BOE - who are people voting for?

[Anonymous]

In the Zimmerman vs. Diaz race, I found it helpful to look at their endorsements to better understand how each would represent communities of color.

Diaz is endorsed by the MoCo Republicans and Moms for Liberty.

Zimmerman is endorsed by a host of current elected officials, many/most of whom are BIPOC. She also has the endorsement of the Latino Dems in Montgomery County.

So, if I want to understand which candidate will best represent Black/Brown communities, I'm going to look at what the leaders of those communities have to say, and they say Zimmerman is the better choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In the Zimmerman vs. Diaz race, I found it helpful to look at their endorsements to better understand how each would represent communities of color.

Diaz is endorsed by the MoCo Republicans and Moms for Liberty.

Zimmerman is endorsed by a host of current elected officials, many/most of whom are BIPOC. She also has the endorsement of the Latino Dems in Montgomery County.

So, if I want to understand which candidate will best represent Black/Brown communities, I'm going to look at what the leaders of those communities have to say, and they say Zimmerman is the better choice.

Good summary.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Here is another viewpoint on the race for BOE.

https://www.cleanslatemoco.com/stewart-harris-zimmerman-white-opportunity-hoarders/3282

You may not agree, but they have a point.

That person is a nut job. Conservative and full of hate.

Feel better? Trump is about to be back in office and who is on the BOE won’t matter.

Are you kidding? Safeguarding our local democracy is one of the best things we can do in the face of creeping authoritarianism.

That's why I'm voting against the Apple ballot. The union already has too much power.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Here is another viewpoint on the race for BOE.

https://www.cleanslatemoco.com/stewart-harris-zimmerman-white-opportunity-hoarders/3282

You may not agree, but they have a point.

That person is a nut job. Conservative and full of hate.

Feel better? Trump is about to be back in office and who is on the BOE won’t matter.

Are you kidding? Safeguarding our local democracy is one of the best things we can do in the face of creeping authoritarianism.

That's why I'm voting against the Apple ballot. The union already has too much power.

Yiu are not bright

Apple ballot people keep the RW off the school board.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They're not running to be your friend guys. Put the personal gripes aside and vote for who you think will best serve the school district.

You miss the point about Montoya. Her brief experience as president of the NCC PTA showed she is all about promoting herself. Montoya effectively bailed on that job a few months in, to run for the BOE. No one at the school wanted to work with her and several key organizational positions sat empty during her time as the PTA president.

When you sit on a governmental board, you have to know how to get along with others. If you have taken the time to understand the system you are leading (which Montoya has not done), you have an informed approach to persuading others on the board to understand your point of view.

Montoya is totally unprepared to be on the board, and her disposition shows she is unlikely to have success if she is elected.

Apple ballot begs to differ. She's one of their top picks. I trust the Apple ballot more than some internet rando.

Montoya hit the lotto to get the MCEA endorsement. There are those in MCEA leadership that regret this endorsement now that they have gotten to know Montoya, and her limitations, better. MCEA does not always choose the best people.

If people in MCEA leadership regret their endorsement it says a few things:

1. MCEA sucks at vetting candidates they endorse and therefore, their endorsements shouldn't carry as much weight as they do.

2. If they regret their endorsement and aren't saying so publically, but instead doing so behind closed doors so you can come on anonymous forums and claim so, then they are cowards and poor leaders.

Either way, this reflects more poorly on MCEA leadership than it does on Montoya.

MCEA was blindly furious about McKnight and was determined not to endorse any incumbents because of that. Period. In the at-large race, they could have endorsed Melissa Kim, a highly experienced educator in the DC system. But, they went with Montoya, probably because MCEA anticipated they would have greater influence with a candidate highly beholden to MCEA for a victory. But now, MCEA has had enough time to see the problems with Montoya, Montoya's inability to collaborate, and Montoya's inability to run a substantive campaign. So, yeah, MCEA leaders have regrets about Montoya. Fortunately, the Apple Ballot isn't what it used to be. Not as many voters rely on the Apple Ballot and choose instead to do some homework on the candidates. And that would lead them away from Montoya.

Melissa Kim would have been fantastic. Really disappointed with the current choices.

Are you kidding me? She resigned from DC before getting fired. She works for the Gates Foundation and implicitly endorses for profit schools like KIPP and other charter schools. Might as well vote for Betsy DeVos.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here is another viewpoint on the race for BOE.

https://www.cleanslatemoco.com/stewart-harris-zimmerman-white-opportunity-hoarders/3282

You may not agree, but they have a point.

That person is a nut job. Conservative and full of hate.

Feel better? Trump is about to be back in office and who is on the BOE won’t matter.

Are you kidding? Safeguarding our local democracy is one of the best things we can do in the face of creeping authoritarianism.

That's why I'm voting against the Apple ballot. The union already has too much power.

Yiu are not bright

Apple ballot people keep the RW off the school board.

You need to look at the big picture. Diaz is a distraction. The real danger comes from MCEA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here is another viewpoint on the race for BOE.

https://www.cleanslatemoco.com/stewart-harris-zimmerman-white-opportunity-hoarders/3282

You may not agree, but they have a point.

That person is a nut job. Conservative and full of hate.

Feel better? Trump is about to be back in office and who is on the BOE won’t matter.

Are you kidding? Safeguarding our local democracy is one of the best things we can do in the face of creeping authoritarianism.

That's why I'm voting against the Apple ballot. The union already has too much power.

Yiu are not bright

Apple ballot people keep the RW off the school board.

You need to look at the big picture. Diaz is a distraction. The real danger comes from MCEA.

Mcea does very little except collect dues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here is another viewpoint on the race for BOE.

https://www.cleanslatemoco.com/stewart-harris-zimmerman-white-opportunity-hoarders/3282

You may not agree, but they have a point.

That person is a nut job. Conservative and full of hate.

Feel better? Trump is about to be back in office and who is on the BOE won’t matter.

Are you kidding? Safeguarding our local democracy is one of the best things we can do in the face of creeping authoritarianism.

That's why I'm voting against the Apple ballot. The union already has too much power.

Yiu are not bright

Apple ballot people keep the RW off the school board.

You need to look at the big picture. Diaz is a distraction. The real danger comes from MCEA.

Mcea does very little except collect dues.

If only that were true. Besides all of the closed-door negotiations with MCPS, they have the largest and most powerful political action committee in the area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In the Zimmerman vs. Diaz race, I found it helpful to look at their endorsements to better understand how each would represent communities of color.

Diaz is endorsed by the MoCo Republicans and Moms for Liberty.

Zimmerman is endorsed by a host of current elected officials, many/most of whom are BIPOC. She also has the endorsement of the Latino Dems in Montgomery County.

So, if I want to understand which candidate will best represent Black/Brown communities, I'm going to look at what the leaders of those communities have to say, and they say Zimmerman is the better choice.

Ok. Now do the Stewart/Evans race.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They're not running to be your friend guys. Put the personal gripes aside and vote for who you think will best serve the school district.

You miss the point about Montoya. Her brief experience as president of the NCC PTA showed she is all about promoting herself. Montoya effectively bailed on that job a few months in, to run for the BOE. No one at the school wanted to work with her and several key organizational positions sat empty during her time as the PTA president.

When you sit on a governmental board, you have to know how to get along with others. If you have taken the time to understand the system you are leading (which Montoya has not done), you have an informed approach to persuading others on the board to understand your point of view.

Montoya is totally unprepared to be on the board, and her disposition shows she is unlikely to have success if she is elected.

Apple ballot begs to differ. She's one of their top picks. I trust the Apple ballot more than some internet rando.

Montoya hit the lotto to get the MCEA endorsement. There are those in MCEA leadership that regret this endorsement now that they have gotten to know Montoya, and her limitations, better. MCEA does not always choose the best people.

If people in MCEA leadership regret their endorsement it says a few things:

1. MCEA sucks at vetting candidates they endorse and therefore, their endorsements shouldn't carry as much weight as they do.

2. If they regret their endorsement and aren't saying so publically, but instead doing so behind closed doors so you can come on anonymous forums and claim so, then they are cowards and poor leaders.

Either way, this reflects more poorly on MCEA leadership than it does on Montoya.

MCEA was blindly furious about McKnight and was determined not to endorse any incumbents because of that. Period. In the at-large race, they could have endorsed Melissa Kim, a highly experienced educator in the DC system. But, they went with Montoya, probably because MCEA anticipated they would have greater influence with a candidate highly beholden to MCEA for a victory. But now, MCEA has had enough time to see the problems with Montoya, Montoya's inability to collaborate, and Montoya's inability to run a substantive campaign. So, yeah, MCEA leaders have regrets about Montoya. Fortunately, the Apple Ballot isn't what it used to be. Not as many voters rely on the Apple Ballot and choose instead to do some homework on the candidates. And that would lead them away from Montoya.

Melissa Kim would have been fantastic. Really disappointed with the current choices.

Are you kidding me? She resigned from DC before getting fired. She works for the Gates Foundation and implicitly endorses for profit schools like KIPP and other charter schools. Might as well vote for Betsy DeVos.

Not to mention she didn't even launch a serious campaign. She threw her name in at the last-minute, didn't have a website, and just attended a few forums and called it a day.

Even if I wanted to overlook her controversial exit from DCPS, Kim didn't give herself a decent shot at building any kind of following or momentum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In the Zimmerman vs. Diaz race, I found it helpful to look at their endorsements to better understand how each would represent communities of color.

Diaz is endorsed by the MoCo Republicans and Moms for Liberty.

Zimmerman is endorsed by a host of current elected officials, many/most of whom are BIPOC. She also has the endorsement of the Latino Dems in Montgomery County.

So, if I want to understand which candidate will best represent Black/Brown communities, I'm going to look at what the leaders of those communities have to say, and they say Zimmerman is the better choice.

So why didn’t MCEA endorse Evans who they used to like?

Obviously these endorsements are meaningless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In the Zimmerman vs. Diaz race, I found it helpful to look at their endorsements to better understand how each would represent communities of color.

Diaz is endorsed by the MoCo Republicans and Moms for Liberty.

Zimmerman is endorsed by a host of current elected officials, many/most of whom are BIPOC. She also has the endorsement of the Latino Dems in Montgomery County.

So, if I want to understand which candidate will best represent Black/Brown communities, I'm going to look at what the leaders of those communities have to say, and they say Zimmerman is the better choice.

So why didn’t MCEA endorse Evans who they used to like?

Obviously these endorsements are meaningless.

Because she's an incumbent now, and they wanted to send an anti-incumbent message.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In the Zimmerman vs. Diaz race, I found it helpful to look at their endorsements to better understand how each would represent communities of color.

Diaz is endorsed by the MoCo Republicans and Moms for Liberty.

Zimmerman is endorsed by a host of current elected officials, many/most of whom are BIPOC. She also has the endorsement of the Latino Dems in Montgomery County.

So, if I want to understand which candidate will best represent Black/Brown communities, I'm going to look at what the leaders of those communities have to say, and they say Zimmerman is the better choice.

So why didn’t MCEA endorse Evans who they used to like?

Obviously these endorsements are meaningless.

Because she's an incumbent now, and they wanted to send an anti-incumbent message.

But supposedly they're not that anti-incumbent since according to DCUM gossip, MCEA leadership regrets backing Montoya? Which I guess means they would prefer to back Harris instead?

Doesn't seem like David Stein got that memo as he's touting the Apple Ballot with Montoya on it on social media:

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In the Zimmerman vs. Diaz race, I found it helpful to look at their endorsements to better understand how each would represent communities of color.

Diaz is endorsed by the MoCo Republicans and Moms for Liberty.

Zimmerman is endorsed by a host of current elected officials, many/most of whom are BIPOC. She also has the endorsement of the Latino Dems in Montgomery County.

So, if I want to understand which candidate will best represent Black/Brown communities, I'm going to look at what the leaders of those communities have to say, and they say Zimmerman is the better choice.

So why didn’t MCEA endorse Evans who they used to like?

Obviously these endorsements are meaningless.

Because she's an incumbent now, and they wanted to send an anti-incumbent message.

To rebuke their own candidates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In the Zimmerman vs. Diaz race, I found it helpful to look at their endorsements to better understand how each would represent communities of color.

Diaz is endorsed by the MoCo Republicans and Moms for Liberty.

Zimmerman is endorsed by a host of current elected officials, many/most of whom are BIPOC. She also has the endorsement of the Latino Dems in Montgomery County.

So, if I want to understand which candidate will best represent Black/Brown communities, I'm going to look at what the leaders of those communities have to say, and they say Zimmerman is the better choice.

So why didn’t MCEA endorse Evans who they used to like?

Obviously these endorsements are meaningless.

Because whatever promise Evans showed eight years back in comparison to her opponent, Green-turned-Republican (and later no longer a Montgomery County resident) Anjali Reed Phukan, largely failed to materialize for the benefit of a majority of the MCPS community of families and teachers.