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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Speaking of the city not caring about us, there were no pick up options for big numbers in Ward 3 for the mayor's FIT DC New Year's Day race. It's like there's a concerted effort to continue to neglect, ignore and inconvenience Ward 3 because of some view that we are already privileged and need to be taken down a notch.  Does anyone know the total contribution of Ward 3 residents to DC taxes vs other wards? 
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The easiest visual example of this is looking at the free gyms D.C. has built. They’ve built dozens of them in the city, yet they are all east of 16th St. Not a single one in Ward 3. The maps just a great visual representation of how the city feels about Ward 3:

https://dpr.dc.gov/page/dpr-fitness-centers

Ward 3 also has the worst access to the universal pre-K in the city. It would be nice if we actually got at least one advocate for the ward on the Council. But an At-Large member from Ward 6 misused campaign funds to push the race to Frumin, whose position has been that Ward 3 isn’t sacrificing enough for the city.

The rest of the city views Ward 3 as a place to take things from. The whole discussion about the Chevy Chase Community Center has underscored this. Almost no talk about the needs of the neighborhood or how we can improve things for the people living there now. The discussion is almost entirely focused on what the neighborhood should do for people who don’t live there.[/quote]

It's viewed as an area to be punished.[/quote]

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