Kenyan or Janeese?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you all watching these debates? McDuffie looks awful, Lewis George is running circles around him. What is going on?

That doesn’t negate how horrible her polices are and her lack of getting anything done in her Ward. She’s all talk is what you’re saying and I agree 🤷🏾‍♀️.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you all watching these debates? McDuffie looks awful, Lewis George is running circles around him. What is going on?

That doesn’t negate how horrible her polices are and her lack of getting anything done in her Ward. She’s all talk is what you’re saying and I agree 🤷🏾‍♀️.

That's one opinion, but apparently in the minority.

I'm curious, who are you supporting? McDuffie seems far worse in terms of meaningless political promises and flip flopping.

[Anonymous]

New Washington post poll has jeneese up 36-25 with 25% undecided.

Janeese wins white voters 46-21

Kenyan wins black voters 30-25

Very interesting.

[Anonymous]

Is it?

McDuffie is old school DC and would be more like Bowser and Fenty

Janeese is trying to style herself as Mamadami-lite. As such, she has captured a lot of the younger, whiter, more progressive voters and paired that with the NIMBYs in every neighborhood.

Strange bedfellows and one side or other would turn on her very quickly because she cannot possibly follow through on her platform given contradictory promises made to each faction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it?

McDuffie is old school DC and would be more like Bowser and Fenty

Janeese is trying to style herself as Mamadami-lite. As such, she has captured a lot of the younger, whiter, more progressive voters and paired that with the NIMBYs in every neighborhood.

Strange bedfellows and one side or other would turn on her very quickly because she cannot possibly follow through on her platform given contradictory promises made to each faction.

Yep and someone is going to be disappointed much like we see with who’s running the country that voted for him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because Mayor Bowser isn't running for reelection. Because Mayor Bowser didn't support defunding the police. Because Mayor Bowser is trying to reduce youth violence. Fighting crime is not JLG's strength, even in her own Ward. Sure, she will have a larger staff, but she will be in charge of the entire city, not just Ward 4.

And I am sure JLG has been getting donations from lots of shady developers as well. I am certain Robert White has given how he has obstructed any meaningful action against slum lords. I have lost faith in all politicians but JLG is the candidate I at least know because I live in Ward 4.

Janeese was quite effective at teaming with law enforcement on Kennedy St including federal (FBI?) as well as diversion for people who didn't need to be locked up. That area is much better than 10nyears ago. Your talking points about "weak on crime" aren't more true just because they're repeated a bunch.

Why are you sure about JLG getting money from shady developers? It's public information - give us some examples. McDuffie literally had a maxed out donation from the CEO of the company financing Petra.

How dare people get donations from home builders! How dare those companies... build... homes for... people to live in? Sounds horrible!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because Mayor Bowser isn't running for reelection. Because Mayor Bowser didn't support defunding the police. Because Mayor Bowser is trying to reduce youth violence. Fighting crime is not JLG's strength, even in her own Ward. Sure, she will have a larger staff, but she will be in charge of the entire city, not just Ward 4.

And I am sure JLG has been getting donations from lots of shady developers as well. I am certain Robert White has given how he has obstructed any meaningful action against slum lords. I have lost faith in all politicians but JLG is the candidate I at least know because I live in Ward 4.

Janeese was quite effective at teaming with law enforcement on Kennedy St including federal (FBI?) as well as diversion for people who didn't need to be locked up. That area is much better than 10nyears ago. Your talking points about "weak on crime" aren't more true just because they're repeated a bunch.

Why are you sure about JLG getting money from shady developers? It's public information - give us some examples. McDuffie literally had a maxed out donation from the CEO of the company financing Petra.

How dare people get donations from home builders! How dare those companies... build... homes for... people to live in? Sounds horrible!

You clearly don't know the issues in Ward 4. These are not legit developers. Petra is a slum lord company that leaches money from the government for affordable housing (illegally dissuading market rental because they get higher rent from the gov) then doesn't put money into safety and health of the properties, leaving low income people in squalor.

The mayor and council need to unscramble that ASAP and donations to McDuffie from that end of the business is disgusting.

[Anonymous]

One of the issues that the progressives don't understand is that the excessively one-sided tenant laws, coupled with the complexities of rent control and TOPA, keep a lot of potential housing developers/investors out of DC because they just don't want to deal with it. That leaves DC with either big developers who want to build Class A (at Class A rents) or else slumlords who are more than willing to thumb their noses at the law. It's progressives pushing things like Emergency Rent Assistance---which was extended in DC far, far past being necessary under Covid. All tenants had to do to game the system and not pay rent was claim that they had applied for ERAP---they then ran up huge delinquencies and the landlords were helpless. This was annoying and expensive but not fatal to big housing providers. Who did it screw over? The small landlords, many of whom were minorities, who were trying to build wealth by buying older, smaller buildings. When you own a four unit building and the tenants aren't paying and you can't evict them, your lender isn't giving you a break on your mortgage. So a big reason that DC lacks quality affordable housing is that they make it incredibly unattractive to smaller investors to invest in DC. I don't like Kenyan very much, but I have more faith in his ability to not make an already bad situation worse. Janeese's misguided policies will just make housing affordability worse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One of the issues that the progressives don't understand is that the excessively one-sided tenant laws, coupled with the complexities of rent control and TOPA, keep a lot of potential housing developers/investors out of DC because they just don't want to deal with it. That leaves DC with either big developers who want to build Class A (at Class A rents) or else slumlords who are more than willing to thumb their noses at the law. It's progressives pushing things like Emergency Rent Assistance---which was extended in DC far, far past being necessary under Covid. All tenants had to do to game the system and not pay rent was claim that they had applied for ERAP---they then ran up huge delinquencies and the landlords were helpless. This was annoying and expensive but not fatal to big housing providers. Who did it screw over? The small landlords, many of whom were minorities, who were trying to build wealth by buying older, smaller buildings. When you own a four unit building and the tenants aren't paying and you can't evict them, your lender isn't giving you a break on your mortgage. So a big reason that DC lacks quality affordable housing is that they make it incredibly unattractive to smaller investors to invest in DC. I don't like Kenyan very much, but I have more faith in his ability to not make an already bad situation worse. Janeese's misguided policies will just make housing affordability worse.

This^^^

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it?

McDuffie is old school DC and would be more like Bowser and Fenty

Janeese is trying to style herself as Mamadami-lite. As such, she has captured a lot of the younger, whiter, more progressive voters and paired that with the NIMBYs in every neighborhood.

Strange bedfellows and one side or other would turn on her very quickly because she cannot possibly follow through on her platform given contradictory promises made to each faction.

Doesn’t Janeese want to build the most housing? Her young, progressive base also tends to lean more YIMBY.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it?

McDuffie is old school DC and would be more like Bowser and Fenty

Janeese is trying to style herself as Mamadami-lite. As such, she has captured a lot of the younger, whiter, more progressive voters and paired that with the NIMBYs in every neighborhood.

Strange bedfellows and one side or other would turn on her very quickly because she cannot possibly follow through on her platform given contradictory promises made to each faction.

Doesn’t Janeese want to build the most housing? Her young, progressive base also tends to lean more YIMBY.

Wanting is not as important as how.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it?

McDuffie is old school DC and would be more like Bowser and Fenty

Janeese is trying to style herself as Mamadami-lite. As such, she has captured a lot of the younger, whiter, more progressive voters and paired that with the NIMBYs in every neighborhood.

Strange bedfellows and one side or other would turn on her very quickly because she cannot possibly follow through on her platform given contradictory promises made to each faction.

Doesn’t Janeese want to build the most housing? Her young, progressive base also tends to lean more YIMBY.

Wanting is not as important as how.

Well whatever we're doing now isn't working, or at least not well enough. Who is going to take a new approach?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it?

McDuffie is old school DC and would be more like Bowser and Fenty

Janeese is trying to style herself as Mamadami-lite. As such, she has captured a lot of the younger, whiter, more progressive voters and paired that with the NIMBYs in every neighborhood.

Strange bedfellows and one side or other would turn on her very quickly because she cannot possibly follow through on her platform given contradictory promises made to each faction.

Doesn’t Janeese want to build the most housing? Her young, progressive base also tends to lean more YIMBY.

She claims that but then, for some reason, NIMBYs in every quadrant are supporting her. Why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it?

McDuffie is old school DC and would be more like Bowser and Fenty

Janeese is trying to style herself as Mamadami-lite. As such, she has captured a lot of the younger, whiter, more progressive voters and paired that with the NIMBYs in every neighborhood.

Strange bedfellows and one side or other would turn on her very quickly because she cannot possibly follow through on her platform given contradictory promises made to each faction.

Doesn’t Janeese want to build the most housing? Her young, progressive base also tends to lean more YIMBY.

She claims that but then, for some reason, NIMBYs in every quadrant are supporting her. Why?

Not everyone is a single issue voter. And Lewis George is much better than McDuffie overall. From hearing her talk at different times I think she actually gets that just because I don't want some atrocious monstrosity doesn't mean I'm anti development overall.

[Anonymous]

Either one is for more housing or they aren’t. Your ‘atrocious monstrosity’ is someone else’s future home.