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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Which is why it is a good thing Cheh is retiring. Her annoited successor should not be rewarded in this election.[/quote]

Y’all have this backwards. There were a lot of divisive neighborhood issues that Cheh tried to straddle or otherwise sidestep, but Old Hardy was not one of them. Bowser first tried to use emergency legislation to dispose of the building and turn it over permanently to LAB; Cheh stopped that (https://thedcline.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/2019-03-06-Dear-Colleagues-re-Old-Hardy.pdf). The Bowser administration then unilaterally decided to renew the LAB lease 3 years early, announcing this on Christmas Eve 2020. Cheh was very pissed off by this and asked the AG to review the legality of the renewal (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/20/dc-council-should-stop-allowing-private-entities-take-over-public-parks-buildings/). She opposed the renewal; she was not involved in it.

Also opposed to the renewal was the Palisades Community Association, which was most recently led by Tricia Duncan. See here for the details: http://www.palisadesdc.org/documents/hardypublic.pdf

Other than Bowser, the lease renewal was backed by one other group and that was the Foxhall Community Citizens Association (FCCA). They wrote to the mayor opposing the “Keep Old Hardy Public” campaign and had the building historically designated in 2017 to complicate the process of repurposing it as a public school building (DM Kihn has claimed that the designation was a key factor in the decision to renew the lease). [/quote]

Bowser’s chief fundraiser had a kid or kids at Lab and his wife was on the Lab board, yes?  [/quote]

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