Death, taxes, and CMs challenging CM McDuffie in the legislative arena and taking the L… I guess CM Parker got some good grandstanding out of it courtesy of City Paper.
This is v bad reporting. The flyer is about alleged racism around Gaza but they don’t mention that at all* so the story can ride on the ‘crime is out of control’ narrative
(*except to say they are deliberately not mentioning it because it might take some REPORTING)
Honest question: how do you run a turkey drive if you don’t have a constituent services fund? Where the transparency about who is paying for the turkeys? Idk how that works.
My team hosted our holiday turkey giveaway today. 35% of Washingtonians face food insecurity, meaning the holidays bring added uncertainty about putting food on the table. We sent food across Ward 5 to hundreds of neighbors because we all deserve a good meal this holiday season.
“Every Black Person I know in the City, especially in Ward 8 thinks you are a RACIST!” Cora Masters Barry, D.C.'s former First Lady, texted Andy Shallal, according to an email @mitchryals got his hands on.
He says she's now banned from his restaurants:
https://t.co/F6v5omvuJD
A reminder today that of the 75+ full-service grocery stores in the District, only 4 are currently located in the parts of Wards 7 and 8 east of the Anacostia River, where more than 1 out of every 5 DC residents live. Wards 1 & 4 now have 13 and 12, respectively. #EndFoodDeserts
What's NOT on this flyer? the direction the one-way street will go!
North or south?? who can know for sure?!?
#EvenFlyersNeedEditors
https://t.co/ns6XP0nXlY
Scene: As the 🍕 comes out at hour 11 of the @councilofdc budget mtg
CM Trayon White: “this is the longest one of these I’ve been to”
Chair Mendo: “this is the longest one I’VE been to”
Trayon: “and you’ve been here 50 years!”
Mendo: “55”
"When I used to catch Uber, it was $7. Not I can't find anything from Ward 8 that's less than $22. Now we're going to add more to get downtown?" says White. "We're setting ourselves to be Detroit if we're not careful."
@politicshour@CMZParker5@tomsherwood@AdamEbbin I’m curious if CM Parker will commit to running a positive campaign next time. I was very troubled by his messages to the “DC Homos” twitter account where he wanted the account to personally attack his opponent, Faith Hubbard. Messages that CM Parker sent are below: