Anonymous wrote:We need a ballot initiative requiring 90 percent of the DC budget to be spent every year in perpetuity on schools. If you are against this, you must be selfish/racist/hate children, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s amazing to see DC politicians responding to market forces. Our politicians have spent most of the last decade acting like they could just push whatever far left flavor of the day.

This is what happens when we elect 13 people with exactly ZERO private sector experience. Not a single day in the business world among 13 lifetimes. From a statistical perspective this is about a 1,000,000,000 to 1 outcome, but somehow the voters of DC have pulled it off. Collectively, they are an incredibly unimpressive lot.

Another false claim that can be quickly debunked by browsing the biographies of the members.

Maybe it would be good to have more council members with deeper private sector experience. That is not for you or I to decide, however.

If you feel passionately about this and you have the experience you feel is so important for the council, please mount a campaign. But you might want to consider developing a closer relationship with the truth before doing so.

Ummm. DC nonprofit/attorney/consultant/community organizing is not the same thing as the private sector…

Have any of the Council ever have to make payroll, order inventory, pay rent, build something? Nope. They’re all unimpressive white collar, barely employable hacks.

You have a very special idea of what the phrase “private sector” means, one that accords with no conventional definition.

If you have done these things and think that your expertise would add value to Council business, please run.

Please enlighten us as to which councilman has private sector experience?

Various council members have worked as attorneys for private firms, Janeese worked as a waitress, Wendell worked for Sibley hospital and so on . . .

LOL! Only in DC would someone with “Director of Community Affairs” at a hospital be considered a “private sector” job. These folks washed out of the private sector, if they were ever in the private sector at all. Their incompetence is reflected in the policies they champion which almost always end up being anti business or pro criminal. They’re a national embarrassment.

I'm a lawyer, but how is being a Director of Community Affairs not a private sector job. Signed former investment banker. Are only corporate jobs private sector jobs? WTH.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s amazing to see DC politicians responding to market forces. Our politicians have spent most of the last decade acting like they could just push whatever far left flavor of the day.

This is what happens when we elect 13 people with exactly ZERO private sector experience. Not a single day in the business world among 13 lifetimes. From a statistical perspective this is about a 1,000,000,000 to 1 outcome, but somehow the voters of DC have pulled it off. Collectively, they are an incredibly unimpressive lot.

Another false claim that can be quickly debunked by browsing the biographies of the members.

Maybe it would be good to have more council members with deeper private sector experience. That is not for you or I to decide, however.

If you feel passionately about this and you have the experience you feel is so important for the council, please mount a campaign. But you might want to consider developing a closer relationship with the truth before doing so.

Ummm. DC nonprofit/attorney/consultant/community organizing is not the same thing as the private sector…

Have any of the Council ever have to make payroll, order inventory, pay rent, build something? Nope. They’re all unimpressive white collar, barely employable hacks.

You have a very special idea of what the phrase “private sector” means, one that accords with no conventional definition.

If you have done these things and think that your expertise would add value to Council business, please run.

Please enlighten us as to which councilman has private sector experience?

Various council members have worked as attorneys for private firms, Janeese worked as a waitress, Wendell worked for Sibley hospital and so on . . .

LOL! Only in DC would someone with “Director of Community Affairs” at a hospital be considered a “private sector” job. These folks washed out of the private sector, if they were ever in the private sector at all. Their incompetence is reflected in the policies they champion which almost always end up being anti business or pro criminal. They’re a national embarrassment.

Anonymous wrote:DC voted for a law that increased the cost of doing business for restaurants by a double-digit percentage and now is shocked that restaurants are closing. The white mediocrities who were behind this are all like, "Hmmm, it's probably greedy landlords" while most restaurants are in the middle of their 10-year leases when they close, with a locked-in price for five more years.

I hope everyone enjoys the future of dining out in DC: Ultra-fancy restaurants or take-out. There will be no in-between because of I-82.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s amazing to see DC politicians responding to market forces. Our politicians have spent most of the last decade acting like they could just push whatever far left flavor of the day.

This is what happens when we elect 13 people with exactly ZERO private sector experience. Not a single day in the business world among 13 lifetimes. From a statistical perspective this is about a 1,000,000,000 to 1 outcome, but somehow the voters of DC have pulled it off. Collectively, they are an incredibly unimpressive lot.

Another false claim that can be quickly debunked by browsing the biographies of the members.

Maybe it would be good to have more council members with deeper private sector experience. That is not for you or I to decide, however.

If you feel passionately about this and you have the experience you feel is so important for the council, please mount a campaign. But you might want to consider developing a closer relationship with the truth before doing so.

Ummm. DC nonprofit/attorney/consultant/community organizing is not the same thing as the private sector…

Have any of the Council ever have to make payroll, order inventory, pay rent, build something? Nope. They’re all unimpressive white collar, barely employable hacks.

You have a very special idea of what the phrase “private sector” means, one that accords with no conventional definition.

If you have done these things and think that your expertise would add value to Council business, please run.

Please enlighten us as to which councilman has private sector experience?

Various council members have worked as attorneys for private firms, Janeese worked as a waitress, Wendell worked for Sibley hospital and so on . . .

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Anonymous wrote:There's always a huge helping of magical thinking in DC policymaking. Whether it's Initiative 82 or bike lanes or pot legalization or whatever, it's like the underpants gnomes are in charge of designing these policies.

74% or DC voters are underpants gnomes? (Whatever the hell an underpants gnomes is, not that any of us really want to know.)

And god forbid DC voters might think that restaurants in DC could figure out how to operate the way that restaurants and almost every other business functions almost everywhere else in the world.

But, no, they throw a fit with all sorts of junk fees and nonsense charges just to piss all the customers off, childishly branding I-82 as responsible for their own crappy behavior, and then go crying to Mommy Bowser to get their way.

Well, it ain’t gonna work. There aren’t the votes for this on the Council. Not even Mendelsohn is going to vote for it. And you think that after this, DC voters are going to be even more eager to eat at your restaurants? Please.

It wasn't 74 percent of DC voters. It was 74 percent of the people who voted in that election, or around 28 percent of the registered voters in DC. I know critical thinking isn't your strong suit, but please try.

Shall we show out all of the results from that election or those you don’t like? Shall we also throw out I-83 because it similarly failed to attract votes from a majority of registered voters? There was nothing else on that ballot - other than uncontested candidates - that attracted such overwhelming support from those who voted in the election. But it is funny that you apparently think very highly of yourself for concocting an argument that is not only stupid but could be used to delegitimize almost any election result in the country.

Special interest groups love ballot initiatives. It's a way for them to get changes in the law that elected leaders would never ever approve. They take some complicated issue and they turn it into a question of whether you love or hate puppies. They carpet bomb with advertisements saying that if you love puppies, then you support their dumb idea, even if it doesn't actually have anything to do with puppies. They always want to do it in an election where few people turn out so that their supporters represent a huge share of the electorate. 50 people show up to vote, they all say they love puppies and then it turns out that two years later, all the restaurants are closing because it turns out the ballot initiative didn't do what they promised.

Let's review a few facts, shall we?

133,000 DC residents voted in favor of I-82. In the same election, Muriel Bowser won the same proportion of the vote running against an Independent, a Republican, and a Libertarian. Other than the mayor or the Chairperson, I-82 won more votes than anyone or anything else on the ballot - more than Anita Bonds or Kenyan McDuffie.

This was a hardly a novel issue.

I-77, which DC voters approved in 2018, concerned the same question. The issue had been discussed ad nauseum in the four years between that result and the I-82 vote. It's also an issue that personally affects everyone who would eat a meal at a DC establishment.

You can complain as much as you want about the wisdom of the majority of voters, but those who showed up to vote on I-82 in November 2022 were about as well-informed about anything they were asked to vote on at the municipal level.

Your issue doesn't thus seem to concern the results of I-82 as it does basic tenets of democracy.

People are so well informed that even today, years later, they still have no idea whether they're supposed to still tip.

Ballot initiatives are a sleazy business. A bunch of lies foisted on informed voters by special interest groups.

You are no doubt the same poster who is complaining about the council being full of “barely employable hacks”.

So, who should be making policy in DC?

Apparently not the general voting public in your view, nor even the council. Would you prefer direct rule by Congress? Or should we just appoint you dictator?

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Anonymous wrote:It’s amazing to see DC politicians responding to market forces. Our politicians have spent most of the last decade acting like they could just push whatever far left flavor of the day.

This is what happens when we elect 13 people with exactly ZERO private sector experience. Not a single day in the business world among 13 lifetimes. From a statistical perspective this is about a 1,000,000,000 to 1 outcome, but somehow the voters of DC have pulled it off. Collectively, they are an incredibly unimpressive lot.

Another false claim that can be quickly debunked by browsing the biographies of the members.

Maybe it would be good to have more council members with deeper private sector experience. That is not for you or I to decide, however.

If you feel passionately about this and you have the experience you feel is so important for the council, please mount a campaign. But you might want to consider developing a closer relationship with the truth before doing so.

Ummm. DC nonprofit/attorney/consultant/community organizing is not the same thing as the private sector…

Have any of the Council ever have to make payroll, order inventory, pay rent, build something? Nope. They’re all unimpressive white collar, barely employable hacks.

You have a very special idea of what the phrase “private sector” means, one that accords with no conventional definition.

If you have done these things and think that your expertise would add value to Council business, please run.

Please enlighten us as to which councilman has private sector experience?

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Anonymous wrote:There's always a huge helping of magical thinking in DC policymaking. Whether it's Initiative 82 or bike lanes or pot legalization or whatever, it's like the underpants gnomes are in charge of designing these policies.

74% or DC voters are underpants gnomes? (Whatever the hell an underpants gnomes is, not that any of us really want to know.)

And god forbid DC voters might think that restaurants in DC could figure out how to operate the way that restaurants and almost every other business functions almost everywhere else in the world.

But, no, they throw a fit with all sorts of junk fees and nonsense charges just to piss all the customers off, childishly branding I-82 as responsible for their own crappy behavior, and then go crying to Mommy Bowser to get their way.

Well, it ain’t gonna work. There aren’t the votes for this on the Council. Not even Mendelsohn is going to vote for it. And you think that after this, DC voters are going to be even more eager to eat at your restaurants? Please.

It wasn't 74 percent of DC voters. It was 74 percent of the people who voted in that election, or around 28 percent of the registered voters in DC. I know critical thinking isn't your strong suit, but please try.

Shall we show out all of the results from that election or those you don’t like? Shall we also throw out I-83 because it similarly failed to attract votes from a majority of registered voters? There was nothing else on that ballot - other than uncontested candidates - that attracted such overwhelming support from those who voted in the election. But it is funny that you apparently think very highly of yourself for concocting an argument that is not only stupid but could be used to delegitimize almost any election result in the country.

Special interest groups love ballot initiatives. It's a way for them to get changes in the law that elected leaders would never ever approve. They take some complicated issue and they turn it into a question of whether you love or hate puppies. They carpet bomb with advertisements saying that if you love puppies, then you support their dumb idea, even if it doesn't actually have anything to do with puppies. They always want to do it in an election where few people turn out so that their supporters represent a huge share of the electorate. 50 people show up to vote, they all say they love puppies and then it turns out that two years later, all the restaurants are closing because it turns out the ballot initiative didn't do what they promised.

Let's review a few facts, shall we?

133,000 DC residents voted in favor of I-82. In the same election, Muriel Bowser won the same proportion of the vote running against an Independent, a Republican, and a Libertarian. Other than the mayor or the Chairperson, I-82 won more votes than anyone or anything else on the ballot - more than Anita Bonds or Kenyan McDuffie.

This was a hardly a novel issue.

I-77, which DC voters approved in 2018, concerned the same question. The issue had been discussed ad nauseum in the four years between that result and the I-82 vote. It's also an issue that personally affects everyone who would eat a meal at a DC establishment.

You can complain as much as you want about the wisdom of the majority of voters, but those who showed up to vote on I-82 in November 2022 were about as well-informed about anything they were asked to vote on at the municipal level.

Your issue doesn't thus seem to concern the results of I-82 as it does basic tenets of democracy.

People are so well informed that even today, years later, they still have no idea whether they're supposed to still tip.

Ballot initiatives are a sleazy business. A bunch of lies foisted on informed voters by special interest groups.

You are no doubt the same poster who is complaining about the council being full of “barely employable hacks”.

So, who should be making policy in DC?

Apparently not the general voting public in your view, nor even the council. Would you prefer direct rule by Congress? Or should we just appoint you dictator?

You need to take a walk. The sun is out, go outside. You're clearly not well.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s amazing to see DC politicians responding to market forces. Our politicians have spent most of the last decade acting like they could just push whatever far left flavor of the day.

This is what happens when we elect 13 people with exactly ZERO private sector experience. Not a single day in the business world among 13 lifetimes. From a statistical perspective this is about a 1,000,000,000 to 1 outcome, but somehow the voters of DC have pulled it off. Collectively, they are an incredibly unimpressive lot.

Another false claim that can be quickly debunked by browsing the biographies of the members.

Maybe it would be good to have more council members with deeper private sector experience. That is not for you or I to decide, however.

If you feel passionately about this and you have the experience you feel is so important for the council, please mount a campaign. But you might want to consider developing a closer relationship with the truth before doing so.

Ummm. DC nonprofit/attorney/consultant/community organizing is not the same thing as the private sector…

Have any of the Council ever have to make payroll, order inventory, pay rent, build something? Nope. They’re all unimpressive white collar, barely employable hacks.

You have a very special idea of what the phrase “private sector” means, one that accords with no conventional definition.

If you have done these things and think that your expertise would add value to Council business, please run.

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Anonymous wrote:There's always a huge helping of magical thinking in DC policymaking. Whether it's Initiative 82 or bike lanes or pot legalization or whatever, it's like the underpants gnomes are in charge of designing these policies.

74% or DC voters are underpants gnomes? (Whatever the hell an underpants gnomes is, not that any of us really want to know.)

And god forbid DC voters might think that restaurants in DC could figure out how to operate the way that restaurants and almost every other business functions almost everywhere else in the world.

But, no, they throw a fit with all sorts of junk fees and nonsense charges just to piss all the customers off, childishly branding I-82 as responsible for their own crappy behavior, and then go crying to Mommy Bowser to get their way.

Well, it ain’t gonna work. There aren’t the votes for this on the Council. Not even Mendelsohn is going to vote for it. And you think that after this, DC voters are going to be even more eager to eat at your restaurants? Please.

It wasn't 74 percent of DC voters. It was 74 percent of the people who voted in that election, or around 28 percent of the registered voters in DC. I know critical thinking isn't your strong suit, but please try.

Shall we show out all of the results from that election or those you don’t like? Shall we also throw out I-83 because it similarly failed to attract votes from a majority of registered voters? There was nothing else on that ballot - other than uncontested candidates - that attracted such overwhelming support from those who voted in the election. But it is funny that you apparently think very highly of yourself for concocting an argument that is not only stupid but could be used to delegitimize almost any election result in the country.

Special interest groups love ballot initiatives. It's a way for them to get changes in the law that elected leaders would never ever approve. They take some complicated issue and they turn it into a question of whether you love or hate puppies. They carpet bomb with advertisements saying that if you love puppies, then you support their dumb idea, even if it doesn't actually have anything to do with puppies. They always want to do it in an election where few people turn out so that their supporters represent a huge share of the electorate. 50 people show up to vote, they all say they love puppies and then it turns out that two years later, all the restaurants are closing because it turns out the ballot initiative didn't do what they promised.

Let's review a few facts, shall we?

133,000 DC residents voted in favor of I-82. In the same election, Muriel Bowser won the same proportion of the vote running against an Independent, a Republican, and a Libertarian. Other than the mayor or the Chairperson, I-82 won more votes than anyone or anything else on the ballot - more than Anita Bonds or Kenyan McDuffie.

This was a hardly a novel issue.

I-77, which DC voters approved in 2018, concerned the same question. The issue had been discussed ad nauseum in the four years between that result and the I-82 vote. It's also an issue that personally affects everyone who would eat a meal at a DC establishment.

You can complain as much as you want about the wisdom of the majority of voters, but those who showed up to vote on I-82 in November 2022 were about as well-informed about anything they were asked to vote on at the municipal level.

Your issue doesn't thus seem to concern the results of I-82 as it does basic tenets of democracy.

People are so well informed that even today, years later, they still have no idea whether they're supposed to still tip.

Ballot initiatives are a sleazy business. A bunch of lies foisted on informed voters by special interest groups.

You are no doubt the same poster who is complaining about the council being full of “barely employable hacks”.

So, who should be making policy in DC?

Apparently not the general voting public in your view, nor even the council. Would you prefer direct rule by Congress? Or should we just appoint you dictator?

Anonymous wrote:Eliminate the tipped wage, ban tipping, mandate all restaurant menus must display all-inclusive prices, tax vacant retail at an exorbitant rate.

There you go Bowser, I fixed the restaurant industry. You're welcome.

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Anonymous wrote:There's always a huge helping of magical thinking in DC policymaking. Whether it's Initiative 82 or bike lanes or pot legalization or whatever, it's like the underpants gnomes are in charge of designing these policies.

74% or DC voters are underpants gnomes? (Whatever the hell an underpants gnomes is, not that any of us really want to know.)

And god forbid DC voters might think that restaurants in DC could figure out how to operate the way that restaurants and almost every other business functions almost everywhere else in the world.

But, no, they throw a fit with all sorts of junk fees and nonsense charges just to piss all the customers off, childishly branding I-82 as responsible for their own crappy behavior, and then go crying to Mommy Bowser to get their way.

Well, it ain’t gonna work. There aren’t the votes for this on the Council. Not even Mendelsohn is going to vote for it. And you think that after this, DC voters are going to be even more eager to eat at your restaurants? Please.

It wasn't 74 percent of DC voters. It was 74 percent of the people who voted in that election, or around 28 percent of the registered voters in DC. I know critical thinking isn't your strong suit, but please try.

Shall we show out all of the results from that election or those you don’t like? Shall we also throw out I-83 because it similarly failed to attract votes from a majority of registered voters? There was nothing else on that ballot - other than uncontested candidates - that attracted such overwhelming support from those who voted in the election. But it is funny that you apparently think very highly of yourself for concocting an argument that is not only stupid but could be used to delegitimize almost any election result in the country.

Special interest groups love ballot initiatives. It's a way for them to get changes in the law that elected leaders would never ever approve. They take some complicated issue and they turn it into a question of whether you love or hate puppies. They carpet bomb with advertisements saying that if you love puppies, then you support their dumb idea, even if it doesn't actually have anything to do with puppies. They always want to do it in an election where few people turn out so that their supporters represent a huge share of the electorate. 50 people show up to vote, they all say they love puppies and then it turns out that two years later, all the restaurants are closing because it turns out the ballot initiative didn't do what they promised.

Let's review a few facts, shall we?

133,000 DC residents voted in favor of I-82. In the same election, Muriel Bowser won the same proportion of the vote running against an Independent, a Republican, and a Libertarian. Other than the mayor or the Chairperson, I-82 won more votes than anyone or anything else on the ballot - more than Anita Bonds or Kenyan McDuffie.

This was a hardly a novel issue.

I-77, which DC voters approved in 2018, concerned the same question. The issue had been discussed ad nauseum in the four years between that result and the I-82 vote. It's also an issue that personally affects everyone who would eat a meal at a DC establishment.

You can complain as much as you want about the wisdom of the majority of voters, but those who showed up to vote on I-82 in November 2022 were about as well-informed about anything they were asked to vote on at the municipal level.

Your issue doesn't thus seem to concern the results of I-82 as it does basic tenets of democracy.

People are so well informed that even today, years later, they still have no idea whether they're supposed to still tip.

Ballot initiatives are a sleazy business. A bunch of lies foisted on informed voters by special interest groups.