Let Your Voice Be Heard re: Action of DC Council
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Anonymous
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Emails and phone numbers for the Council are here. Still time to make your voice heard this morning before 10.
https://dccouncil.gov/councilmembers/ DC residents are represented by the CM for their Ward, Chairman Mendelson and the 4 At Large Members, so you have 6 reps total and can send an email to all or make phone calls. For more re: the nominee https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Letter-USAO-DC-to-Council-1-2-24-FINAL.pdf |
Anonymous
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There really does not seem to be a course correction in sight, despite the 2023 stats, all the national and international stories about DC being an outlier re: crime, losing the teams, etc. They don't even try to fake it for appearances sake/politics. Wonder how Allen will vote in light of his recall drive starting?
I criticize the USA a lot but still, this is super concerning. https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Letter-USAO-DC-to-Council-1-2-24-FINAL.pdf |
Anonymous
Yaaaaawwnnnn. . . they don’t care. They won’t listen to you. Why would they? What are you going to do? - vote for a republican?? Bwahahahaha no. And they know it. |
Anonymous
Or maybe, just maybe, its possible that the opinions held by the DCUM demo are not the same as the majority of the muncipal democracy they participate in, and they're just having a hard time accepting that. |
Anonymous
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Voting rates in DC are very low. I would not take that as representing majority thought. Polls show crime and public safety are top issues for all.
I called Frumin's office to express concerns re: this nomination fwiw. |
Anonymous
| For those in Ward 1 who have said they have reached out to Nadeau by email on this issue or others and have gotten no response, I suggest calling too. May not change her vote but they have always picked up the phone when I call. |
Anonymous
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Grave’s letter is worth reading::
“With respect to the Sentencing Guidelines, I previously explained that the Sentencing Commission reported in 2022 that 57 percent of those sentenced on our most commonly charged firearms offense—Carrying a Pistol Without a License—received a sentence of probation, and an additional 30 percent received a “short-split” sentence—a sentence that by definition can be no greater than six months in jail and is often a sentence of just a couple of days in jail. Of the roughly 13 percent who received a sentence of more than six months in jail, the majority were also convicted of offenses where they actually used the firearm and were not solely convicted of possessing an illegal firearm. “ *** “The last point bears repeating. In the same year where we saw 203 homicides, 158 sexual abuse offenses, 485 carjackings, 1387 assaults with dangerous weapons, and 2082 robberies, about 50 people in total received a sentence of 10 or more years. There very well may be jurisdictions whose current sentencing practices are leading to sentences that are greater than what is necessary to achieve the purposes of sentencing. The data makes clear that the District of Columbia is not such a jurisdiction. Instead, with the types of crime we see in our community, the only reasonable conclusion from this data is that in our most serious offenses, we are not seeing sentences that adequately reflect the harm these offenses cause to the community.” *** “Simply put, the Second Look Act has created a perception that there is a 15-year maximum for any crime in the District for anyone who was under 25 at the time of the offense— which, of course, represents a substantial portion of the people charged with our most serious offenses. This perception that there is a 15 -year maximum has groundings in reality.” *** “Indeed, just last month, a jury in federal court found an individual guilty of multiple felonies committed less than one year after getting released from prison under the Second Look Act after serving a total of 26 years for 3 separate murder convictions.” *** On this nominee specifically: “The Court was “highly troubled by a specific characteristic that has been displayed consistently throughout his post-conviction history that seems at odds with any claim to integrity”: his “deliberate dishonesty in his dealings with the Court” and “his willingness to commit actual perjury repeatedly, including as recently as in 2014.” https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Letter-USAO-DC-to-Council-1-2-24-FINAL.pdf |
Anonymous
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I just made a round of calls to my 6 reps, including Mendelson, who represents all of us.
https://dccouncil.gov/ takes just a few minutes to call or email. Think it is important for dissenting voices to be heard re: lack of representation of victim's voices or victim advocate voices. Not the right person for this time and the Sentencing Project view is ALREADY represented on the Commission. Here is Mendelson's latest take For those who have not read it, the USAO letter if very good, linked to WTOP article or upthread. |
Anonymous
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What the hell:
Robert White is either lying or he doesn’t know the positions of the convicted murderer he’s supporting. Joel Caston has said he’s against trying trying people below 25 as adults: https://time.com/6119243/joel-caston-prison-reform/ The fact that McDuffie and Allen are pushing hard to get this guy on the commission speaks volumes. Allen calls it “character assassination,” but as far as I can tell everything in Grave’s letter is entirely accurate? Character assassination doesn’t mean telling the public facts about someone against your desire to keep the public ignorant. |
Anonymous
| Vote them all out. |
Anonymous
Calling a convicted felon, who is in fact a convicted felon, that, is: - character assassination? 
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Anonymous
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It's a relatively minor thing, but one of the things that really stood out to me from that Council meeting is how all the Council members (including Frumin) start talking about how they're planning to rename MacArthur for ideological reasons.
The council had years to think of a different name before the school opened. But they ignored it all this time, and now for ideological reasons want to rename it a few months after it’s opened? It’s a new school that’s trying to get off the ground, one where you’re going to be forcing people who weren’t expecting to go there to go there. Switching around the name after opening it just seems like a complete pointless way to sow confusion and hit efforts to build school spirit. And the council doesn’t seem at all interested in addressing things the actual students care about, like the transportation issues (which are the results of the city’s decisions, no less). It’s as if these people feel there’s no reason to even try to act competently. They don’t respond to e-mail, they don’t do anything on time, waste time on ideological issues while ignoring the basics of government, and only seem interested in spending tons of money of pet projects (we already have free upper-NW apartments, now the council wants to give people free e-bikes, Frumin wants to buy Intelsat to turn it into an “urban farm,” Janeese Lewis George wants to create city funded news organizations, McDuffie wants to spend money on reparations). Yet they keep getting reelected. |
Anonymous
Trayon and Robert White pushing, Allen pushing, Nadeau, JLG and her lapdog Frumin also in favor. They have the votes. |