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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This message came to my inbox today. I know this family and they are good people. It's a campaign email for someone running against Jack Evans but the content focuses on the Jelleff situation.

Hi, neighbors - we’re the Wetzels.  We are a nurse and an Air Force pilot.  We live in Ward 2 with our teenager Mason and we’re supporting Kishan Putta to be our councilmember.

When Kishan knocked on our door while campaigning for his current ANC Commissioner role, he promised to fight for families like ours, and that’s what he’s doing:

He is fighting for our son Mason (see his action photo below!) and his classmates to be able to play afterschool at the public Jelleff field right across the street from his school which has no real sports field. They actually have to miss classtime and ride buses for an hour to play "home games" instead of walking 1 minute away!

Even though many Ward 2 parents and children have been asking to use Jelleff, Councilmember Jack Evans supports giving just one school all of the most popular hours for 20 years! That blocks Mason and hundreds of kids like him from playing there afterschool. We think that’s wrong. We think that's unfair. Kishan understands this and is fighting for fairness.

We’re proud that Kishan is fighting for us:
First, he helped write an online petition that’s been signed by over 2,400 DC residents. And this week, he met with Mayor Bowser and other leaders to tell her how we feel and to ask for more fairness and sharing of our public resources - something we teach Mason at home.

If you want to learn more, Kishan was recently interviewed by The Washington Post and WAMU (npr) which wrote:

“It’s a basic issue of fairness,” says Kishan Putta, a Ward 2 ANC commissioner who is also challenging Council member Jack Evans in the Ward 2 race. “...All we’re asking is to share the [public] facility. There is real injustice in this.”

“The [kids at the Boys and Girls Club] are not wealthy kids,” says Putta, the ANC commissioner. “These are kids from all over the District who need after-school care.”

We have never contributed to a DC campaign before. But we just contributed to Kishan.  And because Kishan pushed for campaign finance reform, he is not taking corporate money and only accepting small donations under public financing. So, our $25 donations got matched 5-to-1 and became $300 to help Kishan knock on more doors and win this election! We hope you will give as well.
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I'm not sold on Kishan. But Elissa Silverman has been fantastic - it's nice that there's at least one person on the DC Council with some backbone. [/quote]

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