Can we recall ANCs???

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Anonymous wrote:They can be recalled, but the best thing you can do is to hold them accountable. Go to the meetings, ask questions. Our ANC generally HATE single family homeowners and are always acting against their interests, so those people need to show up and let their voices be heard.

Certainly if there's one demographic that's notoriously underrepresented at public meetings, it's people who own the single-unit detached houses they live in!

Actually, one of the persistent issues here is that ANCs tend to be young people who have all the time in the world on their hands, and they schedule meetings at times that are impossible for people with children (who tend to be the ones who live in single family homes) to attend. So, yes, they are underrepresented at these meetings.

Our ANC schedules meetings during the dinner hour. Typically, I'm rushing from work, to/from kids activities and then trying to get dinner ready then. Such times may work for incels with time on their hands but not for busy parents.

Are you a single parent? If not, what is the other parent doing while you are doing this, and why can't the other parent attend the meeting? Also, how old are your children, and if they're not small children, why are you doing things for them that they could do for themselves, every now and then, while you (or their other parent) are at a meeting?

No parent would ever ask such stupid questions

What about dog parents? They go to ANC meetings too.

After the addled old hippies, they're the ones who ask the dumbest questions.

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Anonymous wrote:They can be recalled, but the best thing you can do is to hold them accountable. Go to the meetings, ask questions. Our ANC generally HATE single family homeowners and are always acting against their interests, so those people need to show up and let their voices be heard.

Certainly if there's one demographic that's notoriously underrepresented at public meetings, it's people who own the single-unit detached houses they live in!

Actually, one of the persistent issues here is that ANCs tend to be young people who have all the time in the world on their hands, and they schedule meetings at times that are impossible for people with children (who tend to be the ones who live in single family homes) to attend. So, yes, they are underrepresented at these meetings.

Our ANC schedules meetings during the dinner hour. Typically, I'm rushing from work, to/from kids activities and then trying to get dinner ready then. Such times may work for incels with time on their hands but not for busy parents.

Are you a single parent? If not, what is the other parent doing while you are doing this, and why can't the other parent attend the meeting? Also, how old are your children, and if they're not small children, why are you doing things for them that they could do for themselves, every now and then, while you (or their other parent) are at a meeting?

No parent would ever ask such stupid questions

What about dog parents? They go to ANC meetings too.

After the addled old hippies, they're the ones who ask the dumbest questions.

Are you an ANC rep in my neighborhood or is the ageism that pervasive?

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Anonymous wrote:ANCs are the worst. They're all 25 year old Green Party nutjobs.

I’m not sure what we did wrong with this generation. But when I was a 25, single, childless, nonprofit working, apartment renter I had the self awareness to realize I had absolutely no qualifications to serve in elected office.

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Anonymous wrote:Honesty, you should probably just move to the burbs. DC is gonna be DC, if you can't swing the ideology, city life ain't it for you.

The only people who say stupid shit like this are young people who just moved here

It's not stupid to say that if you strongly disagree with DC's way of governing then you should probably move to the burbs, which thousands of people do every year.

The problem is that eventually those DC people do actually move to the burbs and decide that they want to urbanize them…so, we can make that deal if they will leave the suburbs alone.

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My ANC has had its makeup change from old NIMBYs who met far from the center of the commission’s jurisdiction to online due to the pandemic. The meetings were moved from 7 pm to 730 pm to accommodate one of the few commissioners under 40 years ago. Two of the nine commissioners had children at home, two had adult children, the rest were childless and one was incredibly childish. The childish one became the treasurer and managed to bungle the commission’s finances.

Now the commission has a very different makeup with three commissioners under 40, one commissioner with adult children, and one commissioner with children at home.

Now that the meetings are virtual, attendance from underrepresented groups has increased. In my ANC, hardly any multi family building residents or young parents attended meetings. Going virtual changed that. Gone are the days of someone shouting someone else down!

[Anonymous]

Now we just have the crazy chairperson cutting people off after 90 seconds. There are actually two people on the commission with children at home. There is a strong ageist, anti single family home dweller bias. It's also the only ANC that has not moved back to hybrid meetings.

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Hybrid, when done well, is great. However, it is not usually done well. And OANC has been a disaster in preparing the ANCs for the hybrid world.

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Anonymous wrote:Now we just have the crazy chairperson cutting people off after 90 seconds. There are actually two people on the commission with children at home. There is a strong ageist, anti single family home dweller bias. It's also the only ANC that has not moved back to hybrid meetings.

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Do you think everyone should be able to ramble on as long as they want?

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Anonymous wrote:Hybrid, when done well, is great. However, it is not usually done well. And OANC has been a disaster in preparing the ANCs for the hybrid world.

But hybrid is rarely done well, and basically never done well on a shoestring budget.

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Anonymous wrote:Hybrid, when done well, is great. However, it is not usually done well. And OANC has been a disaster in preparing the ANCs for the hybrid world.

Hybrid meetings suck. Online only worked great.

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Anonymous wrote:Now we just have the crazy chairperson cutting people off after 90 seconds. There are actually two people on the commission with children at home. There is a strong ageist, anti single family home dweller bias. It's also the only ANC that has not moved back to hybrid meetings.

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Do you think everyone should be able to ramble on as long as they want?

No, they think THEY should be able to though.

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Anonymous wrote:Now we just have the crazy chairperson cutting people off after 90 seconds. There are actually two people on the commission with children at home. There is a strong ageist, anti single family home dweller bias. It's also the only ANC that has not moved back to hybrid meetings.

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Do you think everyone should be able to ramble on as long as they want?

No, they think THEY should be able to though.

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We've seen a generational transfer of power at the ANC level in Ward 3 and the tactics employed by the old guard either aren't as effective as they used to be or simply aren't deployable due to not being in power.

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Anonymous wrote:Now we just have the crazy chairperson cutting people off after 90 seconds. There are actually two people on the commission with children at home. There is a strong ageist, anti single family home dweller bias. It's also the only ANC that has not moved back to hybrid meetings.

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Do you think everyone should be able to ramble on as long as they want?

No, they think THEY should be able to though.

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We've seen a generational transfer of power at the ANC level in Ward 3 and the tactics employed by the old guard either aren't as effective as they used to be or simply aren't deployable due to not being in power.

Not so much a transfer of power. More a result of middle aged adults still dealing with the downstream impacts of home schooling for two years and not being able to undertake public service. Having recent high school and college grads with no professional or life experience serving in elected office is not a healthy thing, as we a witnessing.

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Anonymous wrote:Now we just have the crazy chairperson cutting people off after 90 seconds. There are actually two people on the commission with children at home. There is a strong ageist, anti single family home dweller bias. It's also the only ANC that has not moved back to hybrid meetings.

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Do you think everyone should be able to ramble on as long as they want?

No, they think THEY should be able to though.

+1

We've seen a generational transfer of power at the ANC level in Ward 3 and the tactics employed by the old guard either aren't as effective as they used to be or simply aren't deployable due to not being in power.

Not so much a transfer of power. More a result of middle aged adults still dealing with the downstream impacts of home schooling for two years and not being able to undertake public service. Having recent high school and college grads with no professional or life experience serving in elected office is not a healthy thing, as we a witnessing.

No. The transition predates the pandemic. It started in the mid to late teens. Young -- not college-age but those in their early-middle age with young children at home -- ran and won in heavily contested seats across the ward.* Some commission areas fell earlier than others and now several of the ward 3 ANCs have been strong for a half-decade or more.

The effect was palpable. That restaurant you like that awaked a dead area? That's because of the transition.

*NOTE: some of the local civic organizations got much better at the same time, also through early-middle age leadership taking over and pushing a more community-minded mindset. The two sources of change amplified each other.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Now we just have the crazy chairperson cutting people off after 90 seconds. There are actually two people on the commission with children at home. There is a strong ageist, anti single family home dweller bias. It's also the only ANC that has not moved back to hybrid meetings.

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Do you think everyone should be able to ramble on as long as they want?

No, they think THEY should be able to though.

+1

We've seen a generational transfer of power at the ANC level in Ward 3 and the tactics employed by the old guard either aren't as effective as they used to be or simply aren't deployable due to not being in power.

Not so much a transfer of power. More a result of middle aged adults still dealing with the downstream impacts of home schooling for two years and not being able to undertake public service. Having recent high school and college grads with no professional or life experience serving in elected office is not a healthy thing, as we a witnessing.

No. The transition predates the pandemic. It started in the mid to late teens. Young -- not college-age but those in their early-middle age with young children at home -- ran and won in heavily contested seats across the ward.* Some commission areas fell earlier than others and now several of the ward 3 ANCs have been strong for a half-decade or more.

The effect was palpable. That restaurant you like that awaked a dead area? That's because of the transition.

*NOTE: some of the local civic organizations got much better at the same time, also through early-middle age leadership taking over and pushing a more community-minded mindset. The two sources of change amplified each other.

LOL! This new generation of “leaders” have presided over an unimaginable backslide into blight and crime not seen since the 1980s. It’s incredible that they show their faces in public.