“Ultimately, the recall organizers failed to appreciate that Ward 6 residents are thoughtful people looking for real solutions to our toughest problems, and they don’t respond to the fear and division we see play out every day on the national stage,” Allen says in his statement.”
Between the recall committee and the outside spending group supporting it, Allen's opponents spent about $26 per petition signature they garnered. It wasn't nearly enough.
Full details on today's big development:
Charles Allen is a neighbor and a father of two DCPS students.
He’s a fierce advocate for Ward6 AND DC. He works with our
@councilofdc
to reach consensus and win support to complex issues such as public safety.
I’m glad
@charlesallen
is my councilmember!
Don’s sign the recall petition.
Signing could take us to a special election that Ward 6 does not need.
We voted Charles Allen in and we trust Charles to lead Ward 6.
“Every minute that we spend talking about or working on someone trying to overturn an election,” says Allen, “it’s a minute we’re not actually focused on what D.C. needs.”
Now we can take donations too:
How many Republicans are backing the push to recall Charles Allen? The list is so long it wouldn’t fit into a screenshot
I found that the recall campaign is overwhelmingly funded by lobbyists of both parties, undermining claims of its grassroots support:
Do NOT sign the petition.
Charles Allen has secured nearly $1 billion to modernize Ward 6 schools, parks, libraries, and recreation centers.
We need to focus our energy on finding ways to work together to build a stronger, more united community.
Be careful Ward 6! People are going door-to-door, asking people to sign a “petition for a cleaner and safer DC.”
Who doesn’t want that? However, it was really a petition to recall Charles Allen.
@Vote4DC
Read every petition before you sign.
Look what's starting to blossom in Ward6!
Yard signs, pole signs and stickers available. Join us tomorrow putting up more signs at 2 PM at NoWard6recall headquarters. DM for address.
New Park / Playground Alert: Though it’s a short trip into Ward 7 now, check out the new playground and park at 17th and C St SE - funded in the budget years ago by
@charlesallen
and finally delivered! It’s already getting great use on a warm Friday afternoon!
My apologies that I had to make our tweets so that only accounts I follow can reply.
A small group of people who rip down our signs and comment in bad faith made it unsafe to post freely.
We don’t deserve to be harassed and stalked for liking the guy that we voted for.
“The biggest complaint that I get abt Books from Birth is tht it stops at age five. The number of 5 yo that are upset when they get their last book really makes the case we should keep this going. But that’s why we have beautiful libraries.” -Charles Allen
I just want to say, Books from Birth is such an awesome program. Received another book in the mail yesterday. I love getting a new book for Liam each month. I wonder who introduced the bill to create that program....
Charles Allen has always had excellent constituent services.
Constituent services play a crucial role in addressing the needs and concerns of the community. Charles is dedicated to serving the Ward 6 community and all of DC.
Don’t sign that petition!
Happy Saturday!
Reminder: if this recall is successful, it will cost actual taxpayer money that could go towards stopping crime.
#DeclineToSign
I hear
@RobertWhite_DC
left wearing one of these… shout out to the people who made these! Let me know if you need our iconographic graphics, and THANK YOU!
Hey yall, our friends over at
@W6Neighbors
got their signs!!!
Ours are coming next week!
Most importantly: Do Not Sign that petition!
We love to see it! 👀❤️
DO NOT SIGN THE RECALL PETITION!
Voters in Ward 6 have overwhelmingly elected Charles Allen three times. Charles has earned Ward 6 voters’ trust by working every day to solve the very complex problems facing Ward 6 (including crime).
Recalling Charles Allen won’t solve crime in DC.
He’s secured nearly $1 billion to modernize Ward 6 schools, parks, libraries and recreation centers. He’s leading efforts to save Metro, get dangerous drivers off our streets, and funded more police.
“It’s time to question which Black people we place at the table, because the slew of anti-Black laws being championed by Black politicians across the country indicates that we have a lot of people representing us, but we have very little serving us.”
@msolurin
in
@Essence
Reminder: the high powered lobbyist attacking you on twitter or nextdoor cannot vote from his hundreds of fake accounts, only from his one unwashed body.
Have a great day!
“If you follow the evidence, care about criminal reduction and review the record, it makes more sense to recall the Mayor – but even that would founder for lack of substantive justification.”
The zoning order for Pacci’s on Lincoln Park - allowing restaurant use on their second floor - is now officially approved! Signed and dated May 9th! Thanks to the 1,200+ neighbors that signed on to our petition in support! Thanks to the BZA for working to get this right.
The recall people need to make up lies to push their agenda of 💩 but the community sees it and politely steps around the 💩.
Lovely thread, I love our community!
Don’t sign the recall petition
Facts:
Charles Allen led the council to increase criminal consequences for gun crimes, created laws to get guns off the streets, passed reforms to rebuild DC’s failed crime lab AND expanded rights for crime victims.
My statement yesterday to the reporter recallallen campaign looped into their snowflake games.
They cry to the press before they make a police report. Unserious AF
@recallallen
Not all Ward 6 roosters feel that way, Jeremy disagrees but didn’t have any cute ears to don (yet)!
Jeremy, the true and forever king of the Capitol Hill coop, supports
@CharlesAllen
and knows that these recalls are for the birds!
Nikki’s car was stolen and the recall trolls want to harass her because she likes her Council Member. Check the thread.
Please don’t sign those petitions, these recall campaigns are bad faith efforts to tear our community apart.
@GovCrime
@DCPoliceDept
@charlesallen
I beg to differ.
@charlesallen
is my councilmember and he still gets my vote. He's always been responsive to my needs even when I lived in Ward 8. Crime is a problem bigger than one person.
Be careful out in these streets, those petitioners may just want the bonuses for your signature.
Charles Allen is a great at his job and won with 94% of the vote.
Decline to sign: GGWash urges DC voters in Ward 1 and Ward 6 to decline to sign recall petitions for Councilmember Brianne Nadeau and Councilmember Charles Allen:
Yup. Or vote? Run? Do the democratic thing…?
No scandals, no investigations.
Just some scapegoating.
Our political process should not be your ego project.
#noWard6recall
#DeclineToSign
If you're so upset about the direction of DC that you're willing to spend the significant amount of time and resources to recall someone, I don't understand why you go after a single councilmember who ran unopposed in 2022 rather than the mayor who runs the city government.
Thank you for helping us crack 100 followers!!! *I follow back.*
With the expensive cost of the recall, it's important to consider the impact it can have on our neighborhoods and local businesses. Do not sign!
#noWard6recall
Donate:
4-part story:
May 2015 -
@MayorBowser
appoints Jennifer Smith to run DC’s crime lab
April 2021 - Lab covers up blunders; loses its accreditation.
May 2021 - Smith resigns after audit cites poor management.
Jan. 2024 - Smith maxes out to Recall Allen campaign.
Unserious people.
Don’t sign that petition!
Let us know if you need a yard sign, pole signs or stickers to further express your feelings on this recall!
Thank you for your kind support and volunteer hours.
#News
- Committee opposing the recall of Ward 6 Council Member Charles Allen drops its first anti-recall campaign mass mailer to W6 residents. It urges W6 voters to “Decline to Sign” the petition that would force the recall vote later this year.
@wcp
New: Charles Allen's supporters say the group working to recall the Ward 6 CM over crime concerns is breaking the law.
Officials are now reviewing a series of alleged campaign finance violations, including improper coordination with a top Dem fundraiser:
Its disgusting that a small group of very angry and mostly anonymous people think that they can silence a whole Ward of voters.
I hope everyone raises their voices and speaks out to these haters/stalkers and harassers.
Be kind, they clearly need kindness.
Among the donors to the Charles Allen recall attempt: former commissioner Jennifer Samolyk, who claimed her homeless constituents weren't DC residents:
@NOWard6Recall
Hm....is there by any chance a particular council member who has been REALLY successful securing funds for library modernizations in Ward 6???? Let me think..... 😉
Talk to your neighbors and don’t sign the recall petitions.
Watch out & document deceptive tactics to get you or your neighbors to sign the recall petitions.
Read the top of any petition you sign, you can even ask to take a picture of it to be sure.
“But I think this is probably the most vibes-based waste of time that D.C. has seen in a while. You cannot lay the complicated issues around public safety, around crime, at the feet of one particular member of the council.”
I said what I said.
Please see my official statement regarding recent news surrounding
@CMCharlesAllen
and
@BrianneKNadeau
In my humble opinion, we get more done together than divided.
Hear from the man himself tonight!
Go ask those hard “gotcha” questions to his face. I know a few of you will never do that because he has the answers and that simply does not fit your narrative.
#RejectTheRecall
#NoWard6recall
#DeclineToSign
Next week, the Council will have its final vote on next year’s
#budget
. Before that,
@charlesallen
will host our
#Ward6
Budget Town Hall, our last chance to hear from you about how your tax dollars are spent: 6-7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Northeast Library.
They are coming for
@WABADC
,
@charlesallen
and
@BrianneKNadeau
for now, who else is on the list?
WE are on the list. They hate our democracy, they hate that we have a beautiful community and care for each other, they want to polarize us from our neighbors.
“Councilmember Allen has a proven track record as the DC Council’s environmental and climate champion. The Sierra Club asks Ward 6 residents to decline to sign the misleading recall petition.”
#DeclineToSign
Not me waking up to us having 200 followers, yall honestly might make me cry!
Make sure folks know the recall effort has made signs to confuse you!! They will have petitions till August-do not sign.
Website coming
#noWard6recall
I even congratulated them on raising money, no snark.
Yet, I get like accused of being a man they already have pics of (I am VERY MUCH AN UNMISTAKABLE WOMAN).
I get screamed on by their troll farm.
Its almost like they are horrible neighbors. 🤔
The wealth gap is stark & breaks like every other map we’ve seen of DC. Longtime residents have lost homes & intergenerational wealth because we had laws that failed to protect residents. I’ve led changes to fix those property laws & make DC’s probate easier. This morning… 1/2
Got this great mailer!
The text reads:
#RejectTheRecall
If you are asked to sign a petition to recall council member, Charles Allen, say NO! It’s a misleading effort by his political opponents.
👍🏼
Happy Birthday
@TommyWells
!!
Hope you’re having a troll free day!
I know you aren’t because the noise is in my mentions as well, so, I’m having a no recall * block * party! 🤣 🎉🎊
Smile and good luck out there 🫡 Thank you for your work!!
People would know this if they attended meetings with police and joined the community.
Is there more work to be done? Of course. Guy for whom I voted will continue to do that work while the nonserious recall campaign drones on ignoring community.
Yikes!
@JudicialWatch
is not anything we want in our community.
Some people believe Bekesha, who lost the election very badly when he ran, is the candidate the recalls support. But then recalls swear they aren’t GOP led. 👀
#RejectTheRecall
#DeclineToSign
and
#NoWard6recall
Tonight, the Recall campaign is holding a fundraiser at the home of Michael Bekesha, a senior attorney at Judicial Watch. Judicial Watch is a dangerous right-wing group.
These are not the people you want on your side.
#DeclinetoSign
@JohnCochran4
@NOWard6Recall
@MattLaFortune
@charlesallen
@TommyWells
The recall is both a power move by some and a genuine reaction of frustration and fear by others. Either way, it simply won't fix the issue. Crime stats are improving, crime lab getting accreditation, OUC issues revealed, etc. Allen was just elected with no competition.
Daily reminder to not sign the recall petition. ✅
We need to order new signs because our signs seem to rip themselves down. 🤣😆
If you like seeing our logo, donate and/or send cross streets and we’ll be right there with signs!
@rollin_vip
This “movement” is astroturfed and backed by the Federalist Society, Mike Lee, and others who wish to end DC Home Rule. It’s bad for Ward 6 and bad for DC.
Personally, I am here for all of the hot takes on how the No Recall people are “bullying” democracy. We understand you have your right, but do you understand what representation in a democracy looks like in DC? Do you also understand that Charles Allen ran UNOPPOSED????
MPD reports huge YTD increases in arrests:
- Gun possession arrests up 54%
- Violent crime arrests up 121%
These increases happened primarily through changes in MPD operations; not an increase in staffing or substantial changes in legislation. (1/
This recall is bringing out the most annoying ridiculous irrelevant & time-wasting debates because debating how the mid-term recall of one cm would drastically lessen crime in a city would be too explicit how asinine such a premise is.
#DeclineToSign
@NOWard6Recall
There’s nothing special or out of the ordinary about me I’m just a regular woman on Capitol Hill who likes the guy she voted for and thinks he does a good job
You can hound me with all ur rich and well to do friends and how will you look?
@jet_140
@BarnardTif44451
@recallallen
@charlesallen
I would take it down, but because recall donors libeled me so much accusing me of sign theft, I have decided to let them & the community know.
Mine disappear all the time, and one of our brand new stickers on my own property was ripped up, I didn’t write a press release tho.
I’m not this person below.
I have not met this person. I do not have any clue who this person is. He or she is not my volunteer, we have never had any communication but what you see on the feed.
This is a called a retweet, its does not become my post bc I rt it.
What a great
#BikeToSchoolDay
yesterday at Lincoln Park!
@PayneDCPS
kicked us off with cheer & step;
@TylerTigersDC
Junie B Jones sang & performed;
@EasternHS
Marching Band got everyone moving! Proud to emcee! Thx Suzanne, Sandra &
@W6PSPO
for leading this celebration every year!
@Brey112
It could be simply that people from other wards would be interested because they will be footing the bill for the needless recall…
We have not even donated yet, its about 3 days old. 😎🫡
Why no recall?
A recall would deprive us of Charles Allen, one of the most effective senior legislators on the Council who delivers for Ward 6 and DC. It could also leave the Ward 6 seat vacant for 3 MONTHS after the special election.
No thank you!
@MattLaFortune
@charlesallen
I've lived here two decades and have called on
@charlesallen
for help on local issues since he worked for
@Tommywells
I've always found him responsive and thoughtful. The recall is a childish stunt distracting us from the work of improving our city. I will
#declinetosign
.
I’m supposed to tag
@recallallen
&blame them for this unneighborly behavior, then
@MattGregoryNews
, then call police - but i won’t stoop to their donor’s divisive tactics…
Look at what this democracy hating individual did?
Ripped our pole sign down.