Elrich Now in the Lead

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Anonymous wrote:Serious question, will Elrich even live through a second term? He would be 77 by 2026. He's morbidly obese and looks unhealthy. What happens if the CE dies in office? Of course I don't wish that on anyone, I just don't know what the process is since we don't have a Vice-CE or whatever.

LOL. He’s certainly overweight and you could also call him fat, but “morbidly obese”? That’s a massive exaggeration. I think you should mentally prepare yourself for a third Elrich term.

He’s lost some weight so yeah, probably not morbidly obese anymore.

I don’t see any scenario where he runs for another term (if he’s even allowed? Can’t remember if there are term limits for CE). Things are gonna get messy this term, which he will have largely brought upon himself but he is smart enough to leave the real cleanup to someone else.

Will Jawando?

God help us all.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Serious question, will Elrich even live through a second term? He would be 77 by 2026. He's morbidly obese and looks unhealthy. What happens if the CE dies in office? Of course I don't wish that on anyone, I just don't know what the process is since we don't have a Vice-CE or whatever.

LOL. He’s certainly overweight and you could also call him fat, but “morbidly obese”? That’s a massive exaggeration. I think you should mentally prepare yourself for a third Elrich term.

He’s lost some weight so yeah, probably not morbidly obese anymore.

I don’t see any scenario where he runs for another term (if he’s even allowed? Can’t remember if there are term limits for CE). Things are gonna get messy this term, which he will have largely brought upon himself but he is smart enough to leave the real cleanup to someone else.

Will Jawando?

If Elrich wins again, he won’t be beatable. Maybe he’ll retire because he’s not a young guy.

If the seat is open, Albornoz, Jawando, and Friedson will probably take a run at it. Albornoz will probably get the establishment’s backing. Friedson will definitely get the developers’ backing, but he’ll be at a disadvantage because he’s never run countywide, and if he decides to continue down the road of being Riemer’s protégé, then he has a fairly low ceiling. Glass has to be considered in the mix as well.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Serious question, will Elrich even live through a second term? He would be 77 by 2026. He's morbidly obese and looks unhealthy. What happens if the CE dies in office? Of course I don't wish that on anyone, I just don't know what the process is since we don't have a Vice-CE or whatever.

LOL. He’s certainly overweight and you could also call him fat, but “morbidly obese”? That’s a massive exaggeration. I think you should mentally prepare yourself for a third Elrich term.

The year is 2027. Marc Elrich is in his third term as County Executive, after defeating David Blair by 6 votes. Blair had spent $10M for his third losing campaign.

As part of a $2 billion Racial Equity initiative, County Executive Elrich and Councilmember Kristin Mink have cosponsored a Racial Justice Task Force (following a 20% tax increase), which will first involve a $50 million commissioned study and analysis of all racial equity impacts of electrified food trucks and Bilingual Drag Queen Story Hours. As the last Fortune 500 company closes its doors in MoCo, the loss in revenue will be offset by state-run marijuana dispensaries.

Thank you for the laugh. So sad how this is likely to come true. Shows you how much leadership matters to a place.


Extremely scary how possible this is.

[Anonymous]

You know the door is always open for all of you transplants to move out, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You know the door is always open for all of you transplants to move out, right?

Conversely, it’s open to you to move as well.

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Anonymous wrote:You know the door is always open for all of you transplants to move out, right?

You the same type of person who tells people to go back to Africa? We have every right to fix what's ours.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You know the door is always open for all of you transplants to move out, right?

You the same type of person who tells people to go back to Africa? We have every right to fix what's ours.

What's "ours"?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Serious question, will Elrich even live through a second term? He would be 77 by 2026. He's morbidly obese and looks unhealthy. What happens if the CE dies in office? Of course I don't wish that on anyone, I just don't know what the process is since we don't have a Vice-CE or whatever.

LOL. He’s certainly overweight and you could also call him fat, but “morbidly obese”? That’s a massive exaggeration. I think you should mentally prepare yourself for a third Elrich term.

He’s lost some weight so yeah, probably not morbidly obese anymore.

I don’t see any scenario where he runs for another term (if he’s even allowed? Can’t remember if there are term limits for CE). Things are gonna get messy this term, which he will have largely brought upon himself but he is smart enough to leave the real cleanup to someone else.

Will Jawando?

If Elrich wins again, he won’t be beatable. Maybe he’ll retire because he’s not a young guy.

If the seat is open, Albornoz, Jawando, and Friedson will probably take a run at it. Albornoz will probably get the establishment’s backing. Friedson will definitely get the developers’ backing, but he’ll be at a disadvantage because he’s never run countywide, and if he decides to continue down the road of being Riemer’s protégé, then he has a fairly low ceiling. Glass has to be considered in the mix as well.

Friedson needs to grow up if he wants a political future. He was probably hoping his benefactor Franchot would win Governor so he could jump ship. He’s now going to need to remake himself. I see more Albornoz signs around D1 than I do Friedson. He ran unopposed, but still.

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Anonymous wrote:Serious question, will Elrich even live through a second term? He would be 77 by 2026. He's morbidly obese and looks unhealthy. What happens if the CE dies in office? Of course I don't wish that on anyone, I just don't know what the process is since we don't have a Vice-CE or whatever.

LOL. He’s certainly overweight and you could also call him fat, but “morbidly obese”? That’s a massive exaggeration. I think you should mentally prepare yourself for a third Elrich term.

The year is 2027. Marc Elrich is in his third term as County Executive, after defeating David Blair by 6 votes. Blair had spent $10M for his third losing campaign.

As part of a $2 billion Racial Equity initiative, County Executive Elrich and Councilmember Kristin Mink have cosponsored a Racial Justice Task Force (following a 20% tax increase), which will first involve a $50 million commissioned study and analysis of all racial equity impacts of electrified food trucks and Bilingual Drag Queen Story Hours. As the last Fortune 500 company closes its doors in MoCo, the loss in revenue will be offset by state-run marijuana dispensaries.

Extremely scary how possible this is.

We're already there:

https://mocoshow.com/blog/montgomery-county-completes-high-road-economic-inclusion-framework-for-an-equitable-climate-ready-economy-report-addressing-climate-change-equity-economic-development/
Montgomery County Completes ‘High Road Economic Inclusion Framework for an Equitable Climate-Ready Economy’ Report Addressing Climate Change, Equity, Economic Development


The Montgomery County Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), in partnership with other County departments, agencies and community business stakeholders, has completed the High Road Economic Inclusion Framework for an Equitable Climate-Ready Economy report that lays out a set of integrated strategies addressing climate change, equity and economic development.

The analysis, conducted by Emerald Cities Collaborativeand its subcontractors, Inclusive Economics and Health Care Without Harm, focuses on the need to actively align the County workforce and small business ecosystems. It also recommends leveraging partnerships with large “anchor institutions” to advance climate action and economic inclusion.

on the face of it, what's wrong with that? Climate change is real. Everyone needs to do their part. I don't have a problem with helping the poor, even with my tax dollars. I realize not everyone cares about poor people, though. Not sure what's wrong with trying to get businesses to hire more under served communities.

Then bring in more climate-friendly businesses!

What's wrong is the several hundred thousand dollar "study" to produce this "report" which consists of a progressive word salad. This doesn't actually bring in any new business or help any poor people or reduce any emissions. The jobs it does create are government bureaucrat paper-pushing jobs. Get ready for Elrich to hire more Climate Equity Officers in his next term, paid for by your taxes.

If there is an industry around studies, work groups, task forces, equity commissions, etc... then MoCo is a national leader in that industry. All nonsense work that does nothing.

Get ready for this conversation through 2026:

MoCo Resident: My taxes are too high, my job moved to Virginia and I'm stuck in traffic all day! And then my car got broken into and my kids aren't learning anything at school!

MoCo Council: Oh, bummer, that's terrible. It's all Marc Elrich's fault, I'm going to tweet about it!

MoCo resident: How does that help me any?

MoCo Council: More tweets!

MoCo resident: Elrich, do something?

Elrich: *Ignores*

MoCo resident: I'm an LGBTQ immigrant of color, help me!

Elrich: OK, let's form a task force to commission a study on the racial equity and climate justice impacts of. . .

MoCo resident: *Becomes NoVa resident*

This is incredibly accurate. You forgot the part though where the council pretends that everything that is solely their responsibility are actually Elrich’s fault and they have nothing to do with it.

[Anonymous]

So is it over, did Elrich win?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So is it over, did Elrich win?

There will be a recount.

[Anonymous]

I just got an email from the county as part of a mass. The mailing that apparently they found 100+ provisional ballots. Hmmm...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just got an email from the county as part of a mass. The mailing that apparently they found 100+ provisional ballots. Hmmm...

I got one too!

[Anonymous]

So are there still votes to count or is it over? If my math is right, Elrich won by 35 votes in the current numbers. Talk about a close election in a county with more than a million people!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So are there still votes to count or is it over? If my math is right, Elrich won by 35 votes in the current numbers. Talk about a close election in a county with more than a million people!

Only the recount is left. No other votes unless a recount brings up surprise uncounted votes.