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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Painting that big BLM mural on the street while continuing to think stop-and-frisk is a good idea is Peak Bowser: she's all about grand gestures that are basically meaningless.

Look at Vision Zero, which she unveiled with a big press conference and then basically forgot about until a few weeks ago when she lowered the speed limit (another grand, meaningless gesture, as there's zero chance the lower speed limit will be enforced).

Look at the plan to build homeless shelters in each ward. She squandered the chance for any sort of goodwill by initially handing out contracts that were almost absurdly beneficial for her major developer donors. The Council had to rein her in:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/homeless-shelter-plan-could-be-profitable-for-bowsers-backers/2016/03/16/cbab0e76-eadc-11e5-b0fd-073d5930a7b7_story.html

With Todd and Evans gone from the Council, she basically has zero support left there. Todd's loss, particularly, is a bad sign for Bowser's hopes of another term. People are sick of her. She'll get a minor bump from standing up to Trump but when this all dies down it'll be back to normal.

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You beat me to it. Muriel Bowser is the queen of empty platitudes. She started Vision Zero in DC and basically has done nothing to fulfill it. She lets the balck churches bully her into not installing bike lanes on their streets. We have only added two freaking bus lanes (on H and I) in the entire city and pre-Covid they were treated as free parking by commuters and drivers. We have no more protected bike lanes. Both MPD and the city refuse to ticket drivers parked in bike lanes anywhere. Oh yeah, she also backed Mike Bloomberg for president. What a loser.

Muriel Bowser seems like a decent person (except for how snippy and short she is with local reporters) but as a politician she's a total joke. We would have been so much better off with David Catania as mayor.[/quote]

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