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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]

Aren't they spending 10s of millions to remedy those issues. Still a better use of money than the ellington boondongle.[/quote]

DCPS needs to tell Ellington to move within a few years.  This is the old Western HS site and should be used for a general high school again.  Ellington should be more centrally located because it draws from across the city, especially NE and SE.  Ideally Ellington should be near an arts venue.  DC taxpayers paid through the nose to renovate the Western HS building and it should serve a larger population.[/quote]

Ellington has the facilities it needs where it has them. It just needs better management [/quote]

Ok, but upper NW doesn’t have the high school facilities it needs where it needs them.

The best site for a relocate Ellington woukd be the former Jefferson Junior High School site, now called “Jefferson academy, “in Southwest, which is transit accessible, centrally located, and — here’s the kicker — close to Arena stage.[/quote]

Wait, why would we relocate Ellington? It’s a gorgeous school. It just needs to serve its students well.[/quote]

It’s in the wing place.  Northwest DC needs a second high school, and Western used to be it.  Because DC treats Ellington fir some reason like a sacred cow, they’re trying to shoehorn in high school into a small site that used to be private school for little kids.  Ellington draws from around DC, overwhelmingly from east of the Park, but it’s not even remotely close to Metro.  [/quote]

We had a horse. It was a good horse. But it has bolted.[/quote]

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