Robert White

... a few ways, there was a lot of discussion about the fairness of tickets in DC, the fines.

Robert White tried to, uh, reduce parking fees by fifty percent.

It got defeated at the time, but it sprung a whole conversation.

Um, you saw what Jaron Price said though, right, about downtown DC and how he feels about this bill.

We need to be straight up with people.

I don't see how we can afford this while we're cratering in our budget." This was in reaction to Robert White, who proposed, "Let's have, uh, parking ticket fines across the city, across the board." Phil Mendelson said, "As horrible as some people feel these fines are, is this really where our priority is? Or is it with affordable housing or people being knocked off Medicaid?" I think he talked about other healthcare programs too.

So I mean, it's not even between the lines.

I think they're saying it.

So you got it ahead of us there-

Yeah

... where Robert White, who's against this change, which, which incidentally went through, uh, he, uh, introduces an amendment, uh, knowing I think that it would knock the bill off stride, um, to cut-

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They honored the mayor for her 12 years as mayor.

Um, Robert White was out on the dance floor.

Um, Elissa Silverman came.

What was, what, what was he dancing to?

DoorDash threw in the towel this week, apologized, said they would work through the local government.

Robert White, the D.C. council member who's likely to be elected delegate to fix Eleanor Holmes Norton, said that this is a good warning to others that do not run to Congress and use our lack of democracy against us.

So it surely was a very poor move on the part of DoorDash.

And the apology comes a little bit late.

Speakers said the demonstration shows strong public support for preserving the institution.

Notable attendees include US Representatives Don Beyer and Jonathan L. Jackson, DC Council Member Robert White, labor leader Sam Epps, and Wonder Woman Lynda Carter.

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Activists linked hands, forming a human chain around the building.

Joining them was Washington DC City Council member Robert White.

Well, look, this is a national memorial, the Kennedy Center, but it is in DC, and it is a jewel here in DC.

And what it represents for the arts, uh, for protests, for democracy in action is something that we know too well, and there's no way we're gonna let this monument go without a fight.

From ABC News, I'm Dave Packer in Washington, D.C. Singers and live performances as hundreds gathered outside the Kennedy Center Friday night forming a human chain in opposition to President Trump's takeover of the memorial and his threat to demolish it.

D.C. Council Member-at-Large Robert White spoke.

This is a monument that was not falling down or bankrupt before he put his hands on it.

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