Small-Business Director | Formerly @DCNightlifeDCNC ExecDir | @Spotlight4DC Advisory Board | Former @WashBlade Columnist | @wcp Award: 'BestOfDC' Best Columnist
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Mark Lee retweeted
Jun 13
Washington Post news story weighs in on Office of Campaign Finance fining Janeese Lewis George $16,000 for improperly coordinating with labor groups embedded into her campaign.
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D.C.’s Office of Campaign Finance ordered Janeese Lewis George and her mayoral campaign to pay $16,000 in fines after investigators concluded her team improperly coordinated with labor unions and an independent expenditure committee. wapo.st/4g2YnPZ
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D.C. fines Lewis George campaign, finding coordination with labor groups washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/…
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I had a chance to catch up with @kenyanmcduffie today on the OCF report:
“The findings are jarring. It is incumbent upon her as somebody who is seeking the highest office in Washington, DC, to be honest with residents across the city about what she did and what she didn't do.”
NEW: In a statement, @Janeese4DC’s campaign calls the OCF report on allegations of coordination with unions “absurd” and “politically motivated.” She says OCF violated its own process, and did not interview witnesses it said it did. The campaign says it will appeal.
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Mark Lee retweeted
Jun 13
You can’t run a ‘people first’ campaign and misuse the people’s funds.
OCF just fined Janeese Lewis George’s campaign $16K for unlawfully coordinating with unions. This underscores what we already knew: she can’t be trusted. Worse? She straight up lied about it. Her pattern of unethical behavior proves she’s unfit to lead our city.
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Mark Lee retweeted
Jun 13
Yesterday evening, @Janeese4DC was found GUILTY of campaign $$$ violations and collusion. The shady PAC with whom she colluded is also GUILTY.
When will @washingtonpost or other news outlets report this? 🚨Voters are voting🚨
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The 40-page report issued by OCF on Friday night touches on a number of issues, starting with allegations of close and impermissible coordination between Lewis George's campaign, various unions, and the union-backed PAC. It says that coordination did occur.
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Mark Lee retweeted
Jun 13
#BreakingNews - Office of Campaign Finance fines Janeese Lewis George campaign $16,000 and independent Safe & Affordable pac $4,000 after probe of improper union / campaign spending coordinated with her campaign.
Friday night election news: JLG was found in violation of campaign finance law and fined $16k for four different offenses related to coordination with unions/PACs and improper spending procedures by campaign staff
Safe & Affordable DC was also fined $4k
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Friday night election news: JLG was found in violation of campaign finance law and fined $16k for four different offenses related to coordination with unions/PACs and improper spending procedures by campaign staff
Safe & Affordable DC was also fined $4k
ocf.dc.gov/sites/default/fil…
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NEWS: The D.C. Office of Campaign Finance is fining @Janeese4DC's campaign $16,000 for having "violated multiple provisions of District campaign finance law and the Fair Elections Program."
OCF is also fining the union-backed @WashDC4all political action committee $4,000.
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Mark Lee retweeted
Jun 12
We're reinstating the limited juvenile curfew in Washington, DC.
Effective tonight, all youth under 18 are subject to an 11PM curfew—and designated zones will be subject to an 8PM curfew as determined by the Chief of Police.
My full order:
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Mark Lee retweeted
Jun 12
The DC Council's budget could objectively be characterized as the epitome of performative, patronizing fiscal management that risks the city’s financial standing.
jonetta rose barras: The DC Council’s election year budget panders and jeopardizes thedcline.org/2026/06/12/jon…
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Mark Lee retweeted
Jun 12
DC has a housing crisis. And I know just how to fix it.
Build more. Preserve more. And reform broken systems.
Read my op-ed in @ggwash on how we move from slogans to solutions:
ggwash.org/view/103817/washi…
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In the closing days of the D.C. mayoral race, @kenyanmcduffie has published an op-ed in @ggwash (which has endorsed @Janeese4DC) on how he would fix D.C.'s housing crisis. "I pledge to you a policy agenda that will actually deliver new housing," he writes. ggwash.org/view/103817/washi…
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Mark Lee retweeted
Jun 11
5 states with the highest top marginal individual income tax rates:
1. California (13.3%)
2. Hawaii (11%)
3. New York (10.9%)
4. New Jersey (10.75%)
5. District of Columbia (10.75%)
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Mark Lee retweeted
Jun 11
Essentially nobody on the Council seems to acknowledge that if you compare DC to the fifty states we have *dramatically* higher per capita consolidated state and local spending than any other jurisdiction.
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Mark Lee retweeted
Jun 10
Early voting totals in DC primary one week before the polls close, 2022 vs. 2026
DropBox and In-person seem to offset one another. The big difference is mail; down 5k.
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Jun 10
As the DC government barrels toward a “fiscal cliff” the only solution city elected officials contemplate is further raising taxes to continue and maintain the massive budget increases of recent years – never constraining excessive spending.
Watching the D.C. Council struggle through a tough budget and think of revenue-raising options on the fly makes me think that one of the more consequential fiscal failures of the last five years was the Tax Revision Commission falling apart without producing recommendations.
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I asked @MayorBowser about the D.C. Council's revised budget. She's not impressed:
"All I've heard in the last several months is, 'We're too inefficient, we can spend less money!' I'm looking at all these reports and I don't see anyone spending less money. It's all more money."
The D.C. Council has restored funding for lots of social services and programs that @MayorBowser proposed cutting in the budget, but it also kicked the can down the road on some big spending and revenue challenges the city is facing: notus.org/metro/dc-council-v…
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