Charles Allen faces recall effort

[Anonymous]

The problem with DC politics is that it is a one party game.

We need strong, conservative voices leading this city, tackling the crime problems with evidence based solutions that prioritize strong, consistent punishment, rather then the current far-left council that has succumbed to the far left insanity that prioritizes criminals over victims.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The problem with DC politics is that it is a one party game.

We need strong, conservative voices leading this city, tackling the crime problems with evidence based solutions that prioritize strong, consistent punishment, rather then the current far-left council that has succumbed to the far left insanity that prioritizes criminals over victims.

We need compassionate centrist-conservatives. Paging Mitt Romney. He’ll be available next year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The problem with DC politics is that it is a one party game.

We need strong, conservative voices leading this city, tackling the crime problems with evidence based solutions that prioritize strong, consistent punishment, rather then the current far-left council that has succumbed to the far left insanity that prioritizes criminals over victims.

We need compassionate centrist-conservatives. Paging Mitt Romney. He’ll be available next year.

No, we need a tough on crime democrat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The problem with DC politics is that it is a one party game.

We need strong, conservative voices leading this city, tackling the crime problems with evidence based solutions that prioritize strong, consistent punishment, rather then the current far-left council that has succumbed to the far left insanity that prioritizes criminals over victims.

We need compassionate centrist-conservatives. Paging Mitt Romney. He’ll be available next year.

No, we need a tough on crime democrat.

There are plenty of Democrats that aren't progressive, DC residents just need to vote for them. Take a look at PG County if you want to see tough on crime Democrats. They aren't in the news by the way, because it's not newsworthy to both arrest and prosecute criminals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The problem with DC politics is that it is a one party game.

We need strong, conservative voices leading this city, tackling the crime problems with evidence based solutions that prioritize strong, consistent punishment, rather then the current far-left council that has succumbed to the far left insanity that prioritizes criminals over victims.

We need compassionate centrist-conservatives. Paging Mitt Romney. He’ll be available next year.

No, we need a tough on crime democrat.

+1

The idea that DC is going to start electing Republicans into citywide offices is a fantasy -- the city is like 95% democrat or liberal leaning. But that doesn't mean we have to settle for a bunch of do-nothing, virtue signalers who mostly care about burnishing their progressive bonafides with interest groups and have little interest in effecting change.

What I'd like to see is more technocrats -- people who just want to accomplish specific, practical policy goals. Definitely someone with a tough-on-crime approach in the mayors office, where it's most needed. But also people who want to clean up DCPW, and fix what is broken in public education (DCPS but also oversight of public charters). I just want people who are skilled at accomplishing broadly supported policy goals, like keeping crime down, keeping city infrastructure functional and clean, making public schools as good as they can be. There's no perfect here and there will always be some level of crime, homelessness, and other problems. But having people in charge who run things efficiently and care about actually keeping things going well (not just cutting a ribbon on something shiny and new and then letting it slide into dereliction via neglect, which is how DC government generally works in almost every agency) is what matters to me.

I frankly don't think right-left politics have a ton of meaning on the municipal level. Sure, to some degree. I don't want book bans or a police department purchasing tanks like you see in some extremely right-leaning areas. But most people in DC broadly agree on the broad strokes of politics (prochoice, pro-civil rights, pro supportive social safety net, for the most part). The vast majority of city governance has nothing to do with any of that. Just make it work, enforce existing laws, keep things clean, etc.

[Anonymous]

The craft beer spot on H Street closing now. Having a small business in Allen’s Ward has become a kiss of death.

[Anonymous]

What I'd like to see is more technocrats -- people who just want to accomplish specific, practical policy goals. Definitely someone with a tough-on-crime approach in the mayors office, where it's most needed. But also people who want to clean up DCPW, and fix what is broken in public education (DCPS but also oversight of public charters). I just want people who are skilled at accomplishing broadly supported policy goals, like keeping crime down, keeping city infrastructure functional and clean, making public schools as good as they can be. There's no perfect here and there will always be some level of crime, homelessness, and other problems. But having people in charge who run things efficiently and care about actually keeping things going well (not just cutting a ribbon on something shiny and new and then letting it slide into dereliction via neglect, which is how DC government generally works in almost every agency) is what matters to me.

Goulet would have fit this description. I heard him speak at a meeting and he had a granular grasp of the city budget, as well as a real understanding that the collapse of the downtown commercial real estate market coupled with a slowly decreasing DC population is leading us right over a cliff. But then the progressives came out and attacked him as being a racist because he observed that DC's housing first policy was ill-considered and causing increased crime in Ward 3 (which it is). He would have had a much better grasp on what needed to be fixed than the bumbler Ward 3 elected.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

What I'd like to see is more technocrats -- people who just want to accomplish specific, practical policy goals. Definitely someone with a tough-on-crime approach in the mayors office, where it's most needed. But also people who want to clean up DCPW, and fix what is broken in public education (DCPS but also oversight of public charters). I just want people who are skilled at accomplishing broadly supported policy goals, like keeping crime down, keeping city infrastructure functional and clean, making public schools as good as they can be. There's no perfect here and there will always be some level of crime, homelessness, and other problems. But having people in charge who run things efficiently and care about actually keeping things going well (not just cutting a ribbon on something shiny and new and then letting it slide into dereliction via neglect, which is how DC government generally works in almost every agency) is what matters to me.

Goulet would have fit this description. I heard him speak at a meeting and he had a granular grasp of the city budget, as well as a real understanding that the collapse of the downtown commercial real estate market coupled with a slowly decreasing DC population is leading us right over a cliff. But then the progressives came out and attacked him as being a racist because he observed that DC's housing first policy was ill-considered and causing increased crime in Ward 3 (which it is). He would have had a much better grasp on what needed to be fixed than the bumbler Ward 3 elected.

Eric Goulet who spends his days ranting on Twitter? Who used to make a game out of triggering other people in the Wilson building? Yeah, that's not what we need.

[Anonymous]

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For those who would like to be actually informed about what took place last year and how propaganda and misinformation killed that bill, I recommend this article:

Dude, your side LOST, you can stop spamming us with the DC Justice Lab propaganda now. The tide is turning.

The article from the New Yorker is Justice lab propaganda? Alright. Best of luck wasting your time in this effort

I don't live in Ward 6. His time as Safety Committe chair impacted the whole city and will do so for years. The number of shot and killed black kids has soared, as have homicides overall. That troubles me.

I think his staff is good at some retail politics, maybe Tommy Wells holdovers, so, it's a toss up.

They will need to be very careful re: signatures.

That many seem so rattles suggests to me he feels a bit vulnerable. As does JLG who has shifted her rhetoric since Gore entered the race.

Electable candidates with different views are sorely lacking. Who would replace Allen? Who will run now that Gray is retiring?

[Anonymous]

Who used to make a game out of triggering other people in the Wilson building? Yeah, that's not what we need.

What is this about? Oddly specific.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Who used to make a game out of triggering other people in the Wilson building? Yeah, that's not what we need.

What is this about? Oddly specific.

When I worked there as a staffer he would bully different people until he finally got them to break their professional veneer and then gloat about it. Him and chuck T are birds of a sh*tty feather

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The problem with DC politics is that it is a one party game.

We need strong, conservative voices leading this city, tackling the crime problems with evidence based solutions that prioritize strong, consistent punishment, rather then the current far-left council that has succumbed to the far left insanity that prioritizes criminals over victims.

We need compassionate centrist-conservatives. Paging Mitt Romney. He’ll be available next year.

No, we need a tough on crime democrat.

There are plenty of Democrats that aren't progressive, DC residents just need to vote for them. Take a look at PG County if you want to see tough on crime Democrats. They aren't in the news by the way, because it's not newsworthy to both arrest and prosecute criminals.

PG and Baltimore both show it can be done. And without a DSA utopia having been achieved as a prerequisite.

[Anonymous]

What about Ward 3? Is there a Frumin recall?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The problem with DC politics is that it is a one party game.

We need strong, conservative voices leading this city, tackling the crime problems with evidence based solutions that prioritize strong, consistent punishment, rather then the current far-left council that has succumbed to the far left insanity that prioritizes criminals over victims.

We need compassionate centrist-conservatives. Paging Mitt Romney. He’ll be available next year.

+ 1

Tony Williams and Mitt Romney actually remind me of each other. And Tony Williams was our best Mayor by FAR.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those who would like to be actually informed about what took place last year and how propaganda and misinformation killed that bill, I recommend this article:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-crime/the-war-on-cities

Right, "actually informed." The article quotes Patrice Sulton and simply says she's "a civil-rights attorney who worked on the staff." It doesn't mention she's an anti-incarceration activist who founded DC Justice Lab.

This is what the extremists mean when they say "evidence-based"; cherry-picking information to push the narrative they want, while purposefully leaving out important facts that are inconvenient.

Well said.

Propaganda 101 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda