Brian Johnson

@TPCarney In the DC area, they will try to sell you fescue, and you should insist on a hot-weather variety such as zoysia or bermuda

What is your experience with laying/growing/keeping sod?

@TPCarney "On the national mall" seems to make his statement perfectly reasonable, given video of DEA agents walking along the mall. In 20+ years of living in DC, I also haven't seen crime on the mall. Why pile on a perfectly reasonable statement, Tim? You typically do better than this.

@AmericanNumbers Mark Kelly?

@Boenau Yes, there are medical professionals who still think that, but they are largely over 50 and stuck in the thinking of 20 years ago. If others have car-brain, you seem to have obesity-brain.

@BrianJohnsonDC The message of the post: Medical professionals know that a walk-friendly, bike-friendly neighborhood is a natural remedy to obesity. The message of pill manufacturers: Buy this instead, it's easier.

Big Pharma is a trillion dollar industry, and no industry spends more on lobbying. More than two-thirds of Congress gets donations from them. 2023 is the first year American Academy of Pediatrics included anti-obesity drugs in its guidelines. Our culture loves a shortcut. Why focus on healthy infrastructure for active living when you can pop pills? Healthy infrastructure is designed to fit who we are as humans. A walk-friendly, bike-friendly neighborhood is a natural remedy to obesity. Doctors have been saying this for years. An active life that keeps people healthy means lower profits for a certain trillion dollar industry. For pharmaceuticals, car-dependent Americans are good for business. Knowing how much political influence is purchased by Big Pharma every year, this will be a tough fight. But the hope I'd offer is that land use is a local issue. Local politicians who aren't yet receiving the Big Pharma perks have the power to legalize healthy places.

@Boenau Describing a life-saving treatment as a "shortcut" is what offends me. I guess you'd say the same about treatments for high cholesterol and blood pressure. You truly sound as ignorant as the people in your replies who deny the existence of car-brain.

@BrianJohnsonDC If linking health & infrastructure offends you, then I suggest muting me.

@cavazzonilima @justindotnet @jc_bradbury @DCAttorneyGen @MSE Lol, I'm not criticizing you because I think you actually made a difference. I'm criticizing you for your selfish intent. No special tax district, no arena, and happy to make everyone else pay for your metro station.

@BrianJohnsonDC @justindotnet @jc_bradbury @DCAttorneyGen @MSE Well Brian, you may want to tell the City to do a better job next time. As the Mayor explained the STD on PY was eliminated because it wasn’t needed. The NPY needs to be redeveloped. Arena became the plan in Dec. Failed in Richmond, not due to me. Put the blame where it belongs.

In the past 2 days, I have received many exciting ideas from residents for alternative uses for North Potomac Yard, including from elected officials. While tantalizing, they all ignore reality: It is privately-owned land and under lease for another 20 years. #TryAgainIn2044

@cavazzonilima @justindotnet @jc_bradbury @DCAttorneyGen @MSE I don't need to show you, the mayor laid it out in a tweet earlier in this conversation. Someone is going to have to pay for that metro station. That someone was supposed to be south PY residents and whatever development happens in NPY. Now it's going to be everyone in the city.

@BrianJohnsonDC @justindotnet @jc_bradbury @DCAttorneyGen @MSE Yes, show me how a special tax that was never enacted, being sunset before being levied for the first time, resulted in any additional tax liability to you. Also draw how the metro station benefit property values exclusively in PY. Wanna see it!!

@cavazzonilima @justindotnet @jc_bradbury @DCAttorneyGen @MSE Yes, you lobbied for yourself to pay lower taxes at the expense of other people paying higher taxes. The result of that is other people will have less money in their pockets, and you will have more money in your pockets. Do you need a diagram of how this works?

@BrianJohnsonDC @justindotnet @jc_bradbury @DCAttorneyGen @MSE That was your point Brian. Your accusation is that I took money from others to put in my pocket. I will love to see you prove it.

@cavazzonilima @justindotnet @jc_bradbury @DCAttorneyGen @MSE Some people like to lobby the government to take more money from other people and less money from themselves. It's a perfectly reasonable thing to do, but I guess people don't like being called out for it in public.

@cavazzonilima @justindotnet @jc_bradbury @DCAttorneyGen @MSE Just want to re-iterate my point that this guy lobbied the city to eliminate a tax on his house, then lobbied the city (and state) to kill a project that would have replaced those taxes. As a result, other city residents will now have to pay higher taxes to make up the difference

@cavazzonilima @justindotnet @jc_bradbury @DCAttorneyGen @MSE 1) "The tax I lobbied to eliminate wasn't on me, it was on my house." I didn't realize houses paid taxes. My mistake. 2) "The arena deal died in Richmond." Was that not you pushing people to lobby the state against the arena? 🤔 3) Different tax hikes, fella. Try and keep up.

@BrianJohnsonDC @justindotnet @jc_bradbury @DCAttorneyGen @MSE Brian: Some falsehoods to be on the record: - The tax was imposed in PY not me, it was voted down by City Council; - The arena deal was never voted by the city, it died in Richmond. Tax hikes were being proposed before the arena announcement You are in defamation territory

@cavazzonilima @justindotnet @jc_bradbury @DCAttorneyGen @MSE You lobbied the city to eliminate a tax on yourself, then lobbied the city to kill a project that would have replaced those taxes. Now other residents will have to pay the taxes that you and the killed project would have paid without that lobbying. But sure, deny, deny, deny.

@BrianJohnsonDC @justindotnet @jc_bradbury @DCAttorneyGen @MSE Clear and on the record. For the avoidance of doubt, I vehemently refute your statement. I think it is false, derogatory, public and intended to cause harm.

@cavazzonilima @justindotnet @jc_bradbury @DCAttorneyGen @MSE It's ok, man. We've known this is who you are for almost a decade now.

@cavazzonilima @justindotnet @jc_bradbury @DCAttorneyGen @MSE Yes, you used your free speech rights to lobby the government to take money from other people and put that money into your own pockets. That's why we call you the freeloaders. This isn't complicated.

@cavazzonilima @justindotnet @jc_bradbury @DCAttorneyGen @MSE Let's see. You lobbied to kill the tax on yourself. You lobbied to kill the project that would have replaced those taxes. Now taxes will have to go up on everyone else. 🤔🤔🤔

@BrianJohnsonDC @justindotnet @jc_bradbury @DCAttorneyGen @MSE I will love to see you prove that accusation sir.

@cavazzonilima @justindotnet @jc_bradbury @DCAttorneyGen @MSE Yes, I have seen you fight for what you believe in: taking money from other residents and putting it in your own pocket. Congrats to the Freeloader family!

@BrianJohnsonDC @justindotnet @jc_bradbury @DCAttorneyGen @MSE Did you read my disclosures Brian? You would be surprised. And I, contrary to you, fight for what I believe and don’t go on social media proposing retaliatory taxes to the mayor. Loser

@cavazzonilima @justindotnet @jc_bradbury @DCAttorneyGen @MSE For anyone reading this exchange, know that this Rafael guy is never happy unless someone else is paying for his lifestyle. He bought a house he knew was in a special tax district, then whined to get rid of it because he didn't think it was fair. Please ignore people like this.

@justindotnet @BrianJohnsonDC @jc_bradbury @DCAttorneyGen @MSE You were in council after and could have motioned and attempted at any time to make it fair (one mile radius), and later voted in favor to sunset it. Thank you very much.

@cavazzonilima @justindotnet @jc_bradbury @DCAttorneyGen @MSE Not to be confused with Ms. Freeloader who was also prominently involved in both efforts, of course.

@cavazzonilima @justindotnet @jc_bradbury @DCAttorneyGen @MSE Lol at no subsidy. Everyone knows you as the guy who lobbied for everyone else to pay for your metro station and now helped kill the project that was going to pay for it. We call you Mr. Freeloader in my social circle.