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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]My issue is he is not independent in any sense of the word. He is an extremely liberal democrat [/b]who did not think he could win in the primary. So the only real issues on the council become are we going to give our tax dollars away via corruption or expensive social programs with no mechanism to stop the corruption?[/quote]

I would agree with this.  Both independents on the Council are simply Democratic party members without the name.  Heck some candidates have run both as Democrats and independents as it suited them.  But some of us don't think that is such a bad thing...[/quote]

I would argue that total domination of a government body by one party or the other is not a good thing for the people overall. Why even have independent seats if they are not truly independent?[/quote]

There is a pretty big split between the progressives such as Grosso, Silverman, Allen, etc., and the establishment CMs such as Evans, Todd, Bonds and so on. That is probably more representative of DC than would be obtained by artificially adding a Republican with little support in either DC or the party at large. [/quote]

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