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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree that Goulet is an outlier among his fellow candidates. Supporting a football stadium, and being a shill for the Chamber of Commerce is a horrible look.

I will be supporting Frumin, because I think he has the most organic support in the Ward and has the best chance of ensuring that Goulet doesn't win.[/quote]

Frumin has solid credentials but his campaign has been disappointing to many who know him well and had higher hopes. He didn't lose a lot of time in pandering to the Foxhall NIMBYs by offering to pursue alternatives to Foxhall Elementary that he knows (or at least should know) have been tried and were found to be infeasible. The leader of the Save Hardy Park campaign had a Frumin sign on his yard before he replaced with a Goulet sign following their meet-and-greet last Friday. Then there's this silly stuff with the ice rink. Frumin's trying to be everyone to everybody, which makes it very hard to know what he would do if he was elected.[/quote]

I actually read Frumin's description of the Foxhall situation, and my sense is that he feels there are alternatives to wasting money on boondoggle facilities and splitting up Glover Park. If the Foxhall people, who all appear to be going to the Goulet camp, feel that is aligned, that is their perrogative, but in talking to him, it is clear Frumin was at that place long before Cheh even pulled out of the race. You can ask others in the Ward 3 education community, many of them oppose this solution.

And I am not sure what is silly about an ice rink in Friendship Heights. The closest sheets are at Cabin John or ft Dupont. For the number of kids who play hockey or families who would like to skate, it would be very well supported. I don't see that being all things to all people. It is a single, concrete suggestion for an area that is going to be totally remade over the next decade.[/quote]

That he is spreading the lie that Foxhall Elementary will require Glover Park to be split up is disqualifying in itself. Do we really need to rehash that here?

And the Ward 3 education community consists of who now? Ruth Wattenberg and the Stoddert PTO? Please. This beggar-thy-neighbor walkable-schools-for-us-but-not-Foxhallers is incredibly lame. There was a CWG, in case you missed it, that endorsed Foxhall Elementary. I believe that comprised what passes for representatives of the Ward 3 education community.

An ice hockey rink is great for those who skate. But can we devote a whole lot of other precious land and money to other niche hobbies? How about an airfield so the kids who want to learn to fly don’t have to travel all the way to Manassas. It’s a lot further than Ballston and the very nice rink that is there.[/quote]

I was on the CWG and agree with this completely. [/quote]

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