Bowser is the worst mayor we've had since Pratt-Kelly. Sad!!!

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Anonymous wrote:Can we get rid of her? The District is turning into an urban wasteland full of thugs and criminals.

Turning into? You must be a transplant. DC has always been a safe haven for thugs and criminals. Believe me, the current DC is much nicer than the DC of my childhood. I've seen DC progress from a deplorable crap hole to a vibrant city. These type of things take time. It's not the mayor that is the problem though. It's the residents. DC has good people who try to pacify criminals to turn their lives around. However, it never works. It's more humane to waste money on social programs than killing them or mandating force sterilization for certain populations of people. Unfortunately, us law abiding citizens must cope with the wild predators in the most humane way possible. Most believe that all forms of life are precious even the criminal elements. You either have to suck it up or relocate to an area where the locals don't coddle criminals.

All I can think about is that proposal they had where they wanted to pay violent criminals each $1000 or whatever it was a month not to murder someone. That was when I knew the Left had lost its last marble.

That was councilmember mcduffie I believe? I see two major missteps by current Mayor - the 8 homeless shelters that will just be money flushed, and she has not shown leadership on reforming the DC youth rehabilitation (catch and release with anonymity) act. Nobody is actually working with or tracking these kids, and they just graduate to greater degrees of asocial criminality. The rats are also a huge problem. Oh and she hasn't done much with education. Yeah I'd agree shes a dud. I do like the 311 number- please use it to call in all the petty nuisance stuff you see. Might as well!

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I deal with the DC government off and on, and it just seems like everyone there is completely demoralized. There is a pervasive fear, everyone is paralyzed because they're worried about the consequences of a mis-step. The only ones who are doing anything are the hopelessly corrupt, who are grabbing while the grabbing is good.

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I just focus on the schools and it's a disaster. The current budgets are a joke at-risk funding has been a problem for years

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https://www.youtube.com/user/OfficialDCPolice

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Where do you all live? I haven't been bothered by or the victim of any petty or other crime. The rats haven't reached me yet apparently. I don't have kids in school so admittedly that isn't high on my list of things to be focused on.

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Anonymous wrote:Where do you all live? I haven't been bothered by or the victim of any petty or other crime. The rats haven't reached me yet apparently. I don't have kids in school so admittedly that isn't high on my list of things to be focused on.

We live in DC.

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Anonymous wrote:Where do you all live? I haven't been bothered by or the victim of any petty or other crime. The rats haven't reached me yet apparently. I don't have kids in school so admittedly that isn't high on my list of things to be focused on.

We live in DC.

But WHERE in DC that you have all of these issues? I live IN DC and, as I noted above, none of this is a problem for me.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, people's choice OP.

+1.

Like Trump.

Well, I take that back. Trump at least had to beat a very strong contender from the other party.

DC is more like one-party Cuba.

So is Mississippi...what's your point

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Anonymous wrote:Tony Williams was the Giuliani of DC. Fixed the potholes, took out the trash and slashed crime. He was awesome.

Williams had his good points but he gave away the store on the stadium. Will never forgive him for that.

Hasn't the Stadium paid for itself many times over since it's opening in 2008 ???

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“DC is declining, the schools are bad, the rat population is up, and the Mayor is a corrupt empty suit.”

“Oh yeah??? Well when I lived in DC 30 years ago it was WAY worse. The rats were the size of hippos and the only place it was safe to walk was inside the Capitol! You haven’t seen anything!!!”

Guess what? You don’t have a monopoly on opinions about DC. The one-upmanship whenever anything DC-related comes up is nauseating. DC sucked 30 years ago and it still sucks today, so you both win...or something.

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What’s wrong with bowser? I don’t follow dc politics, but I haven’t heard anything bad

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where do you all live? I haven't been bothered by or the victim of any petty or other crime. The rats haven't reached me yet apparently. I don't have kids in school so admittedly that isn't high on my list of things to be focused on.

We live in DC.

But WHERE in DC that you have all of these issues? I live IN DC and, as I noted above, none of this is a problem for me.

The rats are everywhere. You don't want to know. As to crime, if you read the paper or go to crime reports you can track it. It may not have affected you, but there are areas of concentrated crime and there is also random crime related to the DC rehabilitation act that catches and pretty much releases criminals under 21, as well as what appears to be some horrifying, random mentally I'll/homeless person crimes recently that had mostly women victims.

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She's a thug!

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Anonymous wrote:What’s wrong with bowser? I don’t follow dc politics, but I haven’t heard anything bad

Adorable.

1. Chronic mismanagement of the schools. Picked a chancellor who cheated the system after he himself wrote rules forbidding it. And that's just the tip of the iceberg (Ellington mess -- both the obscenely wasteful renovation and the fact that 30 percent of the school consists of residency cheaters -- plus the fact that she's done nothing about overcrowding and frankly doesn't care about it because it's Ward 3).

2. Violent crime is up, though mostly only EOTR, which she takes for granted.

3. Tried to establish homeless shelters in each ward (a noble goal) by basically giving away the land to her the developers that fund her campaigns. Council stopped that.


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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tony Williams was the Giuliani of DC. Fixed the potholes, took out the trash and slashed crime. He was awesome.

Williams had his good points but he gave away the store on the stadium. Will never forgive him for that.

Hasn't the Stadium paid for itself many times over since it's opening in 2008 ???

No.

Revenue from the stadium tax has exceeded expectations. But the stadium tax has no connection to economic activity generated by the stadium, it's a general tax on all businesses.