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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's happened to the Cleveland Park - what do we call them? NIMBYs? Ruling class? They were a force to be reckoned with back in the day. Now they are losing everything they would have won a decade ago. I guess either the times they are a changin, or maybe it's that they never had any organized pushback like they have now. This whole thread - the lashing out and attacks - they've become a bit of a spectacle.  And not just here. There was that nutty lady at the council redistricting hearing talking about dark money. And the signs that reminded everyone of "stop the steal." It's all just very sad.

It seems like the same 15 or 20 people that have been around forever. Where's the next generation of CP anti-change people?[/quote]

So ironic that you reference “stop the steal” when the task force member who pushed the neighborhood split (and is part of the Smart Growth lobby) is so connected to Trumpworld, the national GOP and even Russian meddling in Ukrainian politics.  And it’s worth noting that CP Smart Growth has been exposed as a non-transparent, [b]astroturf group[/b] formed by a political consultant.  It’s basically [b]the same handful of people retweeting each other’s posts in an echo chamber and meeting over beer and wings at Nanny O'Briens[/b].  They have had some political success, to be sure.  When one works with Manafort and the guy who did the Willie Horton ad, you learn to play an aggressive game.[/quote]

The wings at Nanny's are good, so I'll give them credit for that. But if it is such a small echo chamber, why are they winning? If most people don't agree with them, it would seem no amount of retweeting each others tweets would be very effective. "Astroturf" implies there is no grassroots support, which I think has been disproven in a pretty compelling way given the engagement we've seen for things like the Macklin, the last ANC election, Connecticut Ave lane study, support for more CT Av density. There are actually a lot of residents that agree with them.  And I think this continued succession of defeats is contributing to this truly bizarre level of person attacks that have nothing to do with redistricting or any of these other issues. What I don't see is the next generation of residents that will wage the battles to preserve the status quo, so maybe we are nearing the end of an error.[/quote]

The people coming up WANT bike facilities, WANT walkable neighborhoods, WANT affordable housing WANT diversity, WANT a car free or car light means of living. There simply aren't more entitled boomers who want the 1950's ideals anymore.

Good riddance.[/quote]

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