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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]The polling was done with many experts consulting many times over. [/b]It was beyond professional and carefully planned.  Those who didn’t like the fact that the majority of respondents said 1. “Affordable housing — all for it “ 2. “But don’t give away the library and community center” ——like to point fingers. They scream NIMBY and constantly pepper this discussion and others with false information like claiming the new community center will have more green space. Hello ? No one wants to drag their kid to the roof of a condo and call it a playground. As has been stated many times, there’s plenty of affordable housing up and down Conn Ave. with vacant apartments all over.

That a few power hungry ANC members found a path to notoriety by falling prey to developers who couldn’t care less about anything other than the windfall that is the civic core , is what needs to be called out. We need much less naive leaders. In the name of affordable housing, while whispering “ racism “, they are in fact bought and paid for by commercial interests who are laughing all the way to the bank as their standard “co-opt the ambitious ANC members” playbook is working yet again.

Great work ANC. Usher in a development most don’t want so that 50 more families can live in Chevy Chase while 15,000 residents sit by and watch their public facilities get sold off.  Just brilliant. …[/quote]

LOL, no, it wasn't. There was no sampling, questions were leading or misleading and there was no calibration to any mean. Sorry, I don't know who told you these were professional polls, they were nowhere close. And fact...getting a few hundred or even a couple of thousand responses is a nice snapshot, but in a neighborhood of thousands and a city of hundreds of thousands - people who all pay for and have a stake in every public facility, the polling is nowhere near representative of anything other than who responded to it, particularly when there were no controls on how many responses could be generated from the same IP address. I saw rthe raw data from the polling when it was shared. there were multiple responses from the same households, mostly on the NIMBY side. sure, you might get a couple from each, but this was like 5-8 from the same IP, and there was no balancing out of that data.

These facts have been pointed out to the ANC in emails and on the neighborhood email group, and yet, the fallacy is STILL repeated all.the.time.[/quote]

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