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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is there really a security threat necessitating a guard booth??  If so, then I guess it's fair for that to be publicly funded, but I have never heard of a DC Mayor being the subject of a threat like that.

She should 100% be paying for her own fence and retaining wall.  GMAB.[/quote]

DC should really just have an official mayor's residence with built-in security, continuity of government features, and space to host official events.

Otherwise, we need to rebuild the wheel every time we have a new mayor.[/quote]

Some rich person offered to donate one a decade or so ago.  It was turned down for some reason.[/quote]

DC Racial politics.  Someone offered to donate a Foxhall Road mansion to the Distict when Tony Williams was mayor for use as an official mayoral house.  The hue and cry!  A DC mayor shouldn’t be living in Ward 3.  How disrespectful to the black majority of District residents!  That Ward 3 was considered as only suitable home for the mayor.  During the same time, Williams proposed to sell the ugly Brutalist UDC Campus at Van Ness for development and to build new UDC facilities at the St Elizabeth’s site.  He reasoned that DC could realize a big gain on selling a campus that was some distance from most of its students while creating new, more convenient facilities on a site that already looked like a storied college campus.  Oh, the hue and cry.  Moving UDC out of Ward 3 was disrespectful to its black majority of students.  And exclusionary and discriminatory!  [/quote]

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