Charles Allen faces recall effort

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Mendo lied under oath to Congress. Of course he’ll lie to a reporter.

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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.

Well I'm a different person and think it looks much worse that when someone gives a reasoned response, explains why they support someone and also grants that others might feel differently, you come back with that response. Makes me feel even better about Allens chances tbh

[Anonymous]

Yeah but you don’t. The tone is a hallmark of an Allen operative. The only thing I don’t understand is why any of you aren’t looking for new jobs? Even if he survives the recall he’s radioactive politically and will taint you by association.

[Anonymous]

Im curious about something — does Allen wear brown shoes? He does, doesn’t he

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I’d like the PP to explain why they like Allen, and reason it and support it with examples. Imma wait

[Anonymous]

It's funny, nearly every single Allen supporter starts off by saying, "Sure, crime is a problem, but..."

Saying "Sure, crime is a problem, but..." is such a tell. It's a guaranteed sign that:

-- You don't actually think crime is a problem, because it doesn't affect you. It's a sign of your extreme privilege.

-- You're a white male, and often a mediocre white male.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Yes, but it got worse when he became Chair. He single handedly overturned the first eliminating the tipped wage initiative because he disagreed with it.

[Anonymous]

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

They're the second worst team in the league and filled with a bunch of "local yokels" and never beens.

Allen came to DC with the DNC. He is the epitome of that type of national carpet bagger. But he's still better than the fools in Congress. Both parties are filled with idiots. Those idiots tend to be the ones put on the DC subcomittees. When those DC subcommittees have had power they've used it for performative national politics stunts. We wouldn't be getting the Katie Porter types we'd be getting the Cori Bush's and Lauren Boebert's.

You all work in Congress so you know how stupid most of them are. I'm good with putting a scare into Allen and the rest of our moronic local goverment but pretending that Congress would somehow be competent and not full of out of touch grandstanding experiments is beyond foolish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's funny, nearly every single Allen supporter starts off by saying, "Sure, crime is a problem, but..."

Saying "Sure, crime is a problem, but..." is such a tell. It's a guaranteed sign that:

-- You don't actually think crime is a problem, because it doesn't affect you. It's a sign of your extreme privilege.

-- You're a white male, and often a mediocre white male.

Crime is a problem AND its ridiculous that people blame Charles Allen for it. Is that easier to understand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah but you don’t. The tone is a hallmark of an Allen operative. The only thing I don’t understand is why any of you aren’t looking for new jobs? Even if he survives the recall he’s radioactive politically and will taint you by association.

He lives in your head so deep that you think me, a teacher, is an Allen op. I swear this site is better for laughs than anywhere else online

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Yes, but it got worse when he became Chair. He single handedly overturned the first eliminating the tipped wage initiative because he disagreed with it.

I actually think Mendo did okay in his early ears as chair. A lot of that job is about organization and he was pretty good at it (or at least is staff was).

The wheels have come off in recent years. I think he's been caught between Bowser and cronies (self-interested liars, every one) and the progressive wing of the council (Allen, Silverman, et al -- well meaning but genuinely incompetent) and he's lost the plot.

He was okay when we had more actually competent people in city leadership. It's been a while, though.

I couldn't bring myself to vote for Erin Palmer though. She's seems personally like a good person, but it's a huge job and she's so green. I really think you need someone with actual council experience in there.

I'd like to see Christina Henderson run for council chair or mayor next time around. Not sure who else from this current crop I'd support. I think a lot of them need to be thrown out, including Bowser and Allen.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's funny, nearly every single Allen supporter starts off by saying, "Sure, crime is a problem, but..."

Saying "Sure, crime is a problem, but..." is such a tell. It's a guaranteed sign that:

-- You don't actually think crime is a problem, because it doesn't affect you. It's a sign of your extreme privilege.

-- You're a white male, and often a mediocre white male.

Crime is a problem AND its ridiculous that people blame Charles Allen for it. Is that easier to understand.

Some people blame Charles Allen for crime, which is inaccurate.

Some of us blame Allen for an incredibly inadequate response to crime issues in the district. Which is 100% fair. He did a bad job with the crime bill (both drafting it and explaining it) and he's been terrible on crime issues in his own ward -- his response to rising crime on the Hill has been to deny it's happening, make sympathetic noises, and look the other way. Meanwhile we have businesses closing and people moving away the crime is so bad. Many of us don't feel comfortable walking around our neighborhood after dark anymore (and many of us who feel this way remember what it was like years ago, so this is not just people who are new or uncomfortable with urban life -- I've been in DC a long time).

He didn't cause all the crime in the city. He also has done nothing to make it better despite having opportunities to do so, and fails to support his constituents in combatting it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah but you don’t. The tone is a hallmark of an Allen operative. The only thing I don’t understand is why any of you aren’t looking for new jobs? Even if he survives the recall he’s radioactive politically and will taint you by association.

He lives in your head so deep that you think me, a teacher, is an Allen op. I swear this site is better for laughs than anywhere else online

Why aren’t you in school, teacher? You sure stink of an Allen “operative”, a yokel’s yokel.

[Anonymous]

I’m in school and not an Allen troll but I can post whole work day long while I’m allegedly teaching.

😂

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's funny, nearly every single Allen supporter starts off by saying, "Sure, crime is a problem, but..."

Saying "Sure, crime is a problem, but..." is such a tell. It's a guaranteed sign that:

-- You don't actually think crime is a problem, because it doesn't affect you. It's a sign of your extreme privilege.

-- You're a white male, and often a mediocre white male.

Crime is a problem AND its ridiculous that people blame Charles Allen for it. Is that easier to understand.

What is happening with crime is unique to DC. It’s way, way, WAY down in almost every other big city in the country. Clearly we’re doing something wrong.