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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I think there is a silent majority with you, but they’re all busy working 50 hours a week and don’t have time to engage with local government. I used to marvel at what a great place this was when we moved here 25 years ago. I started seeing a lot of things that made no logical sense to me about 15 years ago, and in hindsight wish I had spoken up about it.

If you need to be near DC for work, this is still one of the best places to live. But like most Marylanders, when retirement comes, I’m out of here. I had planned to retire to a condo or apartment on Connecticut Ave in DC, but the current movement of recently homeless and high needs people into newly created affordable units there and the concomitant rise in crime eliminated that option.

The League of Women Voters (even if you are male), your local community association, and the Chevy Chase Women’s Club (the one on Old Georgetown not Connecticut, hope I got the name right), are all places to get engaged. But at the end of the day, the current Council will only respond to a massive public action, like a demonstration. That’s speaking their language.

In the meantime, after morphing from GDI to Dem, I’m back to being politically homeless. [/quote]

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