BOE - who are people voting for?

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Anonymous wrote:The Evans misinformation team has been hard at work this weekend with their half-truth (more like eighth-truth) comments about Stewart, even "agreeing" with the happy-with-Stewart posts as an in to derailing them with that slant. It's Political Propaganda 101 -- they're still scared stiff that Evans can't beat win Stewart in the general election.

They'd not only lose their most pro-MCPS Super+cronies agenda vote on the board, but they'd then have to deal with a person who regularly showed up with testimony that encouraged more piercing questions, so they're hoping against hope to whittle away enough primary support for Stewart to allow Mandel the second place spot, knowing Evams could win the November general against her.

You Laura Stewart boosters are kidding yourselves.

What transformative results did Laura achieve during her time with the MCCPTA?

Also, Stewart literally said, "I have friends on the board."

She's cozy with them. She goes along to get along. There's no way I'm going to buy that she's suddenly going to take a grenade to a system that she has largely cheer leaded and praised for the last decade. This image that Stewart, who has rubbed shoulders and elbows with many of the people she now claims she will hold accountable, is not a genuine one.

Why on earth would anyone feeling this way vote for Evans over Stewart? Literally any of this can be said moreso for Evans than for Stewart (where, again, they are, at best, half-truths presented with slant):

"goes along to get along"

"friends on the board"

"a system she has largely cheer leaded and praised for the last decade"

"what transformative results [did she] achieve?"

...and Evans had 8 years on the board, where she was supposed to perform oversight, not limited to a couple of minutes of public testimony as an MCCPTA advocate for capital improvements.

So if I'm voting for someone who's not a change agent, which I don't believe Stewart is, I might as well stick with the original (Evans), rather than diet Lynne Harris, which is what Laura Stewart is.

This illogic has to be the work of a Mandel campaigner.

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Anonymous wrote:^^ agree. Evan's backs the MCPS Central Office staff no matter what BS they feed her. Doesn't question a thing. She needs to go

I don't love Evans but I wish she had better challengers in this race. I don't think the two running against her are the right pick for what we need right now.

Mandel is way too far right for me. She has an extreme view of the world of education that is out of step with most of the county. It will be good if she loses the primary so she no longer has a platform to spew some of the stuff that she believes in.

Laura Stewart seems to be a nice person but I don't think she has the experience or chops to do much of anything other than to say nice things and be yet another middle aged white empty nest social justice warrior. Some of the stuff she's said in the past is also pretty extreme, just on the other end of the spectrum as Mandel.

I think it's telling that Stewart is afraid of her prior statements that she turned her twitter page to private the day she declared as a candidate. She used that for years to publicly advocate for change in the county but I think it says a lot that she now wants to hide from it. No backbone there to stand up for what she believes, which is too extreme for my taste anyway, but I'd at least like to give her credit for standing up for her ideals rather than running from them when it's politically expedient.

This seems a bit misinformed. There's so much partisan drivel here. People should do their own research and failing that just use the Apple ballot.

+1 for the apple ballot. I remember when they endorsed Shebra Evans and that was a great pick!

I can’t tell if you are being sarcastic.

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Anonymous wrote:^^ agree. Evan's backs the MCPS Central Office staff no matter what BS they feed her. Doesn't question a thing. She needs to go

I don't love Evans but I wish she had better challengers in this race. I don't think the two running against her are the right pick for what we need right now.

Mandel is way too far right for me. She has an extreme view of the world of education that is out of step with most of the county. It will be good if she loses the primary so she no longer has a platform to spew some of the stuff that she believes in.

Laura Stewart seems to be a nice person but I don't think she has the experience or chops to do much of anything other than to say nice things and be yet another middle aged white empty nest social justice warrior. Some of the stuff she's said in the past is also pretty extreme, just on the other end of the spectrum as Mandel.

I think it's telling that Stewart is afraid of her prior statements that she turned her twitter page to private the day she declared as a candidate. She used that for years to publicly advocate for change in the county but I think it says a lot that she now wants to hide from it. No backbone there to stand up for what she believes, which is too extreme for my taste anyway, but I'd at least like to give her credit for standing up for her ideals rather than running from them when it's politically expedient.

This seems a bit misinformed. There's so much partisan drivel here. People should do their own research and failing that just use the Apple ballot.

+1 for the apple ballot. I remember when they endorsed Shebra Evans and that was a great pick!

I can’t tell if you are being sarcastic.

Just trolling.

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Nope just very annoyed anyone would consider Mandel fit as a human much less a BOE member of any school board in the US.

She's insane and a horrible human.

There's a lot of candidates I don't like, but I'd never call any of them not fit to be a human.

Mandel’s treatment of other humans posted online by her own hand proves my point.

Her UTUBE and Instagram treatment of others then laughing about her horrible behavior towards others is factual by her .

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Nope just very annoyed anyone would consider Mandel fit as a human much less a BOE member of any school board in the US.

She's insane and a horrible human.

There's a lot of candidates I don't like, but I'd never call any of them not fit to be a human.

Mandel’s treatment of other humans posted online by her own hand proves my point.

Her UTUBE and Instagram treatment of others then laughing about her horrible behavior towards others is factual by her .

It’s a shame Laura Stewart was so nervous about the electoral impact of the views she espoused on her twitter page that she blocked the public from viewing all of her prior posts the day she decided to run in the BOE election. It would have been a great example to people like Mandel of how to treat others online when you engage in public discourse about issues, even when you’re advocating for positions that most others would view as well outside of the mainstream.

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^^^Mandel campaign trolling

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Nope just very annoyed anyone would consider Mandel fit as a human much less a BOE member of any school board in the US.

She's insane and a horrible human.

There's a lot of candidates I don't like, but I'd never call any of them not fit to be a human.

Mandel’s treatment of other humans posted online by her own hand proves my point.

Her UTUBE and Instagram treatment of others then laughing about her horrible behavior towards others is factual by her .

Does she post on Truth Social? I mean that alone would be telling.

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Nope just very annoyed anyone would consider Mandel fit as a human much less a BOE member of any school board in the US.

She's insane and a horrible human.

There's a lot of candidates I don't like, but I'd never call any of them not fit to be a human.

Mandel’s treatment of other humans posted online by her own hand proves my point.

Her UTUBE and Instagram treatment of others then laughing about her horrible behavior towards others is factual by her .

It’s a shame Laura Stewart was so nervous about the electoral impact of the views she espoused on her twitter page that she blocked the public from viewing all of her prior posts the day she decided to run in the BOE election. It would have been a great example to people like Mandel of how to treat others online when you engage in public discourse about issues, even when you’re advocating for positions that most others would view as well outside of the mainstream.

I don't think that's accurate. I'm personally fine with it and feel what she had posted seemed perfectly reasonable, but also understand why she wants to separate her personal life.

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Anonymous wrote:Diaz got fired from MCPS, or was about to when she quit instead of getting terminated. I worked at GHS when she was there and she was not well liked by staff or students. Plus she's a Moms for Liberty Trump supporter.

Why was she getting fired?

Asking again because I believe my question was lost in the shuffle.

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Nope just very annoyed anyone would consider Mandel fit as a human much less a BOE member of any school board in the US.

She's insane and a horrible human.

There's a lot of candidates I don't like, but I'd never call any of them not fit to be a human.

Mandel’s treatment of other humans posted online by her own hand proves my point.

Her UTUBE and Instagram treatment of others then laughing about her horrible behavior towards others is factual by her .

It’s a shame Laura Stewart was so nervous about the electoral impact of the views she espoused on her twitter page that she blocked the public from viewing all of her prior posts the day she decided to run in the BOE election. It would have been a great example to people like Mandel of how to treat others online when you engage in public discourse about issues, even when you’re advocating for positions that most others would view as well outside of the mainstream.

Here's your hourly post from our friends at the "Vote Evans Because...Hey, Look! We're Painting Stewart as Extreme! (Now Ignore Evans' Being More So and More Directly Complicit with MCPS Leadership, but through Reticence and Acquiescence to Keep it off the Radar...)" Campaign Committee.

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Nope just very annoyed anyone would consider Mandel fit as a human much less a BOE member of any school board in the US.

She's insane and a horrible human.

There's a lot of candidates I don't like, but I'd never call any of them not fit to be a human.

Mandel’s treatment of other humans posted online by her own hand proves my point.

Her UTUBE and Instagram treatment of others then laughing about her horrible behavior towards others is factual by her .

It’s a shame Laura Stewart was so nervous about the electoral impact of the views she espoused on her twitter page that she blocked the public from viewing all of her prior posts the day she decided to run in the BOE election. It would have been a great example to people like Mandel of how to treat others online when you engage in public discourse about issues, even when you’re advocating for positions that most others would view as well outside of the mainstream.

Here's your hourly post from our friends at the "Vote Evans Because...Hey, Look! We're Painting Stewart as Extreme! (Now Ignore Evans' Being More So and More Directly Complicit with MCPS Leadership, but through Reticence and Acquiescence to Keep it off the Radar...)" Campaign Committee.

I agree. I don't dislike Evans, but I think it's time for a change. Also, candidates other than Stewart aren't acceptable, so voting for Stewart.

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OK. I’m listening and want to learn about Stewart. Can somebody link me to one of the forms she participated in? I only watched the moderately moco forum and she did not participate in that one.

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Anonymous wrote:OK. I’m listening and want to learn about Stewart. Can somebody link me to one of the forms she participated in? I only watched the moderately moco forum and she did not participate in that one.

Here's one that didn't get much play: The UpCounty Democrats BOE Forum

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Anonymous wrote:OK. I’m listening and want to learn about Stewart. Can somebody link me to one of the forms she participated in? I only watched the moderately moco forum and she did not participate in that one.

Here's one that didn't get much play: The UpCounty Democrats BOE Forum

DP. Thanks for this link!

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Anonymous wrote:OK. I’m listening and want to learn about Stewart. Can somebody link me to one of the forms she participated in? I only watched the moderately moco forum and she did not participate in that one.

Here's one that didn't get much play: The UpCounty Democrats BOE Forum

I’m the PP. thank you and I just listened to it. Is she on any other forums?