They were telling the electorate: You just don’t matter to us as much as the restaurant lobby. We’ll hear from worker advocate Raeghn Draper from the CHAAD Project; their recent piece about the rise-up of efforts for a better wage system for restaurant workers appears in Jacobin magazine. Sales taxes from the stadium don’t even go to DC, but to a “reinvestment fund” for the stadium’s maintenance and upgrades. Pete Tucker reports on government and media from the Washington, DC, area, including for FAIR.org and his own Substack. Transcript: ‘DC’s Not Making Money Here, DC Is Paying Billions’