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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She hates charters with a passion and supports a plan their funding by $9k+ per child. [/quote]

I think it’s true that JLG as a mayor will negatively impact charters. There is a constituency of Ward 4 and 5 parents plus WTU who believe that charters are now threatening the progress that DCPS has made.  They are smart enough to mostly keep their opinions off this message board, but they want EOTP students who are peeling off for the “good” charters to be rerouted into Wells, Coolidge, etc. They’re probably right, but it’s too 
soon to unwind the charter school system in DC. And I say this as a gung ho DCPS parent, “low standards” and all. [/quote]

OK but you cite no evidence other than “I think.”

Just more garbage posting.[/quote]

They are afraid he will lose. When people are worried they often take the low ground - fear-mongering and lying.

We do not have any stellar options but [b]based on JLG’s track record in W4[/b], she will be a better choice. [/quote]

Her what now?

-NP and Ward 4 resident[/quote]

Ha, sure you are girly pop.[/quote]

Why don’t you provide a list of what she has done for Ward 4?

-another Ward 4 resident[/quote]

Yeah I am in Ward 4 too and I don't know what this record is either. [/quote]

I doubt you are or you live under a rock.

**Housing:** She led the fight to extend the eviction moratorium during the pandemic so people could stay housed while rental assistance caught up. She introduced the Green New Deal for Housing, proposing a publicly-owned mixed-income housing model that reinvests rent into deeper affordability — not private profit. She passed the Housing with Integrity Amendment Act, blocking landlords with five or more violations from getting new building permits. She pushed for more Department of Buildings inspectors to hold slumlords accountable. She introduced the Extreme Heat Eviction Protection Act, preventing evictions during dangerous heat waves. These aren’t press releases — they’re bills she wrote and fought for.

**Workers:** She ended the subminimum wage for restaurant workers — and held the line when the restaurant lobby pushed back with biased data. She created jobs pipelines for construction and retail workers. She expanded Paid Family Leave. These are real wins for working people in every ward.

**Food access:** She increased SNAP food assistance for families and seniors. Simple, impactful, done.

**Traffic and neighborhood safety:** She improved traffic safety infrastructure around schools and worked to expand the Safe Passage program for students. She partnered with the Office of Neighborhood Safety to create job training and transitional employment programs for at-risk youth in Wards 4 and 5.

**Police accountability:** After the killing of Karon Hylton-Brown in Brightwood Park, she fought alongside the community for accountability for the officers involved. She introduced legislation to investigate ties between MPD officers and hate groups. She has called for stronger oversight of MPD’s cooperation with federal law enforcement as the Trump administration has escalated pressure on DC.

She will actually stand up to the federal government

This is maybe the biggest issue of the moment for DC. The Trump administration has been aggressive about overriding DC’s home rule, deploying National Guard troops to our streets, and threatening the city’s budget. JLG has been the clearest and most consistent voice saying: we do not cooperate with that.

She’s committed to rescinding the MPD order that allows local police to work with ICE. She has called out the Bowser administration for not pushing back hard enough. She has a real plan — not just rhetoric — for protecting DC residents from federal overreach, including displaced federal workers who now need the city’s safety net.

[b] Her campaign is funded by residents, not the lobby[/b]

She qualified for DC’s Fair Elections public financing program in four hours — raising the required $40,000 from over 1,000 DC residents. Compare that to Mayor Bowser, who took 14 days to hit the same threshold in 2022. When you look at who’s funding JLG versus who’s funding McDuffie, you’re looking at two very different visions of who a mayor serves once in office.

Yes, some of her proposals are ambitious - the 72,000 housing units goal has gotten pushback as unrealistic. That’s a fair debate. But ambition in a housing crisis isn’t a flaw. And her *actual record* in Ward 4 shows someone who doesn’t just set big goals — she does the grinding legislative work to move things forward.

DC is too expensive, too unequal, and right now too vulnerable to federal interference. JLG is the candidate who has spent five years showing up for residents — in Ward 4 and across the city — before she needed their votes.
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This is all completely irrelevant to this thread. Maybe start another thread where you cut and paste the campaign's talking points. [/quote]

This. It's so off-putting. If this is a JLG campaign staff or someone from WTU who thinks they are helping her, you're not. At least not in terms of convincing people on this thread that JLG will work to improve schools (both DCPS and charters) and will work to serve ALL stakeholders in the school system. Instead I'm getting the opposite impression -- that JLG will do what the teachers' union (not even individual teachers, who don't always agree with everything union leadership does or says) wants no matter how it impacts others. It's deeply problematic.

Maybe there is some kind of SEO benefit to spamming this thread with JLG talking points but I'm an actual undecided voter and this is really turning me off. I don't like McDuffie either, but maybe I'll vote for a third party candidate or just abstain from voting for mayor. I'm so unhappy with my options this year.[/quote]

I think it's JLG's campaign. This is how she is. She doesn't respond well to criticism or even questions about her decisions. [/quote]

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