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I had a personal interaction with her once about 5 years ago. It was small potatoes, but I totally believe the condescending attitude. She's like a right-wing charicature of smarmy liberal who talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk. If I vote for her I'll be holding my nose.

I dont know her personally, but I find the accusations troubling and sadly believable. I am liberal and work with very liberal people but have encountered similar condescension towards people of color (I am one). I believe people EOTR as well as those like me EOTP want something more to be done about crime. We're fed up. Stop telling us what we believe. We want our streets to be safe, our neighborhood schools to be good. We want it to be safe for our children to walk to those schools. We want streets to be safe for everyone. Period. Doesn't matter the color of the skin of the criminal, they need to be held accountable and the current Council and Mayor aren't doing enough. [b]Next time someone is carjacking your car in Ward 3, how about we send some violence interrupters to intervene? yeah, thought so. It doesn't cut it for you, it doesn't cut it for us[/b].[/quote]

Amen to that.  In addition, the progressives on the Council are also driving business out of the District and seem not to understand that it is robust commercial activity and property taxes that fund these social programs they are so proud of.  The more they tolerate crime, the less people want to live in the District.  Older GenZ and Millennials are starting to flee the fancy apartments near Union Market because they are sick of the carjackings and gunfire.  Downtown is a ghost town.  The attitude of government bureaucrats that all the vacant office space will magically be converted to residential is laughable.  The internal structures of most office buildings isn't conducive for conversion and even if it was converted, no one wants to live downtown because of the crime and the now vacant retail.  Silverman and her ilk need to go.  [/quote]

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