So what’s this Moco racial equity thing going on

[Anonymous]

Its becoming a real problem that all of these events are either held at Silver Spring facilities or are pre-stocked with an entire entourage and audience from Silver Spring. They don't want community input they only want to hear from a small portion of Silver Spring.

[Anonymous]

Navarro is such an idiot

[Anonymous]

They need to be up in Gaithersburg or out in the poorer rural sections or further out east and north in the really poor sections of Silver Spring not playing to their own little choir in downtown Silver Spring.

[Anonymous]

Tell me more about how much you hate Silver Spring!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They need to be up in Gaithersburg or out in the poorer rural sections or further out east and north in the really poor sections of Silver Spring not playing to their own little choir in downtown Silver Spring.

This. I live in "silver spring" and Navarro's district and it's too far for me to go after work.

It's really obvious that the neighborhood school plan led to economic segregation. Something should have been done about the school districts long ago, maybe in the 70s and 80s, but I think it's sadly too late to start now and I'm a fairly new east MoCo resident.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tell me more about how much you hate Silver Spring!

PP is right. They need to do this in Gaithersburg too.

[Anonymous]

Interestingly, a new report on homeless and low income kids was just issued by a county nonprofit. It focuses on poor outcomes---primarily for AAs. The data also highlights that most of the homeless families are headed by single moms with 3 kids...yet the report fails to draw any correlation to that fact, and instead points to racism.

I think the new county race equity initiative is merely pandering to the latest buzz phrase in the social justice industry. Community forums don't fix racism; and racism isn't prompting unwed parenthood.

[Anonymous]

I saw Elrich at the earlier forum yesterday and he looks like he has put on even more weight.

I love how the MoCo Government webiste is all about recognizing Elrich's 100 days...of what? So far, I don't think he's being an effective County Executive, and this "racial equity" buzz is in line with that. More pandering, more rhetoric, no action and no money to perform any action if he wanted to, if he's even interested. Elrich just looks out of breath and out of touch.

[Anonymous]

So ca I guess they’ll raise taxes to throw money at black and Hispanics fans then middle class whites move away?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Navarro is such an idiot

+1.

Hispanic here.

[Anonymous]

Why do these nuts keep on getting elected ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Its becoming a real problem that all of these events are either held at Silver Spring facilities or are pre-stocked with an entire entourage and audience from Silver Spring. They don't want community input they only want to hear from a small portion of Silver Spring.

I mean, Silver Spring is enormous in both population and land mass, so I don't see how holding public events in the largest city in the county two blocks from the Metro is supposed to be a bad thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do these nuts keep on getting elected ?

Because many people vote against their interests.

Dems are experts at it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do these nuts keep on getting elected ?

Because many people vote against their interests.

Dems are experts at it.

Huh...could say the same about those Republicans in Mississippi.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do these nuts keep on getting elected ?

Because we dont' have open primaries. What happened is 6 people threw their hat in the ring for county exec. Since the voting was split so broadly, to win you just needed to get the votes from one group (any group) and you'd beat the rest. Elrich did this with unions, but it was close -- he won by 77 votes over Blair. Elrich's vote count was equivalent to less than 5% of all registered voters in MoCo. Only the most engaged voters vote in the primary, so just pander to one group and you win it.

Then in the primary, the average joe votes and whoever is the democrat is who they select.

With open primaries, realistically it would be 2 dems who end up on the main ticket, and hopefully at least one will be moderate.

Watch this happen again in the 2020 presidential election. Dems will put up a very progressive candidate, and will lose to Trump. You need a moderate to win.