Kenyan or Janeese?

[Anonymous]

It seems like a lot of the complaints against Janeese are really about failings by mayor Bowser and her people. Why would we want McDuffie as Bowser's handpicked stooge?

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like a lot of the complaints against Janeese are really about failings by mayor Bowser and her people. Why would we want McDuffie as Bowser's handpicked stooge?

Because Janeese would be a hilariously bad mayor? She is completely unqualified.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like a lot of the complaints against Janeese are really about failings by mayor Bowser and her people. Why would we want McDuffie as Bowser's handpicked stooge?

Because Janeese would be a hilariously bad mayor? She is completely unqualified.

Specifically, how?

She's educated, experienced, and actually gives a crap.

[Anonymous]

Where do they both stand on plowing bike lanes?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like a lot of the complaints against Janeese are really about failings by mayor Bowser and her people. Why would we want McDuffie as Bowser's handpicked stooge?

Because Janeese would be a hilariously bad mayor? She is completely unqualified.

Specifically, how?

She's educated, experienced, and actually gives a crap.

Gives a crap, yeah she does to criminals.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like a lot of the complaints against Janeese are really about failings by mayor Bowser and her people. Why would we want McDuffie as Bowser's handpicked stooge?

Because Janeese would be a hilariously bad mayor? She is completely unqualified.

Specifically, how?

She's educated, experienced, and actually gives a crap.

Gives a crap, yeah she does to criminals.

You're thinking of Republicans. Try again.

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like a lot of the complaints against Janeese are really about failings by mayor Bowser and her people. Why would we want McDuffie as Bowser's handpicked stooge?

Because Janeese would be a hilariously bad mayor? She is completely unqualified.

Specifically, how?

She's educated, experienced, and actually gives a crap.

Experienced doing what exactly?

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Anonymous wrote: Dear DCUM,

I’m a regular voter, midterm and general, and I feel like this might be one of the races where my vote really matters. I know I shouldn’t be asking a parenting forum ridden with trolls for advice but cest la vie! As a mother of four my main issue is DCPS related stuff but I’m also passionate about standing up to Trump and fixing crime. Could someone with knowledge on this issue give me some guidance?

Thank you so much,
Marlene

Janeese is about the last person on earth who will "fix crime." She is a walking stereotype of a soft-on-crime politician who seems to care more about criminals than their victims. A few years ago, her main issue was defunding the police. On schools, she will support more funding for DCPS but basically every single Democrat in DC supports that so no difference there. She opposes raising academic standards and creating gifted and talented programs and tracking kids by ability. She thinks all of that is racist. Janeese is the far left candidate. Kenyan is the mainstream liberal Democrat.

Home rule would end under JLG. Trump would say "look at this crazy person" and take it away and declare himself mayor.

I remember hearing similar predictions about Mamdani. And yet they seem to be getting along swimmingly.

Mamdani is really shrewd and personally charismatic. I have no doubt that Janeese is intelligent, but she's strident and unlikable as soon as she gets the impression you're not approaching her with adulation and gifts. Kind of Trump-like in that regard, honestly. She would think she was really winning one for the home team by screaming in his face or something and I agree with PP, as soon as someone explained to Trump what Home Rule is he would end it and start putting his name on DC government buildings.

My interactions with her suggest that you have never interacted with her. She is very approachable.

DP here. I wouldn't do. She has ignored every attempted outreach by me (a W4 constitutent), including when my wife was a victim of crime and the police never responded.

*know, not do. Also for the record also underwhelmed by Kenyon and hoping for a third candidate to emerge

An alternative:

https://www.yaida4dc.com/

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like a lot of the complaints against Janeese are really about failings by mayor Bowser and her people. Why would we want McDuffie as Bowser's handpicked stooge?

Because Janeese would be a hilariously bad mayor? She is completely unqualified.

Specifically, how?

She's educated, experienced, and actually gives a crap.

Experienced doing what exactly?

Lawyer (prosecutor) and council member, so very involved in DC laws and budgets.

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like a lot of the complaints against Janeese are really about failings by mayor Bowser and her people. Why would we want McDuffie as Bowser's handpicked stooge?

Because Janeese would be a hilariously bad mayor? She is completely unqualified.

Specifically, how?

She's educated, experienced, and actually gives a crap.

Experienced doing what exactly?

Lawyer (prosecutor) and council member, so very involved in DC laws and budgets.

Is that a good thing?

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like a lot of the complaints against Janeese are really about failings by mayor Bowser and her people. Why would we want McDuffie as Bowser's handpicked stooge?

Because Janeese would be a hilariously bad mayor? She is completely unqualified.

Specifically, how?

She's educated, experienced, and actually gives a crap.

Experienced doing what exactly?

Lawyer (prosecutor) and council member, so very involved in DC laws and budgets.

Is that a good thing?

Depends what you're looking for in a mayor. Combined with her political stances it looks good to me.

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Anonymous wrote: Dear DCUM,

I’m a regular voter, midterm and general, and I feel like this might be one of the races where my vote really matters. I know I shouldn’t be asking a parenting forum ridden with trolls for advice but cest la vie! As a mother of four my main issue is DCPS related stuff but I’m also passionate about standing up to Trump and fixing crime. Could someone with knowledge on this issue give me some guidance?

Thank you so much,
Marlene

Janeese is about the last person on earth who will "fix crime." She is a walking stereotype of a soft-on-crime politician who seems to care more about criminals than their victims. A few years ago, her main issue was defunding the police. On schools, she will support more funding for DCPS but basically every single Democrat in DC supports that so no difference there. She opposes raising academic standards and creating gifted and talented programs and tracking kids by ability. She thinks all of that is racist. Janeese is the far left candidate. Kenyan is the mainstream liberal Democrat.

Home rule would end under JLG. Trump would say "look at this crazy person" and take it away and declare himself mayor.

I remember hearing similar predictions about Mamdani. And yet they seem to be getting along swimmingly.

Mamdani is really shrewd and personally charismatic. I have no doubt that Janeese is intelligent, but she's strident and unlikable as soon as she gets the impression you're not approaching her with adulation and gifts. Kind of Trump-like in that regard, honestly. She would think she was really winning one for the home team by screaming in his face or something and I agree with PP, as soon as someone explained to Trump what Home Rule is he would end it and start putting his name on DC government buildings.

My interactions with her suggest that you have never interacted with her. She is very approachable.

DP here. I wouldn't do. She has ignored every attempted outreach by me (a W4 constitutent), including when my wife was a victim of crime and the police never responded.

*know, not do. Also for the record also underwhelmed by Kenyon and hoping for a third candidate to emerge

An alternative:

https://www.yaida4dc.com/

stop trying to make fetch happen

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like a lot of the complaints against Janeese are really about failings by mayor Bowser and her people. Why would we want McDuffie as Bowser's handpicked stooge?

Because Janeese would be a hilariously bad mayor? She is completely unqualified.

Specifically, how?

She's educated, experienced, and actually gives a crap.

Experienced doing what exactly?

Lawyer (prosecutor) and council member, so very involved in DC laws and budgets.

Is that a good thing?

Depends what you're looking for in a mayor. Combined with her political stances it looks good to me.

Well, I'm not looking for loud grandstanding, aggressive scapegoating or poorly thought out peformative policy making so I guess she's not the one for me.

[Anonymous]

I'm generally drawn to McDuffie's more moderate approach, but his support of the multibillion dollar stadium giveaway was revolting. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a pragmatic candidate who can also oppose giveaways to developers.

I'll be trying to learn more, but he might be the least bad candidate.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like a lot of the complaints against Janeese are really about failings by mayor Bowser and her people. Why would we want McDuffie as Bowser's handpicked stooge?

Because Janeese would be a hilariously bad mayor? She is completely unqualified.

Specifically, how?

She's educated, experienced, and actually gives a crap.

Experienced doing what exactly?

I think her main accomplishment was writing a crime bill that was so outlandishly criminal friendly that Democrats in Congress took the exceedingly rare step of overturning it. If even Democrats in Congress felt they have to intervene, just imagine how Trump would react to her. Bye, bye home rule.