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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That image is blurry but there's more here if you are interested. https://pycr.blog/

Basically residents of Potomac Yard did a FOIA around the metro mezzanine deletion and found evidence of the city council knowing about the deletion in 2017 (not "just a few weeks ago" as several are stating).

More importantly, the documents show that when WMATA posted an image of the one mezzanine design in early April, city staff worked hard to get it taken down - even as WMATA expressed that it was not confidential under their rules (recall that the city is saying the WMATA NDA is why they couldn't tell the public).
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Holy crap... thank you for posting that.  If their interpretation of the information holds up, my vote has been changed.[/quote]

Against Smedberg?

Why against Wilson?  [b]It appears he wanted to share the information.  [/b] But believed (presumably on advice of City staff) that the NDA did apply.   And where was Silberberg?  Just out of the loop, because well, she is? [/quote]

I keep seeing this justification for everyone's actions.  Meanwhile, the City has stated that there is no written documentation of the direction they got from WMATA that this was confidential, as the guidance was supposedly given in meetings, over the phone, and face to face.

To that I ask: why was there not a thousand pages of emails from the city hammering back at WMATA saying "justify to us why we need to lie and deceive our constituents?"  If WMATA didn't provide that guidance in writing, there should at minimum have been an abundance of evidence of one of these blowhard council members, Vice Mayor, Mayor, or city manager screaming back into the void saying "this is completely screwed up and you can't tell us not to let our constituents know!!"  Where was the advocacy on their part to demand that the city residents be given the information they deserve?  Oh wait, it isn't there.  Because they didn't.

So they are either [b]a) lying about WMATA telling them it's confidential b) completely incompetent or [u][[c]][/u]b) entirely uncaring about their constituents[/b].  So which is it?[/quote]

Same result.  Mayor Silberberg and Vice Mayor Wilson may well dislike each other, but they are absolutely identical to each other in every political respect.  This is worse than a farce.  This isn't just a mistake.  This isn't just a judgment error.  This went on for a year and the whole council and all senior city staff knew all about it.

Voting against EVERY incumbent in Alexandria.  Early-absentee voting 9-4 on Saturday.

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