Ward One Troller

@Rybread_26 @kenyanmcduffie You mean for CapOne? Didn’t DC Council *unanimously* vote to lower the threshold for projects needing a PLA? Just checking. washingtoninformer.com/downtown-arena…

I was in the room when @kenyanmcduffie voted on the 2024 PLA bill. It was as if he'd never heard of a PLA. He couldn't even understand the concept let alone decide if he was for or against it. He'll be so wrapped around The ABC's finger you won't know which is which.

@SmithSteiner Republican donations don’t decide Home Rule. Congress does. Do you think the labor unions backing JLG have never taken a single Republican dollar? 🤣 An endorsement from a neighboring senator who can advocate at the federal level (and HAS) carries far more weight right now.

McDuffie is taking campaign donations from Republicans, and his endorsement is from MD Senator Alsobrooks. Which has the biggest impact now on DC’s Home Rule?

@jrhp2016 @SmithSteiner @BarrasReport On top of that, with the ongoing threat of federal intervention, it only makes sense to have strong support from senators in neighboring jurisdictions, especially our closest neighbor.

@SmithSteiner @BarrasReport I don’t think most of the stuff you cite registered with most people. And I like Alsobrooks a lot and trust her judgment.

Bowser is calling in favors! Don’t believe the hype! We all seen McDuffie unhinged, and disrespectful behavior at Matthew Memorial Church this past Saturday. We all seen how McDuffie did not attend the Ward5 Dems forum of undecided voters. But went to another forum to speak that he was not invited. When McDuffie’s supporters approached him about his lack of visibility, he said he had 3 months before election. They had to lit a fire to get him to be more visible. This is all recent!

@AlexKomaDC It's amazing how Alex Koma is quoting a Twitter account from a fake org that was created months ago to support a single candidate. Almost as if there is a secret Signal chat where this is all coordinated.

@AlexKomaDC You better hope she wins. Because if she doesn’t, you’re going to be remembered as the journalist who compromised his integrity to back her campaign. I love our local reporters, but the level of bias in your “reporting” runs counter to what journalism is supposed to stand for.

I touched on these critiques of McDuffie in my story today: namely, he's taken a ton of meetings with/money from lobbyists (and PSC members) and has a lot of former staff at the utilities. He says JLG hasn't done much on the issue, but her argument is: he has and it's been bad.

@AlexKomaDC @Janeese4DC Which building trade does he represent?

@maustermuhle @Janeese4DC There’s a line between governing and campaigning. If you’re on public time using campaign signs, you’ve crossed it @dcbega

Outside RFK, @Janeese4DC is unveiling her economic development and job creation platform. It includes a Downtown Development Corporation, “innovation districts” anchored by universities, union labor agreements for big projects, and more.

@Campbell4DC @Stamper4DC

You call yourself running for office in my city and this is how you act? This is how you talk to a child trying to get involved and do right? THIS MUST BE EXPOSED!! We have to become a moral compass for our City's elected officials. She's an educator and works with kids!! She would never be welcome at my school!!! I'm livid!! How dare you cuss and speak to a child like this!!! And this is not the first time she's behaved in a public setting like this!! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!! 💯 💯 💯 #TogetherDCCan

@ScottGoldstein @freedcproject_ Again, fair. A lot of those rapid sign-ups were driven by fear of federal intervention, not necessarily support for JLG. Momentum against Trump isn’t the same as a broad, citywide coalition for a candidate.

@WardOneTroll @freedcproject_ For the endorsement. But the impact will be huge with that big of a grassroots army.

Very hard to imagine there will be any endorsement more impactful this yr than @freedcproject_. Because it’s not just a “progressive group”, it’s THE group that has led the resistance to Trump’s attacks on DC. The have enormous trust plus enormous email list & volunteer network. @maustermuhle @tomsherwood @SamPKCollins @jennygathright

@ScottGoldstein @freedcproject_ Fair. But 1,000 votes in a progressive bubble isn’t the same as building a coalition of 70,000 votes (the figure JLG said she’s aiming for) in an RCV election. Different scale, different electorate, different game.

@WardOneTroll @freedcproject_ Right…. When the need for them arose and thousands and thousands of residents joined nearly immediately, hundreds of orientations and trainings complete and organization in all 8 wards in one of the most impressive grassroots organizing feats in recent memory.

@DCisme202 @cuneytdil New Org, NOT to be confused with the 1960’s FreeDC movement.

@cuneytdil So which is it? Is this a new group or is it 1960s “Free DC” movement connected to Marion Barry and student civil disobedience?

The progressive group Free DC, which gained local fame after rallying the anti-Trump takeover protests over the summer, has endorsed Janeese Lewis George for mayor and Robert White for delegate.

Free DC’s campaign director, Alex Dodds, is Janeese’s former campaign manager so not exactly surprising.

The fighting over utility bills has continued from this weekend, with Sierra Club/the unions backing JLG attacking McDuffie's record on the issue. He's firing back, picking up on his counter from the Free DC forum, saying she hasn't done enough on the issue either:

@goodweather4dc @misterAmos @freedcproject_ I’ll just add, that i respect you setting the record clear, and you’re still not Kathy Henderson, so there’s that. 😭🧌

I want to address claims being made about my time on the NoMa BID board and homeless encampment clearings. I served on the board around 2010-2011. The encampment clearings in the K, L, and M Street underpasses happened between 2018 and 2021. I was not on the board. I was not involved. This isn't a matter of opinion. A peer-reviewed study from American University that specifically documents the history of encampments in the NoMa underpasses found that in 2009, there were no tents set up in the underpasses. By December 2015 — four years after I left — eight people were living there. The encampments grew to 25 tents by 2018 and 85 by January 2020. The hostile architecture, the open letter lobbying for "pedestrian safe-passage zones," the complaint campaigns to the Bowser administration — all of that happened between 2018 and 2021. The K Street underpass was cleared in January 2020. The L and M Street underpasses were cleared in October 2021, when a bulldozer operator hit a resident still inside his tent. The DC government carried out every one of those clearings. I had no role in any of it. What I did help build in NoMa was 1.6 million square feet of mixed-use development, including affordable housing. If you're angry about what happened to unhoused residents in those underpasses, I share that anger. The question worth asking is: who held power in DC government when those clearings happened, and what did they do to stop it? That's the accountability conversation this city needs to have.

I applaud @freedcproject_ for the immense work they put into this event and coordinating it with all the candidates. DC residents deserved a serious conversation last night. They got political theater from two candidates more interested in scoring points on each other than speaking substantively to that audience. We should expect more.

@oucmecalling311 That interested you, but almost $350k in unclear spending from JLG didn’t? lol

This guy is deep in the violence prevention or whatever it's called game and are among some of the fierce loyalists of McDuffie and will stand to benefit by receiving DC gov contracts and whatnot. This is absolutely a snapshot of what you'll see if he's elected.

One of the things tht interested me from my cursory glance at @kenyanmcduffie campaign $ is things tht feel like grift in these Fair Election Campaigns like him giving his close Ward 5 friend Paul Winestock $7500 for "snow removal" 🙄. Trayon White style slush fund @maustermuhle

@MissKelsye Now that’s something I agree with. Even though First Source requires projects with $300k+ in government assistance to hire DC residents for 51% of new jobs, loopholes often let developers get around it and oversight from DOES has been minimal.

@WardOneTroll These developers aren’t hiring native Washingtonians. And they been getting displaced so fast, I’m not sure we’re talking about the same folks. Ppl have been losing jobs in DC.

Now we talking unemployment rates in DC but your good man never helped you, your business or your business endeavor get a check. Make it make sense. Cause that’s why you ain’t making no dollars. Check them receipts!

@bikewalkbuspac @Janeese4DC @repoyedc @aparnafordc @tweetelissa Just a reminder of who Jeremiah Lowery is lmao 😂 washingtoncitypaper.com/article/324632…

@aparnafordc You added more white, trust fund transplants to the picture.