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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From the text of the amendment:

"This amendment to the Chairman’s ANS simply replaces the Chairman’s language amending the
Ward 3 section of the redistricting bill with the original compromise devised by the
Subcommittee, the Ward 3 Councilmember, and the Ward 3 Redistricting Task Force. It also
addresses one small issue that all groups, including the Chairman, the Task Force, and the
Subcommittee, view as appropriate: incorporating the small Woodland-Normanstone
neighborhood into one SMD. It supports the wishes of the larger Ward 3 community."

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It’s disingenuous for Mary Cheh to state that it supports the wishes of the larger Ward 3 community when public comments from the community (whether in the task force record, the Council record, public meetings convened by the Council) have been [b]overwhelmingly against the task force map[/b] and the division of established neighborhoods in particular.  It is telling that Cheh  did not even bother to attend the first Council redistricting hearing and didn’t show  up for any of the several public meetings that Mendelson, Bonds, and Silverman convened in Cheh’s own ward.[/quote]

This is false. The comments from SOME people in Cleveland Park were ovehwelmingly against, but most of the comments supported the corridor focus and the creation of a new Commission.[/quote]

Where is your evidence of this?  This is flat “disinformatsiya.”   The facts are the facts.  Written comments in the public record were 6 to 1 against the split of Cleveland Park and in favor of keeping neighborhoods together.  Comments overall against the talk force map were even higher, including the crazy carve out of AU from the ANC representing the adjacent neighborhoods.  Comment cards and statements at the Council meetings in the ward (one had 200 people) were overwhelmingly against the task force map.  According to council staff, the Ward 3 map generated more opposition than any other ANC redistricting issue in the city.[/quote]

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