Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of people wanted the bike lanes, including the mayor and DDOT, as well as all of the other Ward 3 candidates from 2022. The only reason they didn't happen is because downtown business interests intervened.

That said, he has supported the various main street orgs in terms of providing funds and resources to businesses on the corridor and has been proactive with MPD in terms of presence and enforcement. Maybe your ire is directed at the failing national economy?

He has done exactly nothing about the rising crime rate along Connecticut stemming from DC blindly putting voucher recipients into empty apartments without offering them any sort of support services. When horrifically violent crimes have happened because of this -- kids dying, etc. -- he offers his thoughts and prayers but says his hands are tied and he can't do anything, like a simp. He's worthless.

And I think Frumin's staffers have better use of their time than posting here.

So Frumin is in charge of public and section 8 housing in the district and not, you know, the private property owners who are converting their properties to take the money from the city? What exactly do you expect a councilmember to do to intervene between a private property owner and the city when there are no permits or hearing or other "stop points" that could put the brakes on such moves? Methinks you either have no idea of what a councilmember can or can't do, or believe they can act as an executive authoritarian.

He could introduce legislation to cap the number of voucher residents allowed in one building. In fact, Ward 3 residents have explicitly asked him to do this multiple times but he steadfastly refuses to do so.

Try harder with your simping for him.

Not simping for him, but this particular example, no, that legislation would never pass and it isn't worth the time to try. How about offering real solutions and not something completely unviable?

How about forcing the city to provide either on-site or in-neighborhood support services for voucher residents who are placed far from their usual neighborhoods? How about forcing landlords who gladly accept above-market-rate payment from the DC government to use that money for building security? How about making buildings that have been declared nuisance properties off-limits to future voucher recipients until actionable fixes have been made? How about doing something more than whimpering "this is such a sad story" when a child dies in a voucher apartment (there have been, what, three voucher-family kids who have died violent deaths in Connecticut Avenue apartments since he took office)?

He's done none of this. He's done nothing. Show me one thing he's done. Just one. I'll wait.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of people wanted the bike lanes, including the mayor and DDOT, as well as all of the other Ward 3 candidates from 2022. The only reason they didn't happen is because downtown business interests intervened.

That said, he has supported the various main street orgs in terms of providing funds and resources to businesses on the corridor and has been proactive with MPD in terms of presence and enforcement. Maybe your ire is directed at the failing national economy?

He has done exactly nothing about the rising crime rate along Connecticut stemming from DC blindly putting voucher recipients into empty apartments without offering them any sort of support services. When horrifically violent crimes have happened because of this -- kids dying, etc. -- he offers his thoughts and prayers but says his hands are tied and he can't do anything, like a simp. He's worthless.

And I think Frumin's staffers have better use of their time than posting here.

So Frumin is in charge of public and section 8 housing in the district and not, you know, the private property owners who are converting their properties to take the money from the city? What exactly do you expect a councilmember to do to intervene between a private property owner and the city when there are no permits or hearing or other "stop points" that could put the brakes on such moves? Methinks you either have no idea of what a councilmember can or can't do, or believe they can act as an executive authoritarian.

He could introduce legislation to cap the number of voucher residents allowed in one building. In fact, Ward 3 residents have explicitly asked him to do this multiple times but he steadfastly refuses to do so.

Try harder with your simping for him.

Not simping for him, but this particular example, no, that legislation would never pass and it isn't worth the time to try. How about offering real solutions and not something completely unviable?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of people wanted the bike lanes, including the mayor and DDOT, as well as all of the other Ward 3 candidates from 2022. The only reason they didn't happen is because downtown business interests intervened.

That said, he has supported the various main street orgs in terms of providing funds and resources to businesses on the corridor and has been proactive with MPD in terms of presence and enforcement. Maybe your ire is directed at the failing national economy?

He’s supported leftist policies that have decimated retail in DC. Legalized street vending? The result is that stores along Connecticut Ave cannot keep product on their shelves unless they pay overtime for police and I’ve got to hunt down a store clerk to get deodorant. Thanks, Matt.

That started before he became a councilmember. So, I guess blame Cheh?

Nope, that was Frumin in 2023.

https://dcist.com/story/23/04/04/dc-council-bill-street-vending/

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of people wanted the bike lanes, including the mayor and DDOT, as well as all of the other Ward 3 candidates from 2022. The only reason they didn't happen is because downtown business interests intervened.

That said, he has supported the various main street orgs in terms of providing funds and resources to businesses on the corridor and has been proactive with MPD in terms of presence and enforcement. Maybe your ire is directed at the failing national economy?

He has done exactly nothing about the rising crime rate along Connecticut stemming from DC blindly putting voucher recipients into empty apartments without offering them any sort of support services. When horrifically violent crimes have happened because of this -- kids dying, etc. -- he offers his thoughts and prayers but says his hands are tied and he can't do anything, like a simp. He's worthless.

And I think Frumin's staffers have better use of their time than posting here.

So Frumin is in charge of public and section 8 housing in the district and not, you know, the private property owners who are converting their properties to take the money from the city? What exactly do you expect a councilmember to do to intervene between a private property owner and the city when there are no permits or hearing or other "stop points" that could put the brakes on such moves? Methinks you either have no idea of what a councilmember can or can't do, or believe they can act as an executive authoritarian.

He can publicly ask for a pause in the voucher program until the city can get a handle on the drugs,prostitution, and violent mental health issues that accompany that program. I guess that would be a start.

He could introduce legislation to cap the number of voucher residents allowed in one building. In fact, Ward 3 residents have explicitly asked him to do this multiple times but he steadfastly refuses to do so.

He cannot do this without there being a corresponding amendment to the DC Human Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of source of income. DC should never have elevated "source of income" into a protected class like race, religion, or national origin. The reality is that owners of market rate rental housing do not necessarily want to be public housing providers. So "source of income" was put into the DC Human Rights Act because a lot of landlords didn't want any Section 8/voucher renters. There is a middle ground, where landlords of buildings of 10 or more units, could agree to accept vouchers for at least 10 percent of the units. Otherwise, what is happening now is that when a building gets a certain percentage of voucher tenants, the externalities associated with those tenants (given that DC has freely handed out vouchers to the long term mentally ill with no support system, and to the recently incarcerated---who often go back to their criminal ways), then the market rate tenants will vote with their feet and move, meaning that the only tenants the landlord can now get are other voucher tenants.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of people wanted the bike lanes, including the mayor and DDOT, as well as all of the other Ward 3 candidates from 2022. The only reason they didn't happen is because downtown business interests intervened.

That said, he has supported the various main street orgs in terms of providing funds and resources to businesses on the corridor and has been proactive with MPD in terms of presence and enforcement. Maybe your ire is directed at the failing national economy?

He’s supported leftist policies that have decimated retail in DC. Legalized street vending? The result is that stores along Connecticut Ave cannot keep product on their shelves unless they pay overtime for police and I’ve got to hunt down a store clerk to get deodorant. Thanks, Matt.

That started before he became a councilmember. So, I guess blame Cheh?

No, the legislation that completely deregulated street vending so that it became a de facto stolen-goods marketplace was introduced by that cretin Nadeau in 2023, after Cheh left office, in part because she was shamed for speaking honestly about DC's crime situation.

You're not even trying to be accurate. It's just so lazy.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of people wanted the bike lanes, including the mayor and DDOT, as well as all of the other Ward 3 candidates from 2022. The only reason they didn't happen is because downtown business interests intervened.

That said, he has supported the various main street orgs in terms of providing funds and resources to businesses on the corridor and has been proactive with MPD in terms of presence and enforcement. Maybe your ire is directed at the failing national economy?

He has done exactly nothing about the rising crime rate along Connecticut stemming from DC blindly putting voucher recipients into empty apartments without offering them any sort of support services. When horrifically violent crimes have happened because of this -- kids dying, etc. -- he offers his thoughts and prayers but says his hands are tied and he can't do anything, like a simp. He's worthless.

And I think Frumin's staffers have better use of their time than posting here.

So Frumin is in charge of public and section 8 housing in the district and not, you know, the private property owners who are converting their properties to take the money from the city? What exactly do you expect a councilmember to do to intervene between a private property owner and the city when there are no permits or hearing or other "stop points" that could put the brakes on such moves? Methinks you either have no idea of what a councilmember can or can't do, or believe they can act as an executive authoritarian.

He could introduce legislation to cap the number of voucher residents allowed in one building. In fact, Ward 3 residents have explicitly asked him to do this multiple times but he steadfastly refuses to do so.

Try harder with your simping for him.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I don't think he is horrible - but given Council's particular history, the bar is low. He is at least not a willing lapdog for the DC Chamber.

He’s a willing lapdog for the DSA, which is much, much worse

He is hardly a lapdog to the DSA. Where do you even come up with this?

Give me one example of Frumin voting against something DSA supports.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of people wanted the bike lanes, including the mayor and DDOT, as well as all of the other Ward 3 candidates from 2022. The only reason they didn't happen is because downtown business interests intervened.

That said, he has supported the various main street orgs in terms of providing funds and resources to businesses on the corridor and has been proactive with MPD in terms of presence and enforcement. Maybe your ire is directed at the failing national economy?

He’s supported leftist policies that have decimated retail in DC. Legalized street vending? The result is that stores along Connecticut Ave cannot keep product on their shelves unless they pay overtime for police and I’ve got to hunt down a store clerk to get deodorant. Thanks, Matt.

That started before he became a councilmember. So, I guess blame Cheh?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of people wanted the bike lanes, including the mayor and DDOT, as well as all of the other Ward 3 candidates from 2022. The only reason they didn't happen is because downtown business interests intervened.

That said, he has supported the various main street orgs in terms of providing funds and resources to businesses on the corridor and has been proactive with MPD in terms of presence and enforcement. Maybe your ire is directed at the failing national economy?

He has done exactly nothing about the rising crime rate along Connecticut stemming from DC blindly putting voucher recipients into empty apartments without offering them any sort of support services. When horrifically violent crimes have happened because of this -- kids dying, etc. -- he offers his thoughts and prayers but says his hands are tied and he can't do anything, like a simp. He's worthless.

And I think Frumin's staffers have better use of their time than posting here.

So Frumin is in charge of public and section 8 housing in the district and not, you know, the private property owners who are converting their properties to take the money from the city? What exactly do you expect a councilmember to do to intervene between a private property owner and the city when there are no permits or hearing or other "stop points" that could put the brakes on such moves? Methinks you either have no idea of what a councilmember can or can't do, or believe they can act as an executive authoritarian.

Anonymous wrote:A lot of people wanted the bike lanes, including the mayor and DDOT, as well as all of the other Ward 3 candidates from 2022. The only reason they didn't happen is because downtown business interests intervened.

That said, he has supported the various main street orgs in terms of providing funds and resources to businesses on the corridor and has been proactive with MPD in terms of presence and enforcement. Maybe your ire is directed at the failing national economy?

He’s supported leftist policies that have decimated retail in DC. Legalized street vending? The result is that stores along Connecticut Ave cannot keep product on their shelves unless they pay overtime for police and I’ve got to hunt down a store clerk to get deodorant. Thanks, Matt.

Anonymous wrote:A lot of people wanted the bike lanes, including the mayor and DDOT, as well as all of the other Ward 3 candidates from 2022. The only reason they didn't happen is because downtown business interests intervened.

That said, he has supported the various main street orgs in terms of providing funds and resources to businesses on the corridor and has been proactive with MPD in terms of presence and enforcement. Maybe your ire is directed at the failing national economy?

He has done exactly nothing about the rising crime rate along Connecticut stemming from DC blindly putting voucher recipients into empty apartments without offering them any sort of support services. When horrifically violent crimes have happened because of this -- kids dying, etc. -- he offers his thoughts and prayers but says his hands are tied and he can't do anything, like a simp. He's worthless.

And I think Frumin's staffers have better use of their time than posting here.

A lot of people wanted the bike lanes, including the mayor and DDOT, as well as all of the other Ward 3 candidates from 2022. The only reason they didn't happen is because downtown business interests intervened.

That said, he has supported the various main street orgs in terms of providing funds and resources to businesses on the corridor and has been proactive with MPD in terms of presence and enforcement. Maybe your ire is directed at the failing national economy?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I don't think he is horrible - but given Council's particular history, the bar is low. He is at least not a willing lapdog for the DC Chamber.

He’s a willing lapdog for the DSA, which is much, much worse

He is hardly a lapdog to the DSA. Where do you even come up with this?

He burned what little political capital he had on those ridiculous CT Ave bike lanes that few normies wanted. While largely ignoring the crime and blight that has befallen the commercial corridors.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I don't think he is horrible - but given Council's particular history, the bar is low. He is at least not a willing lapdog for the DC Chamber.

He’s a willing lapdog for the DSA, which is much, much worse

He is hardly a lapdog to the DSA. Where do you even come up with this?