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Anonymous wrote:I’m good. There’s no way a majority of the community, in which I was born and raised, would elect someone who actually considered arrests, prosecution and incarceration as the best deterrent against rising crime. Instead most folks ride the hot new trends of outlays millions on “violence interruptors” , which I am sure Mr. Allen knows mor studies show to have no efficacy or even may raise crime. In sun, the juice ain’t worth the squeeze. Instead I get to watch from the sidelines as people basically repeat history and the city undergoes it’s ebbs and flows of profitability and habitability. The last 20 years were pretty good. The next I am guessing won’t be as safe or financially secure. Telework’s effect on the bread and butter of the city may eat into the tax base, while at the same the Uber progressive city council raises taxes, but limits safety through inaction or w0ke policy.

I predicted awhile back that there is no crime reduction candidate in DC and I was right. DC voters want progressives on Twitter making excuses for constituents being murdered.

100% if only on this one issue he was tougher. I don’t care about his tax hike loving ways as much as his complete incompetence on crime. Just complete and total abdication of responsibility. All the laws he pushes, the money wasted on useless violence interruptors, what the fk.

The whole violence interruptor thing is just a scam to put burglars and drug runners on the public payroll while having those evil gentrifiers pay for it all with ever higher taxes. Wake up people!

Anonymous wrote:It’s a scam. Because the guy who “patented it” is a wife beater and that money could go to our schools and housing which will
do more to prevent violence.

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jsteele wrote:
Today is the deadline for turning in candidate petitions and it appears that Charles Allen will be unopposed.


In the Dem primary. An independent could run against him in the general election.

I would love an entire slate of moderate independent candidates to vote for. They can't be moderate Republicans, like David Catania and Carole Schwartz were, because the Republican brand has become so toxic. But just as DC's Dems are now dominated by the progressive ideology wing of the Democratic party, maybe DC needs to become a test case for an alternate moderate independent slate since many people---independents, R's and D's---are disgusted by extremism and want a return to pragmatic problem solving. DC is not that large. A good independent who was willing to pound the pavement and go door to door and talk to people and GOTV would stand a chance in November. People who are ticked about crime in Ward 6 would go out and vote.

I would vote for an independent as you describe, OR a moderate Dem (like Tony Willams) or moderate R (like Hogan, Romney, Catania, Schwarz). I know so many Rs who were also never-Trumpers, and I think the fate of the party for me depends on who they put up for '24. I'd love to see a condoleeze Riace, not a DeSantis. We'll see. At the local politic level, I know few DC Republicans who were Trumpers. Maybe I don't know any. So I would vote for them based on their platform.

I don't think Catania or Schwartz would be considered Rs in today's R party. They would be mod Dems.

They would be better off just running as moderate Dems.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m good. There’s no way a majority of the community, in which I was born and raised, would elect someone who actually considered arrests, prosecution and incarceration as the best deterrent against rising crime. Instead most folks ride the hot new trends of outlays millions on “violence interruptors” , which I am sure Mr. Allen knows mor studies show to have no efficacy or even may raise crime. In sun, the juice ain’t worth the squeeze. Instead I get to watch from the sidelines as people basically repeat history and the city undergoes it’s ebbs and flows of profitability and habitability. The last 20 years were pretty good. The next I am guessing won’t be as safe or financially secure. Telework’s effect on the bread and butter of the city may eat into the tax base, while at the same the Uber progressive city council raises taxes, but limits safety through inaction or w0ke policy.

I predicted awhile back that there is no crime reduction candidate in DC and I was right. DC voters want progressives on Twitter making excuses for constituents being murdered.

100% if only on this one issue he was tougher. I don’t care about his tax hike loving ways as much as his complete incompetence on crime. Just complete and total abdication of responsibility. All the laws he pushes, the money wasted on useless violence interruptors, what the fk.

The whole violence interruptor thing is just a scam to put burglars and drug runners on the public payroll while having those evil gentrifiers pay for it all with ever higher taxes. Wake up people!

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Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:
Today is the deadline for turning in candidate petitions and it appears that Charles Allen will be unopposed.


In the Dem primary. An independent could run against him in the general election.

I would love an entire slate of moderate independent candidates to vote for. They can't be moderate Republicans, like David Catania and Carole Schwartz were, because the Republican brand has become so toxic. But just as DC's Dems are now dominated by the progressive ideology wing of the Democratic party, maybe DC needs to become a test case for an alternate moderate independent slate since many people---independents, R's and D's---are disgusted by extremism and want a return to pragmatic problem solving. DC is not that large. A good independent who was willing to pound the pavement and go door to door and talk to people and GOTV would stand a chance in November. People who are ticked about crime in Ward 6 would go out and vote.

I would vote for an independent as you describe, OR a moderate Dem (like Tony Willams) or moderate R (like Hogan, Romney, Catania, Schwarz). I know so many Rs who were also never-Trumpers, and I think the fate of the party for me depends on who they put up for '24. I'd love to see a condoleeze Riace, not a DeSantis. We'll see. At the local politic level, I know few DC Republicans who were Trumpers. Maybe I don't know any. So I would vote for them based on their platform.

I don't think Catania or Schwartz would be considered Rs in today's R party. They would be mod Dems.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a really high tolerance for city life but the crime in Ward 6 is out of control and Allen is doing literally nothing. It’s so frustrating.

Lol, crime on Crapitol Hill has been a problem long before Charles Allen arrived on the scene. [b]I know he's DCUM's favorite whipping boy but get a grip.[/quote


OMG yes! I moved there in 1987 and left after being mugged. This is what happens when you defund the police. lol