FCPS School Board candidates in Dranesville
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Anonymous
He basically told Karloutsos to shut up (and she WAS over time by more than a few seconds) but he was playing favorites? |
Anonymous
| Moderator did Keys Gamarra a favor. She answered the question about her famous quote. I don't remember the answer but I thought it was good in the moment. |
Anonymous
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Keys Gemara got tens of thousands of $ from Betto, is that true? How does Abrar Omesh have such a huge staff - I wonder where she gets the funding from...anybody know? There will obviously be a disparity (funding injustice?) between candidate performance and votes, some candidates literally buy it with advertising and a huge staff, too bad a lot of voters don’t really do their homework.
I liked that Vinson called out policy that pretend kids have adhd to get higher SAT scores, that is so unfair to kids that really do suffer from it! |
Anonymous
He told Karloutsos to wrap up after she’d gone over her allotted time. He lobbed questions at Tholen and Keys Gamarra and then allotted them no time to respond. See the difference? |
Anonymous
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He told them they could address them in closing, which means they got extra time to think about it before answering.
Keys Gamarra chose to address it but I don't remember if Tholen did. |
Anonymous
It meant they could use time that they had already set aside for their planned closing remarks to address a pot shot addressed at two candidates endorsed by the Democrats when other candidates were not subjected to similar treatment. Pretty below-the-belt for someone from an area with a tony reputation like Great Falls. |
Anonymous
| Republican and agree that the two late questions for KKG and Tholen were unfair. I don’t think it was intentional though.... regardless, they should have been given separate time to respond. Both did manage to address the question in heir closing remarks..... Tholen sounded like she’d already included it. |
Anonymous
| What was the Keys-Gamarra quote that pp referenced? |
Anonymous
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Yes, maybe it was a net benefit for them to show they could improvise on the spot while others were allowed to deliver their previously planned closing statements.
Honestly, Schultz’s and Wilson’s opposition to the McLean/Langley boundary study will have a much more negative impact on the candidacies of the Republican candidates in Dranesville than the Great Falls moderator’s little dig at Tholen and Keys Gamarra will have on their campaigns. |
Anonymous
In a 2018 work session, when it came up that Langley’s boundaries likely would change if a new western high school was eventually built, KKG said she was in favor of “alerting the community as gently as we can,” so they were on clear notice and would not be asking questions about it constantly for the next decade. Hard to see, really, why anyone would take issue with that, except that some groups tried to suggest it was evidence that KKG wanted to change Langley’s boundaries because of One Fairfax. |
Anonymous
| To be fair, that’s not actually how she said it..... it was more “I’m not sure I want to hear about it for the next 10 years”..... with a little laugh. She seemed a tad condescending referring to those annoying constituents that expect to have their representatives advocate for them rather than manipulate them |
Anonymous
Langley people don’t much like it when KKG doesn’t fawn over them when they’re telling her for the hundredth time how they simply cannot ever be expected to attend (sniff) Herndon. Someone needs to let her know her place, right? |
Anonymous
You have issues. |
Anonymous
I’m not the one carrying their silly “No Social Engineering!” signs with them everywhere they go. |
Anonymous
Why would an at-large representative be expected to advocate for keeping kids in western Fairfax at Langley if a new high school were built? |