Charles Allen faces recall effort

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a basketball fan. I’m not a Council’s fan

Then you should know that the Wizards are a incompetent national embarrassment. The absolute last thing DC needs is a bunch of legislative Jordan Poole's.

[Anonymous]

They are still an NBA team and not local yokels from Alabama pretending

[Anonymous]

In conclusion,
Allen’s career is over no matter what
We hope recall works
It doesn’t even matter who replaces him - an empty chair would be less harmful
Council shouldn’t exist
If it does, it needs term limits
Allen has lots of trolls, who all employ Maoist techniques of arguing and propaganda

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People on here thinking an Obama staffer turning into an old MAGA means anything to a recall effort. Charles Allen has enough support to fend off this farce

This is the progressive mindset. To dismiss opponents as 'farcical' rather than try to understand and address their concerns in a thoughtful way. You see this in every election.

This this this. Every time the extra progressive wing of the council is criticized you see their supporters blindly calling the criticizers unserious or MAGA. No, the reality is that a lot of people in this city don't agree with you and they have finally had enough. You look incredibly stupid and tone deaf when you write it off.

The amount of violent crime is unacceptable. Lifelong D who worked in D politics for years. Enough.

Silverman likes "MAGA" while Tommy Wells is trashing his legacy by introducing "Trumpers."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also, we don’t need the Council. We have the Congress who can legislate in a small DC committee. Having a Council is costly and it’s like if DC said we have the Wizards but let’s get an amateur hyper-local team too. Why???

Oh yeah, you want national legislators to run a city? Not the same skill set.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People on here thinking an Obama staffer turning into an old MAGA means anything to a recall effort. Charles Allen has enough support to fend off this farce

This is the progressive mindset. To dismiss opponents as 'farcical' rather than try to understand and address their concerns in a thoughtful way. You see this in every election.

This this this. Every time the extra progressive wing of the council is criticized you see their supporters blindly calling the criticizers unserious or MAGA. No, the reality is that a lot of people in this city don't agree with you and they have finally had enough. You look incredibly stupid and tone deaf when you write it off.

The amount of violent crime is unacceptable. Lifelong D who worked in D politics for years. Enough.

Silverman likes "MAGA" while Tommy Wells is trashing his legacy by introducing "Trumpers."

Tommy Wells is annoying. He is Allen-lite. Too bad he is trashing his own legacy

[Anonymous]

People are paying attention now, I think the recall has a shot.

The actions of the Council re: the Secure DC bill, slowing the voting process and greatly weakening it, the Sentencing Commission appointment and making it law that their appointee must always have been incarcerated when last month it was unthinkable, they have so much hubris. The recall could be a way to get their attention much more quickly than waiting for the staggered terms to come up.

Term limits are also warranted.

Re: running the city, a control board did fine before, made things much better, actually. The fiscal situation is dire and likely to get much worse. Can't rule out control board 2.0.

The Council is spending like it's the Fenty years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also, we don’t need the Council. We have the Congress who can legislate in a small DC committee. Having a Council is costly and it’s like if DC said we have the Wizards but let’s get an amateur hyper-local team too. Why???

Oh yeah, you want national legislators to run a city? Not the same skill set.

Yes.
What skill set exactly do the Council have? At least one is openly nuts, most have no qualifications

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People are paying attention now, I think the recall has a shot.

The actions of the Council re: the Secure DC bill, slowing the voting process and greatly weakening it, the Sentencing Commission appointment and making it law that their appointee must always have been incarcerated when last month it was unthinkable, they have so much hubris. The recall could be a way to get their attention much more quickly than waiting for the staggered terms to come up.

Term limits are also warranted.

Re: running the city, a control board did fine before, made things much better, actually. The fiscal situation is dire and likely to get much worse. Can't rule out control board 2.0.

The Council is spending like it's the Fenty years.

The fact that they actually held off on the Sentencing Commission appointment because of the uproar and then pushed it through later when everyone was focused on Secure DC tells me everything I need to know about the council. Your days are numbered, jerks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also, we don’t need the Council. We have the Congress who can legislate in a small DC committee. Having a Council is costly and it’s like if DC said we have the Wizards but let’s get an amateur hyper-local team too. Why???

Oh yeah, you want national legislators to run a city? Not the same skill set.

Yes.
What skill set exactly do the Council have? At least one is openly nuts, most have no qualifications

Right, so national legislators are equipped to deal with things like traffic cameras and whether we should have "right turn on red"? Yeah, they're already screwing that one up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also, we don’t need the Council. We have the Congress who can legislate in a small DC committee. Having a Council is costly and it’s like if DC said we have the Wizards but let’s get an amateur hyper-local team too. Why???

Oh yeah, you want national legislators to run a city? Not the same skill set.

Yes.
What skill set exactly do the Council have? At least one is openly nuts, most have no qualifications

No one is openly nuts. Also, for all the belly aching going on about Allen, he's actually quite good at putting policy into legislation. You might not agree with the policy he is addressing, but it would be an error to say that he has no qualifications to do it well. He's the best council member I've had in 20 years. Also a great many of us in Ward 6 agree with his policies. We'll see if we're in the majority or not as this thing winds on - but, regardless, I do think this is going to be a lot harder to pull off than y'all think.

[Anonymous]

“D.C. lawmaker says recent snowfall caused by ‘Rothschilds controlling the climate’”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also, we don’t need the Council. We have the Congress who can legislate in a small DC committee. Having a Council is costly and it’s like if DC said we have the Wizards but let’s get an amateur hyper-local team too. Why???

Oh yeah, you want national legislators to run a city? Not the same skill set.

Yes.
What skill set exactly do the Council have? At least one is openly nuts, most have no qualifications

No one is openly nuts. Also, for all the belly aching going on about Allen, he's actually quite good at putting policy into legislation. You might not agree with the policy he is addressing, but it would be an error to say that he has no qualifications to do it well. He's the best council member I've had in 20 years. Also a great many of us in Ward 6 agree with his policies. We'll see if we're in the majority or not as this thing winds on - but, regardless, I do think this is going to be a lot harder to pull off than y'all think.

WaPo disagrees. I’m not engaging with you. For one, you’re a paid troll and I’m on my free time. Additionally, I’m, shock of shocks in Ward 3 having voted with my feet. Frumin is a waste of space but doesn’t affect my life, but Allen is a different story. His career is over no matter the recall.

[Anonymous]

That Mendelson feels SO comfortable LYING about something so easily disproven is troubling. They rely on the low information voters, it seems. It's straight up propaganda at times.

Has he always been this bad? They all seem to feel completely untouchable. Except JLG and Allen seem a wee bit rattled. I

t will be interesting to see who the donors are and where they are from re: Allen's defense fund.

I think Mendo is really misreading the room. A lot of people in Wards 7 & 8 are tired of the violence and mayhem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People are paying attention now, I think the recall has a shot.

The actions of the Council re: the Secure DC bill, slowing the voting process and greatly weakening it, the Sentencing Commission appointment and making it law that their appointee must always have been incarcerated when last month it was unthinkable, they have so much hubris. The recall could be a way to get their attention much more quickly than waiting for the staggered terms to come up.

Term limits are also warranted.

Re: running the city, a control board did fine before, made things much better, actually. The fiscal situation is dire and likely to get much worse. Can't rule out control board 2.0.

The Council is spending like it's the Fenty years.

The fact that they actually held off on the Sentencing Commission appointment because of the uproar and then pushed it through later when everyone was focused on Secure DC tells me everything I need to know about the council. Your days are numbered, jerks.

Even worse, they inserted a provision in Secure DC that henceforth, every Council nominee to the Sentencing Commission must be a formerly incarcerated person. So, they punted in Jan, now made it a legal requirement evermore. Astonishing. They don't just coddle criminals, they elevate them. Not one victim advocacy group represented on the Commission, but 2 reps from the anti-carceral Sentencing Project. DC is an international joke.

5 million viewed the vid of the Argentinian tourist getting broken facial bones on the metro. He was a decent sized man, not an obvious target. DC can't afford to lose another key revenue stream.