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I voted for JLG, not everything she wants will work. But I'm interested in ambition, action, openness, and accountability. We're at an equilibrium point that isn't satisfactory and need to see some different inputs. Bring yours to the table. Complain AND suggest.

I see JLG as a change candidate and McDuffie himself is running as a continuity candidate. How would you rank the two?
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Oh I think JLG will be a change candidate.   Just change in a wrong direction.  I'm not in favor of increasing income taxes, I am in favor of DC decreasing spending.  I'm not in favor of more money being directed to violence interruptors when there is no evidence that it works and a lot more evidence that it is rife with grifting.   I'm not in favor of spending DC pension fund money on housing projects when the real problem is that DC's landlord tenant laws are so one-sided that market investors deem the District toxic for residential development.  There is literally no one on the DC Council who understands how business works  (except maybe Brooke Pinto) and why creating a more business friendly climate in the city is essential now that the rug has been pulled out from the federal workforce.    DC is in economic freefall and none of the policies being promoted by JLG and her progressive FreeDC slate will help it---they will only make it worse.  I am tired of seeing business and real estate developers in particular being demonized by the progressives when U Street, H Street, NoMA, the Navy Yard, Union Market and the Wharf---all redeveloped areas which create an enormous amount of tax revenue for the District---would not exist but for the pragmatism of Tony Williams in attracting private investment to the District.  Not crazy about McDuffie but when faced with the lesser of two evils, he is it.[/quote]

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