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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't see a lot of FCCA donors in Frumin's reported take:

https://dcgeekery.com/dc-campaign-finance/2022/council-ward-3/frumin/points

I think that is a canard being thrown by some supporters of other candidates.[/quote]

Campaign contributions, thankfully, are not everything. What was being referenced in this case is his response to a misleading screed by a long-time opponent of the new DCPS schools that not only failed to correct the various misrepresentations in the original e-mail but then presented proposals designed to appeal to those who harbor fears based on those misrepresentations (such as the poster above who claims that Foxhall ES will filled with "kids from Stoddert/Glover Park").[/quote]

I think the point is, one can have a view that is sound, that isn't because of the FCCA. In this case, it is clear Mr. Frumin has basically zero donations from the Foxhall area, despite taking the largest amount of donations in the race. So the idea of cynically ascribing his view as pandering to the Foxhall NIMBYs is a false narrative. [/quote]

Pandering doesn't mean taking donations. The Foxhallers have a completely bullshit position and Frumin is failing to call bullshit on them, but instead saying "well, they might have a point, let's try to find a compromise."  You can't compromise with a bullshit position because they'll just move the goalposts on you. [/quote]

I expressed my view on the MacArthur High School thread early on. It is a horrible location, transit hostile and doesn't really solve any of the problems, other than providing an enclave public high school for Palisades families. In other words, it is a poor investment of city money and doesn't solve any of the stated problems. Does that mean I am full of BS or buying the FCCA line of crap too?

The reason Palisades likes this solution is that it takes their kids out of Wilson and essentially gives them their own school that almost no one OOB will be able to attend. While a win for Palisades, it is a net negative to everyone else in the city. That isn't equity or equitable.[/quote]

Unless you're willing to state your qualifications for the record, it can reasonably be assumed that you are much less knowledgeable than Matt is about public school and transportation issues in Ward 3. Accordingly, your positions are more likely to be grounded in ignorance rather than political posturing. But Matt is very knowledgeable about the issues on hand and yet offers "compromise solutions" that the experiences of others - better qualified than he is - and logic strongly suggest are infeasible. In addition, at least a few of his positions seem to be crafted to specifically appeal to the Foxhall lobby. For instance, he is actually in favor (unlike you) of opening MacArthur HS, but wants to restrict the size of the school to half of its projected size so that it would almost entirely serve in-boundary students (which of course runs counter to your sentiment that it would not be equitable for the school to only serve local children). By the way, your notion that no OOBer would attend MacArthur HS is belied by the facts. By your metric, Key ES is more inaccessible than MacArthur HS will be and yet manages to attract a long waitlist of prospective OOB students. There are also ample options for improving access to the location, which Matt - to his credit - recognizes. If he would only recognize the rest of the good work done by the CWG in exhaustively exploring various alternatives, he would be a very worthy candidate.[/quote]

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