Who will replace Mary Cheh?

[Anonymous]

In both the Hearst and the Hardy threads people are talking about how Cheh is displaying the signs of someone who has already decided they are done and is just going through the motions. I expect her to announce in late 2017 that she's not running in 2018. Even if she does run, from the tone of those threads it sounds like a lot of people are fed up with her.

So who's in the wings? I can't think of anyone in Ward 3 who has ward-wide name recognition.

[Anonymous]

The Post called the primary election she won "an embarrassment of riches." Are any of the guys she beat still around?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/21/AR2006082101477.html

[Anonymous]

Bill Rice is still around. Erik Gaull left town years ago. Robert Gordon I don't know. Paul Strauss is still around.

I don't consider any of them leading lights.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bill Rice is still around. Erik Gaull left town years ago. Robert Gordon I don't know. Paul Strauss is still around.

I don't consider any of them leading lights.

No, sirree. But I'd take Kathy Patterson back.

[Anonymous]

I would vote for ANYONE less far left.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would vote for ANYONE less far left.

+1 ANYONE

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bill Rice is still around. Erik Gaull left town years ago. Robert Gordon I don't know. Paul Strauss is still around.

I don't consider any of them leading lights.

No, sirree. But I'd take Kathy Patterson back.

Ugh.

[Anonymous]

I would pretty much vote for anyone with a pulse over her.

[Anonymous]

I'm sure there's another crazy liberal law prof out there who'd love to take over her seat. This town is crawling with them and you know she'd love to anoint her successor.

[Anonymous]

What makes the opponents of the currently-proposed site for the homeless shelter think the rest of Ward 3 agrees with them? For every aggrieved resident of McLean Gardens, there's a resident of the area around the formerly-proposed site that thinks Mary Cheh is great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What makes the opponents of the currently-proposed site for the homeless shelter think the rest of Ward 3 agrees with them? For every aggrieved resident of McLean Gardens, there's a resident of the area around the formerly-proposed site that thinks Mary Cheh is great.

Exactly. She kowtowed to one neighborhood and elected to not even to try to hear the concerns of another. Where you stand depends on where you sit.

[Anonymous]

Matt Frumin ran unsuccessfully for the Council several years ago and might try to run again. But after his performance on the school boundary committee (he dismissed John Eaton as 'collateral damage' when it got booted out as a longtime feeder to Deal), he'd face an uphill race.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Matt Frumin ran unsuccessfully for the Council several years ago and might try to run again. But after his performance on the school boundary committee (he dismissed John Eaton as 'collateral damage' when it got booted out as a longtime feeder to Deal), he'd face an uphill race.

I know the Eaton folks are mad about that, but my understanding is there just aren't that many Eaton parents who live in Ward 3. It's not an issue that grabs the rest of the ward, because for the most part the feeling is better them than us. Ever watch a nature documentary when the cheetah takes a gazelle? The other gazelles relax, knowing they're safe for another day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Matt Frumin ran unsuccessfully for the Council several years ago and might try to run again. But after his performance on the school boundary committee (he dismissed John Eaton as 'collateral damage' when it got booted out as a longtime feeder to Deal), he'd face an uphill race.

I know the Eaton folks are mad about that, but my understanding is there just aren't that many Eaton parents who live in Ward 3. It's not an issue that grabs the rest of the ward, because for the most part the feeling is better them than us. Ever watch a nature documentary when the cheetah takes a gazelle? The other gazelles relax, knowing they're safe for another day.

My kids don't go to Eaton, so no dog directly in the fight. However, Frumin's dismissive "collateral damage" remark shows a rather callous and disrespectful attitude toward parents (and voters) and their kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Matt Frumin ran unsuccessfully for the Council several years ago and might try to run again. But after his performance on the school boundary committee (he dismissed John Eaton as 'collateral damage' when it got booted out as a longtime feeder to Deal), he'd face an uphill race.

I know the Eaton folks are mad about that, but my understanding is there just aren't that many Eaton parents who live in Ward 3. It's not an issue that grabs the rest of the ward, because for the most part the feeling is better them than us. Ever watch a nature documentary when the cheetah takes a gazelle? The other gazelles relax, knowing they're safe for another day.

Eaton is now 50% IB. With shy of 500 kids enrolled. 470/2= 235 kids of IB families. No idea how many are siblings to venture a guess at how many total families/voters that is, but regardless, I feel the need to keep saying this since people on many threads keep saying Eaton is majority OOB. It's not and if this year's PK is any indication (all IB families with 22 on the wait list initially, which would fill next year's K class with mostly IB given there are 75 K seats, and 36 PK seats that 58 families initially wanted along with another group of families that didn't apply for PK but intend to come for K as always happens - they stayed at NCRC or Aidan or Franklin or the Gan at Adas Israel or wherever to finish out the last year in those programs) that percentage will continue to rise.