Speaking of a divergent view

In my e-box yesterday was an email alerting me to a blog "Designed To Watch The Up-Coming Failure of Adrian Fenty As Mayor Of Washington, DC!," called Armageddon DC Style.

While the tone is over the top and reflects a certain perspective at odds with my own--e.g., it calls DCist the chief "Marion Barry-hater"--it's worth trolling through from time to time to pick up bits and pieces of good stuff.

(I am not big on how the Barry Administration led/followed the developer agenda that "reproduced"downtown to an office ghetto. And the "false consciousness" about which interests Barry served that has resulted--and is reflected in the above-named blog. See:
-- Tom Sherwood, Duncan Spencer, Anwar Amal, and thinking about what I call the "Uncivil War".)

E.g., as you can imagine I am disappointed between the link between the nominee for DC's Attorney General and the development community (Joe Sternlieb, ex-Dep. Director of the Downtown BID, now a VP with EastBanc Development--the company that led the upscaling and chaining of Georgetown, is the husband of the nominee), but not living in Ward 3 I wasn't aware that they were strong supporters of the now Ward 3 Councilmember Mary Cheh. I learned this from Armageddon DC Style.

And even though I don't have the same antipathy towards GWU that residents of Foggy Bottom do (after all, they have to live with the expansion program of the University and I don't), it does seem as if there is a direct conflict of interest between being employed by GWU and the fact that the University is the city's largest landowner after the Federal Government...

Oh well, the next two years of DC politics ought to be interesting.

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