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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, given this position, I need to know who I can vote for who will beat this guy (and that supports the already-approved, logical choice for a new HS and ES).

Mary Cheh has made her decision and is supporting Tricia Duncan. That's how to defeat Goulet.

And that should now be the end of it. Ballots are arriving now in people's mailboxes. Bergman, Brown, Cohen, Finley, and Frumin need to withdraw now and endorse Duncan. She is not perfect by any stretch and one could argue that any of those other five would make better CMs, but I'd much rather have her as CM than Goulet and I hope each of them would too.

Yes, this will absolutely marshall the support of Mary Cheh stans for Duncan. That should net her about 12 votes.

Do you have a better method to consolidate the field or do you want Goulet to be elected?

I’m just not sure why you would assume that this non-endorsement from someone whose constituents don’t particularly care for her will have a such a big impact on the race. While I don’t want to see Goulet elected, to suggest that it’s now down to him and Duncan now is silly. It’s especially silly to suggest that Matt Frumin, who has a big base of support and has been very successful in fundraising, should stand down. The others probably should have dropped out a while ago (although I have a soft spot for Henry Cohen).

Why do you assume no one likes Cheh? She would have been re-elected in a landslide.

Frumin has a big lead in fundraising, but all but $4k out that lead comes from people who don’t live in the ward. I can’t say - and you can’t say - who is more likely to be elected out of the two of them, but we do know the chance of Goulet being elected is much higher if neither of them drops out.

Cheh would have won on intertia, but let's be honest, no one really likes her as a councilmember. She has always hated campaigning and her constituent services have always been a joke. She never went to ANC meetings or was out in the community other than doing her own personal errands.

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Anonymous wrote:Monte Monash looks promising as a candidate.

She went around at our school auction introducing herself to people as a candidate. Ixnay.

Are her kids in DCPS/DCPCS?

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Anonymous wrote:Monte Monash looks promising as a candidate.

She donated to Mike Pence and was a republican until filing to run in this race. Hard Pass.

https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/555260/erstwhile-republican-monte-monash-wants-to-be-the-ward-3-councilmember/

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Anonymous wrote:Monte Monash looks promising as a candidate.

Zero chance to win. I’m voting for Goulet. He’s the only one who is taking the soaring crime rate in ward 3 seriously

And the rest of the Council - you know, those who he will need to actually do anything at all - are going to take him seriously knowing that he got there through using questions about how to increase diversity in the Ward to complain about crime committed by African American voucher recipients? Having a council-member prone to racist tropes hasn’t worked out too well for Ward 8. It wouldn’t work out too well for Ward 3 either.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, given this position, I need to know who I can vote for who will beat this guy (and that supports the already-approved, logical choice for a new HS and ES).

Mary Cheh has made her decision and is supporting Tricia Duncan. That's how to defeat Goulet.

And that should now be the end of it. Ballots are arriving now in people's mailboxes. Bergman, Brown, Cohen, Finley, and Frumin need to withdraw now and endorse Duncan. She is not perfect by any stretch and one could argue that any of those other five would make better CMs, but I'd much rather have her as CM than Goulet and I hope each of them would too.

Yes, this will absolutely marshall the support of Mary Cheh stans for Duncan. That should net her about 12 votes.

Do you have a better method to consolidate the field or do you want Goulet to be elected?

I’m just not sure why you would assume that this non-endorsement from someone whose constituents don’t particularly care for her will have a such a big impact on the race. While I don’t want to see Goulet elected, to suggest that it’s now down to him and Duncan now is silly. It’s especially silly to suggest that Matt Frumin, who has a big base of support and has been very successful in fundraising, should stand down. The others probably should have dropped out a while ago (although I have a soft spot for Henry Cohen).

Why do you assume no one likes Cheh? She would have been re-elected in a landslide.

Frumin has a big lead in fundraising, but all but $4k out that lead comes from people who don’t live in the ward. I can’t say - and you can’t say - who is more likely to be elected out of the two of them, but we do know the chance of Goulet being elected is much higher if neither of them drops out.

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Anonymous wrote:Monte Monash looks promising as a candidate.

She went around at our school auction introducing herself to people as a candidate. Ixnay.

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Anonymous wrote:Monte Monash looks promising as a candidate.

Zero chance to win. I’m voting for Goulet. He’s the only one who is taking the soaring crime rate in ward 3 seriously

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Anonymous wrote:I just scoured this guy's website and I didn't learn a single thing about him. He put photos of his Asian children there, but no real substantive background. Seriously, why would anyboyd vote for him?

He worked for the Council for almost 20 years. On paper he's the most qualified, which I imagine is why the Post picked him. If I were councilmember I'd hire him for my staff. But he lacks the charisma to be an elected politician.

It's not even charisma. He ran in 2006 when Cheh first won. He obviously got crushed. Knowing he might want to run again in the future, you would think he would have done anything to engage in the broader Ward 3 community, get involved with some organizations, take on some issues - anything. Instead he did....nothing. He has no actual retail politics in the Ward, but he managed to get the endorsement of a bunch of Ward 3 cronies who in terms curried favor with the Washington Post and Chamber of Commerce. He is truly the second worse choice in this race. Only the republican running as a democrats and the two actual republicans who are running are worse.

Who is the Republican running as a democrat?

Anonymous wrote:Monte Monash looks promising as a candidate.

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Anonymous wrote:I just scoured this guy's website and I didn't learn a single thing about him. He put photos of his Asian children there, but no real substantive background. Seriously, why would anyboyd vote for him?

He worked for the Council for almost 20 years. On paper he's the most qualified, which I imagine is why the Post picked him. If I were councilmember I'd hire him for my staff. But he lacks the charisma to be an elected politician.

It's not even charisma. He ran in 2006 when Cheh first won. He obviously got crushed. Knowing he might want to run again in the future, you would think he would have done anything to engage in the broader Ward 3 community, get involved with some organizations, take on some issues - anything. Instead he did....nothing. He has no actual retail politics in the Ward, but he managed to get the endorsement of a bunch of Ward 3 cronies who in terms curried favor with the Washington Post and Chamber of Commerce. He is truly the second worse choice in this race. Only the republican running as a democrats and the two actual republicans who are running are worse.

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And that should now be the end of it. Ballots are arriving now in people's mailboxes. Bergman, Brown, Cohen, Finley, and Frumin need to withdraw now and endorse Duncan. She is not perfect by any stretch and one could argue that any of those other five would make better CMs, but I'd much rather have her as CM than Goulet and I hope each of them would too.