Someone needs to tell Nadeau that children have been dying for years from gun violence for years in DC. The issue is that now she has abdicated responsibility and taken the moral low ground to further her political career.

Anonymous wrote:Nadeau got her butt handed to her on the Politics Hour last week. About damn time.

Oooh yes. I just read the transcript. I’ve posted a bit here. The first person is “Greg,” a caller from Mount Pleasant. “Nnamdi” is Kojo NNamdi, the host. “Sherwood” is Tom Sherwood, the reporter who covers all things DC.

SHE STRUGGLES TO ADMIT THERE IS A CRIME CRISIS IN THE CITY!?! What the actual????

GREG 12:18:36
Absolutely. Thank you. Yeah, I hate to pile on, but we've had 25 deaths on the streets this year versus 17 in regard to traffic accidents. Carjackings are up 92 percent. We had 72 teens and children shot this years. Twelve were murdered, dead. We had $100 million tax increase last year that was supposed to ameliorate homelessness. Homelessness went up. The Revised Criminal Code Act made us look like idiots. When is Brianne, going to admit she's moved in the wrong direction? I mean how much pride, how much performative behavior will she continue to exhibit before she admits she was wrong?

NNAMDI 12:19:14
Brianne Nadeau.

SHERWOOD 12:19:17
Start with defund police.

NADEAU 12:19:19
Right. I mean funding is not MPD's issue. They have half a billion dollars. They're dealing with the same issue that every police force in the country is, which is attrition. Even if the mayor had the money to hire 4,000 more cops it would probably take her 10 years if she's mayor that long. So I think that's sort of--the number is a distraction. A couple of things, one MPD needs to take seriously the study that Chief Contee commission around work place at MPD. And my bill the Cadet Bill, the Cadet Act actually would have us expanding our home grown program, which is a more diverse population in our police force, more women. And we know we can recruit and grown good people here. So I'm hoping we can get a hearing on that bill so we expand. But it's not a money issue.

SHERWOOD 12:20:16
That's a long term issue, isn't it? I mean if you've got a cadet, he or she does have to go through high school and two years of college we will help pay for. And get them on the street years from now. Do you agree, I ask every person who comes on this show, is there a crime crisis in this city or not? Those two words, is there a crime crisis in the city?

NADEAU 12:20:41
I think we need to be bringing all the resources to the crime issues we're having. Does that mean I think it's a crisis? Maybe.

SHERWOOD 12:20:49
Wait, wait, wait. Crime crisis is a maybe.

NADEAU 12:20:52
We have serious issues in the District of Columbia. I would say probably the biggest issue that we have right now with crime is that we are at the whims of the federal USAO to prosecute most of it and he's not doing it.

SHERWOOD 12:21:05
That's getting to the solution.

NADEAU 12:21:06
Okay.

SHERWOOD 12:21:07
I'm trying to ask the city administrator said in a meeting that people feel, he didn't they are, but he said people feel like they are terrorized by crime. And the statistics the gentleman just cited when he called, is there a crime crisis and does the Council need to act on the legislation Jenny just talked about?

NADEAU 12:21:28
I mean I think as long as we have children dying from gun violence we should consider it a crisis, yes.

SHERWOOD 12:21:33
Okay.

Nadeau got her butt handed to her on the Politics Hour last week. About damn time.

It's not real tide. Here's the hustle.

People get the containers from laundromats/recycle bins.

They are filled with fake detergent, or half cut with water and low end fragrant free soap.

Sold in bulk to the street vendors and the vendors sell it at a discount.

The rat and roach explosion is going to be insane.

Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/12/dc-council-is-making-street-vending-worse/

Letter about this in Post.

This letter is 100% right. There are already hundreds of unlicensed food trucks in the District with little sanitation oversight and little power of District agencies to do anything with MPD openly sitting on their thumbs, refusing to help because of "optics".

Anonymous wrote:DC became a sanctuary city that doesn’t cooperate with ICE and now allows non-citizens to vote. You do the math. Meanwhile do you think this affects Nadeau’s salary?

Nope, doesn't affect Nadeau's salary. Council's salaries are public, by the way.

DC became a sanctuary city that doesn’t cooperate with ICE and now allows non-citizens to vote. You do the math. Meanwhile do you think this affects Nadeau’s salary?

Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/12/dc-council-is-making-street-vending-worse/

Letter about this in Post.

On point! It's absolutely ridiculous what this council--Brianne Nadeau--has done. That segment of the sidewalk from the bank to DCUsa is like running a gauntlet. No one needs hundreds of accessories for their Crocs.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/12/dc-council-is-making-street-vending-worse/

Letter about this in Post.

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Anonymous wrote:I dont even care about the food safety issues as much as turning our sidewalks into flea markets and looking like a third world country. Most of the crap on 14th is stolen shit from CVS (why do you think so much is locked up CVS), some horrible "artwork" , belts, socks and more crap made in china.
Is this really the "vibrancy" that Columbia Heights needs?

Wow, this is some horrific and incredibly racist and classist 5hlt. I agree with you on the personal care products being so obviously stole, but most of these people are immigrants try to survive.

Try not to be such a cold and heartless POS. If you don't like it, move to Bethesda.

does that mean they are above the law? Why do they get to sell body wash on the street, why can't CVS just set up a table in the street too? Its not heartless, you have no idea what happens when public space is not regulated. Rats, lack of accessiblity, fighting over turf, uptick in stolen goods, and finally to your point, if its not regulated, eventually they will get pushed out by lots of other better funded vendors who want unchecked access on the sidewalk. I am not heartless, I have a brain and understand that the city public spaces have to be managed. What happens when sidewalks don't meet ADA accessibility becuase of tables and tents? who gets fined?

Has anyone tested for water, urine, trace fentanyl in that “body wash”? Hell to the no

The tingling means it is working.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I dont even care about the food safety issues as much as turning our sidewalks into flea markets and looking like a third world country. Most of the crap on 14th is stolen shit from CVS (why do you think so much is locked up CVS), some horrible "artwork" , belts, socks and more crap made in china.
Is this really the "vibrancy" that Columbia Heights needs?

Wow, this is some horrific and incredibly racist and classist 5hlt. I agree with you on the personal care products being so obviously stole, but most of these people are immigrants try to survive.

Try not to be such a cold and heartless POS. If you don't like it, move to Bethesda.

does that mean they are above the law? Why do they get to sell body wash on the street, why can't CVS just set up a table in the street too? Its not heartless, you have no idea what happens when public space is not regulated. Rats, lack of accessiblity, fighting over turf, uptick in stolen goods, and finally to your point, if its not regulated, eventually they will get pushed out by lots of other better funded vendors who want unchecked access on the sidewalk. I am not heartless, I have a brain and understand that the city public spaces have to be managed. What happens when sidewalks don't meet ADA accessibility becuase of tables and tents? who gets fined?

Has anyone tested for water, urine, trace fentanyl in that “body wash”? Hell to the no

Is the product vacuum sealed, no? Is the vacuum seal factory one and tamperproof, no? No. It’s a firm No and these Councilpeople are less than zero; they are negative.

You could establish licensing and education for vendors. Not a free for all for cheap political points.

Meanwhile, is that stuff stolen, counterfeit, tempered with, recall stock (people lost life and limb to eye drops and room spray). Everyone I know is giving this a wide berth. And because previously you needed a license, I’m now also suspicious of the innocent artisan makers and farmers markets. Thanks DC Council — you couldn’t be more awful.

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Anonymous wrote:I dont even care about the food safety issues as much as turning our sidewalks into flea markets and looking like a third world country. Most of the crap on 14th is stolen shit from CVS (why do you think so much is locked up CVS), some horrible "artwork" , belts, socks and more crap made in china.
Is this really the "vibrancy" that Columbia Heights needs?

Wow, this is some horrific and incredibly racist and classist 5hlt. I agree with you on the personal care products being so obviously stole, but most of these people are immigrants try to survive.

Try not to be such a cold and heartless POS. If you don't like it, move to Bethesda.

does that mean they are above the law? Why do they get to sell body wash on the street, why can't CVS just set up a table in the street too? Its not heartless, you have no idea what happens when public space is not regulated. Rats, lack of accessiblity, fighting over turf, uptick in stolen goods, and finally to your point, if its not regulated, eventually they will get pushed out by lots of other better funded vendors who want unchecked access on the sidewalk. I am not heartless, I have a brain and understand that the city public spaces have to be managed. What happens when sidewalks don't meet ADA accessibility becuase of tables and tents? who gets fined?

A woman was stabbed at the Columbia Heights metro.

If it’s crime in Columbia Heights Nadeau has no interest.