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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's always a huge helping of magical thinking in DC policymaking. Whether it's Initiative 82 or bike lanes or pot legalization or whatever, it's like the underpants gnomes are in charge of designing these policies. [/quote]

74% or DC voters are underpants gnomes? (Whatever the hell an underpants gnomes is, not that any of us really want to know.)

And god forbid DC voters might think that restaurants in DC could figure out how to operate the way that restaurants and almost every other business functions almost everywhere else in the world.

But, no, they throw a fit with all sorts of junk fees and nonsense charges just to piss all the customers off, childishly branding I-82 as responsible for their own crappy behavior, and then go crying to Mommy Bowser to get their way.

Well, it ain’t gonna work. There aren’t the votes for this on the Council. Not even Mendelsohn is going to vote for it. And you think that after this, DC voters are going to be even more eager to eat at your restaurants? Please.[/quote]

It wasn't 74 percent of DC voters. It was 74 percent of the people who voted in that election, or around 28 percent of the registered voters in DC. I know critical thinking isn't your strong suit, but please try.[/quote]

This is why DC's ballot-initiative laws either need to be changed or simply scrapped. DC's electorate is notoriously apathetic and barely shows up to the polls no matter how important the race, and deciding city law because a tiny percentage of city residents votes for it is problematic. The law needs to be changed so that there's a threshold that needs to be met for ballot initiatives, namely 50.1 percent of the registered voters in DC -- not the percentage of people who actually voted in that election -- need to vote yes. Otherwise, the Council is completely within its rights to reverse laws that only a small group of people support.[/quote]

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