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[quote=Anonymous]I think Matt Yglesias is a professional troll but he has ZERO influence over the vast majority of DC voters. Do you actually know who votes in DC? Matt Yglesias speaks to a tiny percent of DC voters and most of his audience lives outside the District.

I can't stand Bowser and consider her a failure as a mayor, but Robert White was an awful candidate. He was musing out loud about closing schools for Covid in the spring of 2023.

A huge problem in DC is that local government focuses WAY too much on political position in a city that is like 98% democrats. Who cares? I don't want to vote for someone who is an anti-semite or a conspiracy theorist, but the amount of debate over hot-button progressive topics is dumb in a town where most people are pretty like-minded. I want some freaking technocrats in office -- people who get stuff done, make the trains run on time, keep the budget in check, help expand the tax base by making this a desirable place to live and work and have a business. I miss Fenty, who I think is a good model -- energetic, growth minded, checks all the liberal/progressive boxes but isn't sitting around virtue signaling because he was too busy actually doing things that made DC a better place to live for all of us.

The one current DC politician I genuinely like right now is Christina Henderson. I actually think Phil Mendelson used to be okay but his alliance with Bowser has not been a good one. The two factions in DC government right now are both do-nothing virtue signalers. Where are the people who know how to actually accomplish something? I guess they decided it's not worth it, which sucks.[/quote]

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