I should add.,...you know what does help with this? Making housing affordable so MPD can live in DC or better yet, the neighborhoods they serve. That requires the political will to facilitate more housing and workforce housing, particularly in areas that are very expensive, downtown, Upper NW, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:Finley campaigned in my Cleveland Park neighborhood this weekend. I asked him point-blank where he is on funding for MPD. He waffled a bit and said that he thinks there needs to be an audit of what all of the current cops are "doing at their desk jobs." Odd response, but reading between the lines, I guess he's no fan of increased police force.

Phil Thomas, campaigning here a week or so ago, said that he thinks cops need to spend more time on the streets, in the neighborhoods.

Finley has been pretty adamant about switching to community policing, which won't please MPD or the Defund crowd. According to his website, he wants to adopt a "community policing model to get police officers out of cars and into positive interactions with the communities they serve."

Political leadership has been saying this for 40 years. And yet it barely happens. Nothing is going to change.

Anonymous wrote:Goulet is not nearly as deep in his knowledge as I presumed. He has taken to pandering to NIMBYs on issues that he somewhat clearly doesn't fully grasp despite being in his literal neighborhood.

I had high hopes, but they've been thoroughly dashed. As a previous poster said, that absolutely no one in our neighborhood is telling in retrospect.

Nothing is wrong with pandering to NIMBYs. NIMBYs vote. A lot of candidates are incorporating NIMBY views to get votes.

Anonymous wrote:Finley campaigned in my Cleveland Park neighborhood this weekend. I asked him point-blank where he is on funding for MPD. He waffled a bit and said that he thinks there needs to be an audit of what all of the current cops are "doing at their desk jobs." Odd response, but reading between the lines, I guess he's no fan of increased police force.

Phil Thomas, campaigning here a week or so ago, said that he thinks cops need to spend more time on the streets, in the neighborhoods.

Finley has been pretty adamant about switching to community policing, which won't please MPD or the Defund crowd. According to his website, he wants to adopt a "community policing model to get police officers out of cars and into positive interactions with the communities they serve."

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I remember Goulet when he ran in 2006. He is a smart guy, but for someone who wants to represent the Ward on the Council, he has done nothing over the past 16 years to make connections in his or any other Ward 3 community. He claims credit for so many budgetary initiatives, but that was his paid job. It is no different than Phil Thomas claiming credit for the Idaho Avenue family shelter - he was paid by the Mayor and was doing his job.

If Goulet were so interested in being a ward candidate, he should have invested himself in the communities across the ward or at least participated in his neighborhood association, or ANC or some non-profits - something, anything.

So what that it was his paid job? It was his paid job that taught him an enormous amount about how to run the city efficiently. I would take someone qualified to look at city issues on the whole by virtue of their "paid job" over someone who has only been an ANC commissioner or neighborhood civic leader on the side. Lest people forget, former Mayor Tony Williams, who was the architect of the city's resurgence in the late 1990s-early 2000s, got his start being the chief financial officer for the Control Board empowered to run the City after Marion Barry and his proto-progressive policies had run the city into the ground. Mayor Williams wasn't an ANC commissioner, or neighborhood association president. But he was the best mayor we have ever had.

If one has desires to be a politician, they need to figure out how to get voters to vote for them. The man ran for office in 2006 and clearly had ambition to try again in the future. Most people who had the same ambition would have done something to begin to build a constituency or some sort of base of voters from which to launch a serious and viable campaign. Goulet did NOTHING for his neighborhood or other people in the ward. Virtually every other candidate does some sort of community service, public service, something that provides a based of voters. Not Goulet. He just kept his head down and did his job, but that does nothing to have a base of built in voters like most of the other candidates. He certainly is not viable when you consider he won't even get more than 30 votes from his own Palisades neighborhood. If his neighbors don't support him, why should anyone else in the ward?

Goulet is not nearly as deep in his knowledge as I presumed. He has taken to pandering to NIMBYs on issues that he somewhat clearly doesn't fully grasp despite being in his literal neighborhood.

I had high hopes, but they've been thoroughly dashed. As a previous poster said, that absolutely no one in our neighborhood is telling in retrospect.

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I remember Goulet when he ran in 2006. He is a smart guy, but for someone who wants to represent the Ward on the Council, he has done nothing over the past 16 years to make connections in his or any other Ward 3 community. He claims credit for so many budgetary initiatives, but that was his paid job. It is no different than Phil Thomas claiming credit for the Idaho Avenue family shelter - he was paid by the Mayor and was doing his job.

If Goulet were so interested in being a ward candidate, he should have invested himself in the communities across the ward or at least participated in his neighborhood association, or ANC or some non-profits - something, anything.

So what that it was his paid job? It was his paid job that taught him an enormous amount about how to run the city efficiently. I would take someone qualified to look at city issues on the whole by virtue of their "paid job" over someone who has only been an ANC commissioner or neighborhood civic leader on the side. Lest people forget, former Mayor Tony Williams, who was the architect of the city's resurgence in the late 1990s-early 2000s, got his start being the chief financial officer for the Control Board empowered to run the City after Marion Barry and his proto-progressive policies had run the city into the ground. Mayor Williams wasn't an ANC commissioner, or neighborhood association president. But he was the best mayor we have ever had.

Finley campaigned in my Cleveland Park neighborhood this weekend. I asked him point-blank where he is on funding for MPD. He waffled a bit and said that he thinks there needs to be an audit of what all of the current cops are "doing at their desk jobs." Odd response, but reading between the lines, I guess he's no fan of increased police force.

Phil Thomas, campaigning here a week or so ago, said that he thinks cops need to spend more time on the streets, in the neighborhoods.

I remember Goulet when he ran in 2006. He is a smart guy, but for someone who wants to represent the Ward on the Council, he has done nothing over the past 16 years to make connections in his or any other Ward 3 community. He claims credit for so many budgetary initiatives, but that was his paid job. It is no different than Phil Thomas claiming credit for the Idaho Avenue family shelter - he was paid by the Mayor and was doing his job.

If Goulet were so interested in being a ward candidate, he should have invested himself in the communities across the ward or at least participated in his neighborhood association, or ANC or some non-profits - something, anything.

I'm down to Goulet or Tricia Duncan. My main issue is public safety/fully funding MPD.

Eric Goulet is by far the best Ward 3 candidate. He has a granular understanding of how the DC budget operates and how DC government programs need to constantly be evaluated for efficiency instead of tax increases being the first approach to new spending. He remembers how dysfunctional the school system was in the 1990s, before mayoral control, when school buildings were falling apart and schools couldn't even open on time, and is determined not to return to those days. He understands how important public safety is to maintaining the city overall. Since in-migration to DC has flatlined over recent years, and the central business district remains a ghost town post-Covid, the city needs pragmatic politicians who can make government operate efficiently.

Anonymous wrote:Here is the results from the debate:
https://mobile.twitter.com/wrd3dc/status/1508985254878629889

Pro increase cops: Goulet, Duncan, Tomas, Monash, Brown
Ambivalent: Bergman
Anti: Frumin Finley and Cohen

So the actual question asked was: "Do you support increasing the size of Metropolitan police force from 3,580 to 4,000 officers?"

Nothing to do with defunding or abolishing the police.

Here is the results from the debate:
https://mobile.twitter.com/wrd3dc/status/1508985254878629889

Pro increase cops: Goulet, Duncan, Tomas, Monash, Brown
Ambivalent: Bergman
Anti: Frumin Finley and Cohen

Tricia Duncan. She is probably the moderate in the race, as she isn't all in on defunding the police (she wants to increase the force) but has talked about other ways to reform MPD like hiring more female officers and hiring more in the communities which are being policed.

I caught some of the DC for Democracy debate but missed the questions about de-funding the police. Are there any Ward 3 candidates that actually support hiring more MPD officers?