Endorsements

I don't do them. I still have to deal with people who are likely to get elected regardless of my sentiments or score on an evaluation matrix.

WRT the Washington Post endorsements, they prefer predictability, with a bias favoring business interests. Hence their preference for the candidate of business over Carol Schwartz, and their preference for someone other than Marion Barry in Ward 8.

The Examiner's endorsements came out today and they are inconsistent. In 2 out of 3 cases they endorse the challenger, and the challengers are very different, one pro-business in one campaign, and in another one pro-neighborhood vs. pro-developers, seemingly, although the pro-neighborhood candidate has made his living thus far lobbying for pro-business type matters.

The third endorsement was for Marion Barry, because he favors charter schools. Interesting, one of the reasons the public schools are so bad is because of the kind of governing regime that Marion Barry helped create a long time ago as a member of the city's first elected school board. (With that kind of reasoning, the former leaders of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac need to become high officials in either or both the US Department of the Treasury and the Securities and Exchange Commission.) That regime was extended beyond the school system to the rest of the municipal government, when he became Mayor.

The Washington City Paper endorsed all the incumbents, with the exception of Marion Barry.

What I find troubling about the election is how much money is going to the Democratic incumbents and what the money is being spent on in the campaign. My house received many calls for the Muriel Bowser campaign, some made from Holladay, Utah. You'd think if you were going to spend lots of money on phone calling, it could be spent locally...