CouncilWard 1, District of Columbia

Jasper

Prince

Crannitch

Raj

Jasper

Jasper offers nonprofit and business management experience, more police hiring and easier housing permits; the question is how his proposed tax incentives and staffing legislation would work within the District budget.

Sources 7, 8Counterpoints 3

Prince

Prince runs as an independent critic of Council accountability, backing a delivery tax and youth curfews; the question is how his specific objections would become a workable District legislative agenda.

Sources 17, 21, 22Counterpoints 3

Crannitch

Crannitch is a performing artist and arts instructor proposing statehood advocacy, housing rights and arts-based rehabilitation; the question is how those goals would translate into funded programs and enforceable legislation.

Sources 11Counterpoints 3

Raj

Raj is a tenant organizer and Democratic primary winner promising wider rent protections and free childcare; the central question is how she would finance and implement that expansion of District services.

Sources 12, 13, 14Counterpoints 3

Jasper

1. Introduce legislation to increase Metropolitan Police Department hiring, as his campaign promises; Council legislation and appropriations would still need executive implementation.

   Sources 7Counterpoints 3

2. Seek legislation to streamline rental-housing permits, aiming to make construction easier; his campaign does not specify which approval requirements he would change.

   Sources 7Counterpoints 3

3. Propose special economic zones with business tax exemptions and credits for Ward 1 storefronts; the Council would have to settle their boundaries, eligibility and revenue cost.

   Sources 7Counterpoints 3

Prince

1. Push for a delivery charge above the proposed 20 cents he criticized as insufficient, tying the charge to delivery-platform pressure on street safety; passage and collection would require District action.

   Sources 17Counterpoints 3

2. Vote to expel Trayon White if such a resolution comes before him, as he explicitly promises; expulsion requires a five-sixths Council vote and the statutory finding of misconduct.

   Sources 21Counterpoints 16

3. Support keeping youth curfews in force, affecting young residents out late at night; his claim that they reduce crime is a campaign position, not an outcome established by the post.

   Sources 22Counterpoints 3

Crannitch

1. Seek District funding for the statehood delegation, the concrete step he names toward self-government; a Council appropriation would support advocacy, not itself grant statehood.

   Sources 11Counterpoints 2

2. Promote legislation recognizing housing as a human right, alongside more social-service resources and oversight; the questionnaire does not define an enforceable entitlement or its funding.

   Sources 11Counterpoints 3

3. Press for arts-related jobs, training and therapy for returning residents, and alternatives to youth incarceration; local access would depend on turning those proposals into funded services.

   Sources 11Counterpoints 3

Raj

1. Seek to restore and expand Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act protections and extend rent control, using District legislation to strengthen tenants’ bargaining position; enactment would require support beyond her own seat.

   Sources 12Counterpoints 3

2. Look to a business activity tax, higher capital-gains taxes and tax-abatement review before cutting paid leave, childcare or emergency rental assistance; those revenue choices would still face Council and mayoral decisions.

   Sources 26Counterpoints 3

3. Push toward free universal childcare and protection of the Pay Equity Fund, aiming to lower families’ care costs; access would depend on appropriations and providers’ capacity to deliver places.

   Sources 12Counterpoints 3

Jasper

The DC Republican Party features his candidacy; he tells The Washington Sun that public safety can reach voters across party lines. That is a campaign approach, not a demonstrated Council voting record.

Sources 6, 10

Prince

He criticizes the Council and DSA over housing and supports federal universal healthcare and progressive taxation, while arguing that local versions risk losing taxpayers. His independent positioning cuts across those policy camps.

Sources 18, 19

Crannitch

His stated priorities are statehood, racial disparities and community participation. These are his own questionnaire positions; the sources reviewed do not establish a legislative voting record or a break with his party.

Sources 11

Raj

She identifies with democratic socialism and organized tenant advocacy, and defends higher taxes on wealth as compatible with retaining residents. That is a documented political alignment, with no Council voting record yet.

Sources 13, 14, 23

Jasper

His strongest offer is attention to police staffing, permitting and vacant storefronts, backed by his account of managing organizations and budgets. Those are identifiable municipal problems for a Council member to pursue.

Sources 7, 8Counterpoints 2

Prince

He offers explicit commitments on an expulsion vote and delivery charges, and objects to the Council’s treatment of tipped wages. Supporters have concrete positions against which to hold him accountable.

Sources 17, 20, 21Counterpoints 2

Crannitch

He connects housing, youth alternatives and reentry to community participation and his arts background, offering a specific rehabilitation focus that supporters can ask him to develop into programs.

Sources 11Counterpoints 2

Raj

Her platform joins immediate tenant protections and childcare support to more housing construction, including permitting reform. Supporters can point to named legislative and budget tools rather than affordability as a slogan.

Sources 12Counterpoints 3

Jasper

His hiring and business-tax promises leave the financing unresolved: the campaign identifies neither the cost of its proposed incentives nor the spending tradeoffs needed to sustain them.

Sources 7Counterpoints 8

Prince

His housing criticism supplies no construction instrument in the cited post, while his opposition to local redistribution narrows the tools he would accept for affordability. Accountability arguments do not resolve those policy choices.

Sources 18, 19Counterpoints 17

Crannitch

The questionnaire does not identify funding levels, delivery agencies or outcome measures for the arts and rehabilitation proposals, leaving voters unable to judge their likely reach.

Sources 11Counterpoints 3

Raj

Rent caps and universal childcare create substantial implementation and financing questions; the reviewed platform does not pair the full package with a costed budget or a schedule for universal access.

Sources 12Counterpoints 26

Jasper

Which permits would he simplify, and what safeguards and budget limits would govern the proposed business-tax zones?

Sources 7

Prince

What housing legislation and local revenue measures would he support, given his criticism of both current housing politics and locally funded redistribution?

Sources 18, 19

Crannitch

Which agency would run his arts-based reentry proposal, how many residents would it serve, and what appropriation would he seek?

Sources 11

Raj

What would her childcare guarantee cost, which revenue measure would pay for it, and how would she phase it in if collections fall short?

Sources 12, 26