Elissa Silverman

That's a reasonable outcome from this whole sordid affair.

affair.A similar thing happened to progressives when Elissa Silverman, of course-

Same thing

... a couple years back had a very late decision coming out from the campaign finance office against her campaign.

Um, I don't know how you guys see it, but talk to me about the, the politics that you saw on display.

Well, I think, uh, Council Member Elissa Silverman called parking the third rail of local politics, and it is, uh, hard to disagree.

Um, whether you have a vehicle or not, you likely care about parking, um, and your ability to, you know, stop in and drop off your dry cleaning.

The politics are the populist idea that it's too expensive, parking tickets these days, and we need to have fewer of them, and, uh, other people are like, "Hey, I want a, a neighborhood where people are following the law." What, what did you hear, Junaid?

It didn't really matter.

And now this being overturned, I think the Office of Campaign Finance, uh, will have to take a hard look at how they make these decisions weeks, uh, or even, uh, sooner than that before an election, um, because this has, you know, as you said, happened twice now in recent years.

So in, in 2022, Elissa Silverman was then on the council.

She, she is again now, but she was on the council.

Uh, you may or may not be familiar with them, longtime sort of urbanist focused on development and transit in the city organization, and they basically invited as many, uh, council members as they could, um, to sort of, you know, see what it's like for the average Washingtonian riding the bus.

So Elissa Silverman, just returned to the council, was there, and yeah, the, the big name was, uh, Janeese Lewis George, who is gonna have a say in how all these, you know, transit projects, transit funding comes together, uh, starting next year, so long as, uh, nothing shocking happens in November.

So you wrote about this ride and, you know, I hope I don't, uh, undersell your story because I would probably not be that interested in it if it was just I rode a bus with a person.

Um, but o- on this ride, um, some of the stuff she said to you sort of gave hints about stuff she's actually not talked a lot about, which are sort of the concrete plans for after the election in terms of transit.

Um, Robert White was out on the dance floor.

Um, Elissa Silverman came.

What was, what, what was he dancing to?

Well, there was-