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[quote=Anonymous]As others have said, the Council acts like crazy activists throwing money at pet projects while watching the city fall apart.

The city can’t even properly fund Ward 3 schools or get the ward the universal pre-K the rest of the city has (something Eric Goulet has been continuously pushing, but I haven’t heard Frumin mention at all). There was another discussion where people said that Eastern could get a lot of their in-boundary high performing students to attend if they could guarantee that rigorous classes would be provided no matter what. The response was no, the city doesn’t have enough money to promise a handful of rigorous classes.

But sure, let’s buy a huge property and then start daydreaming about what to do with it. Let’s spend hundreds of millions of dollars giving 8,000 people free apartments for life in upper Northwest:

https://www.robertwhiteatlarge.com/dcha-reforms-fy24-housing-budget/

Let’s give everyone a free e-bike! Almost all of the Councilmembers have signed off on McDuffies bill for D.C. to start giving out reparations:

https://dcist.com/story/23/02/27/mcduffie-reintroduces-reparations-bill/

I get that people in this city are _extremely_ turned off from local politics. 99% of the people talking about “taxation without representation” probably couldn’t name the 13 elected representatives that run this city. But it’s hard for me to understand how this level of incompetency just gets completely ignored.[/quote]

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