Riemer or Elrich if you lean left?

[Anonymous]

The MoCo executive election is an interesting microcosm of the divisions of the left wing in the Democratic Party. Of course, centrist-leaning affluent DCUM would probably rejoice at the fact that this helps Blair, but stepping back a bit, it shows why the left can't unite around anything (and is therefore no threat of an evil Marxist takeover that right wingers like to warn about)

Hans Riemer (and George Leventhal before him) has more of an Elizabeth Warren-type base. Technocratic, liberal, focusing on trendy social issues and catering to a young professional base. "YIMBY" on housing, pro-markets with a good degree of woke capital.

Marc Elrich has the Bernie Sanders base. Curmudgeonly, stick-it-to-the-man to a fault when it threatens getting anything done, caters more to the aging hippie base plus unions/low income workers of all demographics. More focused on labor than modern woke issues.

I lean populist left so I'm voting for Elrich again, however all of the candidates are flawed. I don't who the executive is actually matters in getting anything done, so I vote for the one who is more ideologically sympathetic while the council will just continue screwing us over regardless.

[Anonymous]

There’s already plenty of threads on the County Executive race. Go post in one of those.

Riemer is a self-promoting, nihilistic liar. He will lie to your face about anything and everything. He’s also magically incompetent in that everything he touches is crap and refuses to take responsibility for anything.

Leventhal is a classic Napoleon complex bully who got elected as part of Doug Duncan’s “anti-gridlock” slate and is personally responsible for the sprawl in Clarksburg which he now pretends to be against. He never talks about that though.

Elrich is Elrich. Deeply flawed but at least he’s honest.

County politics are broken and the proximate cause is the control of our government by this TPSS crew. They driven our economy into the ground while the region has boomed.

If you want a better future, the only path forward is to elected Blair. There needs to be an essential counter balance to these people that will take the needs of the entire county into consideration and not allow our government to be controlled by real extremist views who confuse social media engagement with the real world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There’s already plenty of threads on the County Executive race. Go post in one of those.

Riemer is a self-promoting, nihilistic liar. He will lie to your face about anything and everything. He’s also magically incompetent in that everything he touches is crap and refuses to take responsibility for anything.

Leventhal is a classic Napoleon complex bully who got elected as part of Doug Duncan’s “anti-gridlock” slate and is personally responsible for the sprawl in Clarksburg which he now pretends to be against. He never talks about that though.

Elrich is Elrich. Deeply flawed but at least he’s honest.

County politics are broken and the proximate cause is the control of our government by this TPSS crew. They driven our economy into the ground while the region has boomed.

If you want a better future, the only path forward is to elected Blair. There needs to be an essential counter balance to these people that will take the needs of the entire county into consideration and not allow our government to be controlled by real extremist views who confuse social media engagement with the real world.

You just made my point. There are other threads about the exec race filled with center and center-right leaning people who want to elect Blair. This is intended for people who lean left and want to discuss what the divisions between Elrich and Riemer say about the divisions on the left. Everyone already knows that Blair is the pro-business centrist and that most of the DCUM demographic is pro-business centrist. This post isn't for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There’s already plenty of threads on the County Executive race. Go post in one of those.

Riemer is a self-promoting, nihilistic liar. He will lie to your face about anything and everything. He’s also magically incompetent in that everything he touches is crap and refuses to take responsibility for anything.

Leventhal is a classic Napoleon complex bully who got elected as part of Doug Duncan’s “anti-gridlock” slate and is personally responsible for the sprawl in Clarksburg which he now pretends to be against. He never talks about that though.

Elrich is Elrich. Deeply flawed but at least he’s honest.

County politics are broken and the proximate cause is the control of our government by this TPSS crew. They driven our economy into the ground while the region has boomed.

If you want a better future, the only path forward is to elected Blair. There needs to be an essential counter balance to these people that will take the needs of the entire county into consideration and not allow our government to be controlled by real extremist views who confuse social media engagement with the real world.

No. He is not.

[jsteele]

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