Anonymous
02/10/2026 20:51
Subject: Kenyan or Janeese?
Anonymous wrote:How do we get Randy Clarke into this race? Seriously.
Anonymous
02/10/2026 20:49
Subject: Kenyan or Janeese?
Anonymous wrote:I live in Ward 4 and have voted for George in the past, but I'm not excited about the prospect of her as Mayor. (I'm not excited about any of them, to be fair.) I find that Janeese randomly lies about things that are easily fact checked and don't make sense to lie about, and I can't even always tell why. Like when we lost the public pool at Walter Reed, her office never announced that it wasn't happening. A neighbor reading the mayor's budget noticed there was no funding for it and reached out to JLG's office to ask what happened and they said she didn't know but would "look into it". Then her office eventually responded that the site was unworkable due to underground structures and we weren't getting a pool, but she never announced it in her weekly email roundups. But the kicker is . . . JLG is the Chair of the committee of facilities. If she "didn't know" that the site report that was produced long before the budget said that the pool was unworkable, then she's not doing her job at all. She absolutely knew, but didn't want to report bad news so she just sat on it and then lied about it.
Likewise she just sent out a mailer saying she's a "lifelong DC resident," but she isn't. She's a DC native but lived and worked in Philadelphia, that's where she was a prosecutor. And as a lawyer she certainly knows the difference, there's no reason to say "lifelong resident" instead of "DC native" -- why intentionally lie when people don't care about that kind of distinction?
During Covid there were excess federal Covid funds that were used as bonuses for Pre-K teachers, and then when those excess funds didn't exist anymore she made a big stink about how the budget was being balanced on the back of ECE workers because they weren't getting paid as much in the new budget, but . . . it was a one-time discretionary bonus! The funds were never built into the budget as a raise or salary, so not getting another bonus from a pool of funds that no longer existed is not highway robbery. That one is just blatant exaggeration/dishonest framing rather than a straight-out lie, but I think it fits the pattern of her not being scrupulous with her word. I'm not sure if any other councilmembers are better, but as my councilmember I find her untrustworthy.
This is the oddest list of complaints I have read here to date. How dare she live in Philly for a few years. She's an outsider now!
Anonymous
02/10/2026 17:36
Subject: Kenyan or Janeese?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How do we get Randy Clarke into this race? Seriously.
I mean, call him up. I'm not sure we're ready for a white mayor at this point, but we'll see I guess?
I always find it amazing that so many people think Randy Clarke is would win a race for mayor. There is a 0.0 chance of a white male who has lived in this city for like three years getting elected. And his name recognition outside of the Ward 1 and Ward 6 white privilege bubbles is nil, except as the guy who totally ruined the Metrobus system.
So many of you need to step away from GGWash and the washingtondc subreddit.
Anonymous
02/10/2026 16:20
Subject: Kenyan or Janeese?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How do we get Randy Clarke into this race? Seriously.
I mean, call him up. I'm not sure we're ready for a white mayor at this point, but we'll see I guess?
If I had his number, I would text him every day and urge him to get in to the race.
My sense is that he'd fair better as an independent in the general rather than entering the D primary.
Anonymous
02/10/2026 15:52
Subject: Kenyan or Janeese?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How do we get Randy Clarke into this race? Seriously.
I mean, call him up. I'm not sure we're ready for a white mayor at this point, but we'll see I guess?
Wouldn't that be something? The guy who fixed Metro vs. the clowns who can't get the trash picked up.
Anonymous
02/10/2026 13:41
Subject: Kenyan or Janeese?
Anonymous wrote:How do we get Randy Clarke into this race? Seriously.
I mean, call him up. I'm not sure we're ready for a white mayor at this point, but we'll see I guess?
Anonymous
02/10/2026 13:10
Subject: Kenyan or Janeese?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It seems like a lot of the complaints against Janeese are really about failings by mayor Bowser and her people. Why would we want McDuffie as Bowser's handpicked stooge?
Because Janeese would be a hilariously bad mayor? She is completely unqualified.
Specifically, how?
She's educated, experienced, and actually gives a crap.
Experienced doing what exactly?
+1 I would like to know her accomplishments as a ward 4 council member.
Her signature issue is replacing the police with "violence interrupters," which is possibly the sleaziest program in the entire government. First there was the bribery scandal, now a couple "'violence interrupters" have themselves been arrested for murder.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/02/10/arrest-homicide-violence-interrupter/
It is really bad, unlike MPD who never has scandals from any of their members.
/sarcasm
Janeese wants to take tax dollars from the police department and give it to her rando friends so they can pretend to be cops, despite them not having any qualifications whatsoever. What could possibly go wrong?
This is what grift by our elected leaders looks like.
Anonymous
02/10/2026 12:59
Subject: Kenyan or Janeese?
How do we get Randy Clarke into this race? Seriously.
Anonymous
02/10/2026 12:58
Subject: Kenyan or Janeese?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It seems like a lot of the complaints against Janeese are really about failings by mayor Bowser and her people. Why would we want McDuffie as Bowser's handpicked stooge?
Because Janeese would be a hilariously bad mayor? She is completely unqualified.
Specifically, how?
She's educated, experienced, and actually gives a crap.
Experienced doing what exactly?
+1 I would like to know her accomplishments as a ward 4 council member.
Her signature issue is replacing the police with "violence interrupters," which is possibly the sleaziest program in the entire government. First there was the bribery scandal, now a couple "'violence interrupters" have themselves been arrested for murder.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/02/10/arrest-homicide-violence-interrupter/
1. Violence interrupters worked wonders in Baltimore.
2. Thus, the problem is not the idea, but the implementation (see also housing vouchers).
3. The implementation is the responsibility of the mayor's office, not individual council members.
4. Go clutch at another straw.
Anonymous
02/10/2026 12:27
Subject: Kenyan or Janeese?
I live in Ward 4 and have voted for George in the past, but I'm not excited about the prospect of her as Mayor. (I'm not excited about any of them, to be fair.) I find that Janeese randomly lies about things that are easily fact checked and don't make sense to lie about, and I can't even always tell why. Like when we lost the public pool at Walter Reed, her office never announced that it wasn't happening. A neighbor reading the mayor's budget noticed there was no funding for it and reached out to JLG's office to ask what happened and they said she didn't know but would "look into it". Then her office eventually responded that the site was unworkable due to underground structures and we weren't getting a pool, but she never announced it in her weekly email roundups. But the kicker is . . . JLG is the Chair of the committee of facilities. If she "didn't know" that the site report that was produced long before the budget said that the pool was unworkable, then she's not doing her job at all. She absolutely knew, but didn't want to report bad news so she just sat on it and then lied about it.
Likewise she just sent out a mailer saying she's a "lifelong DC resident," but she isn't. She's a DC native but lived and worked in Philadelphia, that's where she was a prosecutor. And as a lawyer she certainly knows the difference, there's no reason to say "lifelong resident" instead of "DC native" -- why intentionally lie when people don't care about that kind of distinction?
During Covid there were excess federal Covid funds that were used as bonuses for Pre-K teachers, and then when those excess funds didn't exist anymore she made a big stink about how the budget was being balanced on the back of ECE workers because they weren't getting paid as much in the new budget, but . . . it was a one-time discretionary bonus! The funds were never built into the budget as a raise or salary, so not getting another bonus from a pool of funds that no longer existed is not highway robbery. That one is just blatant exaggeration/dishonest framing rather than a straight-out lie, but I think it fits the pattern of her not being scrupulous with her word. I'm not sure if any other councilmembers are better, but as my councilmember I find her untrustworthy.
Likewise she just sent out a mailer saying she's a "lifelong DC resident," but she isn't. She's a DC native but lived and worked in Philadelphia, that's where she was a prosecutor. And as a lawyer she certainly knows the difference, there's no reason to say "lifelong resident" instead of "DC native" -- why intentionally lie when people don't care about that kind of distinction?
During Covid there were excess federal Covid funds that were used as bonuses for Pre-K teachers, and then when those excess funds didn't exist anymore she made a big stink about how the budget was being balanced on the back of ECE workers because they weren't getting paid as much in the new budget, but . . . it was a one-time discretionary bonus! The funds were never built into the budget as a raise or salary, so not getting another bonus from a pool of funds that no longer existed is not highway robbery. That one is just blatant exaggeration/dishonest framing rather than a straight-out lie, but I think it fits the pattern of her not being scrupulous with her word. I'm not sure if any other councilmembers are better, but as my councilmember I find her untrustworthy.
Anonymous
02/10/2026 12:22
Subject: Kenyan or Janeese?
All I know is that McDuffie had his staff respond quickly to neighborhood concerns on our local neighborhood Facebook group. And they responded well.
Which is better responsiveness communication than Mayor Bowser ever had during this latest snowstorm.
Which is better responsiveness communication than Mayor Bowser ever had during this latest snowstorm.
Anonymous
02/10/2026 12:21
Subject: Kenyan or Janeese?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It seems like a lot of the complaints against Janeese are really about failings by mayor Bowser and her people. Why would we want McDuffie as Bowser's handpicked stooge?
Because Janeese would be a hilariously bad mayor? She is completely unqualified.
Specifically, how?
She's educated, experienced, and actually gives a crap.
Experienced doing what exactly?
Lawyer (prosecutor) and council member, so very involved in DC laws and budgets.
They are running a city. That is why Muriel is so bad. She had no managerial experience unless you count as Councilmember. Janese has been a terrible councilmember for my ward. I hear that her office is a mess. She is very unresponsive unless there is a tv camera.
Muriel is so bad (for us) because she prioritizes her cronies. I've heard enough from Lewis George that I don't think that will be a problem for her.
The only other leading alternative (McDuffie) for mayor is also a council member so that's not a step up. Unless you're leaving on his experience as a postal worker... I'd consider prosecutor as more applicable experience.
Mamdani didn't have "prior experience" but he seems to be hitting the ground running and actually got the snow cleared.
McDuffie was a prosecutor too. He went to law school after being a mail carrier.
Yup, and is now carrying on the McBowser sellout tradition. It's not about his credentials.
Sellout? I haven't heard that word since 1999.
Anonymous
02/10/2026 12:07
Subject: Kenyan or Janeese?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It seems like a lot of the complaints against Janeese are really about failings by mayor Bowser and her people. Why would we want McDuffie as Bowser's handpicked stooge?
Because Janeese would be a hilariously bad mayor? She is completely unqualified.
Specifically, how?
She's educated, experienced, and actually gives a crap.
Experienced doing what exactly?
+1 I would like to know her accomplishments as a ward 4 council member.
Her signature issue is replacing the police with "violence interrupters," which is possibly the sleaziest program in the entire government. First there was the bribery scandal, now a couple "'violence interrupters" have themselves been arrested for murder.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/02/10/arrest-homicide-violence-interrupter/
It is really bad, unlike MPD who never has scandals from any of their members.
/sarcasm
Janeese wants to take tax dollars from the police department and give it to her rando friends so they can pretend to be cops, despite them not having any qualifications whatsoever. What could possibly go wrong?
Anonymous
02/10/2026 11:56
Subject: Kenyan or Janeese?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It seems like a lot of the complaints against Janeese are really about failings by mayor Bowser and her people. Why would we want McDuffie as Bowser's handpicked stooge?
Because Janeese would be a hilariously bad mayor? She is completely unqualified.
Specifically, how?
She's educated, experienced, and actually gives a crap.
Experienced doing what exactly?
+1 I would like to know her accomplishments as a ward 4 council member.
Her signature issue is replacing the police with "violence interrupters," which is possibly the sleaziest program in the entire government. First there was the bribery scandal, now a couple "'violence interrupters" have themselves been arrested for murder.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/02/10/arrest-homicide-violence-interrupter/
It is really bad, unlike MPD who never has scandals from any of their members.
/sarcasm
Anonymous
02/10/2026 08:55
Subject: Kenyan or Janeese?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It seems like a lot of the complaints against Janeese are really about failings by mayor Bowser and her people. Why would we want McDuffie as Bowser's handpicked stooge?
Because Janeese would be a hilariously bad mayor? She is completely unqualified.
Specifically, how?
She's educated, experienced, and actually gives a crap.
Experienced doing what exactly?
+1 I would like to know her accomplishments as a ward 4 council member.
Her signature issue is replacing the police with "violence interrupters," which is possibly the sleaziest program in the entire government. First there was the bribery scandal, now a couple "'violence interrupters" have themselves been arrested for murder.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/02/10/arrest-homicide-violence-interrupter/