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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can't wait to vote out Bowser and all other incumbents over how much school my kids missed unnecessarily. What you're seeing in Virginia and New Jersey will be coming to the District as well. [/quote]

Yeah the alternatives to Bowser are way, way worse, if you want to keep schools open.  The council member that is running for mayor and not an anti-semitic anti-vaxxer is Robert White, and he supported delaying school reopening.

I'd be happy if someone else ran, but right now it doesn't look like.[/quote]

[b]If someone ran as an anti-teachers union critic of school closures, they would trounce Bowser. There is a lot of anger out there that some enterprising politician will learn to tap into.[/b] [/quote]

THIS[/quote]

BS, y'all would elect someone way left of Bowser.[/quote]

Not necessarily. It could be someone running as a centrist or as an anti-incumbent populist. [/quote]

The problem is that they'd have to run as an independent.  They certainly wouldn't win the dem primary, unless Bowser gets some scandal attached to her (ala Vincent Grey).  And do you really think the DC voters are going to vote in anything other than a D?

There's a vast section of this city that's also probably going to just remember Black Lives Matter plaza (which I don't think is a bad thing).  Bowser made a massive, permanent, central monument to a moment/movement, and I would imagine that would go pretty far in terms of the less engaged voter.[/quote]

I think you're misreading the public. There's a lot of anger out there over schools. Incumbents across the board are going to get slaughtered. [/quote]

But Robert White can, in no way, harness that anger.  If anything, he's far, far worse when it comes to school opening.  I LOL at thinking of him trying to harness any anti-union sentiments, because he is so supported by the teachers' union.  I would be totally thrilled if he did decide to throw the WTU and their support under the bus, though.

I agree that someone could come in and try to harness the anger, but it ain't going to be the people currently in the race.[/quote]

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