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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The federal Government needs to take over and run the city. Get rid of the mayor and city council. She's had it for ten years and has totally screwed it up.[/quote] In a democracy, that’s up to the voters. Are you against democracy? [/quote] LOL! It’s the DC Democrats that are against Democracy. When Congress gave D.C. an elected mayor and council back in the 1970s, there was concern that the city’s new legislative body would be dominated by Democrats. So to ensure some ideological diversity, equity, and inclusion, a compromise was hatched: at least two of the four at-large members can’t be Democrats. Initially that meant the council included representation from both the Republican Party and the Statehood Green Party, but for the last two decades there haven’t been any members from a non-majority political party. Instead, the council’s two non-Democrats are former Democrats who drop the party affiliation in order to run for council. The last person to do this was McDuffie, who formerly represented Ward 5… as a Democrat. Cry us a river. [/quote]
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