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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]The vitriol of the JLG supporters is off-putting.[/b]  If you question the progressive sacred cows of violence interruptors, excessive spending by the city on councilmember vanity projects like composting or paying WABA $250 per hour to teach bicycling, defining "juveniles" as age 26 for purposes of sentencing, or suggesting that perhaps tenants who are violent towards other residents or building staff should be subject to quicker eviction proceedings, then you quickly get labelled racist, classist, MAGA, etc.  JLG supports all of those policies (well, except holding violent tenants accountable---she would not support expedited eviction).  We can (and should) have reasoned policy debates over these progressive positions---but I never get the sense that any progressive politician on the DC Council cares one whit about listening to any viewpoint which contradicts their positions, even when those viewpoints are grounded in real life experience.  [/quote]

100%. The idea that McDuffie -- a District of Columbia Democrat, for goodness' sake -- is somehow MAGA is totally insane. The JLG supporters I know have gotten so rabidly hateful and nasty that it's a complete turn-off.

That and the WTU endorsement. The way that WTU and teachers unions in general have behaved since 2020 has made it impossible to assume that they are acting in good faith for the interest of our children.[/quote]

McDuffie was an INDEPENDENT lmao. He switched just before this mayoral race. So yes, he absolutely could be Trump friendly.

The McDuffie supporters I have heard from, including this post say things that are just not true and quite plainly suspicious.

Why would a DCPS parent decide to dislike or disparage teachers as a whole? The union represent the interests of the majority of DCPS teachers. One of the interests is protected planning time. We don’t want more - the problem is admin makes us do unnecessary things at many schools.

You think you understand what the union wants after a crisis never before seen. You did not treat us like essential workers before. You can be upset with teachers for choosing ourselves first during a pandemic.

But what you are not going to sit here and say is that the majority of teachers are just crazy and unreasonable. That type of rhetoric is really nasty.

JLG is a politician and at the end of the day MOST of the unions stood behind her. Because she cares about public services, not just big businesses and the kickbacks her and her family can get.

If you’d like to vote for McDuffie that is your choice. But let’s make truthful statements verified with facts. Not conjecture based on your feelings about the WTU.

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I’m not sure if you don’t understand DC government or if you are being intentionally deceptive, but McDuffie was on the Council representing Ward 5 as a Democrat for a dozen years before he (nominally) switched to independent to run for his at-large seat in 2022 for procedural reasons — the Democratic primary had already happened, and the two winners of the at-large races cannot be from the same party. [/quote]

This. Elissa Silverman, who is quite progressive, has previously occupied that seat as an Independent and ran as an Independent for the seat in both 2022 and this year. It's a nominal thing and everyone understands they are Dems.

McDuffie is more corporate and business friendly than JLG, who is more pro-union. They are different brands of Democrat. JLG is more Bernie, McDuffie is more Hillary. I don't care which one you vote for and think there are arguments for both, but please stop trying to label anyone in this race MAGA or claim they'll be pro-Trump or are conservative.

Sometimes I think people's brains are just broken from the stupidity of politics over the last 16 years.[/quote]

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