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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It seems like a lot of the complaints against Janeese are really about failings by mayor Bowser and her people. Why would we want McDuffie as Bowser's handpicked stooge?[/quote]

Because Janeese would be a hilariously bad mayor? She is completely unqualified. [/quote]

Specifically, how?

She's educated, experienced, and actually gives a crap.[/quote]

Experienced doing what exactly? [/quote]

+1 I would like to know her accomplishments as a ward 4 council member. 
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Her signature issue is replacing the police with "violence interrupters," which is possibly the sleaziest program in the entire government. First there was the bribery scandal, now a couple "'violence interrupters" have themselves been arrested for murder.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/02/10/arrest-homicide-violence-interrupter/[/quote]

It is really bad, unlike MPD who never has scandals from any of their members.

/sarcasm[/quote]

Janeese wants to take tax dollars from the police department and give it to her rando friends so they can pretend to be cops, despite them not having any qualifications whatsoever. What could possibly go wrong? [/quote]

The violence interrupter program should be shut down. It is a complete scam. Per the Washington Post:

"The D.C. government awarded Life Deeds $3.6 million in violence prevention grants over the course of 15 months from October 2023 through December 2024. The group used more than $411,000 of that money to hire businesses owned by or linked to its own employees or their family members, according to a Post review of thousands of pages of financial records for Life Deeds.

Using taxpayer funds, Life Deeds held events or activities — promoted as opportunities for trust building, community bonding and education — that included lavish dinners, go-karting trips to New Jersey and an alcohol-filled pool party where Life Deeds hired its employees’ companies to provide decorations, refreshments and DJ services, records show."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/02/03/dc-violence-prevention-funds-lifedeeds/[/quote]

It's not the program, it's the leadership. Baltimore has a very similar program and it's been very successful. The Mayor should be blamed for its mismanagement.[/quote]

Trayon White was arrested for taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes for violence interrupter contracts, which suggests the city council is intimately involved in the management of the program. Also makes you wonder if any other city council members were taking bribes. There's never just one cockroach, is there? [/quote]

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