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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You would be right anywhere else. But this is DC. And white people with money don't have as much political power here, relatively. On Election Day, people running for Dc citywide offices are not campaigning in Ward 3. They’re in Wards 4, 7, and 8. [/quote]

I don’t disagree but Lafayette is in Ward 4 (its doors literally open on Ward 3, but that’s a different story). Wards 7 and 8 have much much bigger problems and will only care if their OOB seats are removed. Ward 3 will likely stay neutral since part of Lafayette is in-bounds. Ward 5-6 couldn’t care less. So now anyone proposing redistributing has to content with a bunch of extremely well-connected, massively pissed off families who are likely to drum up some kind of anti-discrimination lawsuit. Meanwhile, DC gets whiter every year and the political leverage of the African American community is getting increasingly concentrated in 7-8, see above re: bigger problems. [/quote]

By the next boundary review in 2023 there won’t be any Ward 7 or 8 kids at Deal or Wilson.  The feeders are not taking anymore OOB kids.  There will be no OOB seats to remove.  [/quote]

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