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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]The coming June elections in DC are perhaps the most important decision point for the city in decades.

Bottom line: the choice is between the status quo — keeping the same policies — and change to make the city better. Based on our experience, there’s no question that Janeese Lewis George is the candidate of change, the candidate for a better and stronger city and school community.

Meanwhile a vote for the other major mayoral candidate, Kenyan McDuffie, is a vote for the status quo, and the poor governance and weak vision of the Muriel Bowser era in DC.

[b]Many problems in DC stem from poor vision and poor leadership by the outgoing mayor
[/b]In DC, the mayor has near-complete control of DC government, and specifically control of DC Public Schools (DCPS). The mayor is responsible for running all the DC agencies. [/quote]

post focusing on schools and the mayoral race.

I talk to a lot of parents in Ward 3 / EOTP public schools and in general it seems like people underrate how important the mayor is for DC schools. I still remember the Michelle Rhee and Fenty days. Those were not great. :/

https://dcpubedfacts.substack.com/p/the-dc-mayors-race-from-a-public[/quote]

JLG is the high-risk high-reward candidate. Maybe she's the next Mamdani and pleasantly surprises everyone, or maybe she's the reason we get control board 2.0. McDuffie is the political equivalent of a punt. Just waste the next 4 years and hope someone better runs.

I'm leaning towards JLG at the moment just because I think DC needs a bit of sharking up. [/quote]

Me too. I like that progressive socialism is having a moment [/quote]

I like parts of it.  For example, going after billionaires and people who are hoarding wealth, that only drains the economy.  Also, shoring up the social safety net.  As AI and robots take more and more jobs we may need to move to Universal Basic Income or something like that as well.  But at the same time, we also need to keep on top of fraud and other things that also drain the economy.  By that I mean actual fraud, not "republicans hate x therefore it's fraud."[/quote]

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