Draft Anthony Williams, AGAIN!!

[Anonymous]

DCUM,
Do you remember the good old days ?

From the WAPO,
“ Williams leaves in his wake a city with a good bond rating, sizable cash reserves, a more accessible health-care system for the underserved, several promising neighborhood projects, a major league baseball team, a new stadium under construction and a home town that is no longer the laughingstock of the nation ... On his watch, the District underwent its most profound transformation in generations. Williams promoted an investment climate that led to the sprucing up of a city that had gone to seed”

[Anonymous]

OP I remember them. It's worth noting that Williams sees the work he did in the early 2000s as still unfinished.

Anthony Williams is credited with helping to revitalize D.C. Now he’s working to make sure everyone benefits.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/anthony-williams-is-credited-with-helping-to-revitalize-dc-now-hes-working-to-make-sure-everyone-benefits/2017/12/15/ac484dc2-e1b7-11e7-8679-a9728984779c_story.html

"We have to keep the city growing, but we have challenges in terms of making the city more inclusive, increasing affordable housing and improving social services," he said. "I think that left unattended, if we have no intervention with good public policy, this city will end up like a European city, and everybody in the city will be doing fine while people in the inner ring are hurting."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP I remember them. It's worth noting that Williams sees the work he did in the early 2000s as still unfinished.

Anthony Williams is credited with helping to revitalize D.C. Now he’s working to make sure everyone benefits.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/anthony-williams-is-credited-with-helping-to-revitalize-dc-now-hes-working-to-make-sure-everyone-benefits/2017/12/15/ac484dc2-e1b7-11e7-8679-a9728984779c_story.html

"We have to keep the city growing, but we have challenges in terms of making the city more inclusive, increasing affordable housing and improving social services," he said. "I think that left unattended, if we have no intervention with good public policy, this city will end up like a European city, and everybody in the city will be doing fine while people in the inner ring are hurting."

Good ideas. Sounds like he is ready to continue the unfinished work, AS MAYOR!!

[Anonymous]

Tony’s busy. He did his part, and moved on. Fenty was OK too.

Then Vince Gray got in and things started going slowly to hell again, and now Bowser is bringing the suck faster than you can loot an Apple Store in Georgetown.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tony’s busy. He did his part, and moved on. Fenty was OK too.

Then Vince Gray got in and things started going slowly to hell again, and now Bowser is bringing the suck faster than you can loot an Apple Store in Georgetown.

Sounds like a turnaround job for Tony!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tony’s busy. He did his part, and moved on. Fenty was OK too.

Then Vince Gray got in and things started going slowly to hell again, and now Bowser is bringing the suck faster than you can loot an Apple Store in Georgetown.

Sounds like a turnaround job for Tony!

I agree with this entirely! Gray was awful, but Bowser doesn't seem much better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tony’s busy. He did his part, and moved on. Fenty was OK too.

Then Vince Gray got in and things started going slowly to hell again, and now Bowser is bringing the suck faster than you can loot an Apple Store in Georgetown.

Sounds like a turnaround job for Tony!

I agree with this entirely! Gray was awful, but Bowser doesn't seem much better.

Gray was excellent. Bring back Gray!

[Anonymous]

Tony has no interest, not going to happen.

And Grey was an outstanding Mayor who got railroaded by "the Green Machine"

- Fenty was all hot air and screwed things up and Murial is taking Adrian's such and making oh so much suckier.

[Anonymous]

I loved Tony. I remember a joke he told in a meeting that was witty. He also complimented my hat once. However, I dont think we can FORCE him to be Mayor? Would love to see him on a presidential ticket tho. And Im a Republican.

[Anonymous]

I miss Tony. Fenty too. He wasn't an intellectual giant, but he had a good sense of where we needed to go and who to hire to get us there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tony has no interest, not going to happen.

And Grey was an outstanding Mayor who got railroaded by "the Green Machine"

- Fenty was all hot air and screwed things up and Murial is taking Adrian's such and making oh so much suckier.

Yeah right. “Railroaded”

Because someone FORCED him to run a shadow campaign in the primaries.

Right. Sure.

[Anonymous]

I LOVE Tony. But the woke mob would tear him apart. He is far too pragmatic and realistic to simply be swept up with mob rule.

He is also making real money now. If you ever see him at a Nats game he looks so happy. Not sure why he would want to come back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I LOVE Tony. But the woke mob would tear him apart. He is far too pragmatic and realistic to simply be swept up with mob rule.

He is also making real money now. If you ever see him at a Nats game he looks so happy. Not sure why he would want to come back.

Yes, he's lovely. I remember him wryly scolding an aide on the spelling/semantical difference between "capitol/al" at a meeting I attended. I thought it was hilarious given DC is the capital of the USA. He just issued a very sly/dry correction that went over the intern's head, but the adults in the room with basic grammar could chuckle over.