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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][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bike Lane mafia is not doing so great in Ward 3.  Maybe time for a real conversation?[/quote]

All of the ANC's will still be pro-bike lane.
Frumin out-polled Cheh and is pro-bike lane.

IOW, bike lanes are happening.[/quote]

The ANC races are 50/50 on bike lanes. Siddiqui won by 6 votes. [b]Tandaric lost[/b].  The neighbors are sharply divided, now they are actually paying attention. Time for a reset. [/quote]

It appears the pro bike folks like both candidates in that race:

https://twitter.com/Ward3Bikes/status/1580940779853582336

And Siddiqui was the biggest pro-bike person on ANC 3C and he had an opponent that spent a lot of money and had a lot of support from the Macwood contingent and CPCA/CPHS crowd and still won.

So yeah I think the pro bike crowd is pretty happy with this outcome.[/quote]

How can they be happy? The competitive races show the community its sharply divided.  We can now dispense with the “wide community support” narrative.  The bike crowd should be embarrassed for the scam they’ve run the past two years.  [/quote]

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Funny. I was just telling a friend today: "Next NIMBY talking point: elections don't really matter."[/quote]

Quite the opposite. The elections DI matter.  They show the community is split on the issue.  We’re all neighbors and if we make policy on the basis of 51%-49% votes, this will not be a pleasant place to live.  Now is the time to heal, come together, and find consensus on how to make Connecticut Ave safer: more enforcement, dedicated bus lanes, increased bike amenities around metro, etc. There are many places for agreement. [/quote]

Okay.  Name all of the anti-bike lane on CT candidates that won.   If you can't then bike lanes on CT move forward.   [/quote]

Rick Nash.

That is it. And he lives off Wisconsin Avenue, but happens to be in 3C where Connecticut ave is the focus.[/quote]

The most important left winger in the entire city government, Elissa Silverman, was thrown out on her ear and replaced with a business friendly centrist Democrat. [/quote]

Elissa Silverman lost a lot of votes not as she claims because big money funded an opponent but because of the way she supported the ANC redistricting task force which was to many observers undemocratic. She didn’t want to hear why DC residents objected to the gerrymandering taking place, the tilted composition of the task force, and she sent obnoxious responses to voters who lodged complaints. That kind of treatment turns people off. I voted for her in the past but not this time and never again.  [/quote]

She udner performed across the city and particularly east of the river. Her loss has less than nothing to do with bike lanes, which she probably never mentioned once in the last 8 months.[/quote]
DP. You seem to be too infatuated with bike lanes, because your response appears to be a non-sequitor to the PP who was pointing out that people maybe were not happy with her role and behavior as part of the redistributing task force. Unless you think that was somehow specifically about bike lanes? There is another PP mentioning that Silverman never talks about bike lanes, so how could her work on redistricting be about something that she never talks about?

I think you might have missed the most important point, which was the PP saying, “she sent obnoxious responses to voters who lodged complaints.” People objecting to her behavior has been a pretty consistent them of complaints lodged against her, not anything policy related.[/quote]

I don't know who is responding to whom at this point but I was an earlier poster.

Elissa is a progressive and while I think she was definitely pro-bike lane it was something that was not a priority for her and she barely ever spoke up about so I really don't think it impacted her re-election one way or the other.

Having dealt with her I will echo the above comment that she was a bit obnoxious though I was not sure it if was arrogance of flightiness but she always struck me as someone who was in way over her heard on the DC Council and this scandal about the Ward 3 poll to me provided further evidence of that.

But I really doubt the poll or the re-districting had much to do with the results - I think Bonds and McDuffie consolidated the black vote while McLaughlin got 10% of the white vote which primarily came from Silverman and doomed her.

I was pretty underwhelmed with the entire field, especially Bonds who has no business being on the DC Council at all.[/quote]
It is quite insulting to say that Black voters vote by race. The truth is that Black voters will loyally support white politicians when they have a reason to do so. If Silverman had spent any amount of time over the last 4 years building alliances in Wards 7 and 8 instead of creating enemies, she would have won re-election. It is that simple. But that would have involved two things that were impossible for her. First and foremost was to listen to people and second would be to put others priorities ahead of her own.[/quote]

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