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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And Bowser did not get the memo on how to figure out population key factor in vaccine allocation?

Huh. Incompetent and just plain dumb.  Maybe she can form/compensate a committee on how to do the math.[/quote]
Look, Bowser was selected by DC business interests to be a caretaker mayor, during a period of comfortable economic growth and stability. No one expected her to have to deal with anything difficult or challenging. She was supposed to do this job for a couple of terms and get a sweet, sweet sinecure.

And then the pandemic happened, and she’s been standing there like a deer in headlights for a year. [/quote]

This sounds clever and all, but in the 2014 Democratic primary, there were definitely candidates who were friendlier to D.C. business interests (Jack Evans, Vincent Orange), plus a weakened-by-scandal incumbent who -- like most incumbent mayors -- was generally pro-growth, Vince Gray. And then David Catania ran in the general, who also was pretty friendly to D.C. business interests, as did Carol Schwartz, a former Republican.

The real smart cynical take, and one where I'd agree with you more, would be that D.C. business interests are happy with ANYONE capable of being elected mayor here. That's thanks partly to an electorate where a huge swath of otherwise high-information voters pay absolutely no attention to local politics because they don't care about the stakes in a game where the winner can never make it to Congress or the White House, and partly to the nature of urban politics these days, where growth and development are the most important goal for any executive in any city (not a whole lot of radical mayors out there in other big cities, are there?).

If you want to criticize Bowser, do it by all means, as there's plenty to criticize her for. But this claim that only she was palatable to the business community and that's why she's here is just not supported by the facts.[/quote]

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