If you're pro-housing in MoCo, do you vote for Elrich or leave it blank

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Given the state of the Republican Party I cannot vote for an R under any circumstances. I didn’t vote in that race. You can always leave the race blank.

A lone Republican to balance out a runaway county council actually seems like a solid, reasonable idea.

Signed,
A Democrat

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That sounds good in theory, but the actual candidates the GOP offers do not have a chance. I know you think Sully sounds reasonable. To the majority of MoCo voters, he is wacko. Sorry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Given the state of the Republican Party I cannot vote for an R under any circumstances. I didn’t vote in that race. You can always leave the race blank.

A lone Republican to balance out a runaway county council actually seems like a solid, reasonable idea.

Signed,
A Democrat

+1

That sounds good in theory, but the actual candidates the GOP offers do not have a chance. I know you think Sully sounds reasonable. To the majority of MoCo voters, he is wacko. Sorry.

The majority of MoCo voters are wacko, such as yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Given the state of the Republican Party I cannot vote for an R under any circumstances. I didn’t vote in that race. You can always leave the race blank.

A lone Republican to balance out a runaway county council actually seems like a solid, reasonable idea.

Signed,
A Democrat

+1

That sounds good in theory, but the actual candidates the GOP offers do not have a chance. I know you think Sully sounds reasonable. To the majority of MoCo voters, he is wacko. Sorry.

Elrich is the biggest wacko of all.

[Anonymous]

Lifelong Dem and we're voting for Sully

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Given the state of the Republican Party I cannot vote for an R under any circumstances. I didn’t vote in that race. You can always leave the race blank.

A lone Republican to balance out a runaway county council actually seems like a solid, reasonable idea.

Signed,
A Democrat

+1

That sounds good in theory, but the actual candidates the GOP offers do not have a chance. I know you think Sully sounds reasonable. To the majority of MoCo voters, he is wacko. Sorry.

PP here. I’m not 100% thrilled with Sullivan, but I’ll take him over Elrich. The “Reimagining Public Safety” foolishness made me loose all confidence in Elrich. If you haven’t read that report, I recommend you check it out before voting.

[Anonymous]

Elrich has been feckless with money spent on an issue that could and should be dealt with. Most of moco residents are unaware.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sully.

I am voting Republican on several tickets this year.

The corruption is rapidly becoming apparent to the public now. Diversity of thought is crucial. Or the corruption and incompetence will continue unabated.

agree with this. too much corruption and mismanagement of $$$ happening now. Willing to give Sully a chance. I dont vote party, I vote history, of which Elrich is not impressing me, and what a candidate's focus will be.

Here is a quote from Reardon Sullivan's campaign site:
"The Montgomery County Public School administrators are not focused on providing the best education for our students. They have wandered far away from teaching basic reading, writing and arithmetic, and are focusing on the teaching of Critical Race Theory (CRT) principles, diversity, and graphic sexual material to elementary school children. They even commissioned a $900,000 School Boundary Analysis, the focus of which was to redraw school boundaries for the goal of achieving school diversity even to the extent of bussing students to other school districts, despite the fact that parents bought homes to be in specific school districts."

If you think this any of this is reasonable/accurate, then you have bought into GOP misinformation and are obviously not a liberal or a Democrat. Fine, you obviously have the right to vote for whoever you want. But MoCo voters don't elect wackos like this guy.

I didn’t know the above but I agree with it. 100%. The bussing initiative was nuts and a huge waste of money. I agree that the schools should go back to true basics. Do you honestly think this progressiveness has been good for the county? I think it has caused a bigger divide among races, a loss of the middle class since there aren’t enough well paying jobs in the county for everyone and definitely a huge increase in crime. I live in Wheaton and it has absolutely deteriorated in the past couple decades. My kids who attend a majority minority school have been caused racist just for glancing at a POC. They walk the halls with their heads down so they don’t mistakenly look at someone the wrong way. We live in an ethnic neighborhood and we do not know our neighbors despite efforts to get to them. I lived in this house for 50 years! There is petty crime everywhere. Violent crime happens a fair amount but is never reported. I used to take the metro to work but now drive to avoid glenmont station where I have been threatened and have had my car vandalized. We need to be tougher on crime both adult and teens. We need more businesses that can pay living wages, we need to focus on the basics for education and stop pushing kids thru that write at a 5th grade level and can’t do basic math. I am not voting for another 4 years of this BS.

Okay racist

How am I the racist when my kids were targets due to their skin color? Step out of your Bethesda schools and see what the rest of the county is like.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think Elrich has done an acceptable job, considering the circumstances. I'm fine with postponing development frenzy. All of us who own sfhs in east county know we will be overrun with cheap housing developers will make bank from, while leaving us with the crappy schools.

I live in east county and I agree we don’t need any more affordable housing in our area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sully.

I am voting Republican on several tickets this year.

The corruption is rapidly becoming apparent to the public now. Diversity of thought is crucial. Or the corruption and incompetence will continue unabated.

agree with this. too much corruption and mismanagement of $$$ happening now. Willing to give Sully a chance. I dont vote party, I vote history, of which Elrich is not impressing me, and what a candidate's focus will be.

Here is a quote from Reardon Sullivan's campaign site:
"The Montgomery County Public School administrators are not focused on providing the best education for our students. They have wandered far away from teaching basic reading, writing and arithmetic, and are focusing on the teaching of Critical Race Theory (CRT) principles, diversity, and graphic sexual material to elementary school children. They even commissioned a $900,000 School Boundary Analysis, the focus of which was to redraw school boundaries for the goal of achieving school diversity even to the extent of bussing students to other school districts, despite the fact that parents bought homes to be in specific school districts."

If you think this any of this is reasonable/accurate, then you have bought into GOP misinformation and are obviously not a liberal or a Democrat. Fine, you obviously have the right to vote for whoever you want. But MoCo voters don't elect wackos like this guy.

I didn’t know the above but I agree with it. 100%. The bussing initiative was nuts and a huge waste of money. I agree that the schools should go back to true basics. Do you honestly think this progressiveness has been good for the county? I think it has caused a bigger divide among races, a loss of the middle class since there aren’t enough well paying jobs in the county for everyone and definitely a huge increase in crime. I live in Wheaton and it has absolutely deteriorated in the past couple decades. My kids who attend a majority minority school have been caused racist just for glancing at a POC. They walk the halls with their heads down so they don’t mistakenly look at someone the wrong way. We live in an ethnic neighborhood and we do not know our neighbors despite efforts to get to them. I lived in this house for 50 years! There is petty crime everywhere. Violent crime happens a fair amount but is never reported. I used to take the metro to work but now drive to avoid glenmont station where I have been threatened and have had my car vandalized. We need to be tougher on crime both adult and teens. We need more businesses that can pay living wages, we need to focus on the basics for education and stop pushing kids thru that write at a 5th grade level and can’t do basic math. I am not voting for another 4 years of this BS.

Okay racist

How am I the racist when my kids were targets due to their skin color? Step out of your Bethesda schools and see what the rest of the county is like.

This but try being a black kid in rural areas. Step out of your Upcounty bubble

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are pro-housing, pro-Thrive, pro-YIMBY and you live in Montgomery County, what do you do on the ballot for the County Executive candidates?

I was a Not Marc Elrich voter. I voted Blair even though I preferred Riemer as my first choice. I don't like Elrich because he doesn't want to do anything about single family zoning and he opposes Thrive, and even if he himself isn't racist, he aligns with racists and conservatives who don't want to see changes in their neighborhoods.

But Reardon Sullivan is also anti-Thrive, doesn't care about the affordable housing crisis and is worse on housing than Elrich, and it would be embarrassing to have a Republican elected in MoCo.

I don't want to vote for Elrich because I don't want to endorse him or say anything favorable because he is so bad on housing. I am inclined to leave it blank, but if the Republican has any chance of coming close to winning, then I will hold my nose and vote for Elrich.

Being against Thrive, being against upzoning, being in favor of retaining SFH neighborhoods does NOT make one a racist. Sorry to disappoint you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Given the state of the Republican Party I cannot vote for an R under any circumstances. I didn’t vote in that race. You can always leave the race blank.

A lone Republican to balance out a runaway county council actually seems like a solid, reasonable idea.

Signed,
A Democrat

+1

That sounds good in theory, but the actual candidates the GOP offers do not have a chance. I know you think Sully sounds reasonable. To the majority of MoCo voters, he is wacko. Sorry.

The majority of MoCo voters are wacko, such as yourself.

So you agree that Sully can't win.

[Anonymous]

Another lifelong dem and Im voting for Sully

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think Elrich has done an acceptable job, considering the circumstances. I'm fine with postponing development frenzy. All of us who own sfhs in east county know we will be overrun with cheap housing developers will make bank from, while leaving us with the crappy schools.

This. The county/MCPS have shown not to be forward thinking on building additional schools, it’s not even on their radar until the kids are overflowing in portables. The most pro-Thrive/Riemer voters I know are either childless or have kids in high school/college and wouldn’t be affected by the influx of additional students into our neighborhood schools. They just think it will give them a coffee shop to walk to or something.

[Anonymous]

Sully voter here

[Anonymous]

Hate big development - voting Elrich