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[quote=Anonymous]I voted for White and Palmer but I'm not remotely surprised about this outcome and felt kind of futile casting my vote.

Truthfully, I didn't really like them as alternatives that much. I am tired of Bowser and Mendo and do think they've fallen into cronyism politics and it not great (well Bowser's always been like this, but Mendo didn't used to be). But it felt like the opposition this round was just beating a drum of "we're the true progressives, we hold the most liberal progressive views." And that's nice and all, but in a city that is 90+% Democratic, I don't know that I'm interesting in having a contest about who can say the most progressive thing. We're all liberal, okay?

You know what I would get excited about? Candidates who wanted to make the trains run on time. Just a technocrat. Anyone running in DC is going to be liberal enough for me. I just want someone who wants to make city government efficient and focused on serving the people. I think Palmer was kind of like this, but I worried her inexperience would make it hard for her to accomplish (still voted for her, just not that enthusiastically).

Right now, I like Christina Henderson. Smart, competent, and focused on quality of life and efficiency issues. She does not get bogged down in left-right politics, which is a silly thing to focus on in a city as liberal as DC. I think she'd make a great chair or mayor.[/quote]

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