Riemer is the worst choice for MoCo

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:7. None of his current or former elected colleagues have endorsed him. That says a lot about the person. Some have endorsed his opponents.

8. Riemer voted to and successfully defunded police by removing SROs from schools against the wishes of principals and many parents only to create a safety and security mess in MCPS that had to be fixed by bringing police BACK into schools this Spring.

9. Despite (8 above), Riemer has the gall to campaign as the crime and safety guy.

I really don't like Riemer, and he did cosponsor a bill with Jawando to ban police from school grounds/remove SROs. But that bill never went anywhere because Elrich unilaterally pulled SROs out, despite an ongoing study by MCPS. Elrich knows better than anyone apparently.

And unfortunately, police are not back in schools. There are about 20 police covering over 200 schools, which means they are just constantly running calls and not building the relationships with students that actually help prevent violence.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:7. None of his current or former elected colleagues have endorsed him. That says a lot about the person. Some have endorsed his opponents.

8. Riemer voted to and successfully defunded police by removing SROs from schools against the wishes of principals and many parents only to create a safety and security mess in MCPS that had to be fixed by bringing police BACK into schools this Spring.

9. Despite (8 above), Riemer has the gall to campaign as the crime and safety guy.

I really don't like Riemer, and he did cosponsor a bill with Jawando to ban police from school grounds/remove SROs. But that bill never went anywhere because Elrich unilaterally pulled SROs out, despite an ongoing study by MCPS. Elrich knows better than anyone apparently.

And unfortunately, police are not back in schools. There are about 20 police covering over 200 schools, which means they are just constantly running calls and not building the relationships with students that actually help prevent violence.

That’s not what happened.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:7. None of his current or former elected colleagues have endorsed him. That says a lot about the person. Some have endorsed his opponents.

8. Riemer voted to and successfully defunded police by removing SROs from schools against the wishes of principals and many parents only to create a safety and security mess in MCPS that had to be fixed by bringing police BACK into schools this Spring.

9. Despite (8 above), Riemer has the gall to campaign as the crime and safety guy.

I really don't like Riemer, and he did cosponsor a bill with Jawando to ban police from school grounds/remove SROs. But that bill never went anywhere because Elrich unilaterally pulled SROs out, despite an ongoing study by MCPS. Elrich knows better than anyone apparently.

And unfortunately, police are not back in schools. There are about 20 police covering over 200 schools, which means they are just constantly running calls and not building the relationships with students that actually help prevent violence.

That’s not what happened.

It's exactly what happened.

Elrich pulled them.
https://wjla.com/news/crisis-in-the-classrooms/montgomery-county-public-schools-school-resource-officers-police-council-marc-elrich-students-parents-study-feedback-hybrid-program

Jawando and Riemer's bill never went anywhere, and now has expired.
https://apps.montgomerycountymd.gov/ccllims/BillDetailsPage?RecordId=2684&fullTextSearch=school%20AND%20resource%20AND%20officers

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I appreciate that Riemer was one of the only voices on the council trying to open schools, almost from the start. Plus, I support his efforts to add housing & focus on transit, even if there are no perfect solutions to those issues.

Get a grip. Hans big moment of courage was voting against letting bars stay open an extra two hours, because I guess covid only spreads before 11 p.m. You know what happened after he lost and bars stayed open later? Cases went down and schools stayed closed. That’s not the way he tells it, but you can never trust anything he says or writes.

The guy is a liar. And pretty stupid to boot.

Quite incredible and typical for Riemer, here he is in the Washington Post taking credit for Bethesda Row, which was developed in 2000, almost a decade before he moved to Maryland.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/07/06/hans-riemer-running-county-executive/

My take on Riemer is that he is basically Dunning-Krueger. Genuinely a dumb guy that thinks he’s so smart to the extent that he thinks everyone else is dumb.

Agree 100% Will not vote for this guy in primary or general.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:7. None of his current or former elected colleagues have endorsed him. That says a lot about the person. Some have endorsed his opponents.

8. Riemer voted to and successfully defunded police by removing SROs from schools against the wishes of principals and many parents only to create a safety and security mess in MCPS that had to be fixed by bringing police BACK into schools this Spring.

9. Despite (8 above), Riemer has the gall to campaign as the crime and safety guy.

I really don't like Riemer, and he did cosponsor a bill with Jawando to ban police from school grounds/remove SROs. But that bill never went anywhere because Elrich unilaterally pulled SROs out, despite an ongoing study by MCPS. Elrich knows better than anyone apparently.

And unfortunately, police are not back in schools. There are about 20 police covering over 200 schools, which means they are just constantly running calls and not building the relationships with students that actually help prevent violence.

That’s not what happened.

It's exactly what happened.

Elrich pulled them.
https://wjla.com/news/crisis-in-the-classrooms/montgomery-county-public-schools-school-resource-officers-police-council-marc-elrich-students-parents-study-feedback-hybrid-program

Jawando and Riemer's bill never went anywhere, and now has expired.
https://apps.montgomerycountymd.gov/ccllims/BillDetailsPage?RecordId=2684&fullTextSearch=school%20AND%20resource%20AND%20officers

Before that, Jawando and Riemer had already “defunded” unfilled/open SRO positions.