Erin Palmer

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Anonymous wrote:I would vote for her if she could say something like "I will definitely not support council efforts to close schools again and move to return normalcy to kids." Hell, I'd vote for Mendo if he said that.

One issue voter right now.

In what universe do you think the Council is going to move to close schools again? That ship has sailed. No one even has the guts to propose a return to mandatory masks in schools when disease spread is high. It’s normal again, whether we like it or not. Time to find a new issue to obsess over.

Well, when the Council considered closing schools in January, 2022, I began to think all bets are off. I have zero trust that the wackadoodles on the Council won't try something again. Hell, we are still the only place in the country with a vaccine mandate for all schoolkids, despite the fact that the vaccines for the 5-11 set are proving to be fairly useless for the people that get them or for anyone around them.

This is false one way or another. We do not have a covid vaccine mandate for schoolkids. We are not the only place with general vaccine requirements for normal childhood vaccines.

Yes, we do have a covid vaccine mandate for schoolkids, once the vaccine moves out of EUA: https://dccouncil.us/student-covid-vaccine-mandate-ward-redistricting-receive-final-council-approval/

Why lie?

We appear to be the only school district in the country with such a mandate.

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Still leaning toward Mendalsohn. He gets sh#t done, even though I don't agree with him on everything. He doesn't make waves and he seems to have a clean nose. Services in the city are decent and I'm loathe to bring in anyone who wants to make it more difficult for businesses to operate.

DC's tax base is in a very precarious position right now and frankly I'm worried about businesses leaving, which then begins a downward spiral for the city.

Sometimes change isn't always good, especially from newcomers with limited experience in government. It's pretty insane to jump from ANC rep to Chair of the Council. IMHO.
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Agreed. It is going to be critical over the next five years to have council members who actually understand how the DC budget and DC business interests are intertwined. It is frightening to think that Mendelson currently has the most knowledge on these issues---but NONE of the rest of the council or candidate Palmer--know anything about business. Why is this important? City revenues are declining, the city's population isn't growing, and the Council's expenditures keep increasing.

A lot of the city's revenue comes from commercial real estate taxes. An office building that is occupied by tenants has a much higher tax assessment than a building that is empty. There are a lot of empty office buildings downtown as tenants are not renewing leases or reducing space as a result of the "work from home" paradigm shift. The impact of these empty buildings is just starting to be felt, as it takes awhile for a building's assessment to align with its actual value. So over the next few years, there will be less money coming into the District's coffers. (And while there's lots of talk of trying to convert older office buildings to residential but that is very, very difficult to do successfully---due to the column placement, ceiling heights and lack of light in mid-block circa 1980 office buildings.) Add to this decline in revenue the fact that the DC Budget has continued to increase substantially over the last several years even though there has been no growth in the District's population. More expenditures with less revenue is not sustainable.

Here's another example of the Council's lack of business understanding: the progressive bloc on the Council recently passed "emergency" legislation mandating that all hotel rooms get cleaned daily. They did this despite the fact that during Covid, neither hotel guests nor hotel employees wanted additional unnecessary exposures, and because there has been an environmental trend to reduce the amount of cleaning chemical use, etc. So rooms were being cleaned prior to a guest's arrival and after departure but not daily during a guest's stay unless specifically requested by the guest. The hotel union did not like this and ---because the unions OWN the progressives---that bloc of council members passed "emergency legislation" mandating daily room cleaning. Passing laws using "emergency legislation" bypasses the usual open hearing and deliberation process, so the hospitality industry had no opportunity to provide input with their perspective on the issue. (Note that this legislation was passed this spring, even though the true "emergency" days of the pandemic were long over). The "tips" legislation affecting the restaurant industry is similarly being forced down the throat of the local restaurant industry, even though a substantial proportion of the servers didn't want it.

The Council's progressives do not care to understand how different business sectors in the District operate.

First, servers aren’t the only people affected by this; many restaurants tip out other restaurant staff (e.g. bussers, hosts), denying them a living wage. Where are their voices in this conversation?

Second, DC voters overwhelmingly voted for the tipped wage, and the DC Council, led by Mendelson, overrode the will of the voters. Now DC voters will have another chance to vote for the tipped wage. I sure would like to be confident that our next Council chairperson will respect the will of the voters this time around.

Yeah, I was actually with the PP on pretty much everything until this. One of the few things I appreciated about Allen et al (who I think are largely ineffectual) was their opposition to the council overriding prop 77. If you followed that debate closely, you'd know that industry was pretty divided on that legislation but that there were still many supporters within the industry. They just tended to be people with less political clout -- not just busters and host, but servers at mid-priced or inexpensive restaurants (where tips are lower because the food costs less), as well as tipped workers outside of restaurants, which includes many (mostly women, many of them immigrants) who work in the beauty industry. The council's decision to override the voters on that issue was a huge eff you to not only the voters, but to the many, many tipped workers in DC who don't wait tables or bartend at popular, high priced restaurants in wealthier neighborhoods. I will probably never forgive the mayor, Mendo, or the other council members who voted to override.

That said, I do think PP makes some good points about the progressive wing of the council. It pains me to say it because I'm progressive, but the way it works in local politics... it doesn't even matter. Most of the time Allen and other progressive are doing absolutely nothing aside from some retail politics on a few pet issues that keeps key constituents happy. Anything hot button (crime, schools) they are mealy mouthed and do nothing. They are fearful of taking a real stand on some of these issues because it is easier to be a "pure" progressive if you don't have to confront some difficult problems. But I don't need a pure progressive. I want someone who actually works for the people.

Christina Henderson is my favorite council member and I'd like to see more candidates like her. She's progressive but practical.

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Anonymous wrote:I would vote for her if she could say something like "I will definitely not support council efforts to close schools again and move to return normalcy to kids." Hell, I'd vote for Mendo if he said that.

One issue voter right now.

In what universe do you think the Council is going to move to close schools again? That ship has sailed. No one even has the guts to propose a return to mandatory masks in schools when disease spread is high. It’s normal again, whether we like it or not. Time to find a new issue to obsess over.

Well, when the Council considered closing schools in January, 2022, I began to think all bets are off. I have zero trust that the wackadoodles on the Council won't try something again. Hell, we are still the only place in the country with a vaccine mandate for all schoolkids, despite the fact that the vaccines for the 5-11 set are proving to be fairly useless for the people that get them or for anyone around them.

This is false one way or another. We do not have a covid vaccine mandate for schoolkids. We are not the only place with general vaccine requirements for normal childhood vaccines.

Yes, we do have a covid vaccine mandate for schoolkids, once the vaccine moves out of EUA: https://dccouncil.us/student-covid-vaccine-mandate-ward-redistricting-receive-final-council-approval/

Why lie?

We appear to be the only school district in the country with such a mandate.

DP, and while you are technically correct, I view that mandate as window dressing. First, I actually think there's no way the 5-11 vaccines move out of the EUA to full approval unless/until the vaccines get significantly better. Which is going to be hard because Covid is still mutating and the newer variants have been more vaccine-evasive. I think we are years from the pediatric Covid vaccines being able to meet the higher scrutiny vaccines get for this age group.

BUT even if they do approve give full approval to the 5-11 vaccine (the very earliest I think this could happen would be 2023 so we aren't even talking about the upcoming school year), no way DC enforces it. Fewer than 50% of this age group is vaccinated in DC, and many of them didn't get the full course (one shot only). Interest in boosters is even lower. And the people vaccinating this age group are overwhelmingly white and higher income. DCPS is not going to refuse to allow a significant percentage of the city's highest risk kids to attend school over a vaccine. They might set up vaccine clinics up schools and heavily advise it, but there is zero chance the vaccine mandate actually gets enforced.

It was idiotic for the council to pass that legislation but fortunately, it is toothless and unenforceable.

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Still leaning toward Mendalsohn. He gets sh#t done, even though I don't agree with him on everything. He doesn't make waves and he seems to have a clean nose. Services in the city are decent and I'm loathe to bring in anyone who wants to make it more difficult for businesses to operate.

DC's tax base is in a very precarious position right now and frankly I'm worried about businesses leaving, which then begins a downward spiral for the city.

Sometimes change isn't always good, especially from newcomers with limited experience in government. It's pretty insane to jump from ANC rep to Chair of the Council. IMHO.
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Agreed. It is going to be critical over the next five years to have council members who actually understand how the DC budget and DC business interests are intertwined. It is frightening to think that Mendelson currently has the most knowledge on these issues---but NONE of the rest of the council or candidate Palmer--know anything about business. Why is this important? City revenues are declining, the city's population isn't growing, and the Council's expenditures keep increasing.

A lot of the city's revenue comes from commercial real estate taxes. An office building that is occupied by tenants has a much higher tax assessment than a building that is empty. There are a lot of empty office buildings downtown as tenants are not renewing leases or reducing space as a result of the "work from home" paradigm shift. The impact of these empty buildings is just starting to be felt, as it takes awhile for a building's assessment to align with its actual value. So over the next few years, there will be less money coming into the District's coffers. (And while there's lots of talk of trying to convert older office buildings to residential but that is very, very difficult to do successfully---due to the column placement, ceiling heights and lack of light in mid-block circa 1980 office buildings.) Add to this decline in revenue the fact that the DC Budget has continued to increase substantially over the last several years even though there has been no growth in the District's population. More expenditures with less revenue is not sustainable.

Here's another example of the Council's lack of business understanding: the progressive bloc on the Council recently passed "emergency" legislation mandating that all hotel rooms get cleaned daily. They did this despite the fact that during Covid, neither hotel guests nor hotel employees wanted additional unnecessary exposures, and because there has been an environmental trend to reduce the amount of cleaning chemical use, etc. So rooms were being cleaned prior to a guest's arrival and after departure but not daily during a guest's stay unless specifically requested by the guest. The hotel union did not like this and ---because the unions OWN the progressives---that bloc of council members passed "emergency legislation" mandating daily room cleaning. Passing laws using "emergency legislation" bypasses the usual open hearing and deliberation process, so the hospitality industry had no opportunity to provide input with their perspective on the issue. (Note that this legislation was passed this spring, even though the true "emergency" days of the pandemic were long over). The "tips" legislation affecting the restaurant industry is similarly being forced down the throat of the local restaurant industry, even though a substantial proportion of the servers didn't want it.

The Council's progressives do not care to understand how different business sectors in the District operate.

First, servers aren’t the only people affected by this; many restaurants tip out other restaurant staff (e.g. bussers, hosts), denying them a living wage. Where are their voices in this conversation?

Second, DC voters overwhelmingly voted for the tipped wage, and the DC Council, led by Mendelson, overrode the will of the voters. Now DC voters will have another chance to vote for the tipped wage. I sure would like to be confident that our next Council chairperson will respect the will of the voters this time around.

Yeah, I was actually with the PP on pretty much everything until this. One of the few things I appreciated about Allen et al (who I think are largely ineffectual) was their opposition to the council overriding prop 77. If you followed that debate closely, you'd know that industry was pretty divided on that legislation but that there were still many supporters within the industry. They just tended to be people with less political clout -- not just busters and host, but servers at mid-priced or inexpensive restaurants (where tips are lower because the food costs less), as well as tipped workers outside of restaurants, which includes many (mostly women, many of them immigrants) who work in the beauty industry. The council's decision to override the voters on that issue was a huge eff you to not only the voters, but to the many, many tipped workers in DC who don't wait tables or bartend at popular, high priced restaurants in wealthier neighborhoods. I will probably never forgive the mayor, Mendo, or the other council members who voted to override.

That said, I do think PP makes some good points about the progressive wing of the council. It pains me to say it because I'm progressive, but the way it works in local politics... it doesn't even matter. Most of the time Allen and other progressive are doing absolutely nothing aside from some retail politics on a few pet issues that keeps key constituents happy. Anything hot button (crime, schools) they are mealy mouthed and do nothing. They are fearful of taking a real stand on some of these issues because it is easier to be a "pure" progressive if you don't have to confront some difficult problems. But I don't need a pure progressive. I want someone who actually works for the people.

Christina Henderson is my favorite council member and I'd like to see more candidates like her. She's progressive but practical.

Yes, your detail about the tipped wage is important—thank you for adding that.

I don’t totally agree about your assessment of progressive politicians on the Council. Many of them, as well as aspirants like Erin Palmer, have clear plans for public safety and schools. On schools, they have no power, and as long as Bowser is Mayor (and Mendelson is leading the Council and aligning with her), that will not change. When it comes to public safety, I agree—they could be much more forceful and specific and use their budget approval power to challenge priorities like funding more police. But they don’t have a majority, and a lot of power rests with Mendelson. I believe that replacing him will make a difference.

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Still leaning toward Mendalsohn. He gets sh#t done, even though I don't agree with him on everything. He doesn't make waves and he seems to have a clean nose. Services in the city are decent and I'm loathe to bring in anyone who wants to make it more difficult for businesses to operate.

DC's tax base is in a very precarious position right now and frankly I'm worried about businesses leaving, which then begins a downward spiral for the city.

Sometimes change isn't always good, especially from newcomers with limited experience in government. It's pretty insane to jump from ANC rep to Chair of the Council. IMHO.
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Agreed. It is going to be critical over the next five years to have council members who actually understand how the DC budget and DC business interests are intertwined. It is frightening to think that Mendelson currently has the most knowledge on these issues---but NONE of the rest of the council or candidate Palmer--know anything about business. Why is this important? City revenues are declining, the city's population isn't growing, and the Council's expenditures keep increasing.

A lot of the city's revenue comes from commercial real estate taxes. An office building that is occupied by tenants has a much higher tax assessment than a building that is empty. There are a lot of empty office buildings downtown as tenants are not renewing leases or reducing space as a result of the "work from home" paradigm shift. The impact of these empty buildings is just starting to be felt, as it takes awhile for a building's assessment to align with its actual value. So over the next few years, there will be less money coming into the District's coffers. (And while there's lots of talk of trying to convert older office buildings to residential but that is very, very difficult to do successfully---due to the column placement, ceiling heights and lack of light in mid-block circa 1980 office buildings.) Add to this decline in revenue the fact that the DC Budget has continued to increase substantially over the last several years even though there has been no growth in the District's population. More expenditures with less revenue is not sustainable.

Here's another example of the Council's lack of business understanding: the progressive bloc on the Council recently passed "emergency" legislation mandating that all hotel rooms get cleaned daily. They did this despite the fact that during Covid, neither hotel guests nor hotel employees wanted additional unnecessary exposures, and because there has been an environmental trend to reduce the amount of cleaning chemical use, etc. So rooms were being cleaned prior to a guest's arrival and after departure but not daily during a guest's stay unless specifically requested by the guest. The hotel union did not like this and ---because the unions OWN the progressives---that bloc of council members passed "emergency legislation" mandating daily room cleaning. Passing laws using "emergency legislation" bypasses the usual open hearing and deliberation process, so the hospitality industry had no opportunity to provide input with their perspective on the issue. (Note that this legislation was passed this spring, even though the true "emergency" days of the pandemic were long over). The "tips" legislation affecting the restaurant industry is similarly being forced down the throat of the local restaurant industry, even though a substantial proportion of the servers didn't want it.

The Council's progressives do not care to understand how different business sectors in the District operate.

First, servers aren’t the only people affected by this; many restaurants tip out other restaurant staff (e.g. bussers, hosts), denying them a living wage. Where are their voices in this conversation?

Second, DC voters overwhelmingly voted for the tipped wage, and the DC Council, led by Mendelson, overrode the will of the voters. Now DC voters will have another chance to vote for the tipped wage. I sure would like to be confident that our next Council chairperson will respect the will of the voters this time around.

Yeah, I was actually with the PP on pretty much everything until this. One of the few things I appreciated about Allen et al (who I think are largely ineffectual) was their opposition to the council overriding prop 77. If you followed that debate closely, you'd know that industry was pretty divided on that legislation but that there were still many supporters within the industry. They just tended to be people with less political clout -- not just busters and host, but servers at mid-priced or inexpensive restaurants (where tips are lower because the food costs less), as well as tipped workers outside of restaurants, which includes many (mostly women, many of them immigrants) who work in the beauty industry. The council's decision to override the voters on that issue was a huge eff you to not only the voters, but to the many, many tipped workers in DC who don't wait tables or bartend at popular, high priced restaurants in wealthier neighborhoods. I will probably never forgive the mayor, Mendo, or the other council members who voted to override.

That said, I do think PP makes some good points about the progressive wing of the council. It pains me to say it because I'm progressive, but the way it works in local politics... it doesn't even matter. Most of the time Allen and other progressive are doing absolutely nothing aside from some retail politics on a few pet issues that keeps key constituents happy. Anything hot button (crime, schools) they are mealy mouthed and do nothing. They are fearful of taking a real stand on some of these issues because it is easier to be a "pure" progressive if you don't have to confront some difficult problems. But I don't need a pure progressive. I want someone who actually works for the people.

Christina Henderson is my favorite council member and I'd like to see more candidates like her. She's progressive but practical.

Agree on Henderson. Seems like she keeps her head down as she gains more ability to navigate the council. I hope she’s there for a long time.

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Anonymous wrote:I would vote for her if she could say something like "I will definitely not support council efforts to close schools again and move to return normalcy to kids." Hell, I'd vote for Mendo if he said that.

One issue voter right now.

In what universe do you think the Council is going to move to close schools again? That ship has sailed. No one even has the guts to propose a return to mandatory masks in schools when disease spread is high. It’s normal again, whether we like it or not. Time to find a new issue to obsess over.

Well, when the Council considered closing schools in January, 2022, I began to think all bets are off. I have zero trust that the wackadoodles on the Council won't try something again. Hell, we are still the only place in the country with a vaccine mandate for all schoolkids, despite the fact that the vaccines for the 5-11 set are proving to be fairly useless for the people that get them or for anyone around them.

This is false one way or another. We do not have a covid vaccine mandate for schoolkids. We are not the only place with general vaccine requirements for normal childhood vaccines.

Yes, we do have a covid vaccine mandate for schoolkids, once the vaccine moves out of EUA: https://dccouncil.us/student-covid-vaccine-mandate-ward-redistricting-receive-final-council-approval/

Why lie?

We appear to be the only school district in the country with such a mandate.

DP, and while you are technically correct, I view that mandate as window dressing. First, I actually think there's no way the 5-11 vaccines move out of the EUA to full approval unless/until the vaccines get significantly better. Which is going to be hard because Covid is still mutating and the newer variants have been more vaccine-evasive. I think we are years from the pediatric Covid vaccines being able to meet the higher scrutiny vaccines get for this age group.

BUT even if they do approve give full approval to the 5-11 vaccine (the very earliest I think this could happen would be 2023 so we aren't even talking about the upcoming school year), no way DC enforces it. Fewer than 50% of this age group is vaccinated in DC, and many of them didn't get the full course (one shot only). Interest in boosters is even lower. And the people vaccinating this age group are overwhelmingly white and higher income. DCPS is not going to refuse to allow a significant percentage of the city's highest risk kids to attend school over a vaccine. They might set up vaccine clinics up schools and heavily advise it, but there is zero chance the vaccine mandate actually gets enforced.

It was idiotic for the council to pass that legislation but fortunately, it is toothless and unenforceable.

1) The 16-17 YO vaccine is already in full approval. So we are just hoping that it won't be enforced now or in the future. We are banking on parents just not following the rules? I guess. Seems like a weird stance to take to hope that the government passes rules that no one will follow.

2) Regardless, it creates headaches for parents and schools. It's an example of how the Council likes to make life worse for parents and kids regarding covid school policies.

3) It also shows a tremendous lack of comprehension on the part of the Council regarding keeping kids in school. It does send the message that the Council doesn't care if kids stay in schools.

So, I agree that it was idiotic on the part of the Council, and it's a reason why I don't support Robert White, and why I would like someone running for Council to just say that the primary thing is to have kids in schools. Not continuing with these dramas -- still going on -- to keep kids out of school.

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DP, and while you are technically correct, I view that mandate as window dressing. First, I actually think there's no way the 5-11 vaccines move out of the EUA to full approval unless/until the vaccines get significantly better. Which is going to be hard because Covid is still mutating and the newer variants have been more vaccine-evasive. I think we are years from the pediatric Covid vaccines being able to meet the higher scrutiny vaccines get for this age group.

BUT even if they do approve give full approval to the 5-11 vaccine (the very earliest I think this could happen would be 2023 so we aren't even talking about the upcoming school year), no way DC enforces it. Fewer than 50% of this age group is vaccinated in DC, and many of them didn't get the full course (one shot only). Interest in boosters is even lower. And the people vaccinating this age group are overwhelmingly white and higher income. DCPS is not going to refuse to allow a significant percentage of the city's highest risk kids to attend school over a vaccine. They might set up vaccine clinics up schools and heavily advise it, but there is zero chance the vaccine mandate actually gets enforced.

It was idiotic for the council to pass that legislation but fortunately, it is toothless and unenforceable.


1) The 16-17 YO vaccine is already in full approval. So we are just hoping that it won't be enforced now or in the future. We are banking on parents just not following the rules? I guess. Seems like a weird stance to take to hope that the government passes rules that no one will follow.

2) Regardless, it creates headaches for parents and schools. It's an example of how the Council likes to make life worse for parents and kids regarding covid school policies.

3) It also shows a tremendous lack of comprehension on the part of the Council regarding keeping kids in school. It does send the message that the Council doesn't care if kids stay in schools.

So, I agree that it was idiotic on the part of the Council, and it's a reason why I don't support Robert White, and why I would like someone running for Council to just say that the primary thing is to have kids in schools. Not continuing with these dramas -- still going on -- to keep kids out of school.[/quote]


These two statements illustrate why the hard left progressives are the classic "limousine liberals" who espouse policies without understanding all the nuances of the issue. There is long-standing, and not irrational, suspicion within low income minority communities regarding health mandates, since there is a long and sordid history in this country of low income minority groups being ill-treated in terms of health care experimentation. Thus there is going to be huge pushback against a child vaccine mandate and the PP is right---city government should not create a situation which disproportionately impacts school attendance for low income minority children, who comprise the greatest number of DCPS students. And to fall into line behind the WTU is just another indication of how much labor unions control the council's progressives. The WTU has a corrupt history in DC. The scandals of the early 2000s in DC were egregious, with the WTU president stealing MILLIONS in union funds in order to go on shopping sprees at Neiman Marcus. I am a huge supporter of teachers but the unions make it extraordinarily difficult to adequately reward great teachers and to quickly remove incompetent ones. Re the tipping legislation discussed above---there is a huge difference of opinion within the restaurant industry---and it is really restaurant workers who should be the most listened to constituency on this issue. As written the legislation adversely impacts servers in higher end establishments---those folks don't want this. So can't the Council actually craft legislation that would require a living wage for workers in the most low-wage sector segments of the tipped workers, while not making it apply to those for whom it would be detrimental? The progressives are the left's equivalent to the right wing nut jobs who just want to "own the libs" on Twitter but have little interest in actually understanding issues and trying to reach consensus positions.

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Anonymous wrote:I knew her in law school and she is brilliant and kind. Very clean hands and exactly what the DC Council needs. She doesn't want to keep the schools closed - she wanted a virtual option for immuno-suppressed kids. She is COVID-conscious, but so are most of the people in the neighborhood she represents. Many parents of young children (particularly those who cannot be vaccinated) are COVID-conscious. Phil has literally done nothing in 10+ years. Time for new blood.

I remember thinking that about another long-time council member, and voting for the challenger. It's been years, and Brianne has been an utter disaster. Should have stuck with Graham.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree with her on some issues, but can't get pass her views on homeless encampments and abolishing the police. I'm sticking with the devil I know.

I went looking for “abolish the police” on her website but couldn’t find anything. Can you share a citation?

It's part of her stump speech and was also in the Washington Post election guide that was published on Sunday. More violence interrupters and less police. I'm not sure she has said abolish, but she is definitely 100% de-fund.

Ummm. No. She is not. She has essentially the same position as everyone else running. Fund better. More mental health supports. More transparency.

That's just not true. All of the left-wing abolish DC police folks support Palmer 100%. She wants less police...that is a fact.

Less police does not equal abolish police. It means…less police. Stop making shit up.

For the love of God, both of you, it's *fewer* police.

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From her website:

After my judicial clerkship, I worked at a law firm, spending most of my time on pro bono matters.

This either is completely untrue, or a very damning statement on her ability to perform billable work. Either way, it has exactly the opposite effect that she hopes it will have.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree with her on some issues, but can't get pass her views on homeless encampments and abolishing the police. I'm sticking with the devil I know.

I went looking for “abolish the police” on her website but couldn’t find anything. Can you share a citation?

It's part of her stump speech and was also in the Washington Post election guide that was published on Sunday. More violence interrupters and less police. I'm not sure she has said abolish, but she is definitely 100% de-fund.

Ummm. No. She is not. She has essentially the same position as everyone else running. Fund better. More mental health supports. More transparency.

That's just not true. All of the left-wing abolish DC police folks support Palmer 100%. She wants less police...that is a fact.

Less police does not equal abolish police. It means…less police. Stop making shit up.

For the love of God, both of you, it's *fewer* police.

Way to keep a laser-like focus on the important things, you pathetic pedant.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree with her on some issues, but can't get pass her views on homeless encampments and abolishing the police. I'm sticking with the devil I know.

I went looking for “abolish the police” on her website but couldn’t find anything. Can you share a citation?

It's part of her stump speech and was also in the Washington Post election guide that was published on Sunday. More violence interrupters and less police. I'm not sure she has said abolish, but she is definitely 100% de-fund.

Ummm. No. She is not. She has essentially the same position as everyone else running. Fund better. More mental health supports. More transparency.

That's just not true. All of the left-wing abolish DC police folks support Palmer 100%. She wants less police...that is a fact.

Less police does not equal abolish police. It means…less police. Stop making shit up.

For the love of God, both of you, it's *fewer* police.

Way to keep a laser-like focus on the important things, you pathetic pedant.

I have replied on substantive issues multiple times in this thread. But seeing "less police" three times in two lines compelled me to address the lack of literacy. I realize you're ashamed of your part in it, but no need to lash out at the messenger.

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Anonymous wrote:It feels similar to voting for Janeese Lewis George and that has turned out really well so far. I don't have to agree with every policy position, but I value genuine interaction, willingness to listen and (gasp) incorporate people feedback. Erin Palmer seems similar.

Also, I know and trust some of the people who support her. I don't think we can go wrong here.

Yup, and a tinge of Pinto too. I don't agree with Palmer on everything, but she seems to have a good head, clean hands and isn't corrupt as all hell like Mendo.

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I knew her in law school and she is brilliant and kind. Very clean hands and exactly what the DC Council needs. She doesn't want to keep the schools closed - she wanted a virtual option for immuno-suppressed kids. She is COVID-conscious, but so are most of the people in the neighborhood she represents. Many parents of young children (particularly those who cannot be vaccinated) are COVID-conscious. Phil has literally done nothing in 10+ years. Time for new blood.


I remember thinking that about another long-time council member, and voting for the challenger. It's been years, and Brianne has been an utter disaster. Should have stuck with Graham.
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Me too. Same thing exactly. Voted for Brianne because she wasn't Graham and have regretted it since.

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I knew her in law school and she is brilliant and kind. Very clean hands and exactly what the DC Council needs. She doesn't want to keep the schools closed - she wanted a virtual option for immuno-suppressed kids. She is COVID-conscious, but so are most of the people in the neighborhood she represents. Many parents of young children (particularly those who cannot be vaccinated) are COVID-conscious. Phil has literally done nothing in 10+ years. Time for new blood.


I remember thinking that about another long-time council member, and voting for the challenger. It's been years, and Brianne has been an utter disaster. Should have stuck with Graham.
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Me too. Same thing exactly. Voted for Brianne because she wasn't Graham and have regretted it since.

Voted for Janeese Lewis George because she wasn't Brandon Todd and it's been GREAT! No regrets at all.