CouncilWard 5, District of Columbia

Parker

Robinson-Paul

Kihien-Palza

Parker

Parker seeks another term on a record of family benefits and youth legislation; the question is whether he can sustain those commitments while the District confronts the budget pressures he describes.

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Robinson-Paul

Robinson-Paul proposes equal neighborhood services, more drug-free zones and youth job training; the question is how she would reconcile expanded enforcement powers with her stated concern about over-policing and unequal treatment.

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Kihien-Palza

Kihien-Palza offers business experience and a platform of means-tested housing support, healthcare price transparency and vocational education; the question is whether his accountability message comes with reliable facts and workable implementation.

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Parker

1. Defend funding for the District Child Tax Credit, which his campaign describes as $1,000 per eligible child under 18; continuation depends on future budgets, not his advocacy alone.

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2. Continue pressing tenant access to water bills and restrictions on shutoffs, through the Improving Tenant Access to Water Bills proposal and related utility legislation; further changes require Council approval.

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3. Keep pursuing opioid-abatement investments in Ivy City for treatment, prevention and community response, building on the targeted resources his campaign emphasizes; future services depend on sustained funding.

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Robinson-Paul

1. Support expanding drug-free zones, the criminal-justice policy she explicitly endorses; implementation would remain with the executive agencies operating under District law.

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2. Use Council oversight and funding decisions to seek cleaner jail conditions and fair treatment of inmates, as her questionnaire requests; the Council does not operate the jail itself.

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3. Push for youth jobs, training and community-service projects in Ward 5, alongside fairer access to neighborhood services; the answers do not identify funding amounts or a delivery program.

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Kihien-Palza

1. Seek means-tested housing assistance and priority for first-time homeownership, as his platform proposes; he has not specified the eligibility thresholds or appropriation in the cited plan.

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2. Press healthcare price transparency and regulatory reform through District law and oversight; the platform does not identify the regulations to repeal or the prices it expects to change.

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3. Favor technical and vocational education for Ward 5 students, potentially directing attention and funding toward job preparation; the campaign names no particular school partnership or training allocation.

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Parker

His child-credit appeal enlisted ten colleagues, showing coalition work on a redistributive priority. He also now urges spending cuts alongside careful tax increases; that fiscal qualification is explicit, not a recorded party-line break.

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Robinson-Paul

She supports statehood and prohibiting voluntary local cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, while also seeking more drug-free zones. Those answers establish her combination of positions without inferring them from her party label.

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Kihien-Palza

The DC Republican Party promotes his candidacy, and his platform explicitly criticizes one-party rule while calling for fiscal restraint, enforcement and means-tested assistance. No Council voting record establishes how he would negotiate those commitments.

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Parker

Supporters can point to named family-benefit and youth programs, including the child tax credit and school-support legislation, alongside an existing committee role from which to oversee implementation.

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Robinson-Paul

She makes equitable services across neighborhoods an explicit commitment and pairs enforcement with jobs and training for young people. Supporters can demand that service decisions follow needs rather than personal connections.

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Kihien-Palza

His strongest proposition is closer scrutiny of government spending and practical routes into housing and employment, backed by business-management experience described in the party’s candidate profile.

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Parker

Even endorsing group GGWash questions whether his commitment to community voice can coexist with the speed of housing construction he seeks. His own budget account also leaves major program commitments exposed to funding tradeoffs.

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Robinson-Paul

Her call for more drug-free zones sits beside concern about over-policing, without criteria in the questionnaire for resolving that tension or measuring whether expanded zones improve safety.

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Kihien-Palza

His February post said DC tap water could not be drunk after the sewer spill. DC Health says drinking water was unaffected, a concrete accuracy problem for a campaign built around accountability.

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Parker

Which programs would he reduce or which recurring revenue would he raise to preserve the child tax credit and other family benefits in the next budget?

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Robinson-Paul

What evidence would justify a new drug-free zone, and what safeguards would prevent its enforcement from deepening the inequities she describes?

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Kihien-Palza

What housing income limits, healthcare disclosure rules and vocational-training budget would he put into his first legislative package?

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