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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't care about Mamdani---I'm not a New Yorker and they can choose whomever they want as mayor.  I do live in DC (and have for over 30 years) and I don't want JLG because I dislike her policy positions, particularly on crime.  She voted AGAINST making it easier for landlords to get faster evictions of violent tenants who have committed violence against other residents and staff.  She is in favor of an asinine idea to close 18th Street in Adams Morgan to traffic.  Those of us who remember the old pedestrian mall area of the 1990s around 9th & F (pre-Verizon Center)---know that closing streets to all traffic just results in a hellscape of passed out addicts and their dealers and forces city businesses, who already have standard city challenges of getting deliveries, etc. out of business.    Her policy platform is a laundry list of "freebies" designed to tug on progressive heartstrings---free childcare for all, free downpayment assistance, more rent control and absolutely no practicality about how to pay for it (especially since DC already has the largest individual tax burden in the DMV).  Her platform tells me that she has no idea (and no interest) in making sure that DC continues to attract and retain businesses.    DC for years has funded its over-spending by the real estate taxes generated by the downtown office buildings.  Since Covid, those buildings have plummeted in value, resulting in much lower tax revenues.  One of her platform goals is to create more grocery stores in Wards 5, 7, and 8---that has been a rallying cry for years but the retailers don't want to be there (and in fact have closed stores) because of the rampant theft.  She conveniently ignores that part.  Basically I think she's a leftist populist lacking common sense. [/quote]
this sounds horrible.. So, she is the worst choice?[/quote]

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