Kenyan McDuffie

And I remember there was a story where Harry Truman was going across the country on his famous campaign tour in 1948.

He was an underdog president against the oncoming challenger, Thomas Dewey, governor of New York for the Republicans, and he was addressing 90,000 people in a farm field.

Can you imagine that today? And 90,000 people, and he says, how many times do you have to be hit on the head to know who's doing the hitting? It's the Wall Street dictators.

Go and vote for yourself.

Lewis George welcomed the ruling, but criticized the Office of Campaign Finance for improperly involving itself in the election, saying OCF's order violated D.C. procedural requirements, included multiple false statements about its own investigation, misrepresented the campaign's statements and positions, offered no evidence in support of their conclusions, and was simply wrong on the law.

Lewis George added that it was not the first time OCF had filed a flawed order in the days just before a contested election.

Referring to a similar incident in 2022, when the office seemed to intervene against progressive candidate Alyssa Silverman for the D.C. Council to the benefit of her centrist challenger Kenyon McDuffie.

Ironically, the same candidate who was running against Lewis George in the mayoral primary.

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

She, uh, you know, and her supporters blamed that for her eventual loss to Kenyan McDuffie then.

Elissa's back on the council for anyone who's asleep.

Um, but [laughs]-

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So I wanna go back to the politics because I, you know, I think what is about to happen after the election, after the inauguration, is that a, a candidate moves from being a person who can propose stuff in the abstract, maybe it pleases people, maybe it doesn't, to a person who's gotta actually muscle stuff through, which is a, a process that empowers opponents of, uh, of whatever is being proposed.

If her view can be summarized as all in on transit, where are the pitfalls there?

Yeah, I mean, I think it's ex- exactly a lot of the stuff we've already been discussing, which is she's going to come into office in January, and the folks who look at the budget are gonna tell her, "This is tough.