Photo by PoPville flickr user Carly & Art
From DC Board of Elections:
Out of 505,698 registered voters, 49,869 or 9.86% voted for:
ANITA BONDS 16,054 32.19%
ELISSA SILVERMAN 13,740 27.55%
PATRICK MARA 11,367 22.79%
The Budget Autonomy referendum passed with 83.09% of the vote.
From an email:
DC Vote and the DC Budget Freedom Committee take their series of Budget Freedom Happy Hours to CAUSE (1926 9th Street, NW) The Philanthropub on U Street,Thursday, April 11 from 5:00 – 8:00PM. DC United Coach Ben Olsen will host the event to show his support for the budget autonomy referendum.
Photo by PoPville flickr user beaufinley
Thanks to Beau for sending:
“There’s a big immigration rally going out on 12th St SW outside ICE right now. They have drums, signs, and are pretty well organized. Traffic doesn’t seem to be effected.”
Muriel Bowser with then Mayor Adrian Fenty at the Ribbon Cutting for Chezy Billy on Georgia Ave
From a media advisory:
“Ward 4 Councilmember Muriel Bowser announces that she is a candidate for Mayor of the District of Columbia at her childhood home in Ward 5’s North Michigan Park. Saturday, March 23, 2013”
@stephcherkezian tweets the photo above and writes:
“Holy 15th & P NW! @PoPville any intel? Police were holding up a white sheet to block the inside ATM at the bank.”
@mcbyrne replies, “NoKXL protest.” [Protest against “Keystone XL” pipeline]
and @xMPoly shares a bit more detail:
“Demonstrators inside, took off their clothes in the ATM vestibule, around 6:45-7:00 this morning.”
After a week off, Let’s Choose DC this week asked the candidates for their positions on DC’s zoning update proposals—removing parking minimums, allowing accessory dwellings, and corner stores. We also have the results of your votes on their responses on school truancy.
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Only 2.5% of voters gave Michael Brown positive marks for his response on ethics this week on Let’s Choose DC (a partnership of PoPville, Greater Greater Washington, and DCist). Elissa Silverman took the top spot in your judgment, with Matthew Frumin second.
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DC might criminally charge parents whose kids miss school. Is that the right approach? What else should DC do about truancy? This week, Let’s Choose DC asked the at-large candidates this question:
Last year DC Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson said that DC schools are suffering from a “truancy crisis.” The DC Council is now debating a bill that would increase penalties on parents for kids who chronically miss school. Should parents be held to account for when their kids miss school? How can DC ensure that students attend school consistently?
View responses and vote here.
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A reader writes:
“FYI – There is a huge “anti-greed” protest going on at 19th and L. 200 people gathered and large blow up pig.”
We’ve heard a lot of ideas for rules that will clean up DC’s political culture, from the backers of Initiative 70, from multiple DC councilmembers, and from citizen groups like DC for Democracy. What do our at-large candidates think?
This week, Let’s Choose DC, a partnership of PoPville, Greater Greater Washington and DCist, asked the candidates running in the April 23 special election to take a stand on 6 proposals from last year:
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