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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought Frumin was strong and thoughtful. I really don't understand what Krucoff thinks he is offering voters.

[i]He has not been involved in any community activities and doesn't particularly know the Ward very well.[/i][/quote]

This is the old insider's line "We don't know you, so you don't belong here".  Incredibly, in the primary Frumin and his supporters did it to Goulet, someone who was with the Mayor and the Council involved daily in the most important budget issues and had run for the Council before, and it worked!

Krucoff grew up here, worked real estate all over the Ward and city, even if you took off for college and when he was in MoCo, has lived here as long as Frumin, if not longer.  He never left here to run for Congress a thousand miles away, like Frumin.

And what is this great Frumin record of self-appointed community activism? So he decided to make Ward 3 his hobby, good for him. He singlehandedly rebuilt the high school, Murch, a school in Ward 8, he knows of the empty parking spaces in the Cathedral Commons Giant garage.  Or so he says.  He says he told the Lisner neighbors the expansion was going to happen, it would go where he said, it would be be about as big as he said, "But we can talk about everything else".  How is this different from any real estate developer, except Frumin did it as a volunteer?

There's a fine line between community service and being a self-important busybody. Neither one entitles you to a seat on the DC Council. [/quote]

Well, seems the fine line might be that a community volunteer doesn’t get paid for their labor and a real estate developer does.  That’s why Krucoff is running. Business. Now, a good businessperson can be a good elected official if they keep their hands clean.

Though not using DCPS gives me pause. Neither he nor Goulet have any credibility when it comes to education policy in DC.
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