Muriel Bowser: “We don’t live in a dirty city. We are not 700,000 scumbags and punks.…”

On the recordAugust 13, 2025

We don’t live in a dirty city. We are not 700,000 scumbags and punks. And we don’t have neighborhoods that should be bulldozed.

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Aug 13, 2025

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