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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe Goulet would have been better?[/quote]

Probably. Having at least one (or two, if you consider Pinto) of the 13 councilmembers treating crime as a top issue would have been good for the city in general. It's crazy that when residents are polled it's their top concern, yet almost all members of the council try to ignore it. It's not like Goulet is on the right either - the guy is a fairly typical liberal Democrat, who would have fit in with the city's political climate a couple of decades ago. It's just that the last decade has seen the council go off the deep end into crazy activist territory.

The guy also seems more like an actual advocate for Ward 3. Goulet has pointed out that Ward 3 is the worst served ward when it comes to the universal pre-K program, and has been for years (Ward 3 schools in general often end up towards the bottom of DCPS funding). He's rightly said that the city should prioritize the overcrowding in Ward 3 schools before they try to prioritize moving more people into Ward 3, while Frumin just talks about how Ward 3 should use more of it's resources for residents of other Wards.

If you want a visual of the way the D.C. government often treats Ward 3, take a look at the map of the free fitness centers the city built, and notice the empty space that encompasses Ward 3 (the only ward with no free fitness centers as far as I can tell):

https://dpr.dc.gov/page/dpr-fitness-centers[/quote]

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