Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:To answer the question directly, I am going to vote for Kim, Zimmerman, and Stewart.
My "split" vote (breaking from the progressive slate) is because I genuinely think the BoE has done a shockingly bad job at its oversight function, and that too many of them are more interested in protecting the reputation of MCPS than in representing the views of their constituents.
However, I'm not going to give the far right a foothold in Montgomery County, and I want folks who have the knowledge base to ask hard questions.
To me, a former public school administrator, a current teacher, and a long-time parent advocate are a team that could maybe get us some answers on questions of academics, discipline, and infrastructure, respectively.
But Kim has been pretty much invisible this campaign season. She has no shot at winning.
I'm the PP, and I do wish she were doing more campaigning. However, I've been at a handful of events where other candidates have also been, as well as public spaces (farmer's market, for example). To be honest, at least one of them has spent each of those occasions talking to people who already have power. So, they are at a public event but spending their time talking to existing BoE members or County Councilmembers. Or they are at the farmer's market but they are talking to the Democratic Party leadership folks who stopped by.
Basically, I'm not impressed by campaigning when it takes the form of cultivating even more access to power rather than talking to potential voters.