The D.C. at-large candidates who hope to join the council continue to go after the incumbents.
Seven candidates vying for two at-large seats on the D.C. Council debated topics from term limits to statehood at a debate on Wednesday, aiming to distinguish themselves as Election Day nears. As in previous debates and forums, political newcomers took repeat shots at the incumbents who are hoping to retain their seats.
Asked about the council’s oversight, Niosi offered a similar assessment to Marshall, calling housing a major issue in the light of HUD findings published earlier this month that concluded poor oversight and faulty governance drove high crime wave,” he added . “A lot of the policies that we’ve been seeing on the council have done nothing to mitigate that.”Schwartzman said the council needed to go further in its oversight of the Department of Human Services, which contains many of the District’s homeless and youth services, to reduce theIn response to a question about the District’s elections and the popular public campaign financing program, both McLaughlin and Hill said city lawmakers should be subject to term limits.
“There is extreme lobbying, not just from the registered lobbyists but from the advocates that pretty much control many of the agendas that are put forth at the council,” she said. “I would like the advocates to register [their activity] just like the lobbyists … to have a process where it’s very clear who is talking to whom. Not to stop the process, but certainly make the process more transparent, a word that we all use much too much and don’t implement it.
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