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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I voted for White and Grosso.  Not sure how they stand on the issues important to you, but they support universal paid family leave and that's very important to me.[/quote]

I love universal.family leave but I also love business staying in our city. Is it being excessive and the most generous in the country and enacted without any study of potential fall out (as per yesterdays WaPo editorial board condemning the process) also important to you? It is possible for these measures to hurt more than help when they are enacted as blunt tools just to make an ideological point.[/quote]

PP, I've read a lot about it. Yes, there are businesses who are against it, and there are businesses who are for it, especially small businesses who would really like to offer this benefit but can't afford to pay employees directly during leave, but can afford to pay into an insurance pool.  I think a more important question is can we afford not to have universal paid leave.  [/quote]

I understand what you're saying, but my question is can be afford to have it to the extent they are proposing? The MOST generous in the nation and DC businesses covering all the folks from MD and VA who work here..is that sustainable to business in dc to-do it to that extent?[/quote]

Some jurisdiction has to take the lead like Mass did on health care. The US is so far behind every developed country on issues of family, maternity, paternity, and other leave.

Agree that Grosso and White are the choices for at-large. 
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I can understand giving White a shot; however, the former is a do-nothing Charlie....[/quote]

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