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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Cheh has been a lame duck since February, when she announced her withdrawal from the race.

Do you think any of the Ward 3 candidates other than Goulet is more liberal than Cheh? Because they aren't. And Goulet is pretty close. He simply favors more money for Charters and a football stadium.[/quote]

Honestly it looks down to Frumin (AU park support), Duncan (Palisades), and Goulet (Outside W3 Dark Money). Nobody else has more than 150 local W3 donors. [b]Frumin is a bit more NIMBY than Duncan,[/b] but pretty similar overall. Goulet is all over the place, one day he says he is for reducing costs, then he come out in favor of spending money on a stadium for out-of-towners. But he is pro-charter school - which in W3 isn't even an issue (lowest charter use in the city, with no charters in boundary).

As for the makeup council post election?

Hard to say. I think Mendo will win, as will Naidu. W5 will stay progressive with either Faith/Parker. Does Bonds keep her seat? Not clear, she doesn't even really have any name recognition. Honestly, any pronouncements seem too early, unless you have seen polling results that the rest of us haven't. [/quote]

I don't know where you get this. Frumin got the Lisner project through. He got the lights in at Chevy Chase playground, he got the AU Law school and AU dorms through. Where has he been an obstruction to new development?[/quote]

He's repeatedly told the NIMBYs in Foxhall and Palisades that he is against building the new elementary school at Hardy Park, and that the new high school at the old GDS campus needs more "community engagement" before we proceed with the mayor's plan. He also didn't lift a finger when residents in his ANC (3C) fought off the development at Super Fresh for years. [/quote]
The old GDS lower school would be inappropriate for a high school. It doesn’t have a cafeteria. Doesn’t have an auditorium. Only has a small gym and small turf field so no sports. The land is constrained and on the side of a hill so you cannot add anything. It also only has capacity for 500 students. [/quote]

I guess we’ll find out when it opens 15 months from now. That Goulet is telling people - in writing - he will be able to stop it if he takes office in January should tell you all you need to know about him.[/quote]

Yep, by January it will be eight months away from opening, the money to open it will be in the current-year budget, not much a council member can do to stop it. But Goulet is good at telling people what they want to hear; as Homer Simpson said to Marge, "It takes two to lie. One to do the lying, and one to be lied to."[/quote]

Goulet has also been gulling the gullible with the idea that the GDS site could be a K-8. Which shows a profound misunderstanding of what DCPS needs. It adds middle school seats, but not in-boundary for Deal, which needs them, but for Hardy, which doesn't. In doing so it increases the number of students with the right to attend Jackson-Reed but does nothing to increase the capacity of JR, even though that's what's desperately needed. [/quote]

When was the last time they did a robust DC residency audit of Wilson?  My nephew goes there and says a lot of the kids live in Maryland.  Ferret them out and while they won’t solve the capacity issue, they will make a dent in it.[/quote]
This is bonkers. Where in Maryland would they live such that they would go through all the trouble of going to Wilson over their local HS? Wilson is like an average MCPS HS. [/quote]

More likely PG than Moco. A number are kids of DC government workers or good athletes from outside DC who are sub rosa allowed by coaches to play.[/quote]
Who is going through the hassle to commute their kids from PG County all the way to Wilson HS? There is no way that this is happening. Just bonkers and absolutely not happening. Any quality sports recruits from PG County will have better opportunities at area private schools than coming to Wilson. What sense does that make?[/quote]

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