Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will say just one more thing. I would be far more concerned with money flows if I didn’t acutely feel the problems people list on this board. I am at the point where I will vote for anyone with the courage to solve them FAST. I will not vote for anyone who advocates that we need to study the issue that has been demonstrated and has a solution, and used for be better, for another undetermined period of time. I don’t like where I am but there we have it.

I agree with you here. One of my issues is schools in Ward 3, and we're facing the same problem with being told we need to study the issue more and find a better spot for new schools. We can open the old GDS campus immediately and alleviate the overcrowding issues at Wilson, as is in the mayor's plan. Goulet has promised that he will obstruct that and look for "better options" which show no signs of appearing anytime soon.

Goulet is now saying his "secret plan" is to move Ellington to either UDC or IntellSat and reopen the Ellington building as Western High School. Which ignores the fact that DCPS doesn't own either site and they just spend $200 million to equip Ellington as a performing arts facility. To actually execute that plan would probably take a decade and cost half a billion dollars before it was done. At $50 million the MacArthur site is a bargain.

And if he thinks there's community opposition to the MacArthur site, just wait until the Ellington community and the Van Ness neighbors hear about this plan.

Anonymous wrote:Goulet's new plan sounds a lot like what Finley said in a forum a week or two ago - Intelsat, L&T, UDC...

Anonymous wrote:Goulet's new plan sounds a lot like what Finley said in a forum a week or two ago - Intelsat, L&T, UDC...

Anonymous wrote:Goulet's new plan sounds a lot like what Finley said in a forum a week or two ago - Intelsat, L&T, UDC...

Anonymous wrote:Is this the Goulet quote you’ve been discussing:

Citation from WaPo starts

And in Ward 3, one candidate made a video about Eric Goulet after he turned a question about increasing diversity in the ward into a criticism about housing vouchers during a D.C. Chamber of Commerce debate last month.
During the debate, Goulet said that “there’s been a significant increase in the housing voucher program, which is bringing largely African American residents and families into the neighborhood without support and really without any hope of then connecting [them] to jobs and getting them into D.C.’s middle class.”

Citation ends

Anonymous wrote:So the plan is not “secret” then? I am having trouble understanding. So he either has a secret and nefarious plan or he has willingly and publicly communicated potential options that should be considered. Which one is it?

And to be clear, if he has publicly documented and communicated what he would like to accomplish, characterizing it as a “secret plan” is a lie by commission.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Of course not, but surely there are solutions. Other cities are taking steps. Acoustic cameras? Immediate enforcement at a stop? No refueling? Essentially if you drive into DC you know you could and most likely will lose the vehicle, and you won’t have fuel to get back home or race away from the police. At the same time, you know you will have a safe place to ride somewhere within the Beltway, even in DC, but not where people live.

Also. Licensing? Registration? Progressive fines? Trackers on vehicle in agreement with manufacturers? Can only purchase if signs that vehicle will be used where legal? Registration to purchase? Vehicle recognition cameras (not face, so if you are the owner, you get fines sent home)? Vehicle must stop if stopped by the police (I do, and I have been stopped many times for no reason)? Speed bumps, pedestrianized zones?
No reviving? Mufflers?

I just know they have ATVs in other cities and yet very few have this much of a problem. The extent of it is recent even though ATVs have been around. So something changed. What was that something? Does that something help?

These are unscientific ideas but there are sophisticated solutions if we really want to stop something. There are new legislations and policies in several cities so maybe there’s something good there. I know London had a problem with muscle cars and loudspeaker people transporters — maybe they found a solution?

I must ask though how many DC residents directly benefit from this activity vs. how many are directly adversely affected? How many of each are girls? What’s the delta? So, I’m convinced that the status quo is unfair and that action needs to be taken and swiftly.

Immediate stop gap. Block traffic to every major problem area to ensure 8 nights of sleep forcing either riding during work hours, where no one can see you, or where no one lives. I think you’ll have both a reduction in the activity immediately and a lot of solutions when enough voters get mad at gridlocks caused by a very small group of people, most of whom are not from DC. I would block every street they ride now which has certain amount of residences, like U Street. They capably blocked streets and directed Rolling Thunder for decades.

So declare martial law in the majority-minority parts of the city? Got it.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will say just one more thing. I would be far more concerned with money flows if I didn’t acutely feel the problems people list on this board. I am at the point where I will vote for anyone with the courage to solve them FAST. I will not vote for anyone who advocates that we need to study the issue that has been demonstrated and has a solution, and used for be better, for another undetermined period of time. I don’t like where I am but there we have it.

I agree with you here. One of my issues is schools in Ward 3, and we're facing the same problem with being told we need to study the issue more and find a better spot for new schools. We can open the old GDS campus immediately and alleviate the overcrowding issues at Wilson, as is in the mayor's plan. Goulet has promised that he will obstruct that and look for "better options" which show no signs of appearing anytime soon.

Goulet is now saying his "secret plan" is to move Ellington to either UDC or IntellSat and reopen the Ellington building as Western High School. Which ignores the fact that DCPS doesn't own either site and they just spend $200 million to equip Ellington as a performing arts facility. To actually execute that plan would probably take a decade and cost half a billion dollars before it was done. At $50 million the MacArthur site is a bargain.

And if he thinks there's community opposition to the MacArthur site, just wait until the Ellington community and the Van Ness neighbors hear about this plan.

Where is he saying this? Is like every other post about Goulet? He supposedly told your neighbors friends cousin?

This is the type of astroturf crap that Jeff refuses to crack down on. It’s his site, but this is a bad look.

You keep accusing others of astroturfing and me of condoning it. Yet, the issue is that you are simply uninformed about the candidate you support. Here are Goulet’s own words:

https://foxhall.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Special-Election-2022_FCCA_FINAL.pdf

I will use the one year delay to find another site for the new high school, or possibly, propose a better location for the Duke Ellington School of the Arts that is METRO accessible, and then propose to make Ellington a by-right school serving the residents of Ward 2 and southern Ward 3.

Given your fixation on astroturf, it is fair to ask whether your support is motivated less by Goulet’s positions — which you clearly don’t know — and more by DFER’s dollar signs.

Since you are defending the post, where is the his “secret plan” to move Ellington to UDC or Intelsat?

There is no secret that he proposed moving Ellington. Show me the “secret plan” involving UDC or Intelsat.

It’s further in the link above, if you read it. On page 3, his entire quote about the McArthur option:

“ The MacArthur High School
The former site of the Georgetown Day School is the wrong site to build a citywide high school with a proposed 750 - 1,000 seats. First, from a traffic perspective the site can barely accomodate 500 students. Second, there is no con- venient way for citywide students to take public transporta- tion to reach this school. I will use the one year delay to find another site for the new high school, or possibly, propose a better location for the Duke Ellington School of the Arts that is METRO accessible, and then propose to make Ellington a by-right school serving the residents of Ward 2 and south- ern Ward 3. During this year, there will be the opportunity to identify additional sites, but two possible sites include the former Intelsat site and the University of the District of Columbia campus. I believe that the former Wardman Park site and the former Lord & Taylor site are less likely at this point, because they have proceeded forward past initial stages of planning. There will be some interim use of the high school for swing space in the 2022-2023 school year, but I would hope to redirect the $38,020,000 allocated for this project towards the construction of a new high school on another site.”

So the plan is not “secret” then? I am having trouble understanding. So he either has a secret and nefarious plan or he has willingly and publicly communicated potential options that should be considered. Which one is it?

And to be clear, if he has publicly documented and communicated what he would like to accomplish, characterizing it as a “secret plan” is a lie by commission.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will say just one more thing. I would be far more concerned with money flows if I didn’t acutely feel the problems people list on this board. I am at the point where I will vote for anyone with the courage to solve them FAST. I will not vote for anyone who advocates that we need to study the issue that has been demonstrated and has a solution, and used for be better, for another undetermined period of time. I don’t like where I am but there we have it.

I agree with you here. One of my issues is schools in Ward 3, and we're facing the same problem with being told we need to study the issue more and find a better spot for new schools. We can open the old GDS campus immediately and alleviate the overcrowding issues at Wilson, as is in the mayor's plan. Goulet has promised that he will obstruct that and look for "better options" which show no signs of appearing anytime soon.

Goulet is now saying his "secret plan" is to move Ellington to either UDC or IntellSat and reopen the Ellington building as Western High School. Which ignores the fact that DCPS doesn't own either site and they just spend $200 million to equip Ellington as a performing arts facility. To actually execute that plan would probably take a decade and cost half a billion dollars before it was done. At $50 million the MacArthur site is a bargain.

And if he thinks there's community opposition to the MacArthur site, just wait until the Ellington community and the Van Ness neighbors hear about this plan.

Where is he saying this? Is like every other post about Goulet? He supposedly told your neighbors friends cousin?

This is the type of astroturf crap that Jeff refuses to crack down on. It’s his site, but this is a bad look.

You keep accusing others of astroturfing and me of condoning it. Yet, the issue is that you are simply uninformed about the candidate you support. Here are Goulet’s own words:

https://foxhall.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Special-Election-2022_FCCA_FINAL.pdf

I will use the one year delay to find another site for the new high school, or possibly, propose a better location for the Duke Ellington School of the Arts that is METRO accessible, and then propose to make Ellington a by-right school serving the residents of Ward 2 and southern Ward 3.

Given your fixation on astroturf, it is fair to ask whether your support is motivated less by Goulet’s positions — which you clearly don’t know — and more by DFER’s dollar signs.

Since you are defending the post, where is the his “secret plan” to move Ellington to UDC or Intelsat?

There is no secret that he proposed moving Ellington. Show me the “secret plan” involving UDC or Intelsat.

It’s further in the link above, if you read it. On page 3, his entire quote about the McArthur option:

“ The MacArthur High School
The former site of the Georgetown Day School is the wrong site to build a citywide high school with a proposed 750 - 1,000 seats. First, from a traffic perspective the site can barely accomodate 500 students. Second, there is no con- venient way for citywide students to take public transporta- tion to reach this school. I will use the one year delay to find another site for the new high school, or possibly, propose a better location for the Duke Ellington School of the Arts that is METRO accessible, and then propose to make Ellington a by-right school serving the residents of Ward 2 and south- ern Ward 3. During this year, there will be the opportunity to identify additional sites, but two possible sites include the former Intelsat site and the University of the District of Columbia campus. I believe that the former Wardman Park site and the former Lord & Taylor site are less likely at this point, because they have proceeded forward past initial stages of planning. There will be some interim use of the high school for swing space in the 2022-2023 school year, but I would hope to redirect the $38,020,000 allocated for this project towards the construction of a new high school on another site.”

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will say just one more thing. I would be far more concerned with money flows if I didn’t acutely feel the problems people list on this board. I am at the point where I will vote for anyone with the courage to solve them FAST. I will not vote for anyone who advocates that we need to study the issue that has been demonstrated and has a solution, and used for be better, for another undetermined period of time. I don’t like where I am but there we have it.

I agree with you here. One of my issues is schools in Ward 3, and we're facing the same problem with being told we need to study the issue more and find a better spot for new schools. We can open the old GDS campus immediately and alleviate the overcrowding issues at Wilson, as is in the mayor's plan. Goulet has promised that he will obstruct that and look for "better options" which show no signs of appearing anytime soon.

Goulet is now saying his "secret plan" is to move Ellington to either UDC or IntellSat and reopen the Ellington building as Western High School. Which ignores the fact that DCPS doesn't own either site and they just spend $200 million to equip Ellington as a performing arts facility. To actually execute that plan would probably take a decade and cost half a billion dollars before it was done. At $50 million the MacArthur site is a bargain.

And if he thinks there's community opposition to the MacArthur site, just wait until the Ellington community and the Van Ness neighbors hear about this plan.

Where is he saying this? Is like every other post about Goulet? He supposedly told your neighbors friends cousin?

This is the type of astroturf crap that Jeff refuses to crack down on. It’s his site, but this is a bad look.

You keep accusing others of astroturfing and me of condoning it. Yet, the issue is that you are simply uninformed about the candidate you support. Here are Goulet’s own words:

https://foxhall.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Special-Election-2022_FCCA_FINAL.pdf

I will use the one year delay to find another site for the new high school, or possibly, propose a better location for the Duke Ellington School of the Arts that is METRO accessible, and then propose to make Ellington a by-right school serving the residents of Ward 2 and southern Ward 3.

Given your fixation on astroturf, it is fair to ask whether your support is motivated less by Goulet’s positions — which you clearly don’t know — and more by DFER’s dollar signs.

Since you are defending the post, where is the his “secret plan” to move Ellington to UDC or Intelsat?

There is no secret that he proposed moving Ellington. Show me the “secret plan” involving UDC or Intelsat.

It’s further in the link above, if you read it. On page 3, his entire quote about the McArthur option:

“ The MacArthur High School
The former site of the Georgetown Day School is the wrong site to build a citywide high school with a proposed 750 - 1,000 seats. First, from a traffic perspective the site can barely accomodate 500 students. Second, there is no con- venient way for citywide students to take public transporta- tion to reach this school. I will use the one year delay to find another site for the new high school, or possibly, propose a better location for the Duke Ellington School of the Arts that is METRO accessible, and then propose to make Ellington a by-right school serving the residents of Ward 2 and south- ern Ward 3. During this year, there will be the opportunity to identify additional sites, but two possible sites include the former Intelsat site and the University of the District of Columbia campus. I believe that the former Wardman Park site and the former Lord & Taylor site are less likely at this point, because they have proceeded forward past initial stages of planning. There will be some interim use of the high school for swing space in the 2022-2023 school year, but I would hope to redirect the $38,020,000 allocated for this project towards the construction of a new high school on another site.”

Note that he says "citywide" twice in the first two sentences. The school being planned for MacArthur will be a neighborhood school with a rather small attendance boundary. It won't be "citywide" in the sense that is usually used when referring to DC high schools, an application school. It is true that DC law says that any school that has empty seats has to make them available to anyone in the city through the out-of-boundary lottery, so in a sense every DCPS school is a "citywide" school. But that's not what he means.

That preamble gets me to the point: using "citywide" like that is a racist dog whistle. And many of the opponents of a school at that location have used similar imagery to scare the inhabitants of the neighborhood. I've heard from people who have talked to Eric directly about schools that in person he is even less reserved about using racist allusions as a scare tactic.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Of course not, but surely there are solutions. Other cities are taking steps. Acoustic cameras? Immediate enforcement at a stop? No refueling? Essentially if you drive into DC you know you could and most likely will lose the vehicle, and you won’t have fuel to get back home or race away from the police. At the same time, you know you will have a safe place to ride somewhere within the Beltway, even in DC, but not where people live.

Also. Licensing? Registration? Progressive fines? Trackers on vehicle in agreement with manufacturers? Can only purchase if signs that vehicle will be used where legal? Registration to purchase? Vehicle recognition cameras (not face, so if you are the owner, you get fines sent home)? Vehicle must stop if stopped by the police (I do, and I have been stopped many times for no reason)? Speed bumps, pedestrianized zones?
No reviving? Mufflers?

I just know they have ATVs in other cities and yet very few have this much of a problem. The extent of it is recent even though ATVs have been around. So something changed. What was that something? Does that something help?

These are unscientific ideas but there are sophisticated solutions if we really want to stop something. There are new legislations and policies in several cities so maybe there’s something good there. I know London had a problem with muscle cars and loudspeaker people transporters — maybe they found a solution?

I must ask though how many DC residents directly benefit from this activity vs. how many are directly adversely affected? How many of each are girls? What’s the delta? So, I’m convinced that the status quo is unfair and that action needs to be taken and swiftly.

Immediate stop gap. Block traffic to every major problem area to ensure 8 nights of sleep forcing either riding during work hours, where no one can see you, or where no one lives. I think you’ll have both a reduction in the activity immediately and a lot of solutions when enough voters get mad at gridlocks caused by a very small group of people, most of whom are not from DC. I would block every street they ride now which has certain amount of residences, like U Street. They capably blocked streets and directed Rolling Thunder for decades.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will say just one more thing. I would be far more concerned with money flows if I didn’t acutely feel the problems people list on this board. I am at the point where I will vote for anyone with the courage to solve them FAST. I will not vote for anyone who advocates that we need to study the issue that has been demonstrated and has a solution, and used for be better, for another undetermined period of time. I don’t like where I am but there we have it.

I agree with you here. One of my issues is schools in Ward 3, and we're facing the same problem with being told we need to study the issue more and find a better spot for new schools. We can open the old GDS campus immediately and alleviate the overcrowding issues at Wilson, as is in the mayor's plan. Goulet has promised that he will obstruct that and look for "better options" which show no signs of appearing anytime soon.

Goulet is now saying his "secret plan" is to move Ellington to either UDC or IntellSat and reopen the Ellington building as Western High School. Which ignores the fact that DCPS doesn't own either site and they just spend $200 million to equip Ellington as a performing arts facility. To actually execute that plan would probably take a decade and cost half a billion dollars before it was done. At $50 million the MacArthur site is a bargain.

And if he thinks there's community opposition to the MacArthur site, just wait until the Ellington community and the Van Ness neighbors hear about this plan.

Where is he saying this? Is like every other post about Goulet? He supposedly told your neighbors friends cousin?

This is the type of astroturf crap that Jeff refuses to crack down on. It’s his site, but this is a bad look.

You keep accusing others of astroturfing and me of condoning it. Yet, the issue is that you are simply uninformed about the candidate you support. Here are Goulet’s own words:

https://foxhall.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Special-Election-2022_FCCA_FINAL.pdf

I will use the one year delay to find another site for the new high school, or possibly, propose a better location for the Duke Ellington School of the Arts that is METRO accessible, and then propose to make Ellington a by-right school serving the residents of Ward 2 and southern Ward 3.

Given your fixation on astroturf, it is fair to ask whether your support is motivated less by Goulet’s positions — which you clearly don’t know — and more by DFER’s dollar signs.

Since you are defending the post, where is the his “secret plan” to move Ellington to UDC or Intelsat?

There is no secret that he proposed moving Ellington. Show me the “secret plan” involving UDC or Intelsat.

It’s further in the link above, if you read it. On page 3, his entire quote about the McArthur option:

“ The MacArthur High School
The former site of the Georgetown Day School is the wrong site to build a citywide high school with a proposed 750 - 1,000 seats. First, from a traffic perspective the site can barely accomodate 500 students. Second, there is no con- venient way for citywide students to take public transporta- tion to reach this school. I will use the one year delay to find another site for the new high school, or possibly, propose a better location for the Duke Ellington School of the Arts that is METRO accessible, and then propose to make Ellington a by-right school serving the residents of Ward 2 and south- ern Ward 3. During this year, there will be the opportunity to identify additional sites, but two possible sites include the former Intelsat site and the University of the District of Columbia campus. I believe that the former Wardman Park site and the former Lord & Taylor site are less likely at this point, because they have proceeded forward past initial stages of planning. There will be some interim use of the high school for swing space in the 2022-2023 school year, but I would hope to redirect the $38,020,000 allocated for this project towards the construction of a new high school on another site.”

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will say just one more thing. I would be far more concerned with money flows if I didn’t acutely feel the problems people list on this board. I am at the point where I will vote for anyone with the courage to solve them FAST. I will not vote for anyone who advocates that we need to study the issue that has been demonstrated and has a solution, and used for be better, for another undetermined period of time. I don’t like where I am but there we have it.

I agree with you here. One of my issues is schools in Ward 3, and we're facing the same problem with being told we need to study the issue more and find a better spot for new schools. We can open the old GDS campus immediately and alleviate the overcrowding issues at Wilson, as is in the mayor's plan. Goulet has promised that he will obstruct that and look for "better options" which show no signs of appearing anytime soon.

Goulet is now saying his "secret plan" is to move Ellington to either UDC or IntellSat and reopen the Ellington building as Western High School. Which ignores the fact that DCPS doesn't own either site and they just spend $200 million to equip Ellington as a performing arts facility. To actually execute that plan would probably take a decade and cost half a billion dollars before it was done. At $50 million the MacArthur site is a bargain.

And if he thinks there's community opposition to the MacArthur site, just wait until the Ellington community and the Van Ness neighbors hear about this plan.

Where is he saying this? Is like every other post about Goulet? He supposedly told your neighbors friends cousin?

This is the type of astroturf crap that Jeff refuses to crack down on. It’s his site, but this is a bad look.

You keep accusing others of astroturfing and me of condoning it. Yet, the issue is that you are simply uninformed about the candidate you support. Here are Goulet’s own words:

https://foxhall.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Special-Election-2022_FCCA_FINAL.pdf

I will use the one year delay to find another site for the new high school, or possibly, propose a better location for the Duke Ellington School of the Arts that is METRO accessible, and then propose to make Ellington a by-right school serving the residents of Ward 2 and southern Ward 3.

Given your fixation on astroturf, it is fair to ask whether your support is motivated less by Goulet’s positions — which you clearly don’t know — and more by DFER’s dollar signs.

Since you are defending the post, where is the his “secret plan” to move Ellington to UDC or Intelsat?

There is no secret that he proposed moving Ellington. Show me the “secret plan” involving UDC or Intelsat.