Montgomery County, please give Elrich a chance. Don't let Floreen fool you.

[Anonymous]

(PP) And I'll add that I think Takoma Park, parts of Silver Spring - basically anywhere that voted over 50% for Elrich - should secede and form their own collectivist commune, and keep Marc Elrich with them as their Dear Leader, Lord Emperor, Revolutionary Comandante and let the rest of the county get back to BUSINESS. We would be so much better off if that far left corner didn't vote as a bloc en masse to skew all of our elections.

Takoma Park will never secede - how else would they be able to get all of our tax money to build Rec centers and libraries every few miles there? What about Saturday and summer schools only for their children? They have to reap the benefits of our high property taxes and the endless building sprees? There’s still a few areas in Bethesda where you can see some grass and parts of the sky after all!


Is this stuff true or is it hyperbole? Using county taxes to pay for serves exclusively to one small area is wrong


LOL -Yes very true. Silver Spring is an endless pot of need and leech to the rest of the county. At least TP levies its own local taxes. These areas really are bringing the county down.

[Anonymous]

It’s really too bad that Blair didn’t make a move for a county council position in a previous year. If he had a proven track record that was reasonably in line with his agenda, he would have won that primary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

(PP) And I'll add that I think Takoma Park, parts of Silver Spring - basically anywhere that voted over 50% for Elrich - should secede and form their own collectivist commune, and keep Marc Elrich with them as their Dear Leader, Lord Emperor, Revolutionary Comandante and let the rest of the county get back to BUSINESS. We would be so much better off if that far left corner didn't vote as a bloc en masse to skew all of our elections.

Takoma Park will never secede - how else would they be able to get all of our tax money to build Rec centers and libraries every few miles there? What about Saturday and summer schools only for their children? They have to reap the benefits of our high property taxes and the endless building sprees? There’s still a few areas in Bethesda where you can see some grass and parts of the sky after all!


Is this stuff true or is it hyperbole? Using county taxes to pay for serves exclusively to one small area is wrong


LOL -Yes very true. Silver Spring is an endless pot of need and leech to the rest of the county. At least TP levies its own local taxes. These areas really are bringing the county down.

Ah, the anti-immigrant, anti-Silver Spring poster has arrived. How are things in Olney?

If you can provide a few legitimate references to prove your point, please do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you can't even bring yourself to vote for Hogan, then you really need to stop thinking of yourself as "middle of the road", because you aren't. You're on the left shoulder, way over near the grass.

So just own it. Admit who you are. Be honest with yourself about it.

Well in that case, how much further are people to the left of "on the shoulder" if they want state-wide $15 minimum wage? I never said I wasn't a liberal. In fact, I said I was a far left deep blue liberal in many of the Republican states I used to live in. It's just here in Maryland somehow I'm not as liberal as other people.

No, most people in Maryland would think you are a reasonable liberal.

In Takoma Park is where you would be considered a far-right conservative corporatist enemy of the people.

(PP) And I'll add that I think Takoma Park, parts of Silver Spring - basically anywhere that voted over 50% for Elrich - should secede and form their own collectivist commune, and keep Marc Elrich with them as their Dear Leader, Lord Emperor, Revolutionary Comandante and let the rest of the county get back to BUSINESS. We would be so much better off if that far left corner didn't vote as a bloc en masse to skew all of our elections.

Takoma Park will never secede - how else would they be able to get all of our tax money to build Rec centers and libraries every few miles there? What about Saturday and summer schools only for their children? They have to reap the benefits of our high property taxes and the endless building sprees? There’s still a few areas in Bethesda where you can see some grass and parts of the sky after all!

This is...inaccurate, to say the least.

I live in Takoma Park and there is no way I’d vote for Erlich, BTW.

Another TPer here who would never vote for Elrich.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you can't even bring yourself to vote for Hogan, then you really need to stop thinking of yourself as "middle of the road", because you aren't. You're on the left shoulder, way over near the grass.

So just own it. Admit who you are. Be honest with yourself about it.

Well in that case, how much further are people to the left of "on the shoulder" if they want state-wide $15 minimum wage? I never said I wasn't a liberal. In fact, I said I was a far left deep blue liberal in many of the Republican states I used to live in. It's just here in Maryland somehow I'm not as liberal as other people.

No, most people in Maryland would think you are a reasonable liberal.

In Takoma Park is where you would be considered a far-right conservative corporatist enemy of the people.

(PP) And I'll add that I think Takoma Park, parts of Silver Spring - basically anywhere that voted over 50% for Elrich - should secede and form their own collectivist commune, and keep Marc Elrich with them as their Dear Leader, Lord Emperor, Revolutionary Comandante and let the rest of the county get back to BUSINESS. We would be so much better off if that far left corner didn't vote as a bloc en masse to skew all of our elections.

Takoma Park will never secede - how else would they be able to get all of our tax money to build Rec centers and libraries every few miles there? What about Saturday and summer schools only for their children? They have to reap the benefits of our high property taxes and the endless building sprees? There’s still a few areas in Bethesda where you can see some grass and parts of the sky after all!

This is...inaccurate, to say the least.

I live in Takoma Park and there is no way I’d vote for Erlich, BTW.

Why, pp?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

(PP) And I'll add that I think Takoma Park, parts of Silver Spring - basically anywhere that voted over 50% for Elrich - should secede and form their own collectivist commune, and keep Marc Elrich with them as their Dear Leader, Lord Emperor, Revolutionary Comandante and let the rest of the county get back to BUSINESS. We would be so much better off if that far left corner didn't vote as a bloc en masse to skew all of our elections.

Takoma Park will never secede - how else would they be able to get all of our tax money to build Rec centers and libraries every few miles there? What about Saturday and summer schools only for their children? They have to reap the benefits of our high property taxes and the endless building sprees? There’s still a few areas in Bethesda where you can see some grass and parts of the sky after all!


Is this stuff true or is it hyperbole? Using county taxes to pay for serves exclusively to one small area is wrong


LOL -Yes very true. Silver Spring is an endless pot of need and leech to the rest of the county. At least TP levies its own local taxes. These areas really are bringing the county down.

Ah, the anti-immigrant, anti-Silver Spring poster has arrived. How are things in Olney?

If you can provide a few legitimate references to prove your point, please do.

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/rec/facilities/recreationcenters/

Rec centers in Wheaton and Silver Spring area:
Ross Boddy
Gwendolyn E Coffield
East County
Good Hope
Long Branch
Longwood
Mid-County
Marilyn J Praisner
Wheaton (new)
White Oak (new and incredible)

Rec centers in Bethesda ZERO. Plans for rec centers in Bethesda - home to 64,000 over taxed people who also enjoy recreation and meeting other community members - NONE.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

(PP) And I'll add that I think Takoma Park, parts of Silver Spring - basically anywhere that voted over 50% for Elrich - should secede and form their own collectivist commune, and keep Marc Elrich with them as their Dear Leader, Lord Emperor, Revolutionary Comandante and let the rest of the county get back to BUSINESS. We would be so much better off if that far left corner didn't vote as a bloc en masse to skew all of our elections.

Takoma Park will never secede - how else would they be able to get all of our tax money to build Rec centers and libraries every few miles there? What about Saturday and summer schools only for their children? They have to reap the benefits of our high property taxes and the endless building sprees? There’s still a few areas in Bethesda where you can see some grass and parts of the sky after all!


Is this stuff true or is it hyperbole? Using county taxes to pay for serves exclusively to one small area is wrong


LOL -Yes very true. Silver Spring is an endless pot of need and leech to the rest of the county. At least TP levies its own local taxes. These areas really are bringing the county down.

Ah, the anti-immigrant, anti-Silver Spring poster has arrived. How are things in Olney?

If you can provide a few legitimate references to prove your point, please do.

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/rec/facilities/recreationcenters/

Rec centers in Wheaton and Silver Spring area:
Ross Boddy
Gwendolyn E Coffield
East County
Good Hope
Long Branch
Longwood
Mid-County
Marilyn J Praisner
Wheaton (new)
White Oak (new and incredible)

Rec centers in Bethesda ZERO. Plans for rec centers in Bethesda - home to 64,000 over taxed people who also enjoy recreation and meeting other community members - NONE.

More plans for recreation for Silver Spring, while Bethesda just gets more high rises and high density housing projects without appropriate parks, recreation or schools built to match- a new indoor pool complex.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Beat/2017/Silver-Spring-Aquatic-Center-Estimated-To-Cost-55-Million/

Bethesda gets:

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/news/why-so-many-cantilevers-in-downtown-bethesda-development-plans/

They are fighting residents’ desire to have one central patch of grass

https://www.google.com/amp/s/dc.curbed.com/platform/amp/2018/2/16/17020476/bethesda-metro-center-project

Marriott is good for the county’s coffers, but residents get shade and do much traffic it takes a half hour to go a mile down the street. Schools are often st double capacity and have been for years and years (Ashburton, etc).

https://bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Beat/2017/Marriott-Finalizes-Development-Deal-for-Downtown-Bethesda-Headquarters/

Bethesda is just a big ATM machine for Silver Spring, Wheaton and Takoma.

[Anonymous]

Do you know how big the "Silver Spring" and Wheaton areas are, and much like Bethesda they are unincorporated? And Longwood Center is in Brookeville, not Wheaton or Silver Spring.

Jane E. Lawton Community Recreation Center
0.5 miles from the center of Bethesda
https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/rec/facilities/recreationcenters/lawton.html

Wisconsin Place Community Center
1.7 miles from the center of Bethesda
https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/rec/facilities/recreationcenters/wisconsinplace.html

Kennedy Shriver Aquatic Center
North Bethesda

There are 3 you missed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

(PP) And I'll add that I think Takoma Park, parts of Silver Spring - basically anywhere that voted over 50% for Elrich - should secede and form their own collectivist commune, and keep Marc Elrich with them as their Dear Leader, Lord Emperor, Revolutionary Comandante and let the rest of the county get back to BUSINESS. We would be so much better off if that far left corner didn't vote as a bloc en masse to skew all of our elections.

Takoma Park will never secede - how else would they be able to get all of our tax money to build Rec centers and libraries every few miles there? What about Saturday and summer schools only for their children? They have to reap the benefits of our high property taxes and the endless building sprees? There’s still a few areas in Bethesda where you can see some grass and parts of the sky after all!


Is this stuff true or is it hyperbole? Using county taxes to pay for serves exclusively to one small area is wrong


LOL -Yes very true. Silver Spring is an endless pot of need and leech to the rest of the county. At least TP levies its own local taxes. These areas really are bringing the county down.

Ah, the anti-immigrant, anti-Silver Spring poster has arrived. How are things in Olney?

If you can provide a few legitimate references to prove your point, please do.

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/rec/facilities/recreationcenters/

Rec centers in Wheaton and Silver Spring area:
Ross Boddy
Gwendolyn E Coffield
East County
Good Hope
Long Branch
Longwood
Mid-County
Marilyn J Praisner
Wheaton (new)
White Oak (new and incredible)

Rec centers in Bethesda ZERO. Plans for rec centers in Bethesda - home to 64,000 over taxed people who also enjoy recreation and meeting other community members - NONE.

More plans for recreation for Silver Spring, while Bethesda just gets more high rises and high density housing projects without appropriate parks, recreation or schools built to match- a new indoor pool complex.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Beat/2017/Silver-Spring-Aquatic-Center-Estimated-To-Cost-55-Million/

Bethesda gets:

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/news/why-so-many-cantilevers-in-downtown-bethesda-development-plans/

They are fighting residents’ desire to have one central patch of grass

https://www.google.com/amp/s/dc.curbed.com/platform/amp/2018/2/16/17020476/bethesda-metro-center-project

Marriott is good for the county’s coffers, but residents get shade and do much traffic it takes a half hour to go a mile down the street. Schools are often st double capacity and have been for years and years (Ashburton, etc).

https://bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Beat/2017/Marriott-Finalizes-Development-Deal-for-Downtown-Bethesda-Headquarters/

Bethesda is just a big ATM machine for Silver Spring, Wheaton and Takoma.

So who's the better choice - Floreen or Elrich?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you can't even bring yourself to vote for Hogan, then you really need to stop thinking of yourself as "middle of the road", because you aren't. You're on the left shoulder, way over near the grass.

So just own it. Admit who you are. Be honest with yourself about it.

Well in that case, how much further are people to the left of "on the shoulder" if they want state-wide $15 minimum wage? I never said I wasn't a liberal. In fact, I said I was a far left deep blue liberal in many of the Republican states I used to live in. It's just here in Maryland somehow I'm not as liberal as other people.

No, most people in Maryland would think you are a reasonable liberal.

In Takoma Park is where you would be considered a far-right conservative corporatist enemy of the people.

(PP) And I'll add that I think Takoma Park, parts of Silver Spring - basically anywhere that voted over 50% for Elrich - should secede and form their own collectivist commune, and keep Marc Elrich with them as their Dear Leader, Lord Emperor, Revolutionary Comandante and let the rest of the county get back to BUSINESS. We would be so much better off if that far left corner didn't vote as a bloc en masse to skew all of our elections.

Takoma Park will never secede - how else would they be able to get all of our tax money to build Rec centers and libraries every few miles there? What about Saturday and summer schools only for their children? They have to reap the benefits of our high property taxes and the endless building sprees? There’s still a few areas in Bethesda where you can see some grass and parts of the sky after all!

This is...inaccurate, to say the least.

I live in Takoma Park and there is no way I’d vote for Erlich, BTW.

Why, pp?

Speaking just for myself here, I find him to be a bombastic demagogue. That’s why.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

(PP) And I'll add that I think Takoma Park, parts of Silver Spring - basically anywhere that voted over 50% for Elrich - should secede and form their own collectivist commune, and keep Marc Elrich with them as their Dear Leader, Lord Emperor, Revolutionary Comandante and let the rest of the county get back to BUSINESS. We would be so much better off if that far left corner didn't vote as a bloc en masse to skew all of our elections.

Takoma Park will never secede - how else would they be able to get all of our tax money to build Rec centers and libraries every few miles there? What about Saturday and summer schools only for their children? They have to reap the benefits of our high property taxes and the endless building sprees? There’s still a few areas in Bethesda where you can see some grass and parts of the sky after all!


Is this stuff true or is it hyperbole? Using county taxes to pay for serves exclusively to one small area is wrong


LOL -Yes very true. Silver Spring is an endless pot of need and leech to the rest of the county. At least TP levies its own local taxes. These areas really are bringing the county down.

Ah, the anti-immigrant, anti-Silver Spring poster has arrived. How are things in Olney?

If you can provide a few legitimate references to prove your point, please do.

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/rec/facilities/recreationcenters/

Rec centers in Wheaton and Silver Spring area:
Ross Boddy
Gwendolyn E Coffield
East County
Good Hope
Long Branch
Longwood
Mid-County
Marilyn J Praisner
Wheaton (new)
White Oak (new and incredible)

Rec centers in Bethesda ZERO. Plans for rec centers in Bethesda - home to 64,000 over taxed people who also enjoy recreation and meeting other community members - NONE.

More plans for recreation for Silver Spring, while Bethesda just gets more high rises and high density housing projects without appropriate parks, recreation or schools built to match- a new indoor pool complex.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Beat/2017/Silver-Spring-Aquatic-Center-Estimated-To-Cost-55-Million/

Bethesda gets:

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/news/why-so-many-cantilevers-in-downtown-bethesda-development-plans/

They are fighting residents’ desire to have one central patch of grass

https://www.google.com/amp/s/dc.curbed.com/platform/amp/2018/2/16/17020476/bethesda-metro-center-project

Marriott is good for the county’s coffers, but residents get shade and do much traffic it takes a half hour to go a mile down the street. Schools are often st double capacity and have been for years and years (Ashburton, etc).

https://bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Beat/2017/Marriott-Finalizes-Development-Deal-for-Downtown-Bethesda-Headquarters/

Bethesda is just a big ATM machine for Silver Spring, Wheaton and Takoma.

Poor underprivileged Bethesda! I’m sure its residents would abandon their country clubs for crappy county Rev centers in a heartbeat.

PS - What do you think the M in ATM stands for?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

(PP) And I'll add that I think Takoma Park, parts of Silver Spring - basically anywhere that voted over 50% for Elrich - should secede and form their own collectivist commune, and keep Marc Elrich with them as their Dear Leader, Lord Emperor, Revolutionary Comandante and let the rest of the county get back to BUSINESS. We would be so much better off if that far left corner didn't vote as a bloc en masse to skew all of our elections.

Takoma Park will never secede - how else would they be able to get all of our tax money to build Rec centers and libraries every few miles there? What about Saturday and summer schools only for their children? They have to reap the benefits of our high property taxes and the endless building sprees? There’s still a few areas in Bethesda where you can see some grass and parts of the sky after all!


Is this stuff true or is it hyperbole? Using county taxes to pay for serves exclusively to one small area is wrong


LOL -Yes very true. Silver Spring is an endless pot of need and leech to the rest of the county. At least TP levies its own local taxes. These areas really are bringing the county down.

Ah, the anti-immigrant, anti-Silver Spring poster has arrived. How are things in Olney?

If you can provide a few legitimate references to prove your point, please do.

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/rec/facilities/recreationcenters/

Rec centers in Wheaton and Silver Spring area:
Ross Boddy
Gwendolyn E Coffield
East County
Good Hope
Long Branch
Longwood
Mid-County
Marilyn J Praisner
Wheaton (new)
White Oak (new and incredible)

Rec centers in Bethesda ZERO. Plans for rec centers in Bethesda - home to 64,000 over taxed people who also enjoy recreation and meeting other community members - NONE.

More plans for recreation for Silver Spring, while Bethesda just gets more high rises and high density housing projects without appropriate parks, recreation or schools built to match- a new indoor pool complex.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Beat/2017/Silver-Spring-Aquatic-Center-Estimated-To-Cost-55-Million/

Bethesda gets:

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/news/why-so-many-cantilevers-in-downtown-bethesda-development-plans/

They are fighting residents’ desire to have one central patch of grass

https://www.google.com/amp/s/dc.curbed.com/platform/amp/2018/2/16/17020476/bethesda-metro-center-project

Marriott is good for the county’s coffers, but residents get shade and do much traffic it takes a half hour to go a mile down the street. Schools are often st double capacity and have been for years and years (Ashburton, etc).

https://bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Beat/2017/Marriott-Finalizes-Development-Deal-for-Downtown-Bethesda-Headquarters/

Bethesda is just a big ATM machine for Silver Spring, Wheaton and Takoma.

Poor underprivileged Bethesda! I’m sure its residents would abandon their country clubs for crappy county Rev centers in a heartbeat.

PS - What do you think the M in ATM stands for?

The people who are Country Club members aren’t really engaged in this fight.

[Anonymous]

What fight? The fight for poor underprivileged Bethesda?

You should go see the facilities they have upcounty. You’ll really be pissed then.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you know how big the "Silver Spring" and Wheaton areas are, and much like Bethesda they are unincorporated? And Longwood Center is in Brookeville, not Wheaton or Silver Spring.

Jane E. Lawton Community Recreation Center
0.5 miles from the center of Bethesda
https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/rec/facilities/recreationcenters/lawton.html

Wisconsin Place Community Center
1.7 miles from the center of Bethesda
https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/rec/facilities/recreationcenters/wisconsinplace.html

Kennedy Shriver Aquatic Center
North Bethesda

There are 3 you missed.

It’s tiny and nowhere near most of Bethesda . It’s in Chevy Chase which is nowhere near most of Bethesda.
So - there are 7 recreational center buildings in Silver Spring, including 3 that are new and extremely expensive but the residents of Bethesda are served because we can drive to an adjacent city to their own small, old recreation center? I think that the answer is that the county council has been heavily skewed towards members from Silver Spring and Takoma and they have inappropriately appropriated county funds to benefit their communities without regard to community members from other areas of the county. To me that says extreme selfishness and corruption and it should be stopped. Our taxes are ridiculously high we should also be receiving county infrastructure here as well - not just high rises and multifamily developments without adequate roads, schools or recreation to support it.

Silver spring Rec centers: Ross Boddy, Gwendolyn E Coffield, East County, Good Hope, Long Branch , Longwood, Mid-County, and White Oak.

Furthermore, the Kennedy Shriver Center is fine and is used by people to swim laps. It is not a community hub by any means.
There are several indoor and outdoor swimming pools in Silver Spring and Takoma Park - why aren’t those enough for Silver Spring? Why do you need a community center then by this logic? Why are there 7 of them in SS then?

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/rec/facilities/aquaticcenters/martinlutherkingjr.html

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/rec/facilities/aquaticcenters/pineybranch.html

There’s also the Wheaton / Glenmont , MLK and Long Branch Outdoor Pools.

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/rec/facilities/aquaticcenters/outdoorpools.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

(PP) And I'll add that I think Takoma Park, parts of Silver Spring - basically anywhere that voted over 50% for Elrich - should secede and form their own collectivist commune, and keep Marc Elrich with them as their Dear Leader, Lord Emperor, Revolutionary Comandante and let the rest of the county get back to BUSINESS. We would be so much better off if that far left corner didn't vote as a bloc en masse to skew all of our elections.

Takoma Park will never secede - how else would they be able to get all of our tax money to build Rec centers and libraries every few miles there? What about Saturday and summer schools only for their children? They have to reap the benefits of our high property taxes and the endless building sprees? There’s still a few areas in Bethesda where you can see some grass and parts of the sky after all!


Is this stuff true or is it hyperbole? Using county taxes to pay for serves exclusively to one small area is wrong


LOL -Yes very true. Silver Spring is an endless pot of need and leech to the rest of the county. At least TP levies its own local taxes. These areas really are bringing the county down.

Ah, the anti-immigrant, anti-Silver Spring poster has arrived. How are things in Olney?

If you can provide a few legitimate references to prove your point, please do.

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/rec/facilities/recreationcenters/

Rec centers in Wheaton and Silver Spring area:
Ross Boddy
Gwendolyn E Coffield
East County
Good Hope
Long Branch
Longwood
Mid-County
Marilyn J Praisner
Wheaton (new)
White Oak (new and incredible)

Rec centers in Bethesda ZERO. Plans for rec centers in Bethesda - home to 64,000 over taxed people who also enjoy recreation and meeting other community members - NONE.

More plans for recreation for Silver Spring, while Bethesda just gets more high rises and high density housing projects without appropriate parks, recreation or schools built to match- a new indoor pool complex.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Beat/2017/Silver-Spring-Aquatic-Center-Estimated-To-Cost-55-Million/

Bethesda gets:

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/news/why-so-many-cantilevers-in-downtown-bethesda-development-plans/

They are fighting residents’ desire to have one central patch of grass

https://www.google.com/amp/s/dc.curbed.com/platform/amp/2018/2/16/17020476/bethesda-metro-center-project

Marriott is good for the county’s coffers, but residents get shade and do much traffic it takes a half hour to go a mile down the street. Schools are often st double capacity and have been for years and years (Ashburton, etc).

https://bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Beat/2017/Marriott-Finalizes-Development-Deal-for-Downtown-Bethesda-Headquarters/

Bethesda is just a big ATM machine for Silver Spring, Wheaton and Takoma.

Poor underprivileged Bethesda! I’m sure its residents would abandon their country clubs for crappy county Rev centers in a heartbeat.

PS - What do you think the M in ATM stands for?

The people who are Country Club members aren’t really engaged in this fight.

Nobody is under privileged but if we’re paying taxes it shouldn’t just be to support the people in other areas of the county, it’s absurd.