Posts tagged Jack Evans
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Breakfast links: Prince George’s County receives $2.5 billion for economic growth
Residences in DC’s historic districts don’t appreciate as quickly as other homes. Metro has a new wheel monitoring system. Amtrak’s new Acela trains face another delay. Keep reading…
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Will DC’s Ward 2 special election let us see what would have happened with ranked choice voting?
While Janeese Lewis George (whom GGWash endorsed) is celebrating her victory over incumbent Brandon Todd in DC’s northern Ward 4, we still don’t know who’s going to be the Democratic nominee for Ward 2, covering Georgetown to Logan Circle. Brooke Pinto and GGWash endorsee Patrick Kennedy are separated by just 187 votes with many ballots left to count. Keep reading…
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5 interesting things we learned about DC’s Ward 2 race from a recent poll
A new poll shows Patrick Kennedy leading in the race for the Ward 2 DC Council seat, with 18% of the 300 registered Democrats interviewed saying they would vote for Kennedy if the election were today. But with 44% of poll respondents still undecided, it’s still anyone’s race. And there are lots of interesting things to glean from the data. Keep reading…
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Our endorsement for DC Council in Ward 2: Patrick Kennedy
Greater Greater Washington endoses Patrick Kennedy for DC Council in Ward 2. Vote in the June 2 primary and the June 16 special election. Keep reading…
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Why the streetcar from Union Station to Georgetown died (mostly)
“DC Streetcar to Georgetown is dead,” read the headline. But the once-proposed DC Streetcar extension, likely in dedicated lanes, from Union Station to Georgetown didn’t just die. It died a long time ago. It’s just that reporters saw the death certificate, and that lent a certain finality to what many suspected and others already knew. Keep reading…
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Jack Evans’ corruption is an urbanist issue. We still think he should resign.
Seven DC councilmembers (Brianne Nadeau, Mary Cheh, Brandon Todd, Charles Allen, David Grosso, Elissa Silverman, and Robert White) have now called on Jack Evans to resign following an investigation which found he used his position to help paying clients 11 times, earning over $400,000, and without disclosing the conflicts. We previously called on him to resign and want to reiterate our statement here. Keep reading…
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Six Ward 2 council candidates talk urbanist issues, with no Jack Evans
On Thursday, September 26, DC Council candidates for Ward 2 gathered for their first forum to talk housing, transportation, the climate crisis, and other social justice issues. Candidates John Fanning, Jordan Grossman, Daniel Hernandez, Patrick Kennedy, Kishan Putta, and Yilin Zhang offered their views. Current Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans, who’s embroiled in an ethics scandal and has not yet filed for re-election, was invited but did not attend. Keep reading…
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A deputy mayor on the WMATA board could improve DC and Metro coordination
Lucinda Babers, DC’s Deputy Mayor for Operations and Infrastructure, will join the WMATA Board of Directors, Fenit Nirappil reported in the Washington Post over the weekend. In addition to Babers’ strong qualifications, having a deputy mayor sit directly on the board could help better coordinate transportation policies, avoiding the kind of situation that turned a well-meaning effort to make Circulator free into a controversy over equity. Keep reading…
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Jack Evans threatened Metro officials to keep his corruption secret, and two board members helped him
DC Councilmember Jack Evans (ward 2) not only allegedly tried to help companies paying him as a lobbyist while chair of the WMATA board, but threatened two top WMATA staff members to try to keep it quiet, according to a bombshell revelation from Robert McCartney in the Washington Post. Keep reading…
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Meet the five challengers to Ward 2 councilmember Jack Evans
The 2020 race for the Ward 2 council seat has kicked off in earnest: The first campaign filing deadline was July 7, and all five challengers—John Fanning, Jordan Grossman, Patrick Kennedy, Daniel Hernandez, and Kishan Putta—are officially in the race. Keep reading…