Anonymous
08/15/2023 11:50
Subject: Re:Can we recall ANCs???
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Our ANC treats his constituents' opinions as something to either ignore or overcome, which I don't think is how democracies are supposed to work.
I wish we could just abolish the ANCs.
Their intended purpose was to act as a sherpa for citizens interacting with government.
We need to dramatically expand the Council and abolish the ANC's. Were we going to have a 13 member legislature if we got statehood?
The goal is to have the ANCs act as a lower house and the Council would become the Upper house
Yeah that sounds like a nightmare. I'd rather have Congress in charge.
An attitude consistent with a disrespect for small-d democracy.
uh, what? it's exactly the opposite. dc's government is about as unrepresentative as it gets. most of our officials are left wing nutjobs who get elected in primaries in which barely anyone votes. then, because they got elected with, like, 12 votes, they think they have a mandate to pursue all their craziest ideas. when voters object, they ignore them because they think they know better or because, hey, they were elected, even if 99 percent of their constituents did not actually vote for them.
Anonymous
08/15/2023 11:17
Subject: Re:Can we recall ANCs???
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Our ANC treats his constituents' opinions as something to either ignore or overcome, which I don't think is how democracies are supposed to work.
I wish we could just abolish the ANCs.
Their intended purpose was to act as a sherpa for citizens interacting with government.
We need to dramatically expand the Council and abolish the ANC's. Were we going to have a 13 member legislature if we got statehood?
The goal is to have the ANCs act as a lower house and the Council would become the Upper house
Yeah that sounds like a nightmare. I'd rather have Congress in charge.
An attitude consistent with a disrespect for small-d democracy.
A system that permits 100% single party control despite a required set aside for minority party council seats is actually much worse. But here we are.
This post, also, is consistent with a disrespect for small-d democracy.
Anonymous
08/15/2023 11:08
Subject: Re:Can we recall ANCs???
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Our ANC treats his constituents' opinions as something to either ignore or overcome, which I don't think is how democracies are supposed to work.
I wish we could just abolish the ANCs.
Their intended purpose was to act as a sherpa for citizens interacting with government.
We need to dramatically expand the Council and abolish the ANC's. Were we going to have a 13 member legislature if we got statehood?
The goal is to have the ANCs act as a lower house and the Council would become the Upper house
Yeah that sounds like a nightmare. I'd rather have Congress in charge.
An attitude consistent with a disrespect for small-d democracy.
A system that permits 100% single party control despite a required set aside for minority party council seats is actually much worse. But here we are.
Anonymous
08/15/2023 10:33
Subject: Re:Can we recall ANCs???
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Our ANC treats his constituents' opinions as something to either ignore or overcome, which I don't think is how democracies are supposed to work.
I wish we could just abolish the ANCs.
Their intended purpose was to act as a sherpa for citizens interacting with government.
We need to dramatically expand the Council and abolish the ANC's. Were we going to have a 13 member legislature if we got statehood?
The goal is to have the ANCs act as a lower house and the Council would become the Upper house
Yeah that sounds like a nightmare. I'd rather have Congress in charge.
An attitude consistent with a disrespect for small-d democracy.
Anonymous
08/15/2023 10:14
Subject: Re:Can we recall ANCs???
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Our ANC treats his constituents' opinions as something to either ignore or overcome, which I don't think is how democracies are supposed to work.
I wish we could just abolish the ANCs.
Their intended purpose was to act as a sherpa for citizens interacting with government.
We need to dramatically expand the Council and abolish the ANC's. Were we going to have a 13 member legislature if we got statehood?
The goal is to have the ANCs act as a lower house and the Council would become the Upper house
Yeah that sounds like a nightmare. I'd rather have Congress in charge.
Anonymous
08/15/2023 10:10
Subject: Re:Can we recall ANCs???
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Our ANC treats his constituents' opinions as something to either ignore or overcome, which I don't think is how democracies are supposed to work.
I wish we could just abolish the ANCs.
Their intended purpose was to act as a sherpa for citizens interacting with government.
We need to dramatically expand the Council and abolish the ANC's. Were we going to have a 13 member legislature if we got statehood?
The goal is to have the ANCs act as a lower house and the Council would become the Upper house
Some peak crazy right here.
Anonymous
08/15/2023 09:31
Subject: Re:Can we recall ANCs???
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Our ANC treats his constituents' opinions as something to either ignore or overcome, which I don't think is how democracies are supposed to work.
I wish we could just abolish the ANCs.
Their intended purpose was to act as a sherpa for citizens interacting with government.
We need to dramatically expand the Council and abolish the ANC's. Were we going to have a 13 member legislature if we got statehood?
The goal is to have the ANCs act as a lower house and the Council would become the Upper house
That's disappointing and uninspiring. Our system needs an overhaul.
Anonymous
08/15/2023 07:51
Subject: Can we recall ANCs???
Well, statehood will not happen. It was probably never going to happen and then the Council lost Republicans and Democrats with the crime bill. Not in our lifetimes.
Anonymous
08/14/2023 23:01
Subject: Re:Can we recall ANCs???
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Our ANC treats his constituents' opinions as something to either ignore or overcome, which I don't think is how democracies are supposed to work.
I wish we could just abolish the ANCs.
Their intended purpose was to act as a sherpa for citizens interacting with government.
We need to dramatically expand the Council and abolish the ANC's. Were we going to have a 13 member legislature if we got statehood?
The goal is to have the ANCs act as a lower house and the Council would become the Upper house
Anonymous
08/14/2023 22:52
Subject: Re:Can we recall ANCs???
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Our ANC treats his constituents' opinions as something to either ignore or overcome, which I don't think is how democracies are supposed to work.
I wish we could just abolish the ANCs.
Their intended purpose was to act as a sherpa for citizens interacting with government.
We need to dramatically expand the Council and abolish the ANC's. Were we going to have a 13 member legislature if we got statehood?
Anonymous
08/14/2023 21:57
Subject: Re:Can we recall ANCs???
Anonymous wrote:Our ANC treats his constituents' opinions as something to either ignore or overcome, which I don't think is how democracies are supposed to work.
I wish we could just abolish the ANCs.
Anonymous
08/14/2023 11:37
Subject: Can we recall ANCs???
Anonymous wrote:These new ANC commissioners REFUSE to talk about crime. In response to constituent concerns about carjackings, they brought in a speaker from the DC Justice Lab who advocated paying criminals with some sort of UBI stipend. No ANC engagement with the police. It's outrageous. People need to pay attention to what goes on at these meetings, and VOTE.
This is inaccurate for my ANC. The commission hosts MPD at the start of every month and has scheduled dedicated meetings to specific criminal activities with MPD in the past. The commission bought a radar gun to try to catalog speeding drivers so that DDOT would be more responsive to traffic calming needs due to out-of-staters.
Anonymous
08/14/2023 11:29
Subject: Can we recall ANCs???
Anonymous wrote:These new ANC commissioners REFUSE to talk about crime. In response to constituent concerns about carjackings, they brought in a speaker from the DC Justice Lab who advocated paying criminals with some sort of UBI stipend. No ANC engagement with the police. It's outrageous. People need to pay attention to what goes on at these meetings, and VOTE.
Why don't you run to be an ANC commissioner?
Anonymous
08/14/2023 11:23
Subject: Can we recall ANCs???
These new ANC commissioners REFUSE to talk about crime. In response to constituent concerns about carjackings, they brought in a speaker from the DC Justice Lab who advocated paying criminals with some sort of UBI stipend. No ANC engagement with the police. It's outrageous. People need to pay attention to what goes on at these meetings, and VOTE.
Anonymous
08/14/2023 11:19
Subject: Can we recall ANCs???
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:.Anonymous wrote:Now we just have the crazy chairperson cutting people off after 90 seconds. There are actually two people on the commission with children at home. There is a strong ageist, anti single family home dweller bias. It's also the only ANC that has not moved back to hybrid meetings.
Do you think everyone should be able to ramble on as long as they want?
No, they think THEY should be able to though.
+1
We've seen a generational transfer of power at the ANC level in Ward 3 and the tactics employed by the old guard either aren't as effective as they used to be or simply aren't deployable due to not being in power.
Not so much a transfer of power. More a result of middle aged adults still dealing with the downstream impacts of home schooling for two years and not being able to undertake public service. Having recent high school and college grads with no professional or life experience serving in elected office is not a healthy thing, as we a witnessing.
No. The transition predates the pandemic. It started in the mid to late teens. Young -- not college-age but those in their early-middle age with young children at home -- ran and won in heavily contested seats across the ward.* Some commission areas fell earlier than others and now several of the ward 3 ANCs have been strong for a half-decade or more.
The effect was palpable. That restaurant you like that awaked a dead area? That's because of the transition.
*NOTE: some of the local civic organizations got much better at the same time, also through early-middle age leadership taking over and pushing a more community-minded mindset. The two sources of change amplified each other.
LOL! This new generation of “leaders” have presided over an unimaginable backslide into blight and crime not seen since the 1980s. It’s incredible that they show their faces in public.
This.