DC Folks did you vote for Bowser??

[Anonymous]

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She is simply the lesser of all evils. There was no serious contender running against her.


This. I don't love her, at all, but at least things seem to be getting done. She got schools open, and part of me thinks under White, schools would still be closed. DC had plenty of tests to pick up in December, when things went all to shit with covid. I don't love it, but she got DC General closed and got those shelters built in a variety of wards. She clears the homeless encampments.

I'd love to see her crack down on crime and the freaking ATV situation. This council (and Robert White) sure won't put any energy there, and she just might now that the election is done.

I voted for her as the lesser of evils. I think that the "Green Team" ---which started with Adrian Fenty and his fraternity brothers---are a little too corrupt re government contracting. But I dislike the progressive lunatics far more. Robert White's idea that the DC government should just guarantee everybody a job is risible. That was how Barry built a bloated and dysfunctional city bureaucracy in the 80s which drove us into bankruptcy and the control board in the 90s. Same with the issues around crime. Remember---White, Silverman, Allen, Nadeau all want to raise the youth rehabilitation act age ceiling to 26 and Bowser opposes it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Somebody is really freaking out lol.

It's multiple people and I am one of them. We are exhausted of being told that school closures "don't matter" and that we should "get over it." People tend to freak out when you gaslight them for two years. The fact that you STILL don't understand that parents need schools in order to function, and that simply taking them away without justification for a year was going to have political ramification, is the part that floors me.

Who took them away? Who was our Mayor again?

So lemme get this straight… we were supposed to vote for White, who wanted to continue school closures, to punish Bowser for not reopening quickly enough?

Is this your actual logic? That you thought people would use at the polls?

[Anonymous]

I voted for her. I like how she handles hecklers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Somebody is really freaking out lol.

It's multiple people and I am one of them. We are exhausted of being told that school closures "don't matter" and that we should "get over it." People tend to freak out when you gaslight them for two years. The fact that you STILL don't understand that parents need schools in order to function, and that simply taking them away without justification for a year was going to have political ramification, is the part that floors me.

Who took them away? Who was our Mayor again?

Bowser wanted to open schools in August 2020! Were you not paying attention? Yes, she failed to successfully negotiate with the union to make it happen. That's on her (and the union, sorry). But she was starting from a premise of "we need schools to be open".

Please name the mayoral candidate or council member who stated clearly that schools NEED to be open and suggested the workable plan for making it happen. All I heard was a bunch of people saying mealy mouth BS to hold onto their WTU endorsement and advocating for MORE virtual school.

But go on.

Thank you for the advice. I've had enough of you all. I'm going on. with my life. You can continue to complain and live in 2020. There's a big world out here don't need to waste it on here with people who are still yelling about virtual school

lol this is a thread about elections sweetie. sorry you can’t handle reality!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread is hilarious.

Did you vote for Bowser? Why? Well she reopened schools and seems to care about keeping them open, and her opposition doesn't.

OH my god why are you people so obsessed with school closures! Get over it! Bowser sucks!

And that friends, is this election in a nutshell. See ya next time.

Bowser doesn’t have a crazy/by the seat of my pants look in her eyes like the rest of the candidates. Good enough for me.
Honestly, I went by who’s not crazy

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Somebody is really freaking out lol.

It's multiple people and I am one of them. We are exhausted of being told that school closures "don't matter" and that we should "get over it." People tend to freak out when you gaslight them for two years. The fact that you STILL don't understand that parents need schools in order to function, and that simply taking them away without justification for a year was going to have political ramification, is the part that floors me.

Who took them away? Who was our Mayor again?

Bowser wanted to open schools in August 2020! Were you not paying attention? Yes, she failed to successfully negotiate with the union to make it happen. That's on her (and the union, sorry). But she was starting from a premise of "we need schools to be open".

Please name the mayoral candidate or council member who stated clearly that schools NEED to be open and suggested the workable plan for making it happen. All I heard was a bunch of people saying mealy mouth BS to hold onto their WTU endorsement and advocating for MORE virtual school.

But go on.

Thank you for the advice. I've had enough of you all. I'm going on. with my life. You can continue to complain and live in 2020. There's a big world out here don't need to waste it on here with people who are still yelling about virtual school

lol this is a thread about elections sweetie. sorry you can’t handle reality!

+1, like we're not allowed to use Robert White's horrible track record as a reason to vote against him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Somebody is really freaking out lol.

It's multiple people and I am one of them. We are exhausted of being told that school closures "don't matter" and that we should "get over it." People tend to freak out when you gaslight them for two years. The fact that you STILL don't understand that parents need schools in order to function, and that simply taking them away without justification for a year was going to have political ramification, is the part that floors me.

Who took them away? Who was our Mayor again?

Bowser wanted to open schools in August 2020! Were you not paying attention? Yes, she failed to successfully negotiate with the union to make it happen. That's on her (and the union, sorry). But she was starting from a premise of "we need schools to be open".

Please name the mayoral candidate or council member who stated clearly that schools NEED to be open and suggested the workable plan for making it happen. All I heard was a bunch of people saying mealy mouth BS to hold onto their WTU endorsement and advocating for MORE virtual school.

But go on.

No she didn’t. If she wanted to open them, she would have. There are teachers unions in every state and everyone else managed to figure it out. She was giving the middle finger to Trump in Sept 2020, which I fully support, but the schools were closed because it was politically expedient for her party.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Somebody is really freaking out lol.

It's multiple people and I am one of them. We are exhausted of being told that school closures "don't matter" and that we should "get over it." People tend to freak out when you gaslight them for two years. The fact that you STILL don't understand that parents need schools in order to function, and that simply taking them away without justification for a year was going to have political ramification, is the part that floors me.

Who took them away? Who was our Mayor again?

Bowser wanted to open schools in August 2020! Were you not paying attention? Yes, she failed to successfully negotiate with the union to make it happen. That's on her (and the union, sorry). But she was starting from a premise of "we need schools to be open".

Please name the mayoral candidate or council member who stated clearly that schools NEED to be open and suggested the workable plan for making it happen. All I heard was a bunch of people saying mealy mouth BS to hold onto their WTU endorsement and advocating for MORE virtual school.

But go on.

No she didn’t. If she wanted to open them, she would have. There are teachers unions in every state and everyone else managed to figure it out. She was giving the middle finger to Trump in Sept 2020, which I fully support, but the schools were closed because it was politically expedient for her party.

If you don’t understand how the failure to open schools unfolded in DC, I can’t help you. Bowser kept going to the union to negotiate terms of reopening. They would not agree. Each time they had NEW demands, some of which were laughable in terms of actual mitigation measures. Bowser was absolutely invested in reopening and if the union had been willing to work WITH her, I stead if against reopening, it could have happened as early as August 2020.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Somebody is really freaking out lol.

It's multiple people and I am one of them. We are exhausted of being told that school closures "don't matter" and that we should "get over it." People tend to freak out when you gaslight them for two years. The fact that you STILL don't understand that parents need schools in order to function, and that simply taking them away without justification for a year was going to have political ramification, is the part that floors me.

Who took them away? Who was our Mayor again?

Bowser wanted to open schools in August 2020! Were you not paying attention? Yes, she failed to successfully negotiate with the union to make it happen. That's on her (and the union, sorry). But she was starting from a premise of "we need schools to be open".

Please name the mayoral candidate or council member who stated clearly that schools NEED to be open and suggested the workable plan for making it happen. All I heard was a bunch of people saying mealy mouth BS to hold onto their WTU endorsement and advocating for MORE virtual school.

But go on.

No she didn’t. If she wanted to open them, she would have. There are teachers unions in every state and everyone else managed to figure it out. She was giving the middle finger to Trump in Sept 2020, which I fully support, but the schools were closed because it was politically expedient for her party.

LOL you have not paid attention AT ALL through the entire last couple of years if you think unions didn't have something to do with school reopening (or not). It's been the subject of research and many, many news articles.

e.g., "So, the empirical research suggests that teachers’ unions slowed fall school reopening decisions during a worldwide pandemic, and media accounts suggest their efforts continued as schools returned from winter break." https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown-center-chalkboard/2021/03/25/teachers-unions-scapegoats-or-bad-faith-actors-in-covid-19-school-reopening-decisions/

[Anonymous]

I voted for Bowser. She handled COVID well and I like the direction the city is going overall.

[Anonymous]

No, of course I didn't vote for Muriel. I've been here 14 years, btw.

[Anonymous]

I voted for Bowser. And I've been here 14 years and 1 day, btw.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I voted for Bowser. She handled COVID well and I like the direction the city is going overall.

You enjoying the crime?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I voted for Bowser. She handled COVID well and I like the direction the city is going overall.

You enjoying the crime?

My neighborhood isn't experiencing a lot of crime. Crime is up nation wide. Blaming Bowser for this is stupid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I voted for Bowser. And I've been here 14 years and 1 day, btw.

I've been here for 30 years and, yes, I voted for Bowser.