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Anonymous wrote:I’m not sure that Bowser knows how to think for herself. She is basically following Hogan’s lead and copies his actions a day or two later. I guess that is fine but she herself comes across as a deer caught in headlights

I agree. Bowser’s belated, paler me-tooism is kind of pathetic. Not only is she not a leader like Hogan, she doesn’t exactly have an A-team either. Hogan has a more experienced and competent set of agency heads, and they lead agencies at scale that can call on resources from across a state that encompasses a varied portfolio of cities, suburbs and rural areas.

Another reason why, even with stellar leadership (like a Tony Williams), DC could not really be a viable state any more than Baltimore City could. This crisis points out two lessons:

Washington DC desperately needs a better, more competent mayor.

The best long term solution, for a variety of reasons from congressional representation to better resources and a deeper potential political leadership pool, would be for DC to rejoin the state of Maryland.

I didn’t know that the deputy mayor is a former PR guy. Now it makes sense. He’s probably a key person who framed the Bowser Admin’s massive proposed planning and development windfall to big developers and real estate speculators as furthering more “inclusion” and “affordable housing” in DC. More like furthering more upscale condos and flats. Do they take the people of the District for complete fools?!
Bowser takes her marching orders from a very tight circle of men. Everyone in DC gov knows the de facto leader is Falcicchio. A former PR guy, zero policy or gov leadership experience. He’s our Jared.

This. And it’s so damn sad. Bowser is very much white-male centric. She’s surrounded herself with them and she is taking orders from them. None of them are real leaders.