Anonymous wrote:It makes no sense. Restaurants have to undergo licensing and testing but a “street vendor” can cook whatever, wherever employing zero oversight and that’s fine. I’m certain Nadeau feeds her family street papusas and mango slices on a daily basis.

Is this city going backwards or what?

It's like speeding tickets. Only pay for you want to. If you want to follow the rules, good for you but there's no requirement to do so.

It makes no sense. Restaurants have to undergo licensing and testing but a “street vendor” can cook whatever, wherever employing zero oversight and that’s fine. I’m certain Nadeau feeds her family street papusas and mango slices on a daily basis.

Is this city going backwards or what?

I love that you all pay millions to live in DC and order food from vendors with Industrial Revolution level health standards. Someone should do a random sample of food items to figure out how many food pathogens or fecal matter are in typical orders.

You do realize the effect this will have on merchants and allowing non-residents to vote in DC dilutes the votes of every resident.

Anonymous wrote:Hey dumb question, if my kids wants to set up a lemonade stand in front of our town house in dc…this law helps right?? Are we essentially at a point where anyone can sell food and things outside without any sort of oversight?

Yup. Unlicensed food vendors may present some public health challenges. Other vendors will avoid those challenges by simply selling whatever packaged food or other products that they or an intermediary store off the shelves of a Target or CVS. Sometimes they'll even sell the stolen goods next to the store from which they came.

Great thing is Nadeau has three years remaining in her term so she has ample time to fix the problems she has created.

If that doesn’t work she can run for re-election citing her unfinished business. 😜

It’s a great time to be alive and living in Ward 1.

Hey dumb question, if my kids wants to set up a lemonade stand in front of our town house in dc…this law helps right?? Are we essentially at a point where anyone can sell food and things outside without any sort of oversight?

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Anonymous wrote:People are dying and all Nadeau cares about is not being wrong.

Well she must be popular, because her constituents re-elected her.

More people have voted against her than for her in two consecutive primaries. She won because of vote-splitting. She's not popular. All it's going to take is one well-funded candidate who jumps in early and gains enough momentum to scare away any other candidates. Sabel Harris tried to do that last time but ran a profoundly dumb campaign -- her message was basically "I agree with Nadeau on everything but don't worry, I'll be better than her" -- and we got the other guy to split the vote.

Shout-out to “Greg from Mt. Pleasant” who may have altered the fate of the DC crime bill. 🫡

Anonymous wrote:People are dying and all Nadeau cares about is not being wrong.

Well she must be popular, because her constituents re-elected her.

People are dying and all Nadeau cares about is not being wrong.

F Nadaeu.

Anonymous wrote:The rat and roach explosion is going to be insane.

Already is. Only going to get worse

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

Was this the Friday, July 7 show? Was there more than the excerpt printed above? I want to listen to the entire conversation.

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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".

The Council is pretty clear that they don’t want MPD to do any enforcement in this area.