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While Bowser won Wards 1,2 and 3 by considerable margins over Gray, the incumbent earned 36 percent of the votes in Bowser's home Ward 4. Ouch! People were not impressed with her leadership during her Council term.
In the end, she will not rock the boat too much. Keep the neo-liberal economic agenda humming. Keep tearing down public schools and public school teachers. Make the real estate developers happy and richer. Get behind the gentrification wave and gut more services for the poor. Same sh#t, different mayor.
Catania will get Wards 1, 2, 3, 6. He might pull in some numbers from other Wards as we'll.
The LGBT and yuppie community will give him a lot of support.
Hahaha...
No. Much of the LGBT community has a no republicans ever policy. Don't let those log cabin folks fool you.
It will be unlikely he will win a single ward. He had a chance against Grey, but not Bowser. Him being gay does not matter in the face of his GOP background.
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While Bowser won Wards 1,2 and 3 by considerable margins over Gray, the incumbent earned 36 percent of the votes in Bowser's home Ward 4. Ouch! People were not impressed with her leadership during her Council term.
In the end, she will not rock the boat too much. Keep the neo-liberal economic agenda humming. Keep tearing down public schools and public school teachers. Make the real estate developers happy and richer. Get behind the gentrification wave and gut more services for the poor. Same sh#t, different mayor.
So goes ward 4, so goes DC. She won over 50% in her own district. Her own district is changing rapidly, it's gentrifying a great deal, and that is not likely to change, in fact it may accelerate when she is mayor.
The more this city gentrifies, the better.
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Not so sure. I can only think of the Petworth neighborhood that is going through a gentrification. Petworth is a small sliver of an already diverse and economically prosperous Ward 4. All of the other neighborhoods (Takoma, Sheperd Park, Colonial Village and 16th Street) have been solidly middle-class or upper/middle class for decades. The large homes, expensive import car models and manicured lawns are a dead giveaway. The hipsters and 20-something white professionals cannot afford the 4th Ward neighborhoods.
Ward 4 is predominately populated by African-Americans with college degrees and professional backgrounds (i.e. attorneys, dentists, fed. govt. executives, business owners). Unlike the impoverished and working class black households in eastern and southern wards, the Ward 4 black household cannot be gentrified out. Ward 4 is the ONLY place in DC where black residents have enough financial power to counter invasions from non-residents.
As to why they vote in clowns like Adrian Fenty or Muriel Bowser to represent them on Council or the Mayor's office...I don't have an answer. They only reason could be that Fenty and Bowser are mirror images of a typical 4th Ward black voter (well-educated, ambitious & hard working, successful professional career track, lots of connections with influential people and so on). People see themselves in the candidate.
When Fenty and Bowser campaign in Ward 8, it's like watching a deer staring at car headlights. Becomes more about socio-economic class standing than racial solidarity. That's why eastern & southern ward voters don't trust the Ward 4 African-American politician.
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So go ward 4, so goes DC. She won over 50% in her own district. Her own district is changing rapidly, it's gentrifying a great deal, and that is not likely to change, in fact it may accelerate when she is mayor.
The more this city gentrifies, the better.
Not so sure. I can only think of the Petworth neighborhood that is going through a gentrification. Petworth is a small sliver of an already diverse and economically prosperous Ward 4. All of the other neighborhoods (Takoma, Sheperd Park, Colonial Village and 16th Street) have been solidly middle-class or upper/middle class for decades. The large homes, expensive import car models and manicured lawns are a dead giveaway. The hipsters and 20-something white professionals cannot afford the 4th Ward neighborhoods.
Ward 4 is predominately populated by African-Americans with college degrees and professional backgrounds (i.e. attorneys, dentists, fed. govt. executives, business owners). Unlike the impoverished and working class black households in eastern and southern wards, the Ward 4 black household cannot be gentrified out. Ward 4 is the ONLY place in DC where black residents have enough financial power to counter invasions from non-residents.
As to why they vote in clowns like Adrian Fenty or Muriel Bowser to represent them on Council or the Mayor's office...I don't have an answer. They only reason could be that Fenty and Bowser are mirror images of a typical 4th Ward black voter (well-educated, ambitious & hard working, successful professional career track, lots of connections with influential people and so on). People see themselves in the candidate.
When Fenty and Bowser campaign in Ward 8, it's like watching a deer staring at car headlights. Becomes more about socio-economic class standing than racial solidarity. That's why eastern & southern ward voters don't trust the Ward 4 African-American politician.
Petworth is huge, easily the biggest neighborhood in Ward 4, it's by no means a sliver and more densely populated then the neighborhoods you listed, it is also gentrifying rapidly. Otherwise you are right except for the not affording it part...I live in one of those northern border neighborhoods of Ward 4 myself. They are now a mix of younger white families and older black retirees, but one cannot call those areas as being gentrified, they have long been neighborhoods of the gentry. The ones along 16th street (crestwood, 16th st heights) have long been very nice as well for a long time. However, a big part of the Ward is gentrifying, but not the neighborhoods you listed. Manor Park, Petworth, and Brightwood Park, are good examples of where the gentrification is taking place. Ward 4 has some of the last neighborhoods to be gentrified in NW, and it is likely to complete in the next five years.
Those professional blacks though are just as much of the gentry as the professional whites. They own homes, their neighborhoods are desirable to live in. The gentry is not about race, it is about income, education, and class. However, they mostly live along 16th street, or near the silver spring border. The areas are already gentrified, to varying degrees.
Not so sure. I can only think of the Petworth neighborhood that is going through a gentrification. Petworth is a small sliver of an already diverse and economically prosperous Ward 4. All of the other neighborhoods (Takoma, Sheperd Park, Colonial Village and 16th Street) have been solidly middle-class or upper/middle class for decades. The large homes, expensive import car models and manicured lawns are a dead giveaway. The hipsters and 20-something white professionals cannot afford the 4th Ward neighborhoods.
Ward 4 is predominately populated by African-Americans with college degrees and professional backgrounds (i.e. attorneys, dentists, fed. govt. executives, business owners). Unlike the impoverished and working class black households in eastern and southern wards, the Ward 4 black household cannot be gentrified out. Ward 4 is the ONLY place in DC where black residents have enough financial power to counter invasions from non-residents.
not to mention a lot of the old guard black bourgeoisie lives in upper 4th ward......Petworth, as well as any stretch of Georgia ave up to rittenhouse will get blasted though :-/ I wonder if JJ's fried chicken wings up toward KDY will stay open.....
Catania >>>>>> Bowser. The problem with Bowser is that she's just clueless. Taken from her interview with DCist:
DCist: Wells has a large legislative record from being on the Council for decades.
Bowser: But what does that have to do with being mayor? Nothing. What's Tommy Wells' experience? Ever write about that? It's a question.
DCist: When we interviewed him, yeah. We talked about the legislation that he's introduced.
Bowser: What does that have to do with being mayor?
DCist: Introducing legislation, what does that have to do with being mayor? It shows the vision of a candidate that they have, what they want to focus on, and what they think is a priority for the city.
That's frightening. She's been asked about how she'll accommodate up to another 200,000 people. Her response: "Well, we'll have some experts figure it out." She panders to NIMBYs by saying she's against a "few four things in the zoning update" even though the entire zoning update is four key points. She thinks bus lanes aren't feasible. She has a reputation in her own ward of being ineffective and abrasive.
I just don't get it. I'd have loved to see Wells win, but that was never going to happen. Catania's needed to shake up the city's government.
Nope...not without Gray in the race. He is headed for a double digit loss.
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