Who is running for DC Mayor?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is Gary G running?

Yes he is.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DC would be better off if council members were barred from running from mayor.

Being on the council gives candidates the name recognition needed to win the election, but is otherwise horrible preparation. The primary job of the mayor is to appoint and manage heads of various city agencies, including MPD and DCPS.

Nothing council members do prepares them to do this. We’ve seen the consequences with Bowser, who has completely failed at the task of finding competent people to run key agencies. Her incompetent administrators have turned the agencies they oversee into laughing stocks.

If the rumors hold, we’ll likely end up with a mayoral field populated by the likes of JLG, Nadeau, McDuffie, T White, and maybe C Allen. I’d trust none of these people to run a corner store, let alone a city as complex as DC.

I don’t have a lot of hope for this city’s future.

Nadeau and Lewis George would not run against each other. They are best friends. I think C Allen, McDuffie and possibly T White will run in addition to JLG. I still think Bowser wants to finish the stadium work as mayor

I don't think it makes any sense for Bowser to stick around. If she leaves next year, she gets to enjoy the credit for delivering the stadium deal.

Things likely start to get messy once the construction starts. Even if the project stays on time and on budget, there will be a lot of controversy around transit / parking and the inevitable failure of the Commanders to live up to perceived promises on housing.

If the construction goes over budget or the city's revenues start tanking, those who inked this deal are going to shoulder their share of blame. And that will probably happen anyway once DC taxpayers slowly wake to what that they've been sold.

In addition to those considerations, Bowser is also likely very burned out from the past 9 months and has some fairly attractive options waiting for her in the private sector.

This makes a lot of sense and is the best case for her not running again that I’ve read.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Please, for the love of Christ: anyone but Muriel

AGREED!!!!

Nah. Trayon White ran last time. It can get worse.

What’s your problem? Trayon will make a great mayor.

[Anonymous]

Does it matter?

Pick a random person walking down the street.

That person would do a better job.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please, for the love of Christ: anyone but Muriel

AGREED!!!!

Nah. Trayon White ran last time. It can get worse.

What’s your problem? Trayon will make a great mayor.

How Sway?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I don't think it makes any sense for Bowser to stick around. If she leaves next year, she gets to enjoy the credit for delivering the stadium deal.

Things likely start to get messy once the construction starts. Even if the project stays on time and on budget, there will be a lot of controversy around transit / parking and the inevitable failure of the Commanders to live up to perceived promises on housing.

If the construction goes over budget or the city's revenues start tanking, those who inked this deal are going to shoulder their share of blame. And that will probably happen anyway once DC taxpayers slowly wake to what that they've been sold.

In addition to those considerations, Bowser is also likely very burned out from the past 9 months and has some fairly attractive options waiting for her in the private sector.

She's not going to have a choice. She won't be mayor in 2027. Dump is demanding to get his name on the stadium. Muriel has two options: She can do what she does best, capitulate to Dump and work with him to get his name on the stadium. She will thus tank her chances of being re-elected in 2026.

Or she can fight Dump putting his name on the stadium, piss him off and have him interfere with the stadium opening on time. Which would ruin her career-defining achievement.

Either way sounds good to me! F U Muriel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC would be better off if council members were barred from running from mayor.

Being on the council gives candidates the name recognition needed to win the election, but is otherwise horrible preparation. The primary job of the mayor is to appoint and manage heads of various city agencies, including MPD and DCPS.

Nothing council members do prepares them to do this. We’ve seen the consequences with Bowser, who has completely failed at the task of finding competent people to run key agencies. Her incompetent administrators have turned the agencies they oversee into laughing stocks.

If the rumors hold, we’ll likely end up with a mayoral field populated by the likes of JLG, Nadeau, McDuffie, T White, and maybe C Allen. I’d trust none of these people to run a corner store, let alone a city as complex as DC.

I don’t have a lot of hope for this city’s future.

Now this is the correct take

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please, for the love of Christ: anyone but Muriel

AGREED!!!!

Nah. Trayon White ran last time. It can get worse.

What’s your problem? Trayon will make a great mayor.

Set down the crack pipe, please.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I don't think it makes any sense for Bowser to stick around. If she leaves next year, she gets to enjoy the credit for delivering the stadium deal.

Things likely start to get messy once the construction starts. Even if the project stays on time and on budget, there will be a lot of controversy around transit / parking and the inevitable failure of the Commanders to live up to perceived promises on housing.

If the construction goes over budget or the city's revenues start tanking, those who inked this deal are going to shoulder their share of blame. And that will probably happen anyway once DC taxpayers slowly wake to what that they've been sold.

In addition to those considerations, Bowser is also likely very burned out from the past 9 months and has some fairly attractive options waiting for her in the private sector.

She's not going to have a choice. She won't be mayor in 2027. Dump is demanding to get his name on the stadium. Muriel has two options: She can do what she does best, capitulate to Dump and work with him to get his name on the stadium. She will thus tank her chances of being re-elected in 2026.

Or she can fight Dump putting his name on the stadium, piss him off and have him interfere with the stadium opening on time. Which would ruin her career-defining achievement.

Either way sounds good to me! F U Muriel.

I think people underestimate how many people like Bowser. A lot of people, even those who don’t like her, would take her any day over a Councilmember. The Council is seen as the cause of the crime and housing issues by most insiders more than the mayor. Whether people like to admit this or not, the mayor has sacrificed some comfort to keep Home Rule. Very few if any of the current Councilmembers could navigate Trump as skillfully as she has. For those comparing her to Pritzker or a state Governor or other city mayor in a state, the key word is state. Those are states, DC is not and is subject to very different realities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I don't think it makes any sense for Bowser to stick around. If she leaves next year, she gets to enjoy the credit for delivering the stadium deal.

Things likely start to get messy once the construction starts. Even if the project stays on time and on budget, there will be a lot of controversy around transit / parking and the inevitable failure of the Commanders to live up to perceived promises on housing.

If the construction goes over budget or the city's revenues start tanking, those who inked this deal are going to shoulder their share of blame. And that will probably happen anyway once DC taxpayers slowly wake to what that they've been sold.

In addition to those considerations, Bowser is also likely very burned out from the past 9 months and has some fairly attractive options waiting for her in the private sector.

She's not going to have a choice. She won't be mayor in 2027. Dump is demanding to get his name on the stadium. Muriel has two options: She can do what she does best, capitulate to Dump and work with him to get his name on the stadium. She will thus tank her chances of being re-elected in 2026.

Or she can fight Dump putting his name on the stadium, piss him off and have him interfere with the stadium opening on time. Which would ruin her career-defining achievement.

Either way sounds good to me! F U Muriel.

I think people underestimate how many people like Bowser. A lot of people, even those who don’t like her, would take her any day over a Councilmember. The Council is seen as the cause of the crime and housing issues by most insiders more than the mayor. Whether people like to admit this or not, the mayor has sacrificed some comfort to keep Home Rule. Very few if any of the current Councilmembers could navigate Trump as skillfully as she has. For those comparing her to Pritzker or a state Governor or other city mayor in a state, the key word is state. Those are states, DC is not and is subject to very different realities.

She’s far more popular than most people realize. Her biggest critics are the very online, very mediocre, very privileged white people who have lived in DC for like three years, never get out of their bubble and have never once set foot EOTR or east of Union Market. These people vastly overestimate their voting influence in DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I don't think it makes any sense for Bowser to stick around. If she leaves next year, she gets to enjoy the credit for delivering the stadium deal.

Things likely start to get messy once the construction starts. Even if the project stays on time and on budget, there will be a lot of controversy around transit / parking and the inevitable failure of the Commanders to live up to perceived promises on housing.

If the construction goes over budget or the city's revenues start tanking, those who inked this deal are going to shoulder their share of blame. And that will probably happen anyway once DC taxpayers slowly wake to what that they've been sold.

In addition to those considerations, Bowser is also likely very burned out from the past 9 months and has some fairly attractive options waiting for her in the private sector.

She's not going to have a choice. She won't be mayor in 2027. Dump is demanding to get his name on the stadium. Muriel has two options: She can do what she does best, capitulate to Dump and work with him to get his name on the stadium. She will thus tank her chances of being re-elected in 2026.

Or she can fight Dump putting his name on the stadium, piss him off and have him interfere with the stadium opening on time. Which would ruin her career-defining achievement.

Either way sounds good to me! F U Muriel.

I think people underestimate how many people like Bowser. A lot of people, even those who don’t like her, would take her any day over a Councilmember. The Council is seen as the cause of the crime and housing issues by most insiders more than the mayor. Whether people like to admit this or not, the mayor has sacrificed some comfort to keep Home Rule. Very few if any of the current Councilmembers could navigate Trump as skillfully as she has. For those comparing her to Pritzker or a state Governor or other city mayor in a state, the key word is state. Those are states, DC is not and is subject to very different realities.

She’s far more popular than most people realize. Her biggest critics are the very online, very mediocre, very privileged white people who have lived in DC for like three years, never get out of their bubble and have never once set foot EOTR or east of Union Market. These people vastly overestimate their voting influence in DC.

Anyone who thinks she’s a good mayor has pathetically low standards.

Look at this, for instance: https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/774255/dhcd-forfeited-35-million-federal-affordable-housing/

Unless they’re on the take themselves, how does anyone, whatever their politics or demographics, defend the person who is overseeing this shitshow?

Whether it’s affordable housing or an NFL stadium, Bowser is doing an excellent job of using public resources to further enrich wealthy benefactors.

In the topsy turvy world of DC municipal politics, that somehow amounts to good governance.

Hold your representatives to higher standards. Things will get better as a result.

[Anonymous]

Buwa Binitie, an influential local developer and prodigious political donor whose projects have won significant city funding, was awarded approximately $1.6 million in LIHTC funding in 2020 to redevelop Cascade Park Apartments. By October 2023, DHCD agreed to take back $1.2 million in 2020 credits, and in exchange the agency awarded Binitie $1.36 million in 2023 credits, according to a covenant filed with the Recorder of Deeds.

“The project had cost overruns and interim income shortfalls during construction that resulted in a budget shortfall,” the covenant says.

The Cascade Park complex is owned by a company made up of Binitie’s Dantes Partners, H Street Community Development Corporation, and the Crosby Family Trust—a trust associated with Dan Crosby, owner of Scope Property Management, whose managed properties have shown a pattern of neglect and squalid conditions.

This is disgusting. Are you getting something out of this, Bowser apologist? Anywhere else, people would be going to jail.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Buwa Binitie, an influential local developer and prodigious political donor whose projects have won significant city funding, was awarded approximately $1.6 million in LIHTC funding in 2020 to redevelop Cascade Park Apartments. By October 2023, DHCD agreed to take back $1.2 million in 2020 credits, and in exchange the agency awarded Binitie $1.36 million in 2023 credits, according to a covenant filed with the Recorder of Deeds.

“The project had cost overruns and interim income shortfalls during construction that resulted in a budget shortfall,” the covenant says.

The Cascade Park complex is owned by a company made up of Binitie’s Dantes Partners, H Street Community Development Corporation, and the Crosby Family Trust—a trust associated with Dan Crosby, owner of Scope Property Management, whose managed properties have shown a pattern of neglect and squalid conditions.

This is disgusting. Are you getting something out of this, Bowser apologist? Anywhere else, people would be going to jail.

DP. Would still take Bowser over any council member. Yes, it’s a low bar but DC won’t let anyone good have any power in this city.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Buwa Binitie, an influential local developer and prodigious political donor whose projects have won significant city funding, was awarded approximately $1.6 million in LIHTC funding in 2020 to redevelop Cascade Park Apartments. By October 2023, DHCD agreed to take back $1.2 million in 2020 credits, and in exchange the agency awarded Binitie $1.36 million in 2023 credits, according to a covenant filed with the Recorder of Deeds.

“The project had cost overruns and interim income shortfalls during construction that resulted in a budget shortfall,” the covenant says.

The Cascade Park complex is owned by a company made up of Binitie’s Dantes Partners, H Street Community Development Corporation, and the Crosby Family Trust—a trust associated with Dan Crosby, owner of Scope Property Management, whose managed properties have shown a pattern of neglect and squalid conditions.

This is disgusting. Are you getting something out of this, Bowser apologist? Anywhere else, people would be going to jail.

DP. Would still take Bowser over any council member. Yes, it’s a low bar but DC won’t let anyone good have any power in this city.

Christina Henderson would be a step up.

You’re right though that she probably is too sensible to be electable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Buwa Binitie, an influential local developer and prodigious political donor whose projects have won significant city funding, was awarded approximately $1.6 million in LIHTC funding in 2020 to redevelop Cascade Park Apartments. By October 2023, DHCD agreed to take back $1.2 million in 2020 credits, and in exchange the agency awarded Binitie $1.36 million in 2023 credits, according to a covenant filed with the Recorder of Deeds.

“The project had cost overruns and interim income shortfalls during construction that resulted in a budget shortfall,” the covenant says.

The Cascade Park complex is owned by a company made up of Binitie’s Dantes Partners, H Street Community Development Corporation, and the Crosby Family Trust—a trust associated with Dan Crosby, owner of Scope Property Management, whose managed properties have shown a pattern of neglect and squalid conditions.

This is disgusting. Are you getting something out of this, Bowser apologist? Anywhere else, people would be going to jail.

DP. Would still take Bowser over any council member. Yes, it’s a low bar but DC won’t let anyone good have any power in this city.

Christina Henderson would be a step up.

You’re right though that she probably is too sensible to be electable.

Christina is a complete joke. She is useless on the council more than any of the others named.