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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I will say just one more thing. I would be far more concerned with money flows if I didn’t acutely feel the problems people list on this board. I am at the point where I will vote for anyone with the courage to solve them FAST. I will not vote for anyone who advocates that we need to study the issue that has been demonstrated and has a solution, and used for be better, for another undetermined period of time. I don’t like where I am but there we have it.
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I agree with you here. One of my issues is schools in Ward 3, and we're facing the same problem with being told we need to study the issue more and find a better spot for new schools. We can open the old GDS campus immediately and alleviate the overcrowding issues at Wilson, as is in the mayor's plan. Goulet has promised that he will obstruct that and look for "better options" which show no signs of appearing anytime soon.  [/quote]

Goulet is now saying his "secret plan" is to move Ellington to either UDC or IntellSat and reopen the Ellington building as Western High School. Which ignores the fact that DCPS doesn't own either site and they just spend $200 million to equip Ellington as a performing arts facility.  To actually execute that plan would probably take a decade and cost half a billion dollars before it was done. At $50 million the MacArthur site is a bargain.

And if he thinks there's community opposition to the MacArthur site, just wait until the Ellington community and the Van Ness neighbors hear about this plan. [/quote]
Where is he saying this? Is like every other post about Goulet? He supposedly told your neighbors friends cousin?

This is the type of astroturf crap that Jeff refuses to crack down on. It’s his site, but this is a bad look. [/quote]

You keep accusing others of astroturfing and me of condoning it. Yet, the issue is that you are simply uninformed about the candidate you support. Here are Goulet’s own words:

https://foxhall.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Special-Election-2022_FCCA_FINAL.pdf

[quote]I will use the one year delay to find another site for the new high school, or possibly, propose a better location for the Duke Ellington School of the Arts that is METRO accessible, and then propose to make Ellington a by-right school serving the residents of Ward 2 and southern Ward 3.[/quote]

Given your fixation on astroturf, it is fair to ask whether your support is motivated less by Goulet’s positions — which you clearly don’t know — and more by DFER’s dollar signs. [/quote]
Since you are defending the post, where is the his “secret plan” to move Ellington to UDC or Intelsat?

There is no secret that he proposed moving Ellington. Show me the “secret plan” involving UDC or Intelsat. [/quote]

It’s further in the link above, if you read it.  On page 3, his entire quote about the McArthur option:

“ The MacArthur High School
The former site of the Georgetown Day School is the wrong site to build a citywide high school with a proposed 750 - 1,000 seats. First, from a traffic perspective the site can barely accomodate 500 students. Second, there is no con- venient way for citywide students to take public transporta- tion to reach this school. I will use the one year delay to find another site for the new high school, or possibly, propose a better location for the Duke Ellington School of the Arts that is METRO accessible, and then propose to make Ellington a by-right school serving the residents of Ward 2 and south- ern Ward 3. During this year, there will be the opportunity to identify additional sites, but two possible sites include the former Intelsat site and the University of the District of Columbia campus. I believe that the former Wardman Park site and the former Lord & Taylor site are less likely at this point, because they have proceeded forward past initial stages of planning. There will be some interim use of the high school for swing space in the 2022-2023 school year, but I would hope to redirect the $38,020,000 allocated for this project towards the construction of a new high school on another site.”[/quote]

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