OK, party game time:

Of the eight losing candidates, which ones will we ever see again? My answers:

Tricia Duncan, Beau Finley and Ben Bergmann will run for school board in 2024. Beau Finley and Ben Bergmann will cause a controversy in 2034 when they run for the seat of a retiring Matt Frumin and the BOE has to rule on whether campaign materials from 12 years earlier can legally be reused.

Monte Monash will switch back to being a Republican, and explain to her Republican paymasters that it was all a ruse. She'll get appointed to a window-dressing job in a state with a Republican governor like Virginia.

Phil Thomas will go back to whatever it was he did for the Bowser administration.

Eric Goulet will take a job as budget director in some other mid-sized city. There will be a minor scandal when an enterprising local reporter discovers his deleted tweets.

Henry Cohen is going to Pitt in the fall. In ten years the NY Times Magazine will have a feature on the wunderkind mayor of Pittsburgh who has been nominated for a cabinet position in the Buttigieg administration.

Dierdre Brown will never be heard from. Again.

Probably at his MD residence for the holiday weekend.

Only Beau did not attend

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Anonymous wrote:Seriously. I thought Trump and his supporters were whiners and claiming to be victims about everything, but the brief whiff we have of Goulet shows he and his supporters are just as frail.

case in point

Goulet doesn't seem to realize that his brand peaked a few weeks ago and now is a liability.

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Anonymous wrote:Seriously. I thought Trump and his supporters were whiners and claiming to be victims about everything, but the brief whiff we have of Goulet shows he and his supporters are just as frail.

case in point

If three people are running against Elissa doesn't that make it more likely she'll win?

Anonymous wrote:Seriously. I thought Trump and his supporters were whiners and claiming to be victims about everything, but the brief whiff we have of Goulet shows he and his supporters are just as frail.

case in point

The Current would have been fine with it, because the goal to align the ANC focus on the corridors is a sound practice.

It is literally only Cleveland Park NIMBYs that had an issue with it.

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Anonymous wrote:TL;DR Not much

A well-written article.

Alex Koma (Loose Lips at the Washington City Paper) has been easily the best reporter covering the race. He had several strong articles.

It’s nice to see that we finally have a media outlet interested in local civic and political affairs again. Since the demise of the Current, there has been a gaping hole where the city’s fourth estate once was.

Amen to that. Think how the Northwest Current would have covered Cheh turning ANC redistricting over to a GOP operative who worked for Trump, Manafort and other shady interests.

The worst part of that Eric Goulet "trying to be positive" tweet when he say "now I'll become active in Ward 3" What was he doing all those years since he last ran a campaign?

Anonymous wrote:case in point

as someone said in this twitter thread, Ward 3 really dodged a bullet.

Anyone know if Eric signed up to serve hot dogs at the parade this weekend?

Anonymous wrote:Why was there not a move to get behind Beau Finley?

Not old enough.

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Anonymous wrote:Without DFER, no one knew who Goulet was because has had zero community activity or engagement. No volunteer activities that tied him to any causes or neighborhood groups. Everyone else had something - Community Associations, ANCs, Non-Profits - but Goulet had nothing, There is no way he would have had any exposure without the DFER publicity and the Washington Post endorsement that came with it.

Did the DFER or the WaPo endorsement come first?

DFER told him to get the Post endorsement and then they’ll throw their money behind him, or so it seems. Of course, the person writing the Post’s endoresements is “one with DFER.” (You can google articles she’s written under her own name.)

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:TL;DR Not much

A well-written article.

Alex Koma (Loose Lips at the Washington City Paper) has been easily the best reporter covering the race. He had several strong articles.

It’s nice to see that we finally have a media outlet interested in local civic and political affairs again. Since the demise of the Current, there has been a gaping hole where the city’s fourth estate once was.