Anonymous wrote:After watching the debate last night, I’m for Kenyan McDuffie.

If I drank a shot every time I heard George say something to the effect of “we must protect black youth from police”, I woulda died of alcohol poisoning.

McDuffie is the pragmatic choice.

Crime is my main focus and this along with her other positions on crime is why I am not voting for her.

They are both terrible options. JLG is no Mamdani. You say she has "vision" but she's just parroting far left talking points. Also DC is not NYC. DC has a serious issue with juvenile violence and cultural obstacles to addressing it that don't exist in NY. A candidate who doesn't take that seriously is not a serious candidate.

And McDuffie is a do-nothing corporate shill. He wants to be mayor because he feels he followed the steps to becoming mayor. He was worthless on the council and he'll be worthless in the mayor's office.

I refuse to address Vincent Orange.

This city is politically bankrupt.

Anonymous wrote:Crazy that McDuffie didn’t even deny his Trump donors and said he has no plans to return those donations… (start at 44:50 of the debate).

Why is that crazy. Why should he return the money? He took the public option. $200 max per donor. Give me a break.

Anonymous wrote:Watched the whole thing, this one isn’t complicated. McDuffie is the “better things aren’t possible” candidate. Zero vision, next to zero policy, and a totally uninspiring record for 13 years on the council. He was most animated talking about getting rid of traffic cameras, because yeah, more crazy driving is exactly what we need. He keeps talking about “showing up for dc” but doesn’t bother to show up to candidate forums or community meetings. Not ranking him at all.

I don’t agree with janeese on every single thing but she is great on the issues I care about the most. Ranking her first.

I watched a good part of it and agree with you. I think the people here posting about Janeese being bad for safety haven't actually listened to her or seen what's she's done. It's just talking point type attacks that are pretty off-putting.

Crazy that McDuffie didn’t even deny his Trump donors and said he has no plans to return those donations… (start at 44:50 of the debate).

Watched the whole thing, this one isn’t complicated. McDuffie is the “better things aren’t possible” candidate. Zero vision, next to zero policy, and a totally uninspiring record for 13 years on the council. He was most animated talking about getting rid of traffic cameras, because yeah, more crazy driving is exactly what we need. He keeps talking about “showing up for dc” but doesn’t bother to show up to candidate forums or community meetings. Not ranking him at all.

I don’t agree with janeese on every single thing but she is great on the issues I care about the most. Ranking her first.

Ugh, I suppose McDuffie is the lesser of two evils. Please no more endless excuses for violent criminals and public disorder.

McDuffie, Janeese, and Orange - those are our choices? Hang on, I thought we had more? Definite NO on McDuffie. We lived through his complete uselessness in Ward 5. All talk, no substance. He's just a politician full stop.

Anonymous wrote:If enough people turn out and vote for one of the other candidates neither Kenyan nor Janeese would win.

If the demographics of DCUM were the demographics of DC then maybe, but you're not even close to right.

If enough people turn out and vote for one of the other candidates neither Kenyan nor Janeese would win.

Anonymous wrote:She is pro youth and he is pro criminal. Neither is going to be tough on crime.

SHE is pro-criminal.

Anonymous wrote:She is pro youth and he is pro criminal. Neither is going to be tough on crime.

How is he pro-criminal?

She is pro youth and he is pro criminal. Neither is going to be tough on crime.

After watching the debate last night, I’m for Kenyan McDuffie.

If I drank a shot every time I heard George say something to the effect of “we must protect black youth from police”, I woulda died of alcohol poisoning.

McDuffie is the pragmatic choice.

Stop the freaking gaslighting, which, yes, is offensive to everyone who reads your comments.

You claimed JLG is “anti-charter” and the only evidence you have to back up that claim is that she didn’t one particular charter school? I’ve had kids in DCPS across two wards for the past decade and not once has any of the four CMs that covered those two wards over the period visited any of them, but yet I’m not going around shouting about how they are anti-public education.

Not content with making ridiculous unfounded claims, you are now demanding others prove that JLG is explicitly pro-charter? Putting aside the fact that it is questionable whether any DC voter should want such a person as their mayor, her responses to the questionnaire makes blatantly clear that she is not “beholden to her WTU endorsers”. That you doggedly insist otherwise suggest that you are not at all interested in doing anything other than vilifying a particular candidate.

Not gaslighting. It is entirely appropriate for DC voters whose children attend charters to want to know if a mayoral candidate is going to be supportive of the sector educating their children. The reason that almost half of DC's children attend charters is because their parents do not believe that their kids will get a quality education at their neighborhood school.

All of JLG's talking points with respect to DC's charter sector echo the same talking points of the teachers' unions and other anti-charter forces. She said she “strongly support[s] increased oversight of charter schools”---however, there are more oversight and transparency requirements for charter schools already than there are for regular DCPS schools.
She alleged charters are “notorious for self-dealing”; however, the PCSB reviews each charter's financial practices, including contracts with affiliated organizations, and has authority to impose corrective action or close a school for financial mismanagement. (DCPS has had its own share of self-dealing controversies, but those have historically happened at the central office level.)

People can and should do their own research regarding how closely JLG's rhetoric aligns with the players who most want to undermine DC's charter sector.