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👋 Cuneyt here. I chopped up the latest in the mayor’s race with Will Sommer, who stepped in for Tom off this week. You know Will from his Loose Lips days, and he’s now a senior reporter at the Bulwark.
We talked about how Janeese Lewis George leads the prediction markets, following a brief Chipotle bump for Kenyan McDuffie after last month’s teen brawl:
Per the grapevine, WaPo is working on a poll, and since our episode went live this morning, a YouTube viewer (hello, Tricia!) confirms getting surveyed about it:
🚒 We also talked about this bonkers story about how D.C. paid $1M+ for people to act as human fire detectors at the Marion Barry Building in Judiciary Square.
While repairs to the building’s faulty fire system stretched for nearly a year, the D.C. gov’t contracted for a manual watch. A City Paper-Spotlight collab by Sloane Airey.
🎇 Plus: Freedom 250’s plans getting thrown off, Capital Weather Gang going independent, and much more in our speed round.
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