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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]CP Smart Growth and Task Force member Bob Ward’s efforts to cast anyone who cares about historic preservation as racist is offensive. There are historic districts throughout this city and people of all races and ethnicities who care about preserving historic architecture. But they beat that drum in their effort to silence liberal residents of historic districts who may get in the way of their development efforts. [/quote]

It’s not only offensive, it’s hypocritical.  His business Fabrizio Ward was the top pollster for the Trump campaign in 2016 and again in 2020.  This included focus-testing of campaign messages like Trump’s vow to “save” communities from building affordable housing.  That’s about as dog-whistley as it gets.

Now it seems that ex-Trump & Manafort consultants are cynically using woke-sounding language to get DC to buy into the aggressive agenda of their developer clients.  Most recently, Mr. Ward has used the Ward 3 task force as the platform to push his gerrymandering plan to break-up neighborhoods and elect more compliant ANC commissioners who will rubber-stamp this agenda.

As Obama used to say, don’t be bamboozled.[/quote]

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