Kenyan or Janeese?

[Anonymous]

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

Why can't I support something in between? Why can't I have a more nuanced position?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Why can't I support something in between? Why can't I have a more nuanced position?

is there a specific project you wish to comment on?

i mean the one in chevy chase, the city already lopped a floor off, so there are 40 fewer units of housing and yet people are STILL fighting in.

[Anonymous]

Is either for open primaries?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is either for open primaries?

Why would it matter what the mayor thinks on this? The voters passed a ballot initiative overwhelmingly last year, so it went into eff-

Oh, wait.

[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.

Yep.

[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 exactly. This is what JLG doesn't understand and why she will not able to able to build in the city.

[Anonymous]

Trump came out swinging at Janeese, which is even more reason to vote for her.

[Anonymous]

Trump’s threat about JLG confirms what she and many others have been saying about KM taking money from MAGA. There is definitely a reason that they want him to win. KM has been bought and paid for and Trump knows it…now we do too!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trump’s threat about JLG confirms what she and many others have been saying about KM taking money from MAGA. There is definitely a reason that they want him to win. KM has been bought and paid for and Trump knows it…now we do too!

Meh. I seriously doubt that. Janeese is one of the farther-left people and to the left of McDuffie but that sure as hell doesn't make McDuffie MAGA. There's still a lot of miles between McDuffie's positions and Trump's.

I hate simplistic binary thinking. "You're either with us or you're MAGA" is a pretty shortsighted and un-nuanced worldview. And I'm saying that as someone who absolutely detests Trump and think he's a corrupt criminal scumbag.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Trump’s threat about JLG confirms what she and many others have been saying about KM taking money from MAGA. There is definitely a reason that they want him to win. KM has been bought and paid for and Trump knows it…now we do too!

Meh. I seriously doubt that. Janeese is one of the farther-left people and to the left of McDuffie but that sure as hell doesn't make McDuffie MAGA. There's still a lot of miles between McDuffie's positions and Trump's.

I hate simplistic binary thinking. "You're either with us or you're MAGA" is a pretty shortsighted and un-nuanced worldview. And I'm saying that as someone who absolutely detests Trump and think he's a corrupt criminal scumbag.

Yeah, all the candidates are pretty liberal. But it is telling that Trump and his lackeys are alarmed by Janeese but not Kenyan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:


Meh. I seriously doubt that. Janeese is one of the farther-left people and to the left of McDuffie but that sure as hell doesn't make McDuffie MAGA. There's still a lot of miles between McDuffie's positions and Trump's.

I hate simplistic binary thinking. "You're either with us or you're MAGA" is a pretty shortsighted and un-nuanced worldview. And I'm saying that as someone who absolutely detests Trump and think he's a corrupt criminal scumbag.


Yeah, all the candidates are pretty liberal. But it is telling that Trump and his lackeys are alarmed by Janeese but not Kenyan.

Trump & Co. are not at all alarmed by Janeese. They would LOVE to have Janeese as Mayor. It would give them the perfect far-left foil for Fox News sound bites to keep focus off their own incompetence and corruption. Trump and JLG and their insane policies (on both ends) are just two ends of a horseshoe of crazy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:


Meh. I seriously doubt that. Janeese is one of the farther-left people and to the left of McDuffie but that sure as hell doesn't make McDuffie MAGA. There's still a lot of miles between McDuffie's positions and Trump's.

I hate simplistic binary thinking. "You're either with us or you're MAGA" is a pretty shortsighted and un-nuanced worldview. And I'm saying that as someone who absolutely detests Trump and think he's a corrupt criminal scumbag.


Yeah, all the candidates are pretty liberal. But it is telling that Trump and his lackeys are alarmed by Janeese but not Kenyan.

Trump & Co. are not at all alarmed by Janeese. They would LOVE to have Janeese as Mayor. It would give them the perfect far-left foil for Fox News sound bites to keep focus off their own incompetence and corruption. Trump and JLG and their insane policies (on both ends) are just two ends of a horseshoe of crazy.

Good point. Fascism and corruption are exactly the same as doing good things for people. You are very smart. Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Janeese is already showing her corruption through not only her blatant campaign finance violations (which she’s guilt of and was fined), but also

- showing no remorse for her law-breaking.

She is the worst choice for DC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Trump’s threat about JLG confirms what she and many others have been saying about KM taking money from MAGA. There is definitely a reason that they want him to win. KM has been bought and paid for and Trump knows it…now we do too!

Meh. I seriously doubt that. Janeese is one of the farther-left people and to the left of McDuffie but that sure as hell doesn't make McDuffie MAGA. There's still a lot of miles between McDuffie's positions and Trump's.

I hate simplistic binary thinking. "You're either with us or you're MAGA" is a pretty shortsighted and un-nuanced worldview. And I'm saying that as someone who absolutely detests Trump and think he's a corrupt criminal scumbag.

Yeah, all the candidates are pretty liberal. But it is telling that Trump and his lackeys are alarmed by Janeese but not Kenyan.

Probably because Janeese is being hyped more than Kenyan. If Kenyan were being talked about as much as Janeese is, I'm sure Trump would want to crap all over him too.

[Anonymous]

If Janeese becomes mayor DC deserves what it gets.