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[quote=Anonymous]From Alex Koma today at WAMU [url]https://wamu.org/story/25/10/02/the-first-open-ward-1-d-c-council-seat-in-decades-kicks-off-a-frenzied-race/[/url]

According to the already declared candidates and the ones seemingly about to announce, we have:

Aparna Raj, tenant organizer and former co-chair of the Metro DC Democratic Socialists of America [url]https://aparnafordc.com/[/url]
Terry Lynch, whose primary distinction in the article seems that he is a long-time Mt Pleasant resident [url]https://terrylynchfordc.com/[/url]
Brian Footer, gay Shaw yuppie who works at KPMG [url]https://www.brianfooterdc.com/[/url]
Rashida Brown, Park View ANC who is seemingly going to be Brianne's chosen successor (yet to announce formally)
Jackie Reyes-Yanes, longtime Green Team operator whose DC government employee profile said she lived in Ward 5 as recently as 6 weeks ago [url]https://web.archive.org/web/20250810032840/https://communityaffairs.dc.gov/content/about[/url] (yet to announce formally)

Koma's article also included some swipes from Brianne at Raj, seemingly trying to clear the left/center-left lane for her chosen successor:
[quote]Raj has also been heavily involved in [url=https://x.com/aparnafordc/status/1963777085530611745]pro-Palestine organizing [/url]in the wake of the October 7 attacks two years ago, including the movement urging voters not to support President Joe Biden in the 2024 primary over his Gaza policies. Nadeau, who is Jewish, believes that work puts her out of step with the ward’s Democrats.

Raj is competing with Brown to win over left-leaning voters, so it is perhaps no surprise to see conflicts bubbling up between their camps early—particularly after Raj’s strong launch to her campaign. She claims she raised more than $30,000 from 844 small-dollar donors on her first day of fundraising in August; for contrast, Nadeau raised about $55,000 over the entire duration of her 2022 reelection campaign.

While Raj remains proud of her Palestinian organizing, she also believes voters in the ward care more about her plans to address the city’s affordability problems than her foreign policy stances.

“Whether it’s people in Palestine, whether it is people here, we really need to be in solidarity with each other,” Raj said. “That is sort of the goal of the Trump administration to get us to turn on each other and to get us to see these movements for humanity as oppositional to each other.”[/quote]

Also worth noting that this race is going to have rank-choice voting (although still a closed primary), so it'll be interesting to see how that shakes out.[/quote]

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