DCist: More Council Action, Rounded Up for Your Pleasure

IMGoph

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:36:26 -0500

professional blogging team? jesus christ, you're posting on a story that's over a year old? way to be up-to-date there!

payday_loan_advocate

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:51:11 -0500

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hillrat

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:12:01 -0500

Re: Ghandi- What, no one is still pissed at Ghandi for fudging the stadium cost figures? Good point mlb, but the fact is that the stadium deal was going down with or without Ghandi's cooperation. Did Ghandi fuck that up or at the very least give in to political pressure to sign off on the deal? Sure. But I think if you look at his record since he hit town, Ghandi has gotten many more things right than wrong.

mlb

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:11:57 -0500

Yeah, I hear you Monkey. But I'd like to keep it in the publics' mind. And there is a glimmer of hope. A certain DC area's monopoly on used oil removal is being challenged by a biodiesel company that actually *pays* restaurants for their used oil, and takes it away for free.

monkeyrotica

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 08:20:13 -0500

mlb - DC will get statehood before it gets a bottle bill. Statehood Green Party and the Sierra Club are no match for the beverage lobby, the bottling manufacturers lobby, the usual suspects. Great idea, gets shot down every council session since the early 1970s.

mlb

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:45:20 -0500

Re: Ghandi- What, no one is still pissed at Ghandi for fudging the stadium cost figures? Re: H Street- Deposit+Return= less trash, more recycling, and a living wage for the homeless!

Mike Licht

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:19:43 -0500

The Council is peeved at the CFO because he: 1. Reported that the proposed bill would cost the city $123,000 next year, an insignificant amount in DC budget terms (and nothing compared to the suffering payday loan sharks inflict on victims), and 2. Nobody asked him. Mr. Gandhi needs to save his comments to the legislative branch for fiscally meaningful issues.

Hillman

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:27:47 -0500

I think they tried a citywide ban. A combination of the liquor lobby and race/class/fearmongering/pandering killed that. It would have been so much easier to just do it citywide. But, then, this is DC. We never do easy.

guest

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:17:07 -0500

Ban singles citywide. This block by block approach is getting old.

Hillman

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:49:13 -0500

I wonder which 2 losers voted against the singles ban. And if they ever gave a reason, other than the obvious - that they have their heads buried up the butt of the liquor lobby.

Hillman

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:48:28 -0500

Now, Monkey, we all know it ain't the size of the bladder that counts, it's how and where you use it.... or so some of us with various unusually petite body parts like to tell ourselves....

nylonthread

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:59:17 -0500

Besides the DC9 ban, monkey's wee monk-tots need him home tonight for poo-target practice. [much shrieking!] Pick us up an H-Street half-pint or 2 on the way before that moratorium gets enforced, K?

guest

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:53:40 -0500

Bring on the new development in Southwest!!

monkeyrotica

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:27:54 -0500

Ryan - DC9 banned me because I kept pooping in the sink. That, and the whole peeing-on-the-rim thing.

DCist Ryan

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:11:42 -0500

Hey monkey, are you coming to Unbuckled?

guest

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:07:32 -0500

I too am glad Ghandi spoke up, it is his job. He has done more to help this city than ANY of the council members. The mayor and council are always posturing for the next election. The financial impact of any legislation should be made available before a vote. The council then has the responsibility to decide if the benefits outweigh the costs. Mary Cheh is new to council and I’m sure she wants the exposure. Jin Graham can’t have it all :-) -Ghandi is Great

monkeyrotica

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:01:34 -0500

To celebrate the H Street singles moratorium, dcists are cordially invited to join Hillman, hillrat, and monkeyrotica for the First Annual Bladder Blowout 2007 behind Hillman's place. Guests are invited to sample complimentary fried gizzards and livers (courtesy Cluck-U) as well as the finest Carlo Rossi White Grenache and Vin Rose from our cellar of 3-liter jugs. Meet Mistress of Ceremonies, socialite gadfly, celebutard, and parttime urinal Kim Kardashian for the back gate paint "powerstripping" contest! Find out which dcist gets to boast Biggest Bladder on the Block!

Invisible Sun

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:49:19 -0500

It seems that Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3)is threatened by CFO Natwar Gandhi's competence, more than anything else. DC would be about one-thousand times better if the rest of it's public servants displayed even a tiny fraction of the initiative of Gandhi and some other workers. Best wishes to him and Fenty.

monkeyrotica

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:39:51 -0500

"What the CFO has focused on is whether we’re spending more than we’re bringing in. If this is his new front in financial supervision, well, then he might as well put himself in charge of the entire District government." I second the motion. Ghandi seems to be someone who actually does his job efficiently, without grandstanding, and has been accountable for his actions. I can see why Mary sees this as a threat to the DC Government in general and the Council in particular. [screeches and throws feces at Ward 3 chair]