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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I haven't read all the replies but really wanted to like her and vote for her but just can't.

Listening to her debate Mendelson on Kojo

.. she seemed to support removal of McDuffie from that ballot for AG even though just about everyone else agreed it was a bad faith move and not in the best interest of the city.

.. she repeated over and again her stance is good government but was unable to articulate what that meant or provide really any clear policy plans. Everything "needs to be studied". I think the last think DC council needs is a leader that doesn't have clear plans.

.. In particular her views on policing seem very weakly formed and potentially dangerous.

Finally, she has no experience with the council. [b]It is a BIG job and I'd prefer someone that's been an at large or ward representative[/b].[/quote]

Ding ding. One of my biggest concerns about Palmer is that she will dealing with a lot of people for the first time as Chair, and that's really not ideal. I want someone who has more familiarity with the moving parts of not just the Council, but the many powerful lobbies the Council deals with. When people make this "clean hands" argument about her, the flip side is that she has extremely limited experience with many of the forces that tend to make Councilmembers hands so unclean. One thing about Mendo is that when he was elected, he'd been on the Council for a few years and hadn't sold out or screwed anyone over. It made me trust him more and for the most part (I have my quibbles) he's been who he said he was going to be.

I don't think someone HAS to be a member before becoming Chair. I'd even be more than happy to vote for an ANC rep. But I'd be way more interested in someone who'd held additional leadership positions on the ANC, and the most persuasive thing for me would be if they could point to a piece of legislation or specific issue that they managed to push through via advocacy. For instance, she talks about how she works for accountability for sexual assault survivors in her day job, but I don't remember her being involved in any way when we were overhauling sexual assault survivors' rights in the city in 2018-2019. That was a significant piece of legislation and if that's an issue she is passionate about, why does she have no track record with advocacy organizations in the city on the issue? As someone who does work on that issue in the city and has for 15 years, Mendelson is a known quantity and was a friend to the cause during that process. I have more faith in our ability to work with him in the future than in Palmer, who I view as a totally unknown quantity.[/quote]

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