Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Her appointments and staff have been horrible.

Very much agree. I know so many great people in DC government—hard working folks who really know their policy areas well. But it seems like a lot of significant leadership failures have occurred in the past two years:
—Ongoing OUC failures affecting 911 dispatch
—Federal investigation of the DC Housing Authority
—Falciccio’s serial sexual harassment
—Christopher Rodriguez’s domestic violence arrest
—No accredited crime lab or permanent agency director at Department of Forensic Science
—Record chronic truancy at DC Public Schools
—Everett Lott’s short tenure at DDOT during which the mayor often undermined his policy expertise
—Agencies going over six months and sometimes over a year without a permanent director—DC Health, For Hire Vehicles, Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection

I’m sure others could add more to the list.

And the DC Crime Lab GC who won't let its OWN advisory board in on what's happening there. Completely bizarre.

:

D.C.’s Troubled Crime Lab Is Hiding Information from Its Oversight Board, Prompting a Messy Conflict With Its Members
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/638272/d-c-s-troubled-crime-lab-is-hiding-information-from-its-oversight-board-prompting-a-messy-conflict-with-its-members/

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Her appointments and staff have been horrible.

Very much agree. I know so many great people in DC government—hard working folks who really know their policy areas well. But it seems like a lot of significant leadership failures have occurred in the past two years:
—Ongoing OUC failures affecting 911 dispatch
—Federal investigation of the DC Housing Authority
—Falciccio’s serial sexual harassment
—Christopher Rodriguez’s domestic violence arrest
—No accredited crime lab or permanent agency director at Department of Forensic Science
—Record chronic truancy at DC Public Schools
—Everett Lott’s short tenure at DDOT during which the mayor often undermined his policy expertise
—Agencies going over six months and sometimes over a year without a permanent director—DC Health, For Hire Vehicles, Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection

I’m sure others could add more to the list.

And the DC Crime Lab GC who won't let its OWN advisory board in on what's happening there. Completely bizarre.

Anonymous wrote:
Her appointments and staff have been horrible.

Very much agree. I know so many great people in DC government—hard working folks who really know their policy areas well. But it seems like a lot of significant leadership failures have occurred in the past two years:
—Ongoing OUC failures affecting 911 dispatch
—Federal investigation of the DC Housing Authority
—Falciccio’s serial sexual harassment
—Christopher Rodriguez’s domestic violence arrest
—No accredited crime lab or permanent agency director at Department of Forensic Science
—Record chronic truancy at DC Public Schools
—Everett Lott’s short tenure at DDOT during which the mayor often undermined his policy expertise
—Agencies going over six months and sometimes over a year without a permanent director—DC Health, For Hire Vehicles, Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection

I’m sure others could add more to the list.

Anonymous wrote:She stopped caring in her second term. Her condescending tone at press conferences made it clear. The “Green Team” long ago stopped holding together in elections. Her agency heads and Wilson Building advisors are a real mixed bag too. Voters could have chosen to see these things, but they turned a blind eye.

But, look, Tony Williams said he felt like Job in his third term. Seems like she’s just hanging on to bring football back and have a legacy.

Bowser was just awful in her "Who lost the teams?" press conference. Condescension layered on top of incompetence is not a great skill combination. Forget the Commanders; the catchphrase "Vision Zero" has come to define her legacy.

Anonymous wrote:She stopped caring in her second term. Her condescending tone at press conferences made it clear. The “Green Team” long ago stopped holding together in elections. Her agency heads and Wilson Building advisors are a real mixed bag too. Voters could have chosen to see these things, but they turned a blind eye.

But, look, Tony Williams said he felt like Job in his third term. Seems like she’s just hanging on to bring football back and have a legacy.

Her appointments and staff have been horrible. Lindsay Parker has no personality and is not able to cut deals like what's his face sexual harasser guy could. Plus look at the turnover at the Mayor's Office of Legal Counsel (MOLC), which provides legal advice to all of the subordinate agencies. Other than the MOLC Director himself, the staff is inexperienced with lean resumes and not politically savvy. The Director can't do everything, so it's left to his incompetent underlings. I've been here for 20 years and have never seen such a decline as I have seen with this Mayor and her staff. She should really pick a former prosecutor as the Deputy for Public Safety (not someone like the current person who never worked in public safety) and landed at DYRS as a civil litigation attorney prior to being appointed. Prosecutors understand public safety, the inner workings of the police department, community partnerships, etc.

Even Mayor Bloomberg phoned it in for most of his third term. He left the city every Thursday night or Friday AM in his private jet to go to his mansion in Bermuda. He'd fly back to NYC early Monday AM. Great mayor, but by the time you hit the 2nd year of your third term you're simply on auto-pilot. The passion is gone.

Kinda wish she would just resign, but I worry that would spark even more rudderless chaos.

Anonymous wrote:She stopped caring in her second term. Her condescending tone at press conferences made it clear. The “Green Team” long ago stopped holding together in elections. Her agency heads and Wilson Building advisors are a real mixed bag too. Voters could have chosen to see these things, but they turned a blind eye.

But, look, Tony Williams said he felt like Job in his third term. Seems like she’s just hanging on to bring football back and have a legacy.

Her legacy is leaving the district a trashed out dumpster fire.

She stopped caring in her second term. Her condescending tone at press conferences made it clear. The “Green Team” long ago stopped holding together in elections. Her agency heads and Wilson Building advisors are a real mixed bag too. Voters could have chosen to see these things, but they turned a blind eye.

But, look, Tony Williams said he felt like Job in his third term. Seems like she’s just hanging on to bring football back and have a legacy.

Yeah, I'm done with Team Sellout

I'm up for a new mayor, but McDuffie will be an awful person to preside over declining District finances. If you don't like Bowser's real estate giveaways, you'll hate what McDuffie will do.

Anonymous wrote:Stop blaming the mayor. It’s the council who has caused the crime spike by being soft on crime

Or perhaps the AG for not prosecuting jack shit.

Stop blaming the mayor. It’s the council who has caused the crime spike by being soft on crime

she was doing a good job, but for the record she never DEFUNDED the cops.. SHE lets them do whatever they want give them tons of OT and they can do whatever they want

The mayor should be fired, period.

Should DC mayor have a 2 term limit?
It seems like she went from a great mayor to good- to such BAD mayor in her third term.. She just doesn't care anymore.....
She could've done so much more to save Wizards and Caps, if she stays we will lose the Nats