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Charles Allen faces recall effort
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Anonymous
Silverman has become *extremely* bitter on social media, still whining like a child about her loss and lobbing weird accusations at other people. Like calling Matt Yglesias MAGA for merely expressing concern about the rising murder rate in DC. I think she's done, and I also think Racine's dismal perfomance as AG -- and his penchant for saying the quiet part out loud, like when he said he always drives around with a full tank of gas so he can't get carjacked at a DC gas station -- killed any chance he has. |
Anonymous
| It’s really funny watching these radical ANC Commissioners circle the wagon for Allen on Twitter. They actually think they are helping him. For these folks, politics is a religion. It’s really all they have. If you attempt to convince them that BLM/defund was a REALLY bad idea they will attack you with religious fervor. Those of us who have kids and have an actual religion, we can turn it off. Politics is not our identity. Sure we fight for our beliefs, but it’s not who we are. We have other interests and demands for our time. But, for these ANCs if you take away their yard signs and Twitter account they have nothing left. No ability to virtue signal. No dopamine hits from getting Twitter “likes” from other childless, religionless ANC Commissioners. These poor kids have been sold a sad bill of goods about life. That’s what makes these folks so dangerous because they are willing to be wrong until the bitter end. For those of us with families or property values to protect, we cannot sit back and wait for his progressive dreams to come crashing down. We are paying attention now, finally. |
Anonymous
Yep, everything about your post shows someone who isn't in a fervor. |
Anonymous
Well that's kind of a winning platform in DC. Remember, there's nowhere to go after mayor in DC since there's no governor or serious seat in Congress so you're not going to get serious candidates. |
Anonymous
Silverman’s attack on Yglesias (who I don’t even like and think it was funny he got knock out gamed during a previous DC crime wave) was nothing short of insane. Clearly shows why she is the kind of person who relished going after DC residents getting the vaccine out of state. |
Anonymous
These are excuses. Tony Williams and Adrian Fenty were both "serious candidates" who did a lot of good for this city during their mayoral terms. And while neither went on to higher office, they've both done pretty well in the private sector (this is the primary exit strategy for DC mayors -- go into political consulting and get paid bank to lobby on behalf of groups and issues to your former colleagues in government). Not everyone wants to be governor or senator, and in some ways it's GOOD that DC mayor is as high as you can go because it means we should get candidates who view DC as the goal, not a stepping stone. Since Fenty, we've really been struggling with an identity crisis in DC though. He got pushed out in favor of Gray in large part because "old school" DC (read: black DC) felt he was too interested in catering to businesses and white people. It's true that investment and development during his term was really heavily concentrated in NW, though we did also see investment in H Street and Navy Yard. But little or nothing across the river and that was his downfall. But then Gray was a bust -- scandal ridden and accomplished so little. Just a wasted administration. I think some voters (myself among them) thought Bowser might be a return to a more growth and development minded mayoral office. Ugh, such a disappointment. Bowser only cares about Bowser. She's inept at driving investment. Her main strategy is to announce new projects, but her name and face on them, and then make no effort to maintain or repair anything so everything looks freaking derelict. I also suspect her office is absolutely riddled with grift. Her staff is a mess and she often has absolute incompetents in important roles. That this woman has been re-elected twice is a huge embarrassment. Yet I couldn't bring myself to vote for White. He suggested closing schools for Covid in the spring of 2022. Absolutely not. There's no reason we can't have good people in the mayor's office. We need to find them and support them. It sucks how thin the talent is right now. I have high hopes for Christina Henderson but can't think of a single other local politician I am enthusiastic about. |
Anonymous
I loved Tony. He was so nerdy/nice. I loved how he jumped in the pool in his suit to open "pool season". He showed up for DC. The guy should have gone national. |
Anonymous
How about the councilmember from Georgetown? She was condemning crime before "the un-ignorable wave"...shows she actually noticed the indicators and was ahead , not behind, the problem |
Anonymous
The same person who passed a crime bill in the summer that has led to a further increase in crime? |
Anonymous
I don't think so..she has a recent bill addressing crime - I don't think she was behind the nonsensical one this summer |
Anonymous
I would not rule it out. Anyone know Frumin when he was practicing law? If so, what was his rep then? He just seems like such a lightweight and the way he always rushes to lower expectations is almost a schtick at this point, with the head tilt. |
Anonymous
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Brook Pinto-
I'm not sure if this passed, but some of the ideas were good. At least better than NO ideas like most of our council. "D.C. Judiciary and the Public Safety Committee held a public hearing on committee chair Brooke Pinto’s proposed ACTIVE Amendment, one of several bills introduced in October under Pinto’s greater Secure D.C. Plan to address the city’s current crime crisis. The ACTIVE Amendment stands for Addressing Crime through Targeted Interventions & Violence Enforcement Amendment Act of 2023 (B25-0479). The summary posted by the committee reads: "As introduced Bill 25-479 would require individuals on probation, supervised release, or parole following a conviction for a gun offense be required to submit to a search when they are in a public place. It would create a Prearrest Diversion Task Force charged with developing recommendations for increasing the use of pre-arrest diversion. It would increase the maximum penalty for individuals firing a large number of bullets at a time. It would require that sentences for possession of extremely dangerous weapons like machine guns be stacked on top of baseline penalties, not run concurrently, and create a new offense of unlawful discarding of firearms and ammunition. It would amend the definition of carjacking to include situations where the victim is not in or immediately next to their vehicle among other things." |
Anonymous
Both the emergency bill and the new bill were sponsored by Brooke Pinto, the CM from Georgetown who succeeded Allen as chair of the Safety Committee. Previously she worked for Racine. The Council voted to extend the provisions of the Emergency bill, while it was not as far reaching as may have been ideal, not sure anyone is claiming it was "nonsensical." Crime is driven at this point not by lack of laws but by lack of prosecution by AG and USAO and by lax judges who never gave up their former ideology from public defender days. |
Anonymous
I mean this is the problem. Pinto passed a bill this summer. JLG was the only vote against it, claiming that it was more about performative measures rather than research based ones. fast forward six months and crime has only gotten worse, and your response is "I don't think so". We have this demographic here that considers themselves tapped in; yet they don't even realize what is happening. I couldn't even tell what the nonsensical one you were thinking of...I'm guessing the criminal code revisions which died last spring. |
Anonymous
The council bill that mayor Bowser denounced and Biden vetoed this summer was nonsensical. Pintos OKAY bill above was in October. Not sure if she was also going involved in the summer one that was vetoed? That bill was bonkers and deserves to be mocked. |