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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/how-dc-turned-27-million-into-400000/2015/09/25/5a33cc6a-63c3-11e5-9757-e49273f05f65_story.html

Fraud. [/quote]

Did you read the article? Or just expect that others wouldn't and believe that it was inflammatory toward nadeau. For those who didnt read this article (published september 2015)

"Publicly, council members raised little opposition to the plan, but documents obtained by The Washington Post show that behind the scenes, D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) chided senior aides to the mayor, saying the administration was selling the property for substantially less than its worth.

According to a draft D.C. Council report and two appraisals, Bowser's team agreed to sell the parcel at 965 Florida Ave. NW for $400,000, at least $5 million less than the assessments of two independent firms hired by the city."

It continues...

"In Mendelson’s Sept. 15 letter to Kenner, he urged Bowser’s team to do better. “I urge the Executive to use its bargaining power to improve this deal for the city,” he wrote. “The fact that there will be 107 below-market housing units and a much-wanted grocery store does not change the fact that two independent appraisals find the city’s price to be about $5.5 million below value.”

Mendelson said the money could have gone to helping end the homeless crisis, to other affordable-housing projects or to the nearly 50-year-old Garrison Elementary, one of the city’s oldest and most run-down public schools, which lost half of its redevelopment funding this year."

I will grant you that Nadeau defended this project, but to think this is some smoking gun against Nadeau and not an early hint of how our Mayor would support developers over residents is just wrong.[/quote]

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