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At the rate things are going for Fenty, he is very vulnerable to challengers (hello Vincent Gray). If he loses, I suspect there will be some changes at the management level.
I doubt Police Chief Lanier will be fired despite her Gestapo tactics in the Trinidad neighborhood. Lanier knows how to play the political games with the DC Council and neighborhood advisory groups.
DC Schools Chancellor, Michelle Rhee, is another story though. She is becoming increasingly unpopular with school teachers because of her "My Way or the Highway" approach. She is also losing support from members of the African-American community in the District. Since most of the parents are African-American, she has quite a public approval deficit to climb out of. Not to mention that she hasn't reached out to the DC Council either.
However, I hope the next mayor of DC will retain Rhee's services since she is still carrying out reforms in the school district. If she fails in a couple of years then can her.
I sincerely hope Peter Nickles gets kicked to the curb though.
I'm really hoping Fenty loses and I have a feeling that he will. I'm just not a fan of many things that he does. Being a city employee, he has a lot of effect on my career. I don't want to get into it on here since I don't want anyone to find out who I am, especially since most of you know my job, but Fenty losing could have a HUGE effect on someone in my job that could really change it for the better.
Fenty is increasingly unpopular with African-American voters in DC. If he can't get the black vote in Wards 5, 6, 7 and 8, he is going down in the Democratic primary. Ward 3 cannot save Fenty at this point.
This all goes back to the Anthony Williams era when there was a concerted effort between the mayor's office and the real estate developers to gentrify many neighborhoods that were home to black families for many decades. Former mayor Williams opened the doors for the development of new condo properties in once run down areas like Logan Circle, U Street corridor and the NoMa district near Union Station. The goal was to attract professional singles (gay and straight) or childless married couples who make well above the area median income to move into The District from the suburbs.
Congratulations...Williams and Fenty. You have managed to boost the tax revenue for The District but at the price of wiping out African-American residents.
Fenty is increasingly unpopular with African-American voters in DC. If he can't get the black vote in Wards 5, 6, 7 and 8, he is going down in the Democratic primary. Ward 3 cannot save Fenty at this point.
This all goes back to the Anthony Williams era when there was a concerted effort between the mayor's office and the real estate developers to gentrify many neighborhoods that were home to black families for many decades. Former mayor Williams opened the doors for the development of new condo properties in once run down areas like Logan Circle, U Street corridor and the NoMa district near Union Station. The goal was to attract professional singles (gay and straight) or childless married couples who make well above the area median income to move into The District from the suburbs.
Congratulations...Williams and Fenty. You have managed to boost the tax revenue for The District but at the price of wiping out African-American residents.
Back in the pre-Williams/Fenty era there were plenty of affluent blacks leaving the city. That was due to the failing services of the city. Becoming a black slum was not in anyone's interest. Given that 54% of the city is still black, I'm not sure the black population in the district is really at risk.
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