know that crime is just something that happens in the city and we shouldn’t do a thing to stop it because that would disrupt families. In fact, let’s hope the city returns to 1992 when “sht was real” and crack and crime reined supreme.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:Today is the deadline for turning in candidate petitions and it appears that Charles Allen will be unopposed.

Great. Criminals will be pleased. Perhaps there will be an atv parade, mad max style, down Penn Avenue, followed by a “leaf burning under car ceremony” by incorrigible teens who just want to have fun, along with a paintball target game of chance where kids paint happy neighbors houses, and the grand finale will be the “punching of the Gentrifier” outside of the new Safeway on 14th street. But ultimately, it will be the smiles on the faces of people who know that crime is just something that happens in the city and we shouldn’t do a thing to stop it because that would disrupt families. In fact, let’s hope the city returns to 1992 when “sht was real” and crack and crime reined supreme.

There is still time for you to run out and get 250 signatures.

[Anonymous]

I’m good. There’s no way a majority of the community, in which I was born and raised, would elect someone who actually considered arrests, prosecution and incarceration as the best deterrent against rising crime. Instead most folks ride the hot new trends of outlays millions on “violence interruptors” , which I am sure Mr. Allen knows mor studies show to have no efficacy or even may raise crime. In sun, the juice ain’t worth the squeeze. Instead I get to watch from the sidelines as people basically repeat history and the city undergoes it’s ebbs and flows of profitability and habitability. The last 20 years were pretty good. The next I am guessing won’t be as safe or financially secure. Telework’s effect on the bread and butter of the city may eat into the tax base, while at the same the Uber progressive city council raises taxes, but limits safety through inaction or w0ke policy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m good. There’s no way a majority of the community, in which I was born and raised, would elect someone who actually considered arrests, prosecution and incarceration as the best deterrent against rising crime. Instead most folks ride the hot new trends of outlays millions on “violence interruptors” , which I am sure Mr. Allen knows mor studies show to have no efficacy or even may raise crime. In sun, the juice ain’t worth the squeeze. Instead I get to watch from the sidelines as people basically repeat history and the city undergoes it’s ebbs and flows of profitability and habitability. The last 20 years were pretty good. The next I am guessing won’t be as safe or financially secure. Telework’s effect on the bread and butter of the city may eat into the tax base, while at the same the Uber progressive city council raises taxes, but limits safety through inaction or w0ke policy.

I predicted awhile back that there is no crime reduction candidate in DC and I was right. DC voters want progressives on Twitter making excuses for constituents being murdered.

[Anonymous]

Why don't you fund any republican or center independent running for ANYTHING in the city. Start there. We need a stealth centrist like Tony Williams or Adams in NY. Even Bowser is better than the absolute loons on our council.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:Today is the deadline for turning in candidate petitions and it appears that Charles Allen will be unopposed.

In the Dem primary. An independent could run against him in the general election.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:Today is the deadline for turning in candidate petitions and it appears that Charles Allen will be unopposed.

Allen made sure his most likely Democratic challenger got moved to Ward 7, so mission accomplished I guess. How noble of him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:Today is the deadline for turning in candidate petitions and it appears that Charles Allen will be unopposed.

Allen made sure his most likely Democratic challenger got moved to Ward 7, so mission accomplished I guess. How noble of him.

I would suggest that you don't vote democrat if anyone else is running against him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m good. There’s no way a majority of the community, in which I was born and raised, would elect someone who actually considered arrests, prosecution and incarceration as the best deterrent against rising crime. Instead most folks ride the hot new trends of outlays millions on “violence interruptors” , which I am sure Mr. Allen knows mor studies show to have no efficacy or even may raise crime. In sun, the juice ain’t worth the squeeze. Instead I get to watch from the sidelines as people basically repeat history and the city undergoes it’s ebbs and flows of profitability and habitability. The last 20 years were pretty good. The next I am guessing won’t be as safe or financially secure. Telework’s effect on the bread and butter of the city may eat into the tax base, while at the same the Uber progressive city council raises taxes, but limits safety through inaction or w0ke policy.

I predicted awhile back that there is no crime reduction candidate in DC and I was right. DC voters want progressives on Twitter making excuses for constituents being murdered.

100% if only on this one issue he was tougher. I don’t care about his tax hike loving ways as much as his complete incompetence on crime. Just complete and total abdication of responsibility. All the laws he pushes, the money wasted on useless violence interruptors, what the fk.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:
Today is the deadline for turning in candidate petitions and it appears that Charles Allen will be unopposed.


In the Dem primary. An independent could run against him in the general election.

I would love an entire slate of moderate independent candidates to vote for. They can't be moderate Republicans, like David Catania and Carole Schwartz were, because the Republican brand has become so toxic. But just as DC's Dems are now dominated by the progressive ideology wing of the Democratic party, maybe DC needs to become a test case for an alternate moderate independent slate since many people---independents, R's and D's---are disgusted by extremism and want a return to pragmatic problem solving. DC is not that large. A good independent who was willing to pound the pavement and go door to door and talk to people and GOTV would stand a chance in November. People who are ticked about crime in Ward 6 would go out and vote.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:
Today is the deadline for turning in candidate petitions and it appears that Charles Allen will be unopposed.


In the Dem primary. An independent could run against him in the general election.

I would love an entire slate of moderate independent candidates to vote for. They can't be moderate Republicans, like David Catania and Carole Schwartz were, because the Republican brand has become so toxic. But just as DC's Dems are now dominated by the progressive ideology wing of the Democratic party, maybe DC needs to become a test case for an alternate moderate independent slate since many people---independents, R's and D's---are disgusted by extremism and want a return to pragmatic problem solving. DC is not that large. A good independent who was willing to pound the pavement and go door to door and talk to people and GOTV would stand a chance in November. People who are ticked about crime in Ward 6 would go out and vote.[/quote

Well, count me in but it just won't happen here. In DC, our fellow citizens are either too busy being criminally stupid or virtue signaling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:
Today is the deadline for turning in candidate petitions and it appears that Charles Allen will be unopposed.


In the Dem primary. An independent could run against him in the general election.

I would love an entire slate of moderate independent candidates to vote for. They can't be moderate Republicans, like David Catania and Carole Schwartz were, because the Republican brand has become so toxic. But just as DC's Dems are now dominated by the progressive ideology wing of the Democratic party, maybe DC needs to become a test case for an alternate moderate independent slate since many people---independents, R's and D's---are disgusted by extremism and want a return to pragmatic problem solving. DC is not that large. A good independent who was willing to pound the pavement and go door to door and talk to people and GOTV would stand a chance in November. People who are ticked about crime in Ward 6 would go out and vote.

I would vote for an independent as you describe, OR a moderate Dem (like Tony Willams) or moderate R (like Hogan, Romney, Catania, Schwarz). I know so many Rs who were also never-Trumpers, and I think the fate of the party for me depends on who they put up for '24. I'd love to see a condoleeze Riace, not a DeSantis. We'll see. At the local politic level, I know few DC Republicans who were Trumpers. Maybe I don't know any. So I would vote for them based on their platform.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:
Today is the deadline for turning in candidate petitions and it appears that Charles Allen will be unopposed.


In the Dem primary. An independent could run against him in the general election.

I would love an entire slate of moderate independent candidates to vote for. They can't be moderate Republicans, like David Catania and Carole Schwartz were, because the Republican brand has become so toxic. But just as DC's Dems are now dominated by the progressive ideology wing of the Democratic party, maybe DC needs to become a test case for an alternate moderate independent slate since many people---independents, R's and D's---are disgusted by extremism and want a return to pragmatic problem solving. DC is not that large. A good independent who was willing to pound the pavement and go door to door and talk to people and GOTV would stand a chance in November. People who are ticked about crime in Ward 6 would go out and vote.

I would vote for an independent as you describe, OR a moderate Dem (like Tony Willams) or moderate R (like Hogan, Romney, Catania, Schwarz). I know so many Rs who were also never-Trumpers, and I think the fate of the party for me depends on who they put up for '24. I'd love to see a condoleeze Riace, not a DeSantis. We'll see. At the local politic level, I know few DC Republicans who were Trumpers. Maybe I don't know any. So I would vote for them based on their platform.

I don't think Catania or Schwartz would be considered Rs in today's R party. They would be mod Dems.