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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most states have a superintendent of public instruction or something similar, it's a small elected position without a ton of power. But it allows focus. Would a DC without an elected attorney general have done as much as Karl Racine on the legal advocacy front? I really doubt it. Could a small elected office become captured or irrelevant? Possibly.

Generally, though, I favor those choices being left up to democracy. A bureaucracy responds to the internal management chain, not to the public. If people have other models of managing public services that would work better, I'm sure I would be interested to find out about them.[/quote]

We don't actually live in a direct democracy, though.  So I'm not sure what you mean by "left up to democracy." That the Council should pass legislation on this subject?  Should the Council be able to pass legislation mandating that every agency head be elected and independent of the Mayor? That seems catastrophic and like it undermines the separation of powers set out in the Home Rule Act.  And I'm not sure about your thesis that an elected agency head somehow focuses better than an appointed agency head.  Literally  none of what you wrote is intuitive or the only possible solution. [/quote]

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