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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s really incredible that citizens can’t connect their voting habits with the decline of living standards.[/quote]

Such a simplistic, knee jerk and low information comment.

Which of the Whites would have been better on crime as Mayor? Trayon? Robert?

Who would have been better for AG? McDuffie, who did not even meet the qualifications re: legal experience? But, who, in true DC fashion, got them changed for next time?

Electable people with different views have to run. And not too many of them, or you get Nadeau. Grateful Lisa Gore stepped up this cycle. [/quote]

You give away the game with the term "electable." Electable in DC means you have to comply with an ever growing list of check-boxes. DC voters will simply disqualify anyone who is essentially not a left-wing activist at this point. What is left to choose from is what ends up on the ballot. So yes, it is the voting habits of the residents that lead to them having to select from bad or worse. [/quote]

Doesn't the Allen recall, with a cross section of donors undercut the point you are trying to make?

A lot of activists and CM are DSA, doubt the majority of the population of DC identifies that way. The pushback is real. [/quote]

If Allen is recalled, a moderate takes his place, and gets re-elected in a "normal" election then I will believe it. But in all likelihood, we'll be complaining that the Ward 6 Councilmember is a nut for the foreseeable future. [/quote]

Catastrophize much? The recall is a step toward change, embrace it. Tommy Wells may be a "nut" now but he was not when he was on the Council. Cheh was not a "nut" until she said way too much about crime and linked it to vouchers outside the Days Inn, ahead of her time there, even Frumin commonly acknowledges that now. We may not even have a Council in the foreseeable future. Drop the Eyore act, PP.[/quote]

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