Every
@dcpublicschools
and DC public charter school needs a full-time 40-hour-per-week RN as a school nurse to protect the health and safety of our students. DC’s school nurse shortage is a crisis & is now in a downward spiral because of a failed cluster staffing model. (1/5)
🌇 TUNE IN TONIGHT 🌇
for the State Board’s September meeting.
Board to hear from nation-wide panel on
#graduateprofiles
.
Also to vote on SR24-18, a resolution concerning DC’s
#schoolnurseshortage
.
Join us:
📍 441 4th Street NW
🧑💻
I swear that every time I see a myopic tweet from some🌹tonight trying to justify how losing the Caps & Wizards to VA is actually a good thing because DC can replace the arena with social housing & a grocery store I’m going to need a drink. Unbelievable loss for our city! 🥃 🍷
It's like watching a waking nightmare. Meanwhile, the panicked 11th hour proposal by our city leaders looks desperate and amateurish. Were they completely caught off guard by this or did they just not take Leonsis' threat to leave seriously? (1/2)
And, so it begins publicly. Site in Alexandria this morning where Ted Leonsis will stand with Virginia state and local officials to announce Caps and Wizards moving to massive development at Potomac Yard… body blow to DC.
@wcp
I won’t “calm down”. Today, in Washington D.C., an anti-American, anti-Semitic mob vandalized the Freedom Bell with pro-Hamas graffiti, lowered the American flag, replaced it with a Palestinian flag, assaulted police & burned the symbol of our country. They must be condemned. 🇺🇸
If you don’t live in DC, keep your
#HandsOffDC
. DC residents don’t need out-of-staters like
@CampaignZero
,
@deray
, or
@FWDus
telling our residents that we must lose more lives and experience more trauma so that our neighborhoods can remain a justice lab for their failed policies.
The Secure DC debate has attracted the attention of
@deray
, the activist and early supporter of the BLM movement.
His group
@CampaignZero
will be organizing against the bill this weekend, and he tells me it's "literally one of the worst bills I've ever seen about policing."
If the Wizards & Caps leave for VA, it would be terribly sad & devastating to our downtown. This was all avoidable & DC didn’t have to get this close to it even being considered a possibility. I am holding out hope that this is just negotiations & we will keep our teams in DC.
Ted Leonsis to join Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, others at Potomac Yard tomorrow morning as deal to move Caps, Wizards across the river appears imminent...
It’s such a mystery why once bustling & family-friendly Chinatown area is overrun with crime & shuttered businesses. Perhaps there was a DC Councilmember who cut 100s of police, curtailed pursuits & decriminalized acts that harm our city. DC can’t afford any more
@charlesallen
!
If Monumental (Caps & Wiz) walk away & the arena is shuttered, the surrounding stores, restaurants, transit, etc all take a massive hit & set downtown recovery back immensely. We can’t afford that. Cap One has no off season - it’s year round activity & growth. 4/
If anyone had said back in 2013 that in a decade DC would be less safe than Baltimore they would have been laughed out of the room.
@charlesallen
&
@councilofdc
have destroyed our city's reputation & needlessly cost hundreds of people their lives! Resign!
It is inconceivable that
@charlesallen
, a local legislator, has placed the leader of our Democratic party, the
@POTUS
& Democrats in Congress in this awkward position of not being able to support DC autonomy. Allen needs to realize the damage he has done to
#DCStatehood
& resign!
🚨🚨🚨 AP reports Biden plans to NOT veto GOP-led overturn of D.C. criminal code reform. It had drawn unexpected support from numerous Dems. Big news for D.C.
It’s not “wild” at all.
@MurielBowser
continuously tried to add money for hiring more
@DCPoliceDept
officers which
@charlesallen
cut over the vocal objection of two police chiefs. (1/4)
It's pretty wild to consider that while the D.C. Council and U.S. Attorney get dinged for the crime increase, no such blame is apportioned to... the mayor, who functions as the chief executive and actually *runs* city agencies.
Watching
@charlesallen
& the few of his remaining defenders trying to rehabilitate him as a wise soothsayer who was ignored is comical.
@charlesallen
caused the crime & chaos in Chinatown that chased away our teams through defunding our police and legislating away accountability!
Moving the Caps & Wizards out of DC is the wrong decision for the teams & bad for our city. This summer, I sounded the alarm on the risk of overlooking Cap One Arena while chasing other priorities. This wasn’t inevitable. Full statement on MSE move 👇:
Innocent people now shot in broad daylight just for trying to be good human beings. 18% fewer officers. Anti-labor laws targeting police. Homicides doubled. Never forget that
@MayorBowser
& Chief Contee told
@charlesallen
&
@councilofdc
all this would happen & they didn’t care.
#BREAKING
- Man shot after trying to stop suspects from stealing someone's scooter -- according to DC police.
Witnesses say teen pulled out a gun and shot the man multiple times at 14th and S Streets in NW.
@wusa9
The vast majority of DC residents support common sense solutions to DC's crime crisis, like those proposed by CM Pinto's ACTIVE Act of 2023, yet here we have 4 radical W2 ANCs doubling down on flawed thinking that has cost 100s of people their lives. (1/3)
Last Wed., ANC 2A passed my resolution opposing the proposed provisions of CM Pinto's ACTIVE Act that would expand search-and-seizure powers and pretrial detention, and supporting pretrial diversion strategies. We have to focus on violence's root causes, not create more harm. 🧵
Jesse, Cathy Lanier told me "more police will solve violence in DC" & she was arguably the best police chief in DC history & became NFL head of security. In 2011, Lanier said that if she got 200 more officers, she would deploy them in our neighborhoods & reduce homicides. (1/5)
The idea that more police will solve violence in DC is magical thinking. DC is the most policed city per capita in the US.
If quantity of police equaled safety, we'd be the safest city. We're not.
Crime stems from endemic poverty & systemic oppression. Cops can't fix that.
Ward 6 is hardest hit by carjackings so far in 2024, which seems a good time to point out that Ward 6 Councilmember
@charlesallen
caused DC's crime crisis during his disastrous six-year tenure as
@councilofdc
chair of the Committee on the Judiciary & Public Safety from 2017-2022.
Outrageous!
@councilofdc
must change the law to allow
@DCPoliceDept
’s pursuit, impoundment & destruction of these illegal vehicles. It’s only a matter of time before an innocent pedestrian is killed by people driving in an egregiously reckless manner on DC streets & sidewalks!
At least 200 dirt bikers speeding around traffic, driving in the wrong lane, running red lights on H st NE. I get the no chase policy but
@MayorBowser
@DCPoliceDept
seems to have just given up completely.
Today was a victory for DC residents, workers & visitors who want to peaceably live, work & enjoy our great city. It’s notable that out-of-state dark money anti-safety lobbying groups knew they had lost DC & moved on. Once the money entirely dries up, this insanity ends.
#SecureDC
Enough of this! Today, an anti-American, anti-Semitic mob of rioters tore down our American flags outside of Union Station and raised the Palestinian flag. Then, they assaulted police. Disgraceful!
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Absolute chaos at Union Station after US Park Police moved in to prevent anti-Israel protesters from taking down a U.S. flag. Arrests have been made. Park Police withdrew after securing the US flag, the mob chased them.
DC must start assertively detaining & arresting these criminals. I went into the Tenleytown Target yesterday to get a canister of shave gel. It’s all behind plexiglass now & the store was understaffed, so it took 15+ minutes for someone to open it & check out… for 1 item. (1/3)
CVS THEFT: Police responded to the CVS on the 4300 block of Connecticut Ave NW around 11:30am for a theft. $233 dollars worth of Dove soap was taken.
#MPD
It is ALARMING that
@ChmnMendelson
is refusing to share which "responsible people" "who work with this issue nationally" have lobbied him to make changes to weaken the Secure DC legislation. All of these proposed amendments are harmful & will cost the lives of DC residents!
There's nothing "right-wing" about wanting to have an adequately staffed police department, actual products on store shelves, and fellow residents not being murdered and carjacked at triple the rate they were previously. (1/3)
@EJGoulet
@charlesallen
@ChmnMendelson
@BrianneKNadeau
@Janeese4DC
Super tired of this from you. You're a public, elected official, but your public persona is a cranky, right-wing scare monger running a political vendetta. Can you get back to being a practical, moderate focused on improving schools?
Whoever is running
@DCPoliceTraffic
please stop calling this “First Amendment Activity”. Traffic obstruction is not protected by the First Amendment. Call it what it is… protesters blocking streets.
The last thing the
@councilofdc
needs to be formally weighing-in on is international matters. They can’t even properly schedule budget hearings in an appropriate manner.
CURRENTLY: Protesters are interrupting the D.C. Council's Committee of the Whole meeting in demand of a ceasefire resolution.
The council has struggled to keep the meeting going w/ the noise outside.
@ChmnMendelson
asked that staff keep doors closed and visitors stay inside.
After today's embarrassing vote,
@charlesallen
should do the right thing & resign from
@councilofdc
. DC has been humiliated by his arrogance & poor judgment. The cause of
#DCStatehood
has been irreparably damaged. (1/6)
It is very rare to get bipartisan agreement on anything these days. The two votes today in the House completely destroy the
@councilofdc
’s narrative that only Republicans cared about the wacky
@BrianneKNadeau
bill and the RCCA. 2024 Senate Dems now have a tough vote to make.
There is a frenzied campaign of misinformation being used by
@DCJusticeLab
,
@ACLU_DC
& outside dark money groups to get
@councilofdc
to water down & reject the common-sense Secure DC public safety legislation proposed by
@CMBrookePinto
, in partnership with
@MayorBowser
. (1/10)
Today was a victory for all DC residents, workers, & visitors who deserve to be safe in every neighborhood of our vibrant city. Thank you to
@CMBrookePinto
! Her leadership was extraordinary!!! Congratulations to
@MurielBowser
&
@VinceGrayWard7
for their steadfast advocacy! (1/6)
LOL. The majority of people opposing
#SecureDC
are white socialists & don't live in DC communities most impacted by violence. They just hid them all in the back of the photo, but I can count. I would bet the majority of people in this photo were paid for their day of protest.
So telling that Eric sees the 100+ primarily BIPOC folks who came down to the Wilson Building to oppose secure dc on their own time and dime as not real DC residents or workers.
Due in part to "increasing crime" another beloved long-time DC business is forced to close its doors. If you live in Ward 6 & enjoyed eating at Radici, please sign to
@recallallen
& hold him accountable for the damage he has inflicted on our city with this crime crisis.
After the worst 6-year chairmanship of a
@councilofdc
committee in the history of DC,
@charlesallen
with his new committee, is trying to take 1-time capital money from an important transit redesign, to pay for recurring operating expenses of free buses. This makes no sense!
New: D.C. council’s transportation committee wants to pause the K Street Transitway project and use funds to pay for most of fare-free bus program.
The idea is that transitway was very much needed pre-pandemic but doesn’t make as much sense with current downtown situation.
What a tragic loss! A young man who felt a calling to help others senselessly murdered in DC! Prayers for his friends and family. DC must restore accountability now & send a clear message to national funders like
@FWDus
that their destructive policies are no longer welcome in DC.
Police said 23-year-old Ryan Realbuto, of Pittsford, NY, was killed during an alleged robbery on South Dakota Avenue NE. Authorities are searching for a dark-colored Honda Accord in connection with the shooting.
2011-2014 family-friendly Chinatown beats an empty plot of land in Virginia any day. The Caps & Wizards left because
@charlesallen
&
@councilofdc
defunded the police & eliminated accountability for crime. As violence & theft became the norm, businesses closed & fans stayed home.
This sentiment around why the Capitals/Wizards are moving is certainly prevalent out there, but I don't think it's particularly accurate. And even this article points out the likely alternative: Virginia offered Ted Leonsis an empty plot of land and an unbeatable deal.
Violence interrupter programs have failed to deliver any results. It's time to phase these programs out over the next 3 years & reinvest all funding in
@DCPoliceDept
. If DC restores MPD to 4,000 officers, our real violence interrupters will be able to continue reducing crime.
Great wings. An affordable hotel for families touring our city. Soon to be gone!
@councilofdc
ignored all public safety & business experts by defunding
@DCPoliceDept
, allowing shoplifting to go unpunished, & crushing our small business with a constant stream of new costs. (1/3)
On the twelfth day of X-Mas, the Naughty List gave to me...
#1
, the legislative embodiment of Krampus,
@charlesallen
/
@CMCharlesAllen
. The Nice List
#1
posts at midnight!
Also, on the eleventh day of X-Mas, the Nice List gave to me...
#2
, the Crime Bros and Crimes Sises... you all know who you are! Next up Naughty List
#1
at 7:00pm. Who could it possibly be?
H St NE CVS made national news b/c it only has framed pictures of products on shelves due to out-of-control theft thanks to
@charlesallen
,
@ChmnMendelson
,
@BrianneKNadeau
&
@Janeese4DC
. It reads like a dystopian sci-fi novel but is happening right now!
If DC repeals fare evasion decrim, police pursuit ban, & so-called police reform law; requires vendors to show a receipt for goods or they're confiscated; & gets back to 4,000 cops...basically reset laws to 2014, & if things don't improve after that, then I will admit I am wrong.
@EJGoulet
@equalityAlec
Let’s assume, hypothetically, this doesn’t address crime concerns. What’s next?
Do you maybe pursue other options, the evidence-based ones? Would you at least admit you were wrong?
It is absolutely outrageous that
@Janeese4DC
&
@charlesallen
needlessly blocked a valuable, non-invasive means of cracking cold cases for rape, potentially denying victims with the ability to finally achieve closure & get justice.
We seek to
#recallcharlesallen
because he pursues failed policies that undermine public safety. Last month, Mr Allen voted to deny investigators DNA time-of-arrest tools >30 states provide to help solve rape and homicide cases. We deserve better! Join us!
I respect your frustration, but the vast majority of Democrats in DC do not want this violence. A majority of
@councilofdc
, led by
@charlesallen
&
@ChmnMendelson
, ignored DC residents & worked with radical non-profits to try out their national agenda in DC neighborhoods. (1/12)
The disastrous 6-year tenure of
@charlesallen
as chair of
@councilofdc
's Judiciary Committee has culminated in an embarrassing spectacle that has brought DC national ridicule, harmed prospects for
#DCStatehood
& threatens to hurt national
@DNC
2024 efforts to swing states. (1/16)
Thanks to
@charlesallen
, DC taxpayers may need to pay $600 million to keep Monumental Sports at Capital One arena. A decade ago, moving from then bustling Chinatown would have been an inconceivable business decision, so DC pays $0. Not anymore, with
@councilofdc
’s crime crisis.
Downtown businesses are struggling to bounce back post-pandemic, with fewer people going into the office and many concerned about increasing crime.
That’s why the District appears poised to spend millions of dollars to help renovate Capital One.
An evidence-based resignation from you,
@ChmnMendelson
, is overdue. It would be a great way to end 2023, and would be the best gift you could give DC residents to atone for your role in causing this crisis.
Violent crime is occurring at levels not seen in the District since the early 2000s. We can and must do better to fight violence and protect our residents.
So today, along with 7 of my colleagues, I'm introducing the Evidence-Based Gun Violence Reduction & Prevention Act of 2023
Infuriating, but a must-watch. Thanks to
@BrianneKNadeau
,
@ChmnMendelson
&
@councilofdc
shoplifters are stripping shelves bare, while stolen goods are fenced outside. Meanwhile, antisemites call for ransacking grocery stores. Not surprisingly businesses are closing. Dystopian DC!
Here we have the arsonist criticizing her own fire. In every
@councilofdc
public safety vote that reduced MPD’s community policing capacity or changed DC laws to remove accountability, Janeese chose
@mdc_dsa
over W4 residents. 100s needlessly dead! 1000s needlessly traumatized!
These brazen and traumatizing crimes cannot be tolerated. Students were ordered into cars during robberies so they can unlock their phones before being let go. Unfortunately, many of these incidents involve youth targeting other youth to steal items in their possession.
Misleading rhetoric won't succeed in blocking
@CMBrookePinto
's thoughtful and desperately needed public safety legislation. Also, if
@mayorbowser
were a governor, she would be one of the most liberal in the United States. DC residents are fed up with crime! Common sense is back!
The rightward turn in the DC Council and the cartoonish authoritarianism of the DC Mayor are alarming. The audacity of the latest proposals is breathtaking. DC already puts Black people in jail cells at 19 times the rate of white people.
Our
@dcpublicschools
face enormous cuts to buying power and
@charlesallen
is proposing to instead spend DC taxpayer funds to rip out fully functional gas stoves in private residences. Priorities?!
My
#HealthyHomes
bill passed committee today 4-0. This will help low-income homes upgrade to electric heat & more for free or reduced cost. We will retrofit 30,000 homes by 2040 away from fossil fuels. We can create jobs, improve air quality, & meet climate goals. Win. Win. Win.
Great advocacy
@FeverPotomac
! DC's silent majority of people who just want
@councilofdc
to enact common sense public safety policies are realizing that they can't remain silent any longer, or nothing will change with DC's crime crisis, so they are speaking out!
It's almost magical how peaceful and sensible DC local Twitter is when
@councilofdc
staff are busy trying to prep their bosses for the 11am budget briefing with
@mayorbowser
. Suddenly, dozens of extreme far-left anonymous accounts fell silent. I'll enjoy it while it lasts.
This SNAP lawsuit further harms the reputation of our city, already besieged by a self-inflicted surge in homicides & violent crime. Businesses & upper income taxpayers are fleeing DC for NoVA. Now
@councilofdc
wants to add a fiscal crisis to its crime crisis. (1/5)
Some news: Chairman Mendelson introduced a bill that would allow the Council to sue Mayor Bowser (or join a lawsuit) in order to get her to enforce Give SNAP a Raise Act.
The Council will vote on it next Tuesday.
Background:
Tis’ the season for accountability &
@RobertWhite_DC
has just given me an idea. Starting tomorrow, I’ll begin posting my 12 Days of X-mas Naughty List for persons & groups most responsible for DC’s crime crisis, ending with
#1
on Dec. 21st, the darkest day of the year.
Addressing the rise in crime in DC is crucial. Instead of finger pointing and rhetoric I want to address the core problems w/ a comprehensive plan: fix the 911 system, evidence collection & prosecution rates. Check out the hearing on my bill Monday at noon
Congratulations to
@MayorBowser
! This is incredible news for DC! Another unsung hero was
@CMBrookePinto
. After
@charlesallen
’s crime crisis chased away the teams, Pinto’s leadership in passing SecureDC restored hope that Chinatown can again become a family-friendly destination.
We've had some eclectic personalities on
@councilofdc
over the decades, but is there any doubt that
@charlesallen
is the worst Councilmember since Home Rule? In 6 years, he devastated
@DCPoliceDept
& created a crime crisis that cost hundreds of DC lives as Judiciary chair. (1/7)
.
@CMBrookePinto
has come out swinging against
@charlesallen
's plans to fund free bus service by pulling away money from the K Street Transitway, calling it "short-sighted" and saying it could lead to "free buses that no one wants to take because they are slow and unreliable."
So awful!!! Today we had a student in a school hit by a bullet & a three-year-old girl shot & killed. This must stop!!!
@councilofdc
needs to repeal every remaining statutory remnant of the Charles Allen era & Congress needs to hold
@USAO_DC
accountable with regular hearings.
TODDLER SHOT & KILLED: 2300 block of Hartford Street SE DC— just before 9:30pm, the approximately 3 year-old girl was shot & flown to a trauma center in traumatic arrest. She was pronounced dead at the hospital.
I'm glad
@MayorBowser
was able to find funds to cover overtime officers earned keeping our neighborhoods safe during DC's crime crisis.
@charlesallen
's indefensible decision to defund
@DCPoliceDept
&
@ChmnMendelson
's anti-police recruitment legislation make overtime a necessity.
There is a crime crisis occurring in DC thanks to
@charlesallen
&
@councilofdc
removing individual accountability from DC laws & cutting police. Yesterday, we had a melee of youth brawling in the streets of TENLEYTOWN with
@DCPoliceDept
recovering apparently two knives. (1/3)
Here is a video from Friday's incident in Tenleytown DC. This was a block from Wilson (now Jackson-Reed) High School. NEWS VIDEO:
@puily7
and
@ferdinandmunro
Please take time this weekend to sign a
@recallallen
petition. This ongoing fiasco in Congress is again directly caused by the ineptitude and hubris of
@charlesallen
. Charles Allen has set back our push for DC Statehood by decades. I'll put the facts on the record below. (1/8)
Schwalb and Mendelson sent a letter to House leadership opposing bill being voted on today to repeal the DC law allowing noncitizens to vote in local elections. No signature from Bowser.
Far-left, nationally-funded, non-profits convinced
@charlesallen
to use DC neighborhoods as labs for their radical legislation & policies, costing 100s of DC lives. This letter proves it. Let's look at groups opposing
@mayorbowser
's common sense public safety legislation. (1/23)
It's absolute chaos on our streets!
@charlesallen
,
@ChmnMendelson
&
@BrianneKNadeau
... Now would be an appropriate time for you to resign. Deep down, you know your political cowardice caused this tragedy & carnage, when you ignored public safety experts to placate loud activists!
UPDATE: CURRENTLY *5* MALES HAVE BEEN SHOT. TWO ARE DEAD AT THE SCENE (14th St and Saratoga Ave NE DC), another is still alive taken by EMS. Two other males arrived with NLT gunshot wounds at a hospital, PRESUMABLY FROM
#BRENTWOODdc
BUT NOT POSITIVE.
In 2011, actual public safety experts, Cathy Lanier & Paul Quander said that having more police deterred crime, so
@mayorvincegray
funded 200 more officers at
@DCPoliceDept
& lo and behold homicides fell to a 50 year low in DC via community policing. (1/2)
💯% Yes!!! This is a great idea by Debbie!!!
@CMBrookePinto
, let’s do this! It would seem to solve much of the problem by shutting down & financially crippling illegal fencing vendors!
@maustermuhle
It’s real simple. NY confronts street vendors with items for sale that they must provide a merchandise receipt of purchase. If a vendor cannot the goods are confiscated by law enforcement.
@ChmnMendelson
Martin, Congratulations on the new job! I hadn't heard you had left
@wamu885
to work for at
@councilofdc
. I'll send you an e-mail at maustermuhle
@dccouncil
.gov. Are you working in Josh's office or in the
@ChmnMendelson
's main office?
@BarrasReport
Well, 13 councilmembers voted for it, so it seems they didn't think it was flawed, right? The council is a co-equal branch of government.
LOL. “Alarming messages about crime in the city”. Those would be called statistics. This article has it all, even a quote from ACAB Alex. Enough is enough of Dem Socialism. I’m excited to see a real Dem running in W4 who is talking about putting the interests of W4 residents 1st.
The big money group Opportunity D.C. began flooding D.C. mailboxes earlier this month with alarming messages about crime in the city, suggesting their approach to the 2024 election will continue previous fearmongering tactics.
There’s no reason to hire additional police officers if you’re satisfied with a DC homicide rate that is still on track to be double what it was in 2011-2014 when
@DCPoliceDept
was adequately staffed with 4,000 officers. (1/2)
New: Mayor Bowser and other politicians have spent years insisting DC needs more cops. But an eagerly awaited study of MPD staffing by
@ODCA_DC
says (surprise, surprise) there's no evidence to support that.
They suggested alternatives. Will anyone listen?
We know you are a fervent supporter of
#DCStatehood
Mr. President & no one blames you for having to do this.
@MayorBowser
warned
@charlesallen
&
@councilofdc
of the risks of sending this radical legislation to the Republican House & they refused to listen to reason.
#Biden2024
I support D.C. Statehood and home-rule – but I don’t support some of the changes D.C. Council put forward over the Mayor’s objections – such as lowering penalties for carjackings.
If the Senate votes to overturn what D.C. Council did – I’ll sign it.
Please let us know what they say after your phone call with them.
@councilofdc
incentivizing shoplifting through allowing the unlicensed sale of stolen retail goods and continually imposing new taxes and regulations has had consequences for retaining our neighborhood business.
Closing Brightwood Park & Manor Park’s only neighborhood CVS risks seniors and families’ access to vital health and wellness services.
I’ve reached out to CVS to understand their decision and will work with ANC 4B,
@UptownMainSt
, and neighbors to find a suitable replacement.
The next temporary closure needs to be the Ward 6
@councilofdc
office, with a sign that says "reopening under new management". Do the right thing and resign
@charlesallen
. You did this.
It looks like
@MayorBowser
felt she had no choice on this, but the result is very concerning.
@councilofdc
will have spent $59.6M of funds on one-time benefit increases & cash payouts when our schools face a ~$142M fiscal cliff and WMATA has a ~$250M gap. Totally irresponsible!
The initiative process in DC is being abused by socialists, who get many of the signatures, to place sympathetically-phrased, half-baked ideas on the ballot. I-82 has caused extraordinary confusion. I follow DC issues closely, & have no idea what we are supposed to tip now. (1/5)
I just got back from a 4 day work trip to San Francisco where I ate at restaurants twice a day. I looked at every single receipt and not a single one had a service fee or wellness fee or wage fee. Just food & tax.
Why do we have all these new inexplicable charges in DC?
“You’re going to see a budget put forward that puts cuts at MPD”. It’s astonishing
@charlesallen
thinks he can get away with saying he didn’t cut MPD, when there is video & tweets from 4 years ago of him bragging about cutting MPD. His dishonesty is reason enough to
@recallallen
.
In 2020, Charles Allen responded to protesters demanding he defund the police. Allen thanked and assured them stating:
"you're going to see a budget put forward that put cuts at MPD"
"a reduction in MPD"
"[MPD's budget] will be reduced"
@recallallen
#recallcharlesallen
On the twelfth day of X-Mas, the Naughty List gave to me...
#1
, the legislative embodiment of Krampus,
@charlesallen
/
@CMCharlesAllen
. The Nice List
#1
posts at midnight!
DC has a federal anti-deficiency law that triggers the return to a Control Board if we don't keep our budget balanced.
@councilofdc
's reckless legislating on public safety & its excessive taxation of DC businesses has harmed DC's economy & constricted revenue growth. (1/8)
Mayor Bowser loves to talk about accountability for people who break the law. So what happens when she ignores the law herself?
She’s refusing to spend money on expanded SNAP benefits, despite a Council mandate, claiming she needs to close budget gaps:
Dirt bikes & ATVs are loud & disturb other residents. We choose to live in an urban environment where people live closer together & need to be considerate of their neighbors. I can't raise cows in my backyard or drive a tractor to work in DC just because I feel like it. (1/5)
@ThawtfulWard7
@EJGoulet
@councilofdc
@DCPoliceDept
There’s parks— some in Ward 7 dilapidated, and in desperate need of repair however, you cannot just put one place for dirt bikers. They need multiple locations throughout the city if you wanna prevent them from riding in the streets.
If
@dcpublicschools
get 5% cuts on February 11th or we don’t have funding for the WTU contract, everyone’s first call should be to
@Janeese4DC
’s office, who led the effort to spend $59.6M on temporary 9-month benefit payouts when our DC public schools face a ~$142M fiscal cliff.
This is a victory for the thousands of families, children, seniors, and people with disabilities in DC who depend on SNAP to get by.
It should not have taken a fight, but people are always worth fighting for.
Now we need DHS to get this funding out the door as soon as possible.
This was incredible leadership by
@CMBrookePinto
to reverse the vote on this amendment to now bring closure for victims of rape who thought they might never get justice. Ward 4 residents take notice as
@mdc_dsa
Councilmember
@Janeese4DC
votes no!
My amendment to allow for the collection/analysis of DNA for those charged w/ violent crimes & sexual abuse misdemeanors passed 10-3.
This will help close cases, ensure accuracy in prosecution & support survivors.
This foul language & obnoxious, vile behavior signals the "dying gasps of a failed movement". National dark money was able to push
@charlesallen
into defunding
@DCPoliceDept
& enacting anti-police & anti-safety laws, resulting in the murders of hundreds more DC residents. (1/7)
It's a slap-in-the-face to DC residents traumatized by the surge in violent crime that
@charlesallen
would publish a false "fact vs. fiction" narrative with untrue statements about his actions as Judiciary Committee chair to reduce penalties for crime & cut police officers. (1/2)
@Anc6B10
Under "Fact vs Fiction" his website states Allen did not pass any legislation that lowered penalties, but strengthened penalties for sex crimes.
Yet in a 2019 letter to a DC judge, Allen cites his IRRA 2.0 for early release to someone who committed a sex crime to a 9-year-old.
Mainstream Democrats need to emphatically condemn the disturbing antisemitism & misinformation that is coming from far-left, anarchists within our party. We would be foolish to downplay threatening chants like "from the river to the sea". This is a call to eliminate Israel. (1/2)
More than 100K people are in the streets today for Palestine. Hundreds of DSA members traveled from across the country to join us in DC demanding a ceasefire now, no more funding for Israel’s war crimes, and an end to the occupation.
Palestine will be free 🇵🇸🇵🇸✊🏾🌹
I am in awe of the courage and solidarity we are seeing this week from so many Jewish and Muslim Americans and allies who are working through immense grief to put their bodies on the line against violence and war. Proud to be in a larger movement for justice with you.
All the warning signs were there for everyone to see in Chinatown with the surging crime and shuttering businesses. I usually agree with
@TomSherwood
, but this feels more like a KO of our downtown economy, than a body blow. In this case he's not being gruff enough! (2/2)
Now is the time for
@councilofdc
to follow Baltimore’s lead & take real action via emergency legislation to eliminate the threat illegal dirt-bikes and ATVs pose to law-abiding pedestrians and cyclists before summer weather arrives & someone is tragically killed.
#VisionZeroDC
Baltimore to act against illegal dirt bikes - will look to charge riders, or the parents or guardians of children found illegally riding or storing dirt bikes.
Tis’ the season for accountability &
@RobertWhite_DC
has just given me an idea. Starting tomorrow, I’ll begin posting my 12 Days of X-mas Naughty List for persons & groups most responsible for DC’s crime crisis, ending with
#1
on Dec. 21st, the darkest day of the year.
DC's revenue picture is sobering, but not unexpected, and I fear the DC economy will get worse given the trajectory the city in on. Today's forecast is the product of a permanent shift in how the federal govt operates & 8 years of troubling legislation by
@councilofdc
. (1/18)
NEW: Declining revenue estimates show D.C. won’t have enough to fund free Metro bus program, according to chief financial officer.
“The expansion of remote work, coupled with higher interest rates, pose a serious long-term risk to the District’s economy and its tax base.”
To the contrary, the retention of our DC teams highlights the importance of recall efforts. It shows how
@CMBrookePinto
’s reversal of
@charlesallen
&
@BrianneKNadeau
pro-crime policies is giving people hope. However, progress is very tenuous & much more needs to be done. (1/3)
If they were planning to move because the “crime crisis chased them away” and now they’re staying, I guess that means the crime crisis is over and the recall efforts are moot!
🤞- How is this just coming out now as they are setting up tents and a podium for an announced move to VA? DC cannot afford to lose these teams from Chinatown.
The leadership of
@CMBrookePinto
&
@MayorBowser
on the Secure DC Act has been stellar. This is a common sense, evidence-based bill that seeks to reverse the damage caused by
@charlesallen
. The vote on amendments will reveal who stands with law-abiding DC residents vs. criminals.
#BreakingNews
- In stern letter to DC Council as it’s set to vote today on major crime bill, Mayor Bowser writes, “We cannot allow last year’s level of violence and crime to repeat.”
@wcp
Jesse is a good-hearted guy with the best intentions, but we must save our city from rose 🌹garden denialism! This gentleman wasn't stealing a bar of soap for personal use! He was stealing ALL THE SOAP to resell it! (1/2)
Soap should be free to all who need it.
People aren't stealing soap for fun. They are stealing it because they, like all of us, want to and deserve to be clean.
How many bars of soap could 1 cops salary buy?
“Is anywhere safe?” That says it all!
@councilofdc
must repeal the last vestiges of the
@charlesallen
legislative nightmare & restore
@DCPoliceDept
to 4,000 officers to end this crime crisis. Enough is enough.
Stabbed to death!
Broad daylight!!
In Glover Park!!!
There’s still a DC Crime Crisis!!!!
We need more police!!!!!
@recallallen
to honor the victims!!!!!!
Two police chiefs warned
@charlesallen
&
@councilofdc
multiple times in testimony about the consequences of cutting MPD & making harmful changes to DC public safety laws. Allen scoffed at the advice of experts, and caused a crime crisis, which killed hundreds more people. (1/2)
@EJGoulet
@charlesallen
@BrianneKNadeau
This is why i can’t support the recallers. You just want to assume the worst motives and it shows you don’t have a grasp of how hard crime is to stop.
We need to restore honesty & integrity to the Ward 6 seat on
@councilofdc
.
@charlesallen
& his loyal foot soldiers are trying to deceive voters about his cuts to
@DCPoliceDept
that caused the number of MPD officers to plummet & homicides to soar! BUT WE’VE GOT THE RECEIPTS…(1/8)
As we redesign our website, we've made a quick update to simplify the process of signing the petition. Just fill out the form, & one of our volunteer coordinators will contact you. Stay tuned for more updates. Thanks for your patience.
#FightCrimeSIGN
✍️
Buttercream Bakeshop - 🪦
Another victim of
@charlesallen
,
@ChmnMendelson
&
@BrianneKNadeau
. DC was on such a roll.
@councilofdc
intentionally ignored experts and passed bill after bill that stopped our momentum & sent DC into a downward spiral of crime and business closures.
How does
@charlesallen
hype his free bus law for this long, lose a ridiculous funding fight with OCFO, place numerous capital projects in disarray... but not have gotten agreement with WMATA? I would say it's unbelievable, but we saw what Allen did with the Judiciary Committee.
Frustrated Takoma Park Parent: “Son, did you even look for a job today?!?!
Sunrise Advocate: “Dad, you’re interrupting me. I’m in the basement Tweeting about DC public safety legislation!”
So-called “pre-trial detention” is ultimately just a way to imprison someone without a trial. This bill makes it a routine part of arrests for some crimes - a violation of the Constitution only possible because of right wing judges. Supporting it means supporting injustice.
Thank you to the
@DCPoliceUnion
officers of our
@DCPoliceDept
for your dedication, courage, and service to our city! We appreciate the many sacrifices you make to keep DC residents safe.
#policeweek