CM Pinto has probably reached final placement - she is mediocre at her current job. Note that despite OUC having major issues the entire time she has been on Council, she only once conducted a surprise visit, the night before a hearing. She is not interested in a better functioning city. She is only interested in trying to look like she is interested in a better functioning city, which is why she is essentially reactionary. When there is enough complaining about something, she'll do the bare minimum to look like she cares (which is more than several other councilmembers, including my own in Ward 3), but that is it.

She is not proactive. She is not a deep thinker who has considered various options to get us out of the mess she is in part responsible for.

I am by no means a Mendo fan, but I'd take Mendo as mayor over Pinto any day.

Mayor Pinto, please already!

The rumor mill said she wants to run for mayor in the next election.

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Anonymous wrote:If Brooke is so great, can she do something about the trash piling up in Ward 2 (including in her own neighborhood)? Nothing has been picked up for 11 days now. 311 does nothing. Meanwhile trash continues to overflow all of the cans in the alleys and on the street.

This city can't even handle basic services. It's a joke.

Trash is piling up in all the wards.

Not in W4 by me at least. Great work by my CM!

It's real bad in our W4 alley, and an email to Janeese three days ago has not been returned (unsurprisingly).

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Anonymous wrote:If Brooke is so great, can she do something about the trash piling up in Ward 2 (including in her own neighborhood)? Nothing has been picked up for 11 days now. 311 does nothing. Meanwhile trash continues to overflow all of the cans in the alleys and on the street.

This city can't even handle basic services. It's a joke.

Trash is piling up in all the wards.

Not in W4 by me at least. Great work by my CM!

Ward 4 is also the home ward of Mayor Muriel Barry-Bowser.

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Anonymous wrote:If Brooke is so great, can she do something about the trash piling up in Ward 2 (including in her own neighborhood)? Nothing has been picked up for 11 days now. 311 does nothing. Meanwhile trash continues to overflow all of the cans in the alleys and on the street.

This city can't even handle basic services. It's a joke.

Trash is piling up in all the wards.

Not in W4 by me at least. Great work by my CM!

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Anonymous wrote:If Brooke is so great, can she do something about the trash piling up in Ward 2 (including in her own neighborhood)? Nothing has been picked up for 11 days now. 311 does nothing. Meanwhile trash continues to overflow all of the cans in the alleys and on the street.

This city can't even handle basic services. It's a joke.

Trash is piling up in all the wards.

Fair enough, but Brooke Pinto is in Ward 2.

Anonymous wrote:If Brooke is so great, can she do something about the trash piling up in Ward 2 (including in her own neighborhood)? Nothing has been picked up for 11 days now. 311 does nothing. Meanwhile trash continues to overflow all of the cans in the alleys and on the street.

This city can't even handle basic services. It's a joke.

Trash is piling up in all the wards.

Anonymous wrote:The bill is window dressing with either unconstitutional or borderline unconstitutional provisions that MPD will abuse. Nothing will change except paying even more in MPD settlements. The process has been quite rushed and it largely a bad law.

I'm so over personal freedoms in DC at this point. I can't believe how far the courts are leaning to hamstring all police activity. We may as well just have cast dressed up as famous politicians who hand out water and give directions to shelters when the gun shots ring out. Our police aren't allowed to police.

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Anonymous wrote:If Brooke is so great, can she do something about the trash piling up in Ward 2 (including in her own neighborhood)? Nothing has been picked up for 11 days now. 311 does nothing. Meanwhile trash continues to overflow all of the cans in the alleys and on the street.

This city can't even handle basic services. It's a joke.

Basic city services will continue to decline. The Council is completely beyond having the ability and skillset to focus on those issues and Bowser is checked out. There is no other way for it to go.

Ward 3 as well. Just sayin' Anyone have insight into why we are turning into Rome in the 2000s?

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Anonymous wrote:She is a loser carpetbagger whose daddy bought her a Council seat. No respect.

Facts. She’s a Racine person and we all know how horrible he was with crime, one of the main reasons we’re having the problems we are.

Can you explain this better? Because DC is hanging by a thread and we need to find our person/people and save our city. Is she a Racine person in the sense that he is the first person she worked for before she branched out (I've had bosses I disagreed with in viewpoint-sometimes when you are starting out you just land where you land), is she a Racine person in the sense that she wrote all his policy, defended his positions, and wholeheartedly supports him STILL or is she a Racine person in that she was sort of onboard when she worked for him, but has branched out/matured now that she is in a totally different position and perhaps can see the ramifications of some of his policy from a different point of view (let's call this the " we grow and change"). I'm not willing to write someone off just because they worked for Racine, but if she is carrying his torch to the finish line, sure....

Thanks for more detail.

Anonymous wrote:If Brooke is so great, can she do something about the trash piling up in Ward 2 (including in her own neighborhood)? Nothing has been picked up for 11 days now. 311 does nothing. Meanwhile trash continues to overflow all of the cans in the alleys and on the street.

This city can't even handle basic services. It's a joke.

Basic city services will continue to decline. The Council is completely beyond having the ability and skillset to focus on those issues and Bowser is checked out. There is no other way for it to go.

If Brooke is so great, can she do something about the trash piling up in Ward 2 (including in her own neighborhood)? Nothing has been picked up for 11 days now. 311 does nothing. Meanwhile trash continues to overflow all of the cans in the alleys and on the street.

This city can't even handle basic services. It's a joke.

She is practical and tackles tough issues -- which her constituents contact her about, ie crime -- and so has the support of
many of her constituents. There's a reason no one is challenging her in Ward 2 this election cycle. I could see her running for Attorney General or moving onto federal government.
Several of the CMs likely have future aspirations in the political realm (Robert White for Mayor next term, Charles Allen possibly if Mendo ever exits etc.) The Council is not generally coming up with common-sense legislation on many issues, just keeps taxing without looking at effectiveness /ROI, and Pinto counterbalances that, IMHO. Now that she is in the role, I just care what she does to make the lives of District residents' lives better and will take her over CMs who don't understand the budgeting or legislative process or consistently talk out of both sides of their mouths. Finally, I think the CM who best understands how to govern and manage competing constituencies and find reasonable solutions is At-Large Christina Henderson. She would be the best person
to run for Mayor next cycle but I am not sure she will, preferring to wait until
later. Henderson is smart, experienced in various capacities of government service , detail-oriented, has a set of values she does not flip-flop on and does oversight well. She also is not beholden to former AG Karl Racine for helping her get elected like several of the current CMs or to monied interests per se.

Anonymous wrote:She is a loser carpetbagger whose daddy bought her a Council seat. No respect.

Facts. She’s a Racine person and we all know how horrible he was with crime, one of the main reasons we’re having the problems we are.