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[quote=Anonymous]I live near Potomac Yards, was curious and walked over to the site when the press conference was happening. I met all of the people shown in the photos, including the man and woman that seem to be circulating in several tweets and posts (including previously in this threead). The man has dark hair with a sign that read something like "no tax breaks for billionaires" and the woman's sign said "Housing not Hockey.

So those people were NOT together, they just happened to be there at the same time. She is 100% YIMBY and told me herself she is a Justin Wilson fan. That is why her sign mentions housing. She's happy with the zoning changes, and other things Justin has done in his tenure. The guy didnt' say if he's NIMBY or YIMBY but he doesnt want tax breaks for billionaires. Both were nice.

Photos show just the two of them, but when I got there around 9:05 there were a lot more people. There was the tall Moms against something and a bunch of people who were screaming profanity every time someone opened the tent door (like F Leonsis, F U Youngkin). So that doesn't strike me as a NIMBY kind of person.

After about 5 minutes of that the security brought another blue screened piece of fence to fully encase the tents so the protestors now couldn't see.

I left. I think so few people were there (maybe 15) because no one really knew about it. It is big news now but at the time a lot of people in the neighborhood had no idea this was happening. So because there was no lead time there wasn't time to mobilize.

This seems to be a come to Jesus moment for a lot of Alexandrians who've blinded followed Wilson and the city council policies and chastised any one with a different opinion. Now thy have to make a choice, do they continue doing whatever their leader says or do they actually take a stand?[/quote]

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