Anonymous wrote:I went with Bowser because I appreciate that she was mayor during an unexpected global pandemic and I’ve generally been happy with the way she’s managed that crisis. Schools were closed longer than I’d have liked them to be, but since they’ve been back open DCPS has been following the science and finding ways to keep kids in class via test to stay. We’ve had super easy access to free rapid tests, PCR tests, and masks. Our travel/quarantine requirements have been reasonable.

While the pandemic took center stage for the past 2 years, there have also been non-covid accomplishments that I appreciate from Bowser. She closed DC General and built shelters in more integrated neighborhoods throughout the city. Her “build, baby, build” attitude has brought a lot of new housing to the city, affordable units and market units.

I’d like to see more from her on deprioritizing cars in favor of busses, bikes, and pedestrians. I’d like her to stop clearing encampments unless there’s a real safety concern.

In the end, I think she’s done a decent job given the context of the past few years, that’s not a small thing. I want to see her accomplish more, and hoping she will use this next term to do.

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Anonymous wrote:I like schools open and Robert white would still have them closed, so bowser it is.

Same.

But schools are not going to close for COVID in the future, so how does this factor into other education decisions? No snark, honest question from a parent who is still weighing the candidates.

There are constant battles on what's best for the teachers union vs. what's best for students. For example, R. White and Janeese George are advocating to eliminate standardized testing for students. Without this, we can't measure academic progress. The real reason they want to eliminate testing is so schools won't have the evidence for poor teacher performance so they can't remove ineffective teachers.

The union and their supporters have also opened the door to closures for any elevation in levels for any illness. You do know that Robert White and George introduced legislation to keep schools closed this current school year, right?

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Anonymous wrote:I like schools open and Robert white would still have them closed, so bowser it is.

Same.

But schools are not going to close for COVID in the future, so how does this factor into other education decisions? No snark, honest question from a parent who is still weighing the candidates.

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Anonymous wrote:I like schools open and Robert white would still have them closed, so bowser it is.

Same.

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Anonymous wrote:Bowser has dirty hands soiled by developer kickbacks and is Bowser-first - goes to Cuba in February on a "listening tour" for DC Healthcare, goes to Paris in Springtime for "business development," travels to Delware for the Biden victory party and a time when was telling DC peeps not to leave the state because "she had to be there to represent DC." It's all ego and/or to support her million-dollar home purchase on the Gold Coast and her next gig when she is finally not mayor anymore. I predict Robert White will take it as a protest vote.

Then you have to decide whether her dirty hands (all 3 candidates have dirty hands) are worse than Robert White's dirty hands that resulted in school closures and an increase in crime all to keep his union endorsement. To me it's clear that Bowser is the least harmful choice.

Anonymous wrote:Bowser has dirty hands soiled by developer kickbacks and is Bowser-first - goes to Cuba in February on a "listening tour" for DC Healthcare, goes to Paris in Springtime for "business development," travels to Delware for the Biden victory party and a time when was telling DC peeps not to leave the state because "she had to be there to represent DC." It's all ego and/or to support her million-dollar home purchase on the Gold Coast and her next gig when she is finally not mayor anymore. I predict Robert White will take it as a protest vote.

Anonymous wrote:I went with Bowser because I appreciate that she was mayor during an unexpected global pandemic and I’ve generally been happy with the way she’s managed that crisis. Schools were closed longer than I’d have liked them to be, but since they’ve been back open DCPS has been following the science and finding ways to keep kids in class via test to stay. We’ve had super easy access to free rapid tests, PCR tests, and masks. Our travel/quarantine requirements have been reasonable.

While the pandemic took center stage for the past 2 years, there have also been non-covid accomplishments that I appreciate from Bowser. She closed DC General and built shelters in more integrated neighborhoods throughout the city. Her “build, baby, build” attitude has brought a lot of new housing to the city, affordable units and market units.

I’d like to see more from her on deprioritizing cars in favor of busses, bikes, and pedestrians. I’d like her to stop clearing encampments unless there’s a real safety concern.

In the end, I think she’s done a decent job given the context of the past few years, that’s not a small thing. I want to see her accomplish more, and hoping she will use this next term to do.

Anonymous wrote:there seems to be a trend where people have a specific complaint with bowser -- too much crime or schools closed too long. and they want to protest that by voting against her and for....a candidate who would be way worse on those issues.

think schools were closed too long? uh, r. white and t. white are not your guys. if we had listened to them, schools would have been closed for most of this year too. r. white in particular has no problem with keeping kids out of school indefinitely.

think crime is too high? r. white and t. white are the stereotypes of politicians who are soft on crime.

the underlying problem here is that not enough people run for mayor. we need more and better choices.

but among the people we have to choose from, it's basically bowser vs. a people who pretty much unqualified to be mayor. if one of the whites were elected, i suspect phil mendelson would become our de facto mayor.

Anonymous wrote:there seems to be a trend where people have a specific complaint with bowser -- too much crime or schools closed too long. and they want to protest that by voting against her and for....a candidate who would be way worse on those issues.

think schools were closed too long? uh, r. white and t. white are not your guys. if we had listened to them, schools would have been closed for most of this year too. r. white in particular has no problem with keeping kids out of school indefinitely.

think crime is too high? r. white and t. white are the stereotypes of politicians who are soft on crime.

the underlying problem here is that not enough people run for mayor. we need more and better choices.

but among the people we have to choose from, it's basically bowser vs. a people who pretty much unqualified to be mayor. if one of the whites were elected, i suspect phil mendelson would become our de facto mayor.

Anonymous wrote:I like Bowser. The council sucks.