automatic weapons discharged repeatedly over a multiple block radius during relatively early evening hours. based on the news few to no real leads

I read his platform pre-election: it didn’t say I intend to pass some of the worst and most poorly written pieces of social engineering drivel as DC laws. I think it’s a breach under the CPPA and I want treble damages

He run unopposed you dolt
I wrote in another name

It’s forever thus in local politics: people who should run don’t because they have to spend untold hours with people like Charles Allen. Just a thought of a lunch with Nadeau turns my stomach
Plus low comp etc

Anonymous wrote:We live in Charles Allen’s dystopian social experiment.
That’s what happens when a man of little talent and worse education has illusions of grandiosity and own infallibility

He is the person DC residents overwhelmingly want as their elected representative. I'm not sure why admin tolerates you all blathering on here about how "everyone" is tired of crime and Charles Allen. You're all like vocal Libertarians, commenting on everything but only 0.5% of voters.

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Anonymous wrote:What is Charles Allen supposed to do?

He is supposed to pull a George from Seinfeld and do the exact opposite of everything he does. Only the will he succeed.

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Exactly. The Opposite Day.

“Instead of helping craft legislation to allow for earlier release of violent criminals back into their communities, spending $9m on violence interruptors that studies show do nothing, instead of cutting funding for police, instead of not calling crime “crime”, instead of making democrats look bad on the national stage and further pushing back the goal of statehood, I will do the opposite.”

We live in Charles Allen’s dystopian social experiment.
That’s what happens when a man of little talent and worse education has illusions of grandiosity and own infallibility

While QoL was relatively good and I didn’t have to think should I take the car or leave it at home where it’s safer, should I take the shortcut, should I carry a decoy wallet, should I stop at this gas station?, I didn’t care who was on the Council. I assumed they couldn’t have been that talented if they were willing to get that dirty for that kind of compensation and assumed they wouldn’t cut it elsewhere. Very few seemed to have a coherent reason to run other than for their own benefit.

Well now that Charles Allen has undone all the progress we’ve achieved and things went South since he took office, I care a lot. I care that no one in his family ever earned anything my tax dollar didn’t pay for, that he never says crime or look constituents in the face. I even care about his wife’s nonprofit which spends 10% of its budget on her salary, 60% on other salaries and wages and another 10% on their office. It would be far cheaper to use the existing programs and online platforms for the same purpose, and 12,000 books could be delivered far cheaper. In private sector this business model would earn you a cooling off period

You came for my family and my neighbors and now you have our full attention. When kids can’t sleep because of the ATVs you tell us to soundproof our house or move. When children die on my doorstep you say crime has not increased. On the issues like housing schools and statehood you’ve made no progress and set us back decades.

So, enough already.

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Anonymous wrote:What is Charles Allen supposed to do?

He is supposed to pull a George from Seinfeld and do the exact opposite of everything he does. Only the will he succeed.

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Exactly. The Opposite Day.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m one of the posters who thinks he ranges from personality-less with no oratory gifts to downright harmful and a demagogue. He’s no Batman, maybe a Joker.

Hate to break it to you not at all one or even of of just a few posters here. People don’t hate him or obsess, but have huge contempt for his incompetence and active harm to the QoL and lack of empathy for dead teens and others.

You don’t come back from contempt.

But why Charles Allen? What are the other council members doing? This seems like something produced, like, we'll get this rich white part of the city riled up and take it! So that the powerful people don't have to worry about our liberal political power here. IDK, it makes me suspicious, that Charles Allen, of all people, is to blame for carjackings and gun violence. I hate the crime too, but CA has some, not a lot, influence on what the city does about violence.

THIS EVENT HAPPENED IN HIS WARD. That's why he is being brought up on this thread. He's not being randomly singled out. We are his constituents and we are complaining about our council member's response to crime that is happening outside our homes. I'm not talking about other council members because (1) they don't represent my ward, and (2) this crime didn't happen in their wards.

And he chaired the committee that wrote the stupid crime bill that has blown up into a giant clusterf--k on a national stage over the last month. "CA has some, not a lot, of influence on what the city does about violence." Are you freaking kidding me?

I literally tbink you are a Fox News freakazoid.

And I think you’re a paid CA shill or completely ignorant of teen crime, car jackings, early release of offenders, how violence interruptors championed by CA are proven not to disrupt jack sht. Basically, you’re concerned about crime, but don’t have enough facts to understand why crime is rising, but that’s it’s “better than the 90’s”, which is not helpful.

Anonymous wrote:What is Charles Allen supposed to do?

He is supposed to pull a George from Seinfeld and do the exact opposite of everything he does. Only the will he succeed.

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Anonymous wrote:Plus all the Dems up to the sitting President

Oh, Congressional Dems and Biden are fed up with these DC yokels. Heading into a presidential.

I, the only actual resident, is going to bed. I hope you paid a-holes have fun fantasizing amongst yourselves.

Again, ask Jeff. If you're so convinced, he will easily be able to confirm for you that we are bunch of trolls living outside the district. Just ask him.

Hi, I’m a resident. Just because you’re okay with crime, doesn’t mean other people are.

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Anonymous wrote:Not a word on his personal twitter

There's nothing to talk about. Crime is lower than the 90s and Baltimore is worse.

Oh my word. This fking incessant need to point to the 90’s. Do you get a cookie when we actually hit 90’s level violence again? Because we are headed that way with all this progressive criminal justice reform. Can’t we just agree it’s getting worse and something, maybe you know, tackling it expediently, might be better than just pointing to stats from 40 years ago?

Anonymous wrote:How is a shooting spree all about bashing a local councilman ? Talk about spin!

Do you even local politics, bro?

Charles Allen, as a billion posts and time and time again we have told you in previous post, is sort of crime.

This is evidenced by a litany of limp wristed, hand wringing statements on crime and policy.

He is the lead proponent of youth rehab act, second look act, violence interruptors (that do nothing all studies show), and criminal justice reform that would allow for quality of life crimes to be defacto legalized by allowing jury trials for all misdeamors (which basically gets them dropped with an already overstretched judiciary).

No to mention he skirts discussions of crime. He blamed kids lighting leaves on fire in the neighborhood on the city for not cleaning up leaves quickly enough. He boasted that he has a “masters” degree which makes him an expert on crime.

Really he is soft soft soft in the reality of a 200% rise in teen violence and 75% rise in car jackings. He implements all these progressive criminal justice policies that exacerbate crime. I’m sorry I know the statistics on crime are grim, but these recent years of basically, justice reform leniency, don’t work. Charles Allen keeps pushing for more when we should be cracking down. Bowser at least sees that and vetoed the council. Biden even rebuffed Allen!!!!

It pretty obvious that the country is generally aghast. Allen made repubs look good. Let me repeat that. Charles Allen and our weak and I hate hate hate this word but our weak and woke on crime council boosted Republican talking points by forcing Biden’s hand here. Our city has so much violence. We need to crack down, not all hugs and “studying the root causes of poverty” for years on end. People will get away with what they can. They know a weak council is allowing crimes to happen out of a misguided sense of fairness. It’s not fair.

Not my job. But guess whose job it is?
Oh yeah.
I’d start by undoing all the crappy legislation and hiring more cops