Dear Friend   ,

Today, our next campaign begins. You’ve supported me in the past, and I’m asking for your support again with two clear asks: 1) Decline to sign the recall petition, and 2) Donate to help us fight back.

Ward 6 decisively elected me three times for a reason: I work every day with neighbors to solve tough problems and make Ward 6 a place everyone can call home. As your Councilmember, I work tirelessly to ensure our neighborhoods have great schools, safer streets, diverse local businesses, and world-class parks, playgrounds, libraries, pools, and more. In fact, in my time in office, we’ve partnered to deliver nearly $1 billion for Ward 6 schools, libraries, rec centers, and parks, including $370 million for five elementary school modernizations in the budget right now.

Since I was last elected, I’ve championed legislative solutions to challenges in Ward 6 both big and small. I’ve led on bills to:

We’re also taking on the biggest issues facing the city. I’m:

And that’s just this Council session. 

But now, rather than legitimately running against me as a candidate for the Ward 6 seat, there’s an effort to overturn our latest victory – won just 15 months ago – and force a costly taxpayer-funded recall election that, if successful, would leave Ward 6 without a voice on the Council until another costly taxpayer-funded special election. It’s irresponsible, it’s wrong, and most importantly, it won’t solve our problems.

The best way to stop this bad faith recall effort is to decline to sign the petition.

Even as I know many Ward 6 neighbors are concerned about crime, I can't ignore the big money funneled into this effort has attracted from outside Ward 6 and from national, right-wing sources.

I’m asking you to contribute so we can fight back. This time, there won’t be public financing available and we aren’t taking corporate contributions. That means we need you to chip in as much as you’re able.

The organizers of this recall effort are working hard to mislead neighbors with distortions and fear, rather than focusing on solutions to the very real public safety challenges the District faces. They’re exploiting legitimate concerns about public safety with disinformation about me and the city we love. 

While we're all concerned about crime, they’re playing into the hands of those who would take away the District’s right to govern itself. And now, they’ve announced that they’re spending tens of thousands of dollars to hire outside professional firms to collect signatures to buy their way onto the ballot, all with the goal of circumventing the General Election in November by forcing an expensive, low-turnout special election.

We know the results we can deliver when Ward 6 works together. As your Councilmember, public safety is my top priority. Working for you at the Council, I’ve:

I’ve also focused on getting dangerous guns out of our community by leading commonsense efforts in DC that:

And last week, I worked with my colleagues to move forward the Secure DC Omnibus Amendment Act , a public safety bill that increases accountability for violent actors and bolsters prevention efforts to stop crime before it happens.

I fight every day for Ward 6 and our city’s future. Right now, the best way to help is taking the following steps: Donate. Order a Yard Sign. Volunteer.

Crime in the District is a serious issue. The causes aren’t simple; and neither are the solutions. Let’s look beyond disinformation and work together to make DC safer.

Thank you,

Charles Allen

Thanks for all your support now and in the past,

Charles

P.S. - I have appreciated hearing from so many of you these past few weeks, sharing your frustration with the lies you’re hearing and asking how to help. Please make a contribution today and support all we’ve worked so hard to achieve together for our community.