Montgomery County Council

[Anonymous]

Hah, you think Friedson is light on budget and instead you favor Jawando? He's even worse in that area!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Scott Goldberg is sort of... fine I guess? You wont get any new ideas, he's part of the Moco democratic machine forever. But he doesnt strike me as full on nutty.

Friedsen is the best of the bunch running for executive (which is not saying much). I have no idea what the person was referring to about his wife.

Her family owns some lower end apartment buildings with maintenance problems but none in MoCo as far as I know, so I don’t see that as the dealbreaker for Friedson.

To me the dealbreaker for Friedson is that he seems very gullible and too willing to give his donors large taxpayer handouts. Friedson likes to pretend he’s an economist and budget wonk but he’s a lightweight on both subjects. Madaleno has run circles around him on the budget, and Friedson’s economic initiatives haven’t brought anything new to the table and more importantly haven’t delivered growth. Glass is basically Friedson light. Glass’s signature bill was banning leaf blowers. That leaves Jawando. I don’t like where he’s landed on a number of issues but he seems to listen to more people than just Friedson and Glass, and I give him a lot of credit for that.

Madaleno was responsible for the first shift from the State for the teacher pension responsibility. He made the County pay MORE. I think he's shady and self-serving budgetarily. I don't trust him at all.

[Anonymous]

Rich Madaleno is smart, as everyone says. I just disagree with his lifelong political leaning of "always raise taxes in every instance possible"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hah, you think Friedson is light on budget and instead you favor Jawando? He's even worse in that area!

Jawando is at least honest about who he is and listens to people. Friedson claims to know everything and wields what little knowledge he actually has to to mislead.

[Anonymous]

Frisson is in the developers’ pockets. He wants to rezone the entire county so his donors can tackle established residential neighborhoods and raze $1m homes (which these days mean 3br 1.5 bath, not fancy) to put up three 900K condos. And he calls that “attainable housing.” Make developers rich, destroy single family neighborhoods and make MoCo teachers and firefighters live in Howard County.

No thank you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ll support anyone but Jawando for county executive

+1

[Anonymous]

How does everyone feel about Laurie Anne Sayles? She's running again for Council. I think she's been underwhelming. I was really happy to have additional upcounty representation but that's not what we seem to have gotten.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How does everyone feel about Laurie Anne Sayles? She's running again for Council. I think she's been underwhelming. I was really happy to have additional upcounty representation but that's not what we seem to have gotten.

It would restore my faith in humanity and democracy if she were not reelected.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Frisson is in the developers’ pockets. He wants to rezone the entire county so his donors can tackle established residential neighborhoods and raze $1m homes (which these days mean 3br 1.5 bath, not fancy) to put up three 900K condos. And he calls that “attainable housing.” Make developers rich, destroy single family neighborhoods and make MoCo teachers and firefighters live in Howard County.

No thank you.

All of the candidates will be about same elsewhere, so tuis is my number one issue.

[Anonymous]

I moved from Moco from DC in part to
Escape the dumb DC council’s overly progressive agenda. Who should I be voting for in Moco?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I moved from Moco from DC in part to
Escape the dumb DC council’s overly progressive agenda. Who should I be voting for in Moco?

*to Moco from Dc

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Frisson is in the developers’ pockets. He wants to rezone the entire county so his donors can tackle established residential neighborhoods and raze $1m homes (which these days mean 3br 1.5 bath, not fancy) to put up three 900K condos. And he calls that “attainable housing.” Make developers rich, destroy single family neighborhoods and make MoCo teachers and firefighters live in Howard County.

No thank you.

All of the candidates will be about same elsewhere, so tuis is my number one issue.

100 percent. Friedson, Glass, and Jawando have all voted for the same amount of spending. Friedson has made a big show of opposing tax increases, but he has no problem approving the spending. It's unclear whether he knows how this works. On top of that, Friedson has pushed to lower taxes on developers (especially for rental properties), which means the rest of us have to pay more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I moved from Moco from DC in part to
Escape the dumb DC council’s overly progressive agenda. Who should I be voting for in Moco?

If you moved from DC to MoCo to escape an overly progressive agenda, you didn't move far enough. I think the DC and MoCo Councils are neck and neck when it progressive overreach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hah, you think Friedson is light on budget and instead you favor Jawando? He's even worse in that area!

Jawando is at least honest about who he is and listens to people. Friedson claims to know everything and wields what little knowledge he actually has to to mislead.

Jawando is not honest and he does not listen to people.

The only things Jawando has going for him is:

- He's relatively young
- He's handsome
- He's tall
- He's a "respectable" Black man (married, lawyer, speaks well and has kids)
- He's somewhat attached to Obama

That's it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hah, you think Friedson is light on budget and instead you favor Jawando? He's even worse in that area!

Jawando is at least honest about who he is and listens to people. Friedson claims to know everything and wields what little knowledge he actually has to to mislead.

Jawando is not honest and he does not listen to people.

The only things Jawando has going for him is:

- He's relatively young
- He's handsome
- He's tall
- He's a "respectable" Black man (married, lawyer, speaks well and has kids)
- He's somewhat attached to Obama

That's it.

Why is “respectable” in quotes before Black man?

A lot of Jawando’s bill amendments and even some of his own bills have come from resident suggestions. That’s a lot different from Friedson, who just proposes what his donors (mostly developers) tell him to propose.