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I wonder who you think "Stoddert and its surrogates" is.

Stoddert has a citywide reach, but its biggest concentration of players is in Ward 3. Each season about 3,000 kids from Ward 3 participate -- about a quarter of the under-18 population of the ward. About two thirds of Ward 3 kids play Stoddert at some point in their childhood. At any given time one in ten Ward 3 residents is either a Stoddert player or a Stoddert parent. I don't believe there is any organization of any kind that has as many members in Ward 3 as Stoddert.

Stoddert is Ward 3.

Just about all of the work of running the league is done by volunteers -- about 900 of them.

Stoddert gets no love from the DC government. Within DPR soccer is dimly viewed, and DPR still has a Jim-Crow-Era attitude toward use of its facilities, so soccer is confined to a handful of fields on the western part of the city. Stoddert is the only youth sports organization in the city that rents significant amounts of field time. While Stoddert puts on about 4,000 games a year, DPR provides field time for only about 2,000 of them. The rest are rented at market rates. Stoddert members pay over $300,000 a year to rent fields. Stoddert has no meaningful source of revenue other than member fees, that money comes directly from the fees that members pay. It also means that people are driving to places like Wheaton and Germantown for games.

Mary Cheh has no love for Stoddert. She likes to boast in her campaign materials that she is a former Stoddert parent, coach, referee and board member, but she refuses to do anything at all to help Stoddert with DPR. """[/quote]

hhahahahahahahah, I guess we now know at least one of Stoddert's surrogates.

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Facts are so much less convenient than emotions.[/quote]

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