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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Now we just have the crazy chairperson cutting people off after 90 seconds.  There are actually two people on the commission with children at home.  There is a strong ageist, anti single family home dweller bias.  It's also the only ANC that has not moved back to hybrid meetings.[/quote].

Do you think everyone should be able to ramble on as long as they want?[/quote]

No, they think THEY should be able to though.[/quote]

We've seen a generational transfer of power at the ANC level in Ward 3 and the tactics employed by the old guard either aren't as effective as they used to be or simply aren't deployable due to not being in power.  [/quote]

Not so much a transfer of power.  More a result of middle aged adults still dealing with the downstream impacts of home schooling for two years and not being able to undertake public service.  Having recent high school and college grads with no professional or life experience serving in elected office is not a healthy thing, as we a witnessing.  [/quote]

No. The transition predates the pandemic. It started in the mid to late teens. Young -- not college-age but those in their early-middle age with young children at home -- ran and won in heavily contested seats across the ward.* Some commission areas fell earlier than others and now several of the ward 3 ANCs have been strong for a half-decade or more.

The effect was palpable. That restaurant you like that awaked a dead area? That's because of the transition.

*NOTE: some of the local civic organizations got much better at the same time, also through early-middle age leadership taking over and pushing a more community-minded mindset. The two sources of change amplified each other. [/quote]

LOL!  [b]This new generation of “leaders” have presided over an unimaginable backslide into blight and crime not seen since the 1980s.[/b]  It’s incredible that they show their faces in public.  [/quote]

This.[/quote]

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