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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in Ward 4 and have voted for George in the past, but I'm not excited about the prospect of her as Mayor.  (I'm not excited about any of them, to be fair.)  I find that Janeese randomly lies about things that are easily fact checked and don't make sense to lie about, and I can't even always tell why.  Like when we lost the public pool at Walter Reed, her office never announced that it wasn't happening.  A neighbor reading the mayor's budget noticed there was no funding for it and reached out to JLG's office to ask what happened and they said she didn't know but would "look into it".  Then her office eventually responded that the site was unworkable due to underground structures and we weren't getting a pool, but she never announced it in her weekly email roundups.  But the kicker is . . . JLG is the Chair of the committee of facilities.  If she "didn't know" that the site report that was produced long before the budget said that the pool was unworkable, then she's not doing her job at all.  She absolutely knew, but didn't want to report bad news so she just sat on it and then lied about it.

Likewise she just sent out a mailer saying she's a "lifelong DC resident," but she isn't.  She's a DC native but lived and worked in Philadelphia, that's where she was a prosecutor.  And as a lawyer she certainly knows the difference, there's no reason to say "lifelong resident" instead of "DC native" -- why intentionally lie when people don't care about that kind of distinction?

During Covid there were excess federal Covid funds that were used as bonuses for Pre-K teachers, and then when those excess funds didn't exist anymore she made a big stink about how the budget was being balanced on the back of ECE workers because they weren't getting paid as much in the new budget, but . . . it was a one-time discretionary bonus!  The funds were never built into the budget as a raise or salary, so not getting another bonus from a pool of funds that no longer existed is not highway robbery.  That one is just blatant exaggeration/dishonest framing rather than a straight-out lie, but I think it fits the pattern of her not being scrupulous with her word.  I'm not sure if any other councilmembers are better, but as my councilmember I find her untrustworthy.[/quote]

This is the oddest list of complaints I have read here to date. How dare she live in Philly for a few years. She's an outsider now![/quote]

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