Better than what the Apple Ballot did. Great judges of character and integrity there. |
Who are you voting for in district 2? I don't like any of the candidates. Or I should say - I won't vote for Smondrowki as the incumbent, or Diaz as a mom for liberty, and all the other candidates seem meh. -DP |
It looks like the other thread was removed about Rita Montoya, and an article that came out about bylaws and resigning from the PTA before running. does anybody know why? |
The OP of that thread had consistently sock puppeted throughout the thread. It appeared to be more of a oppo campaign ad instead of a discussion. |
OK thank you I appreciate the explanation. Can we discuss it here? I thought it was pretty important and I was glad to have read that thread. |
Unfortunately when posters sock puppet in this manner it puts everything they have posted in doubt. If you can support what you want to say with authoritative sources, it should be okay. But I will be viewing things very skeptically. Ironically, I discovered the sock puppeting by accident while simply trying to evaluate ad formats on an iPad. It wasn't even my intention to look for such a thing. |
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was there ever any doubt? |
The post was heavily sourced. Maybe you should have paid attention. |
Thanks again. I’m an active participant ( was not the op of that thread) and don’t always identify myself as a previous poster or by my time (because I would have to scroll back, find my post, and the time I commented). Is that OK? I don’t want to be considered a puppeteer but short of registering what else can I do? I struggle with being an active participant, but not a sock puppet. |
I paid enough attention to notice that the OP was sock puppeting .If she wants to have a converstation with herself, she can do it someplace other than on DCUM. |
What you describe is fine. The OP was directly replying to her own posts. |
It also misunderstood the relationship between local PTAs and MCCPTA. The NCC PTA inherits from Free State PTA, which inherits from National PTA. MCCPTA is, literally, a coalition of individual school PTAs aimed at support (like helping get those individual PTA bylaws done) and group advocacy (sometimes contentious among members). Montoya is not an MCCPTA officer, and local school PTAs do not inherit from MCCPTA bylaws, the source of the quoted prohibition on running for office while an officer. It doesn't appear from the source that the NCC PTA bylaws require her to step down. The NCC PTA's bylaws do restrict campaign support when acting in official capacity, so she can't campaign in her 10 minutes at tonight's meeting (probably reserved for a President's report). If the councilmembers' appearances are tacitly for the purpose of Montoya's campaign, that would be a violation, since the NCC PTA bylaws prohibit association time for that. If they are there for another purpose, then they would not. Of course, getting that many councilmembers at your PTA meeting might be considered heavy signaling... |
I am more interested in candidate positions than these subtle technicalities of things that seem mostly irrelevant. I'd leave that to wacky outlets like Moderately Moco to obsess about. |
Ethics is a subtle technicality. And there is the problem with MCPS. |