DC Council At Large race

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So who is actually worth voting for, and why?

I agree with the posters above. Will be voting for Chander. He wrote a portion of the City's disaster plan and can walk away from two divergent arguments with a well founded solution (Look at his Capitol Hill ANC record). I am not a Capitol Hill resident but He has my vote.

[Anonymous]

Lazere has been running a leftist “Think Tank” for decades. Sorry friend but being funded by radicals to champion go no place legislation isn’t real world experience. Look at the papers on the DCFPI website. Most we be a generous B- in an introductory college public policy course. Goodwin has a real job with real experience. Goodwin doesn’t accept participation trophies.

Want Statehood vote for Goodwin.

Want to be ignored vote for Lazere.

[Anonymous]

With Lazere, Silverman worked for him. We don't need two of those.

I want to vote for the candidate that isn't Lazere or Orange.

I am thinking Goodwin, but am open to other suggestions. I wish there was some polling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So who is actually worth voting for, and why?

Ed Lazere has a good view for what's wrong with the city and how to fix it. Ethical.
Markus Batchelor also. While less experienced in politics, he had the kind of lived experience that would guide us well.
Robert White - similar to Markus but with more experience under his belt.

Robert White is the incumbent democrat and will win one of the seats easily and deservedly so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lazere has been running a leftist “Think Tank” for decades. Sorry friend but being funded by radicals to champion go no place legislation isn’t real world experience. Look at the papers on the DCFPI website. Most we be a generous B- in an introductory college public policy course. Goodwin has a real job with real experience. Goodwin doesn’t accept participation trophies.

Want Statehood vote for Goodwin.

Want to be ignored vote for Lazere.

Oh, right. The Republicans were just waiting for someone like Goodwin. Sure.

Then again, he is kinda Republican...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:With Lazere, Silverman worked for him. We don't need two of those.

I want to vote for the candidate that isn't Lazere or Orange.

I am thinking Goodwin, but am open to other suggestions. I wish there was some polling.

My take is that Chander is Goodwinesque with more of a record. 8 years on ANC (volunteer position) and getting some great nuts and bolts stuff achieved.

[Anonymous]

I want someone who isn’t part of any machines, who doesn’t have a financials stake in the Council’s decisions and who is concerned about the practical issues facing the city (i.e., the things the Council actually controls). I care a lot about DCPS. It sounds like I want Chander?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I want someone who isn’t part of any machines, who doesn’t have a financials stake in the Council’s decisions and who is concerned about the practical issues facing the city (i.e., the things the Council actually controls). I care a lot about DCPS. It sounds like I want Chander?

I would say yes and yes. In terms of education, my take is he would fully support DCPS, as well as charters and specialized vocational. Hes not an idealogue/special interests guy. He'd be responsive to practical solutions taking into account community needs on the ground .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lazere has been running a leftist “Think Tank” for decades. Sorry friend but being funded by radicals to champion go no place legislation isn’t real world experience. Look at the papers on the DCFPI website. Most we be a generous B- in an introductory college public policy course. Goodwin has a real job with real experience. Goodwin doesn’t accept participation trophies.

Want Statehood vote for Goodwin.

Want to be ignored vote for Lazere.

With all fairness, I must say that if you not interested in progressive politics, it seems like Chandler is a better choice. I was just not impressed with Goodwin. Let's be frank here, the guy is very junior. When he talks about issues, he sounds like he researched it, but has no real world experience, especially with city issues. He's a developer? No, he worked for developers. That is not a knock, but just to say that he just sounds inexperienced. He essentially has 4 years of development experience.

[Anonymous]

In all fairness you're a Lazere surrogate trying to say that Goodwin is a republican (he isn't) and he's inexperienced (he isn't). Instead of pushing Left Said Ed you push Chandler in the hope he'll skim some votes from Goodwin.

Nice try though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In all fairness you're a Lazere surrogate trying to say that Goodwin is a republican (he isn't) and he's inexperienced (he isn't). Instead of pushing Left Said Ed you push Chandler in the hope he'll skim some votes from Goodwin.

Nice try though.

He does kind of seem like that "socially liberal but fiscally conservative" BS that hasn't really been a republican thing since they went all out nero-nazi

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lazere has been running a leftist “Think Tank” for decades. Sorry friend but being funded by radicals to champion go no place legislation isn’t real world experience. Look at the papers on the DCFPI website. Most we be a generous B- in an introductory college public policy course. Goodwin has a real job with real experience. Goodwin doesn’t accept participation trophies.

Want Statehood vote for Goodwin.

Want to be ignored vote for Lazere.

You seem to be confusing progressive think tanks with conservative ones. (As usual, rightwingers project.)

It is conservative think tanks that are funded by billionaires with an agenda — there’s way more money on the right so progressive groups have to scrape.
It is conservative think tanks that are filled with mediocrities boosted by the money. Progressive think tankers— and I don’t know how to put this nicely— are WAY smarter than the AEI/Heritage crowd. It’s no surprise— barely anyone in the country believes what the billionaires want to push so their pool of candidates is small.

DCFPI has been a bit against the Walton/DeVos money sluicing into charters, maybe that’s why you don’t like them?


Ed is smart and has excellent command of key issues. I like his vision around funding schools.
And he’s got a big network in the city.

(If you’re a Republican, sorry, you don’t get a voice in DC. Your party has gone off the rails and the smart people that live in DC know it.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lazere has been running a leftist “Think Tank” for decades. Sorry friend but being funded by radicals to champion go no place legislation isn’t real world experience. Look at the papers on the DCFPI website. Most we be a generous B- in an introductory college public policy course. Goodwin has a real job with real experience. Goodwin doesn’t accept participation trophies.

Want Statehood vote for Goodwin.

Want to be ignored vote for Lazere.

You seem to be confusing progressive think tanks with conservative ones. (As usual, rightwingers project.)

It is conservative think tanks that are funded by billionaires with an agenda — there’s way more money on the right so progressive groups have to scrape.
It is conservative think tanks that are filled with mediocrities boosted by the money. Progressive think tankers— and I don’t know how to put this nicely— are WAY smarter than the AEI/Heritage crowd. It’s no surprise— barely anyone in the country believes what the billionaires want to push so their pool of candidates is small.

DCFPI has been a bit against the Walton/DeVos money sluicing into charters, maybe that’s why you don’t like them?


Ed is smart and has excellent command of key issues. I like his vision around funding schools.
And he’s got a big network in the city.

(If you’re a Republican, sorry, you don’t get a voice in DC. Your party has gone off the rails and the smart people that live in DC know it.)

It is 'hot takes' like this that make people dismiss us. There is actually far more money on the progressive side of think tanks, it is just not as in the open and public focus.

Just look at the donors to these think tanks.

Anyway, here are the top ten:

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs: Independent
Earth Institute: Centrist
Heritage Foundation: Conservative
Human Rights Watch: Liberal
Kaiser Family Foundation: Independent
Council on Foreign Relations: Independent
Brookings Institution: Progressive
Cato Institute: Libertarian
Ludwig von Mises Institute: Libertarian/Classical Liberal
American Enterprise Institute: Conservative

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In all fairness you're a Lazere surrogate trying to say that Goodwin is a republican (he isn't) and he's inexperienced (he isn't). Instead of pushing Left Said Ed you push Chandler in the hope he'll skim some votes from Goodwin.

Nice try though.

PP here. I'm not a Lazere surrogate and I wouldn't care if Goodwin was a republican. He's 30 years old. I actually listened to him. He's experienced in what exactly? I haven't listened to Chandler. I will before the election though. I'll give him the same chance. It's clear that Goodwin doesn't really understand how this city works. As a former corporate lawyer and investment banker, I'm all for business interests. This city is in need of a sharp business mind. I just don't think Goodwin is it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In all fairness you're a Lazere surrogate trying to say that Goodwin is a republican (he isn't) and he's inexperienced (he isn't). Instead of pushing Left Said Ed you push Chandler in the hope he'll skim some votes from Goodwin.

Nice try though.

PP here. I'm not a Lazere surrogate and I wouldn't care if Goodwin was a republican. He's 30 years old. I actually listened to him. He's experienced in what exactly? I haven't listened to Chandler. I will before the election though. I'll give him the same chance. It's clear that Goodwin doesn't really understand how this city works. As a former corporate lawyer and investment banker, I'm all for business interests. This city is in need of a sharp business mind. I just don't think Goodwin is it.

Hill Rag - "ANC 6B voted unanimously to support a motion put forward by Chair Chander Jayaraman (6B08) to create a Working Group on Barracks Row (WGBR). The working group will report monthly to the ANC and will be co-chaired by Brian Ready (6B03). Much of Barrack’s Row lies in Ready’s Single Member District (SMD), but Jayaraman said that Ready is also particularly well suited to the position as he has a background in promotion and events planning. Ready’s co-chair will be a representative from the business community, and WGBR will be driven by the business community on Barracks Row.

The ANC charged WGBR with four directives:

Develop strategies to market Barracks Row across the city as a go-to destination;Think creatively and generate ideas for events and promotions to attract customers to Barracks Row;Organize and facilitate a meeting with property owners about ways to ensure the long-term sustainability of Barracks Row through fair lease agreements; Generate ideas for attracting more businesses to Barracks Row to fill empty storefronts.

The Hill Restaurant Group is the largest restaurant group on Barracks Row with five restaurants on Eighth Street SE, including Ophelia’s Fish House, Lola’s, Finn McCools, Orchid and Tio Javier. Managing Partner Tom Johnson, who was at the meeting in support of the working group, said that he had independently been trying to get a group of business owners together to market Eighth Street. He said that there was both reason for hope and for concern among restaurants on the Row: while District Soul Food had recently opened to great success, it followed the closure of Garrison."