Is Frumin running again?

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, downfall is overrated.

But Frumin does lay down pretty easy. The Conn Ave bike lanes were his adopted baby that he swore on to get certain endorsements. As soon as the Mayor removed their possibility, he should have been a loud no vote for every single thing she proposed.

That would be counterproductive to getting anything else for the Ward. There is a reason he is the councilmember and you are not.

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of people wanted the bike lanes, including the mayor and DDOT, as well as all of the other Ward 3 candidates from 2022. The only reason they didn't happen is because downtown business interests intervened.

That said, he has supported the various main street orgs in terms of providing funds and resources to businesses on the corridor and has been proactive with MPD in terms of presence and enforcement. Maybe your ire is directed at the failing national economy?

He has done exactly nothing about the rising crime rate along Connecticut stemming from DC blindly putting voucher recipients into empty apartments without offering them any sort of support services. When horrifically violent crimes have happened because of this -- kids dying, etc. -- he offers his thoughts and prayers but says his hands are tied and he can't do anything, like a simp. He's worthless.

And I think Frumin's staffers have better use of their time than posting here.

So Frumin is in charge of public and section 8 housing in the district and not, you know, the private property owners who are converting their properties to take the money from the city? What exactly do you expect a councilmember to do to intervene between a private property owner and the city when there are no permits or hearing or other "stop points" that could put the brakes on such moves? Methinks you either have no idea of what a councilmember can or can't do, or believe they can act as an executive authoritarian.

He could introduce legislation to cap the number of voucher residents allowed in one building. In fact, Ward 3 residents have explicitly asked him to do this multiple times but he steadfastly refuses to do so.

Try harder with your simping for him.

Not simping for him, but this particular example, no, that legislation would never pass and it isn't worth the time to try. How about offering real solutions and not something completely unviable?

NP here. For one, there could be a cap on the number of tenants per building on vouchers to avoid destabilizing the tenant population as the vouchers have done. Secondly, the city should stop using tax dollars to pay above market rents for voucher tenants. Thirdly, he could have prevented a weed store opening only a few blocks from a school in the Van Ness Area. Residents did not want any of this.

How do you propose putting a cap on a transaction between a landlord and a tenant?
I agree, the city should stop doing that. It doesn't have the votes on the council and even if it did, it is set by the mayor to help her landlord friends.
A copuncilmember cannot stop a legally operating business application from being granted by the city. What is the legal basis by which you think this can happen?

The city is using our tax dollars to pay over market rates for vouchers. Frumin could oppose that instead he rolls out the the red carpet. We had a 30 percent(!) increase in crime under his watch — much of it occurring in or around voucher buildings. The city of course could allocate and ration the number of vouchers per building. The city could also restrict areas and corridors. Your saying his hand are tied? If so, why even have a ward rep in the first place???

Nope: https://www.crimedatadc.com/ward/3

According to DC Crime Cards, there have been 346 crimes committed within 1000 feet of the Van Ness Metro station since Frumin took office, an increase of 148 crimes from the comparable period before he took office.

He doesn't care.

The data doesn't lie, but you do.

Well, when stores have to literally lockup merchandise, theft goes down. And, when buildings have to pay for police overtime, crime goes down. But the criminals are still here. We know this because when the police are redeployed for special events, the crime spikes. The statistics are not particularly helpful.

This also drives up the cost of goods, services, and insurance for all of us. It’s a major hidden tax to living in DC. My roofing contractor had his van broken into in broad daylight in NWDC. He says he automatically charges DC customers 30% more for the same job he’d do in Bethesda. Same exact job. Voter smarter, DC.

Then hold the mayor accountable for MPD, that is her job. You think a councilmember is responsible for crime rates? YOu are imposing a lot more power on them then they actually have.

Ward 3 CAN’T hold a DC mayor accountable. You become DC mayor by screwing Ward 3. That’s why we need a councilman who is willing to fight. Instead Frumin is complicit in the downfall of Ward 3.

houses are still turning over in a week or less generally, and the commercial areas except for Friendship Heights (which died during covid and is on its way back) are generally pretty strong, with main streets in most of them that are supported by Frumin. I am not sure where the hyperbole around a 'downfall" is coming from, but from where I live and shop, things are pretty strong.

There was a time when police cars were not stationed outside apartment buildings all along Connecticut Avenue. There was a time when the parks and metro stations didn’t wreak of weed. There was a time you could walk into any CVS and buy laundry detergent without assistance. And that time was just before Mr. Frumin was elected.

I agree with the PP...that time was before the pandemic. Weed was essentially legalized and a lot of the demographics along the avenue changed. That all happened before Frumin was elected.

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of people wanted the bike lanes, including the mayor and DDOT, as well as all of the other Ward 3 candidates from 2022. The only reason they didn't happen is because downtown business interests intervened.

That said, he has supported the various main street orgs in terms of providing funds and resources to businesses on the corridor and has been proactive with MPD in terms of presence and enforcement. Maybe your ire is directed at the failing national economy?

He has done exactly nothing about the rising crime rate along Connecticut stemming from DC blindly putting voucher recipients into empty apartments without offering them any sort of support services. When horrifically violent crimes have happened because of this -- kids dying, etc. -- he offers his thoughts and prayers but says his hands are tied and he can't do anything, like a simp. He's worthless.

And I think Frumin's staffers have better use of their time than posting here.

So Frumin is in charge of public and section 8 housing in the district and not, you know, the private property owners who are converting their properties to take the money from the city? What exactly do you expect a councilmember to do to intervene between a private property owner and the city when there are no permits or hearing or other "stop points" that could put the brakes on such moves? Methinks you either have no idea of what a councilmember can or can't do, or believe they can act as an executive authoritarian.

He could introduce legislation to cap the number of voucher residents allowed in one building. In fact, Ward 3 residents have explicitly asked him to do this multiple times but he steadfastly refuses to do so.

Try harder with your simping for him.

Not simping for him, but this particular example, no, that legislation would never pass and it isn't worth the time to try. How about offering real solutions and not something completely unviable?

NP here. For one, there could be a cap on the number of tenants per building on vouchers to avoid destabilizing the tenant population as the vouchers have done. Secondly, the city should stop using tax dollars to pay above market rents for voucher tenants. Thirdly, he could have prevented a weed store opening only a few blocks from a school in the Van Ness Area. Residents did not want any of this.

How do you propose putting a cap on a transaction between a landlord and a tenant?
I agree, the city should stop doing that. It doesn't have the votes on the council and even if it did, it is set by the mayor to help her landlord friends.
A copuncilmember cannot stop a legally operating business application from being granted by the city. What is the legal basis by which you think this can happen?

The city is using our tax dollars to pay over market rates for vouchers. Frumin could oppose that instead he rolls out the the red carpet. We had a 30 percent(!) increase in crime under his watch — much of it occurring in or around voucher buildings. The city of course could allocate and ration the number of vouchers per building. The city could also restrict areas and corridors. Your saying his hand are tied? If so, why even have a ward rep in the first place???

Nope: https://www.crimedatadc.com/ward/3

According to DC Crime Cards, there have been 346 crimes committed within 1000 feet of the Van Ness Metro station since Frumin took office, an increase of 148 crimes from the comparable period before he took office.

He doesn't care.

The data doesn't lie, but you do.

Well, when stores have to literally lockup merchandise, theft goes down. And, when buildings have to pay for police overtime, crime goes down. But the criminals are still here. We know this because when the police are redeployed for special events, the crime spikes. The statistics are not particularly helpful.

This also drives up the cost of goods, services, and insurance for all of us. It’s a major hidden tax to living in DC. My roofing contractor had his van broken into in broad daylight in NWDC. He says he automatically charges DC customers 30% more for the same job he’d do in Bethesda. Same exact job. Voter smarter, DC.

Then hold the mayor accountable for MPD, that is her job. You think a councilmember is responsible for crime rates? YOu are imposing a lot more power on them then they actually have.

Ward 3 CAN’T hold a DC mayor accountable. You become DC mayor by screwing Ward 3. That’s why we need a councilman who is willing to fight. Instead Frumin is complicit in the downfall of Ward 3.

houses are still turning over in a week or less generally, and the commercial areas except for Friendship Heights (which died during covid and is on its way back) are generally pretty strong, with main streets in most of them that are supported by Frumin. I am not sure where the hyperbole around a 'downfall" is coming from, but from where I live and shop, things are pretty strong.

There was a time when police cars were not stationed outside apartment buildings all along Connecticut Avenue. There was a time when the parks and metro stations didn’t wreak of weed. There was a time you could walk into any CVS and buy laundry detergent without assistance. And that time was just before Mr. Frumin was elected.

I agree with the PP...that time was before the pandemic. Weed was essentially legalized and a lot of the demographics along the avenue changed. That all happened before Frumin was elected.

So what’s he doing about it?

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of people wanted the bike lanes, including the mayor and DDOT, as well as all of the other Ward 3 candidates from 2022. The only reason they didn't happen is because downtown business interests intervened.

That said, he has supported the various main street orgs in terms of providing funds and resources to businesses on the corridor and has been proactive with MPD in terms of presence and enforcement. Maybe your ire is directed at the failing national economy?

He has done exactly nothing about the rising crime rate along Connecticut stemming from DC blindly putting voucher recipients into empty apartments without offering them any sort of support services. When horrifically violent crimes have happened because of this -- kids dying, etc. -- he offers his thoughts and prayers but says his hands are tied and he can't do anything, like a simp. He's worthless.

And I think Frumin's staffers have better use of their time than posting here.

So Frumin is in charge of public and section 8 housing in the district and not, you know, the private property owners who are converting their properties to take the money from the city? What exactly do you expect a councilmember to do to intervene between a private property owner and the city when there are no permits or hearing or other "stop points" that could put the brakes on such moves? Methinks you either have no idea of what a councilmember can or can't do, or believe they can act as an executive authoritarian.

He could introduce legislation to cap the number of voucher residents allowed in one building. In fact, Ward 3 residents have explicitly asked him to do this multiple times but he steadfastly refuses to do so.

Try harder with your simping for him.

Not simping for him, but this particular example, no, that legislation would never pass and it isn't worth the time to try. How about offering real solutions and not something completely unviable?

NP here. For one, there could be a cap on the number of tenants per building on vouchers to avoid destabilizing the tenant population as the vouchers have done. Secondly, the city should stop using tax dollars to pay above market rents for voucher tenants. Thirdly, he could have prevented a weed store opening only a few blocks from a school in the Van Ness Area. Residents did not want any of this.

How do you propose putting a cap on a transaction between a landlord and a tenant?
I agree, the city should stop doing that. It doesn't have the votes on the council and even if it did, it is set by the mayor to help her landlord friends.
A copuncilmember cannot stop a legally operating business application from being granted by the city. What is the legal basis by which you think this can happen?

The city is using our tax dollars to pay over market rates for vouchers. Frumin could oppose that instead he rolls out the the red carpet. We had a 30 percent(!) increase in crime under his watch — much of it occurring in or around voucher buildings. The city of course could allocate and ration the number of vouchers per building. The city could also restrict areas and corridors. Your saying his hand are tied? If so, why even have a ward rep in the first place???

Nope: https://www.crimedatadc.com/ward/3

According to DC Crime Cards, there have been 346 crimes committed within 1000 feet of the Van Ness Metro station since Frumin took office, an increase of 148 crimes from the comparable period before he took office.

He doesn't care.

The data doesn't lie, but you do.

Well, when stores have to literally lockup merchandise, theft goes down. And, when buildings have to pay for police overtime, crime goes down. But the criminals are still here. We know this because when the police are redeployed for special events, the crime spikes. The statistics are not particularly helpful.

This also drives up the cost of goods, services, and insurance for all of us. It’s a major hidden tax to living in DC. My roofing contractor had his van broken into in broad daylight in NWDC. He says he automatically charges DC customers 30% more for the same job he’d do in Bethesda. Same exact job. Voter smarter, DC.

Then hold the mayor accountable for MPD, that is her job. You think a councilmember is responsible for crime rates? YOu are imposing a lot more power on them then they actually have.

Ward 3 CAN’T hold a DC mayor accountable. You become DC mayor by screwing Ward 3. That’s why we need a councilman who is willing to fight. Instead Frumin is complicit in the downfall of Ward 3.

houses are still turning over in a week or less generally, and the commercial areas except for Friendship Heights (which died during covid and is on its way back) are generally pretty strong, with main streets in most of them that are supported by Frumin. I am not sure where the hyperbole around a 'downfall" is coming from, but from where I live and shop, things are pretty strong.

There was a time when police cars were not stationed outside apartment buildings all along Connecticut Avenue. There was a time when the parks and metro stations didn’t wreak of weed. There was a time you could walk into any CVS and buy laundry detergent without assistance. And that time was just before Mr. Frumin was elected.

I agree with the PP...that time was before the pandemic. Weed was essentially legalized and a lot of the demographics along the avenue changed. That all happened before Frumin was elected.

So what’s he doing about it?

He can't undo making weed legal.
He can (and has) encouraged more of a presence of MPD on the Avenue - you even note that when you said "There was a time when police cars were not stationed outside apartment buildings all along Connecticut Avenue" - IOW, he has gotten that street presence which is a good thing in terms of deterring crime. What more do you think a Councilmember can do?

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of people wanted the bike lanes, including the mayor and DDOT, as well as all of the other Ward 3 candidates from 2022. The only reason they didn't happen is because downtown business interests intervened.

That said, he has supported the various main street orgs in terms of providing funds and resources to businesses on the corridor and has been proactive with MPD in terms of presence and enforcement. Maybe your ire is directed at the failing national economy?

He has done exactly nothing about the rising crime rate along Connecticut stemming from DC blindly putting voucher recipients into empty apartments without offering them any sort of support services. When horrifically violent crimes have happened because of this -- kids dying, etc. -- he offers his thoughts and prayers but says his hands are tied and he can't do anything, like a simp. He's worthless.

And I think Frumin's staffers have better use of their time than posting here.

So Frumin is in charge of public and section 8 housing in the district and not, you know, the private property owners who are converting their properties to take the money from the city? What exactly do you expect a councilmember to do to intervene between a private property owner and the city when there are no permits or hearing or other "stop points" that could put the brakes on such moves? Methinks you either have no idea of what a councilmember can or can't do, or believe they can act as an executive authoritarian.

He could introduce legislation to cap the number of voucher residents allowed in one building. In fact, Ward 3 residents have explicitly asked him to do this multiple times but he steadfastly refuses to do so.

Try harder with your simping for him.

Not simping for him, but this particular example, no, that legislation would never pass and it isn't worth the time to try. How about offering real solutions and not something completely unviable?

NP here. For one, there could be a cap on the number of tenants per building on vouchers to avoid destabilizing the tenant population as the vouchers have done. Secondly, the city should stop using tax dollars to pay above market rents for voucher tenants. Thirdly, he could have prevented a weed store opening only a few blocks from a school in the Van Ness Area. Residents did not want any of this.

How do you propose putting a cap on a transaction between a landlord and a tenant?
I agree, the city should stop doing that. It doesn't have the votes on the council and even if it did, it is set by the mayor to help her landlord friends.
A copuncilmember cannot stop a legally operating business application from being granted by the city. What is the legal basis by which you think this can happen?

The city is using our tax dollars to pay over market rates for vouchers. Frumin could oppose that instead he rolls out the the red carpet. We had a 30 percent(!) increase in crime under his watch — much of it occurring in or around voucher buildings. The city of course could allocate and ration the number of vouchers per building. The city could also restrict areas and corridors. Your saying his hand are tied? If so, why even have a ward rep in the first place???

The only way rationing or limiting the number of voucher receipients would solve the problems in Ward 3 would be to limit the rule to Ward 3.

Otherwise you would make the problem worse as the rule would force Section 8 tenants out of existing buildings who would then come looking for spots in guess where - Ward 3 - where the vouchers are greater than not just rent controlled rents but in many cases market rents.

And you'd create a problem in the buildings the tenants were chased out of because people don't want to live in unsafe neighborhoods in Wards 7 & 8 so the existing buildings would become unstable too.

The solution remains some reforms of the rules - landlords of buildings with rent control units should be required to rent to section 8 tenants (this is already the law) but they should have to rent to them at the rent controlled rates. This would remove the incentive they currently have to buy out tenants of rent controlled units because they can re-rent the units at well above market rates to section 8 holders.

This reform would never pass because the landlords are making a killing from this but it would be smart for CM Frumin to at least be vocally advocating for some reform of the rules.

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Anonymous wrote:The thing I don’t get is that he seems more interested in helping non-Ward 3 residents over the quality of life for current Ward 3 residents. Fine, run for an At Large seat then. But right now Ward 3 has an absentee councilman.

Disagree. He or his staff come to our ANC meetings and his staff is incredibly responsive to issues that come up where a councilember can help cut red tape.

Such as?

Getting potholes fixed, getting illegal dumping picked up on border park areas, getting more capital bikeshare stations in our area, getting faded street signs replaced. I could go on, but some of these things had been stagnating for years and Frumin's staff was able to get things done effectively.

Tilden Street, one of the few east-west routes, has been undrivable for three years. I’ve had to get my car realligned annually. Reno and Connecticut are not much better. Enough with the funk bands, do your job!

Huh?

I did a roundtrip just last night - SB on Reno and NB on Connecticut and both roads are in perfectly good shape.

DDOT spends obscene amounts of money on road re-paving.

My street has inexplicably been repaved twice in the last 5 years - neither time did it need any work and I'm not aware anyone was advocating for it to be re-paved.

DC has a lot of issues but the condition of our roads is not one of them.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, downfall is overrated.

But Frumin does lay down pretty easy. The Conn Ave bike lanes were his adopted baby that he swore on to get certain endorsements. As soon as the Mayor removed their possibility, he should have been a loud no vote for every single thing she proposed.

That would be counterproductive to getting anything else for the Ward. There is a reason he is the councilmember and you are not.

Likely good reason you are not, too.

But this brings up a good point: when the mayor kills a dear project to a CM, they all roll over and play dead. Not just Frumkin.

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Anonymous wrote:The thing I don’t get is that he seems more interested in helping non-Ward 3 residents over the quality of life for current Ward 3 residents. Fine, run for an At Large seat then. But right now Ward 3 has an absentee councilman.

Disagree. He or his staff come to our ANC meetings and his staff is incredibly responsive to issues that come up where a councilember can help cut red tape.

Such as?

Getting potholes fixed, getting illegal dumping picked up on border park areas, getting more capital bikeshare stations in our area, getting faded street signs replaced. I could go on, but some of these things had been stagnating for years and Frumin's staff was able to get things done effectively.

Tilden Street, one of the few east-west routes, has been undrivable for three years. I’ve had to get my car realligned annually. Reno and Connecticut are not much better. Enough with the funk bands, do your job!

Huh?

I did a roundtrip just last night - SB on Reno and NB on Connecticut and both roads are in perfectly good shape.

DDOT spends obscene amounts of money on road re-paving.

My street has inexplicably been repaved twice in the last 5 years - neither time did it need any work and I'm not aware anyone was advocating for it to be re-paved.

DC has a lot of issues but the condition of our roads is not one of them.

Perfectly good shape = fiery, but mostly peaceful protest

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Anonymous wrote:Please, someone run against Frumin!

He is a joke for Ward 3.
I was at a forum at a public library where people were talking about increased crime, indecent exposure incidents with a homeless person, car break ins, etc.
All he talked about was how homeless people are "great" and that the shirtless homeless guy "gentleman" who hangs out on Connecticut Ave sometimes helps sweep inside the 7-11 and he's "really a great guy".
That was his response to legit concerns from his constituents.
Shameful.

the shirtless guy is named Christian. He often wears a lot of pink and in cooler weather a black duster. I think Cleveland Park Main Street had a piece about him a couple of years ago. He lives at Macomb and Connecticut and clearly has some psychological issues but neither commits crimes nor exposes himself indecently. He is absolutely ripped and black, so he probably scares a lot of the uptight whites in the neighborhood just by existing.

As for Frumin being at all DSA, that's a joke. DSA would probably love to replace Frumin with someone who puts up a fight.

A funny thing about DC DSA - they are very much not urbanists due to lower class people getting priced out.

No one mentioned Christian. The indecent exposure was on Wisconsin Ave by a homeless person well known to the Metro PD.
Frumin brought up the Conn. Ave person. And that is all he had to say in response to his constituents talking about their actual experiences and concerns.
Please don't assume you know what people are afraid of.

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I’m not sure Ward 3 understands how excited the other seven Wards are that y’all elected Matt Frumin. This is like a generational year gift. Thank you.