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[quote=Anonymous] All DC needs is an open Democratic primary.  That would move the politicians to the middle.  Unfortunately, the progressive lunatic fringe of JLG, Allen, Nadeau, Robert White, Frumin and Mendo is what we get.  The red states have the same problem in reverse---whenever one party so completely dominates the political landscape, the extremists in that party take control.    I would be happy to have a control board again.  Tony Williams saved this city from disaster and laid the groundwork for all the growth that occurred in the first quarter of this century.   He realized---unlike the progressives---that the city needed to attract and keep more middle class residents in order to prosper.  By the mid 1990s, DC had become a city of the very wealthy---enclaved in upper NW---and substantial poverty.  The middle classes ---black and white---had fled during the 1970s and 80s.    Now, there were still some middle class AA neighborhoods hanging on---but the children of those older homeowners had mostly decamped to suburbia.  Heck, he was even responsible for improving the inspection station.  In the early 1990s, you would have to sit in your car for HOURS in order to get through that line.[/quote]

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