I don't care about Mamdani---I'm not a New Yorker and they can choose whomever they want as mayor. I do live in DC (and have for over 30 years) and I don't want JLG because I dislike her policy positions, particularly on crime. She voted AGAINST making it easier for landlords to get faster evictions of violent tenants who have committed violence against other residents and staff. She is in favor of an asinine idea to close 18th Street in Adams Morgan to traffic. Those of us who remember the old pedestrian mall area of the 1990s around 9th & F (pre-Verizon Center)---know that closing streets to all traffic just results in a hellscape of passed out addicts and their dealers and forces city businesses, who already have standard city challenges of getting deliveries, etc. out of business. Her policy platform is a laundry list of "freebies" designed to tug on progressive heartstrings---free childcare for all, free downpayment assistance, more rent control and absolutely no practicality about how to pay for it (especially since DC already has the largest individual tax burden in the DMV). Her platform tells me that she has no idea (and no interest) in making sure that DC continues to attract and retain businesses. DC for years has funded its over-spending by the real estate taxes generated by the downtown office buildings. Since Covid, those buildings have plummeted in value, resulting in much lower tax revenues. One of her platform goals is to create more grocery stores in Wards 5, 7, and 8---that has been a rallying cry for years but the retailers don't want to be there (and in fact have closed stores) because of the rampant theft. She conveniently ignores that part. Basically I think she's a leftist populist lacking common sense.

Those of you who don't like Janeese, do you also not like Mandami? Trying to get a sense of where folks are coming from.

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Anonymous wrote:Janeese solidly won the forum held at the GWU Mt Vernon campus on Tuesday night. She has very serious oratory skills and won over an audience that seemed quite skeptical initially given the various efforts to depict her as a tax-and-spend socialist. Kenyon’s responses got better as the evening progressed, but he was very inspiring.

This astroturfing is exhausting.

DP, how do we know you're not the one astroturfing?

Because I'm not gushing about my boss's "serious oratory skills" "solid[ly winning] a forum held at the GWU Mt Vernon campus on Tuesday night"? It's like an intern used ChatGPT to come up with a glowing Yelp review.

To be more clear: if this was a real human person who attended the forum and wanted to report back about what they observed, they would talk about a particular issue or answer that they thought she responded to well. Not bland platitudes about how incredible she is and how she obviously won everyone over even though she's facing skeptics. It's just so completely typical at this point that it's all "SHE'S GREAT" with zero substance. Great on what? What question did Kenyon answer poorly at the beginning of the night? How did you see the audience was won over? Oh, no details whatsoever? 'kay.

Serious "and then everybody clapped" energy.

I think you've cried wolf about "that's a Janeese staffer!" too many times and just aren't credible.

And yes, I am a person, voter, and parent of kids in DCPS. I didn't go to that same event as the other poster but have heard both Janeese and Kenyan speak and the other poster's perspective seems reasonable.

I've said this exactly once, actually. The reason you've seen multiple people say this is because this is what her office does, every election cycle. Those of us in Ward 4 who have lived through it before recognize it.

But I'm glad that the PP came back to say she cannot remember a single thing that JLG said, which differentiates her from "bland and canned" McDuffie. Makes perfect sense!

I’m not sure what Janeese did or didn’t do to upset you so much, but your assumption that anyone who has anything good to say about her must be on her payroll tells us a lot more about you than anything else. Feel free to point out which of her positions you disagree with or recount specific interactions that left you unsatisfied, but please avoid making ridiculous accusations that you would never ever be able to back up.

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Anonymous wrote:Janeese solidly won the forum held at the GWU Mt Vernon campus on Tuesday night. She has very serious oratory skills and won over an audience that seemed quite skeptical initially given the various efforts to depict her as a tax-and-spend socialist. Kenyon’s responses got better as the evening progressed, but he was very inspiring.

This astroturfing is exhausting.

DP, how do we know you're not the one astroturfing?

Because I'm not gushing about my boss's "serious oratory skills" "solid[ly winning] a forum held at the GWU Mt Vernon campus on Tuesday night"? It's like an intern used ChatGPT to come up with a glowing Yelp review.

To be more clear: if this was a real human person who attended the forum and wanted to report back about what they observed, they would talk about a particular issue or answer that they thought she responded to well. Not bland platitudes about how incredible she is and how she obviously won everyone over even though she's facing skeptics. It's just so completely typical at this point that it's all "SHE'S GREAT" with zero substance. Great on what? What question did Kenyon answer poorly at the beginning of the night? How did you see the audience was won over? Oh, no details whatsoever? 'kay.

Serious "and then everybody clapped" energy.

I think you've cried wolf about "that's a Janeese staffer!" too many times and just aren't credible.

And yes, I am a person, voter, and parent of kids in DCPS. I didn't go to that same event as the other poster but have heard both Janeese and Kenyan speak and the other poster's perspective seems reasonable.

I've said this exactly once, actually. The reason you've seen multiple people say this is because this is what her office does, every election cycle. Those of us in Ward 4 who have lived through it before recognize it.

But I'm glad that the PP came back to say she cannot remember a single thing that JLG said, which differentiates her from "bland and canned" McDuffie. Makes perfect sense!

Source? Maybe I don't spend enough time on here*but I didn't recall any of that.

*not actually a good thing to spend more time on here

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Anonymous wrote:Janeese solidly won the forum held at the GWU Mt Vernon campus on Tuesday night. She has very serious oratory skills and won over an audience that seemed quite skeptical initially given the various efforts to depict her as a tax-and-spend socialist. Kenyon’s responses got better as the evening progressed, but he was very inspiring.

This astroturfing is exhausting.

DP, how do we know you're not the one astroturfing?

Because I'm not gushing about my boss's "serious oratory skills" "solid[ly winning] a forum held at the GWU Mt Vernon campus on Tuesday night"? It's like an intern used ChatGPT to come up with a glowing Yelp review.

To be more clear: if this was a real human person who attended the forum and wanted to report back about what they observed, they would talk about a particular issue or answer that they thought she responded to well. Not bland platitudes about how incredible she is and how she obviously won everyone over even though she's facing skeptics. It's just so completely typical at this point that it's all "SHE'S GREAT" with zero substance. Great on what? What question did Kenyon answer poorly at the beginning of the night? How did you see the audience was won over? Oh, no details whatsoever? 'kay.

Serious "and then everybody clapped" energy.

I think you've cried wolf about "that's a Janeese staffer!" too many times and just aren't credible.

And yes, I am a person, voter, and parent of kids in DCPS. I didn't go to that same event as the other poster but have heard both Janeese and Kenyan speak and the other poster's perspective seems reasonable.

I've said this exactly once, actually. The reason you've seen multiple people say this is because this is what her office does, every election cycle. Those of us in Ward 4 who have lived through it before recognize it.

But I'm glad that the PP came back to say she cannot remember a single thing that JLG said, which differentiates her from "bland and canned" McDuffie. Makes perfect sense!

My goodness, you don’t know the difference between “there was no specific thing that won me over” and “cannot remember a single thing that JLG said”, do you?

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Anonymous wrote:Janeese solidly won the forum held at the GWU Mt Vernon campus on Tuesday night. She has very serious oratory skills and won over an audience that seemed quite skeptical initially given the various efforts to depict her as a tax-and-spend socialist. Kenyon’s responses got better as the evening progressed, but he was very inspiring.

This astroturfing is exhausting.

DP, how do we know you're not the one astroturfing?

Because I'm not gushing about my boss's "serious oratory skills" "solid[ly winning] a forum held at the GWU Mt Vernon campus on Tuesday night"? It's like an intern used ChatGPT to come up with a glowing Yelp review.

To be more clear: if this was a real human person who attended the forum and wanted to report back about what they observed, they would talk about a particular issue or answer that they thought she responded to well. Not bland platitudes about how incredible she is and how she obviously won everyone over even though she's facing skeptics. It's just so completely typical at this point that it's all "SHE'S GREAT" with zero substance. Great on what? What question did Kenyon answer poorly at the beginning of the night? How did you see the audience was won over? Oh, no details whatsoever? 'kay.

Serious "and then everybody clapped" energy.

I think you've cried wolf about "that's a Janeese staffer!" too many times and just aren't credible.

And yes, I am a person, voter, and parent of kids in DCPS. I didn't go to that same event as the other poster but have heard both Janeese and Kenyan speak and the other poster's perspective seems reasonable.

I've said this exactly once, actually. The reason you've seen multiple people say this is because this is what her office does, every election cycle. Those of us in Ward 4 who have lived through it before recognize it.

But I'm glad that the PP came back to say she cannot remember a single thing that JLG said, which differentiates her from "bland and canned" McDuffie. Makes perfect sense!

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Anonymous wrote:Janeese solidly won the forum held at the GWU Mt Vernon campus on Tuesday night. She has very serious oratory skills and won over an audience that seemed quite skeptical initially given the various efforts to depict her as a tax-and-spend socialist. Kenyon’s responses got better as the evening progressed, but he was very inspiring.

This astroturfing is exhausting.

DP, how do we know you're not the one astroturfing?

Because I'm not gushing about my boss's "serious oratory skills" "solid[ly winning] a forum held at the GWU Mt Vernon campus on Tuesday night"? It's like an intern used ChatGPT to come up with a glowing Yelp review.

To be more clear: if this was a real human person who attended the forum and wanted to report back about what they observed, they would talk about a particular issue or answer that they thought she responded to well. Not bland platitudes about how incredible she is and how she obviously won everyone over even though she's facing skeptics. It's just so completely typical at this point that it's all "SHE'S GREAT" with zero substance. Great on what? What question did Kenyon answer poorly at the beginning of the night? How did you see the audience was won over? Oh, no details whatsoever? 'kay.

Serious "and then everybody clapped" energy.

I think you've cried wolf about "that's a Janeese staffer!" too many times and just aren't credible.

And yes, I am a person, voter, and parent of kids in DCPS. I didn't go to that same event as the other poster but have heard both Janeese and Kenyan speak and the other poster's perspective seems reasonable.

Anonymous wrote:Janeese solidly won the forum held at the GWU Mt Vernon campus on Tuesday night. She has very serious oratory skills and won over an audience that seemed quite skeptical initially given the various efforts to depict her as a tax-and-spend socialist. Kenyon’s responses got better as the evening progressed, but he was very inspiring.

*uninspiring

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Anonymous wrote:Janeese solidly won the forum held at the GWU Mt Vernon campus on Tuesday night. She has very serious oratory skills and won over an audience that seemed quite skeptical initially given the various efforts to depict her as a tax-and-spend socialist. Kenyon’s responses got better as the evening progressed, but he was very inspiring.

This astroturfing is exhausting.

DP, how do we know you're not the one astroturfing?

Because I'm not gushing about my boss's "serious oratory skills" "solid[ly winning] a forum held at the GWU Mt Vernon campus on Tuesday night"? It's like an intern used ChatGPT to come up with a glowing Yelp review.

To be more clear: if this was a real human person who attended the forum and wanted to report back about what they observed, they would talk about a particular issue or answer that they thought she responded to well. Not bland platitudes about how incredible she is and how she obviously won everyone over even though she's facing skeptics. It's just so completely typical at this point that it's all "SHE'S GREAT" with zero substance. Great on what? What question did Kenyon answer poorly at the beginning of the night? How did you see the audience was won over? Oh, no details whatsoever? 'kay.

Serious "and then everybody clapped" energy.

I am a real person, attended the event, and wrote the post you are commenting on. I have absolutely no affiliation to JLG and disagree with her on many issues. There is nothing specific that I can recall that won me over, but her responses generally conveyed that she was informed, sincere, and pragmatic (which, it may surprise you to learn, is what a good orator does). I was genuinely interested to learn more about KMcD, but his responses came across as bland and canned. Now we could have a discussion about whether the general public infers far too much from oratory skills (Marco Rubio comes to mind as someone whose oratory skills far surpass his ability to craft good policy), but I’m not sure what the point of that would be when you are so eager to dismiss anyone who has anything good to say about a candidate that is not the one you support.

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Anonymous wrote:Based on my experience with lying Kenyon McDuffie, I will take my chances with JLG. That man was the biggest liar I have ever encountered. I can’t imagine how bad it would be to have him as Mayor!

What did he lie about?

Yeah what did he lie about?

He lied about the RI Ave Homeless Shelter! First he lied and said that he was opposed to it, then he lied and said that he would let residents have input. I attended the ONE meeting he held on July 3rd in a hot church with no air conditioning and fans that were only pointed at him and Phil Mendleson. He got tired of the pushback and said “well I’ve already made up my mind so it doesn’t matter!!” Who does that???? He also lied about Initiative 77. That man is not to be trusted!! He will sell out the city to the highest bidder, just like he did with Pepco!

Pepco is going to get their money or your electricity bill will be higher than it already is. I don't work for Pepco but I do work in the energy industry. They will recoup the money from all of the upgrades that DC demanded.

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Anonymous wrote:Janeese solidly won the forum held at the GWU Mt Vernon campus on Tuesday night. She has very serious oratory skills and won over an audience that seemed quite skeptical initially given the various efforts to depict her as a tax-and-spend socialist. Kenyon’s responses got better as the evening progressed, but he was very inspiring.

This astroturfing is exhausting.

DP, how do we know you're not the one astroturfing?

Because I'm not gushing about my boss's "serious oratory skills" "solid[ly winning] a forum held at the GWU Mt Vernon campus on Tuesday night"? It's like an intern used ChatGPT to come up with a glowing Yelp review.

To be more clear: if this was a real human person who attended the forum and wanted to report back about what they observed, they would talk about a particular issue or answer that they thought she responded to well. Not bland platitudes about how incredible she is and how she obviously won everyone over even though she's facing skeptics. It's just so completely typical at this point that it's all "SHE'S GREAT" with zero substance. Great on what? What question did Kenyon answer poorly at the beginning of the night? How did you see the audience was won over? Oh, no details whatsoever? 'kay.

Serious "and then everybody clapped" energy.

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Anonymous wrote:Janeese solidly won the forum held at the GWU Mt Vernon campus on Tuesday night. She has very serious oratory skills and won over an audience that seemed quite skeptical initially given the various efforts to depict her as a tax-and-spend socialist. Kenyon’s responses got better as the evening progressed, but he was very inspiring.

This astroturfing is exhausting.

DP, how do we know you're not the one astroturfing?

Because I'm not gushing about my boss's "serious oratory skills" "solid[ly winning] a forum held at the GWU Mt Vernon campus on Tuesday night"? It's like an intern used ChatGPT to come up with a glowing Yelp review.

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Anonymous wrote:Janeese solidly won the forum held at the GWU Mt Vernon campus on Tuesday night. She has very serious oratory skills and won over an audience that seemed quite skeptical initially given the various efforts to depict her as a tax-and-spend socialist. Kenyon’s responses got better as the evening progressed, but he was very inspiring.

This astroturfing is exhausting.

DP, how do we know you're not the one astroturfing?

Anonymous wrote:Janeese solidly won the forum held at the GWU Mt Vernon campus on Tuesday night. She has very serious oratory skills and won over an audience that seemed quite skeptical initially given the various efforts to depict her as a tax-and-spend socialist. Kenyon’s responses got better as the evening progressed, but he was very inspiring.

This astroturfing is exhausting.

Janeese solidly won the forum held at the GWU Mt Vernon campus on Tuesday night. She has very serious oratory skills and won over an audience that seemed quite skeptical initially given the various efforts to depict her as a tax-and-spend socialist. Kenyon’s responses got better as the evening progressed, but he was very inspiring.