Election Results
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Anonymous
The republican candidate literally had it on his signs and he captured a few votes. Several ANC Commissioners made opposing them the cornerstone of their campaigns, most of them lost. There are at least two threads in this forum that talk about the bike lanes and the various candidates positions, and there is the Frumin v Krucoff thread that also talks about them. But sure, no one was thinking about them. At all. 
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Anonymous
She udner performed across the city and particularly east of the river. Her loss has less than nothing to do with bike lanes, which she probably never mentioned once in the last 8 months. |
Anonymous
Were bike lanes really the main issue in any of these races? |
Anonymous
Pfft. Nobody cares about ANC races or any of the Republican candidates. The only thing that matters that happened yesterday was the Silverman, the queen of leftwing white people, was defeated in favor of a business friendly Democrat. That's a political earthquake. |
Anonymous
Again LOL - I've met Rick Nash and seen what he drives and followed this election pretty closely - he didn't even tout himself as an environmentalist in the debate or articulate how his positions are consistent with environmentalism but his positions on bike lanes and in-fill development are not the green position and he isn't even correct about DC's tree canopy which is something he mentioned a couple of times and cites on his website. |
Anonymous
Wait, so now you want citywide transportation policy to be completely overhauled on the basis of one close ANC election? |
Anonymous
Strictly speaking, she was defeated in favor of a business-friendly independent, unless you're talking about Bonds, who was never in any jeopardy of losing. |
Anonymous
DP. You seem to be too infatuated with bike lanes, because your response appears to be a non-sequitor to the PP who was pointing out that people maybe were not happy with her role and behavior as part of the redistributing task force. Unless you think that was somehow specifically about bike lanes? There is another PP mentioning that Silverman never talks about bike lanes, so how could her work on redistricting be about something that she never talks about? I think you might have missed the most important point, which was the PP saying, “she sent obnoxious responses to voters who lodged complaints.” People objecting to her behavior has been a pretty consistent them of complaints lodged against her, not anything policy related. |
Anonymous
I don't know who is responding to whom at this point but I was an earlier poster. Elissa is a progressive and while I think she was definitely pro-bike lane it was something that was not a priority for her and she barely ever spoke up about so I really don't think it impacted her re-election one way or the other. Having dealt with her I will echo the above comment that she was a bit obnoxious though I was not sure it if was arrogance of flightiness but she always struck me as someone who was in way over her heard on the DC Council and this scandal about the Ward 3 poll to me provided further evidence of that. But I really doubt the poll or the re-districting had much to do with the results - I think Bonds and McDuffie consolidated the black vote while McLaughlin got 10% of the white vote which primarily came from Silverman and doomed her. I was pretty underwhelmed with the entire field, especially Bonds who has no business being on the DC Council at all. |
Anonymous
It is quite insulting to say that Black voters vote by race. The truth is that Black voters will loyally support white politicians when they have a reason to do so. If Silverman had spent any amount of time over the last 4 years building alliances in Wards 7 and 8 instead of creating enemies, she would have won re-election. It is that simple. But that would have involved two things that were impossible for her. First and foremost was to listen to people and second would be to put others priorities ahead of her own. |
Anonymous
All the ANCs drive SUVs |
Anonymous
You must be new here. Of course people in DC vote by race. You can look at the precinct results in any contested race to see that that is true, particularly Silverman. They don't strictly vote by race and voters do of course frequently vote across racial lines but I think Silverman was a candidate who really struggled to attract non-white votes. I think race becomes a bigger issue in these contests with a lot of candidates when everyone has limited exposure to the candidates and limited interest in learning about where they stand. |
Anonymous
I think most people think of ANC representatives as glorified 311 operators. |
Anonymous
Yeah, because every point on the anti-bike lane site is valid and true right? Oh wait, no. They are ALL bullshit selective interpretations and manipulation of data. Frumin outperformed Cheh's last outing and his strongest support came from precincts at the heart of this project. |
Anonymous
Not so fast. Given the lopsidedness of the AACO mail in ballots, Pittman is almost certain to win. (Rodvien too, which would keep AA County Council blue, too, I thikn) |