Who is your choice for Montgomery County Executive?

[Anonymous]

The DLC monopoly is established by the MD State Code. The County Executive/County Council can't do anything about it, so I wouldn't make that a big factor in your decision.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No George lenenthal. No one who has been in politics before. No rich clueless people.
No David Blair with his rich liberal guilt - many of us working stiffs don’t actually want to give all of our money away to every illegal immigrant who runs across the border that the big businesses then use to increase their profits via paying low wages (and having us middle class people pay for their legal, medical and schooling).

Would be nice to have a conservative smart Democrat running but all I see is people who want to use people’s money to further their own interests.

Conservative Democrat or moderate republican where are you?

You might like Frick, although he might just be less liberal than the others. He helped Marriott get the hotel tax exemption for its in-house training facility even when the county council voted against giving them the exemption IIRC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The DLC monopoly is established by the MD State Code. The County Executive/County Council can't do anything about it, so I wouldn't make that a big factor in your decision.

I think you are conflating state law and county law. There is no other county in America which has liquor stores, but plenty of states that do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No George lenenthal. No one who has been in politics before. No rich clueless people.
No David Blair with his rich liberal guilt - many of us working stiffs don’t actually want to give all of our money away to every illegal immigrant who runs across the border that the big businesses then use to increase their profits via paying low wages (and having us middle class people pay for their legal, medical and schooling).

Would be nice to have a conservative smart Democrat running but all I see is people who want to use people’s money to further their own interests.

Conservative Democrat or moderate republican where are you?

You missed out on him by failing to vote for Phil Andrews last time around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The DLC monopoly is established by the MD State Code. The County Executive/County Council can't do anything about it, so I wouldn't make that a big factor in your decision.

I think you are conflating state law and county law. There is no other county in America which has liquor stores, but plenty of states that do.

Nope. PP is right. It’s a state law but it applies solely to MoCo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The DLC monopoly is established by the MD State Code. The County Executive/County Council can't do anything about it, so I wouldn't make that a big factor in your decision.

I think you are conflating state law and county law. There is no other county in America which has liquor stores, but plenty of states that do.

No. The Montgomery County DLC is a creation of State law. It is unusual - it is the only County in the State to have a department of liquor control created by the state. It's in the Local Government Article. I have absolutely no idea why.

MoCo is also unique in MD in the way it's HHS department is structured, but that's another topic . . .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know who I’m not voting for.

Blair has no experience.
Frick is a nonentity.
Leventhal has a nasty side and no leadership skills.
Krasnow has been involved in a lot of the planning choices I don’t care for and her mayoral experience is from a different political era.
Elrich is too far left and doesn’t think about consequences of his liberal actions.
Berliner is the best of the bunch but something about him rubs me the wrong way.

So I may skip that race and focus my energy instead on who to vote for in the CD6 race.

The problem with Berliner is that he's clueless. He rarely asks questions or comments during hearings or meetings...because he doesn't know enough to add to or inform the conversation. He will be a train wreck.

Leventhal comes off as abrupt, but I think he actually does his homework and knows what he's talking about. My beef with him is that he talks out of both sides of his mouth and seemingly is afraid to take a stand.

Elrich isn't just plain awful.

Rose isn't impressive, but she might be our best bet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know who I’m not voting for.

Blair has no experience.
Frick is a nonentity.
Leventhal has a nasty side and no leadership skills.
Krasnow has been involved in a lot of the planning choices I don’t care for and her mayoral experience is from a different political era.
Elrich is too far left and doesn’t think about consequences of his liberal actions.
Berliner is the best of the bunch but something about him rubs me the wrong way.

So I may skip that race and focus my energy instead on who to vote for in the CD6 race.

The problem with Berliner is that he's clueless. He rarely asks questions or comments during hearings or meetings...because he doesn't know enough to add to or inform the conversation. He will be a train wreck.

Leventhal comes off as abrupt, but I think he actually does his homework and knows what he's talking about. My beef with him is that he talks out of both sides of his mouth and seemingly is afraid to take a stand.

Elrich isn't just plain awful.

Rose isn't impressive, but she might be our best bet.

Is this the PP insider? Sounds like it....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know who I’m not voting for.

Blair has no experience.
Frick is a nonentity.
Leventhal has a nasty side and no leadership skills.
Krasnow has been involved in a lot of the planning choices I don’t care for and her mayoral experience is from a different political era.
Elrich is too far left and doesn’t think about consequences of his liberal actions.
Berliner is the best of the bunch but something about him rubs me the wrong way.

So I may skip that race and focus my energy instead on who to vote for in the CD6 race.

The problem with Berliner is that he's clueless. He rarely asks questions or comments during hearings or meetings...because he doesn't know enough to add to or inform the conversation. He will be a train wreck.

Leventhal comes off as abrupt, but I think he actually does his homework and knows what he's talking about. My beef with him is that he talks out of both sides of his mouth and seemingly is afraid to take a stand.

Elrich isn't just plain awful.

Rose isn't impressive, but she might be our best bet.

Elrich isn’t awful or is awful? And why?

I was at a recent forum and I liked Krasnow. Blair sounded like a clueless teenager.

[Anonymous]

I'm pulling for Rose. She did a good job in Rockville, is doing a good job for the county, and I think the fact that she currently isn't on the Council is a good thing. Time for fresh blood. And female leadership would be nice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm pulling for Rose. She did a good job in Rockville, is doing a good job for the county, and I think the fact that she currently isn't on the Council is a good thing. Time for fresh blood. And female leadership would be nice.

+1

[Anonymous]

David Blair

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd go Frick and then Berliner. Elrich is way too liberal, Leventhal is a jerk, and the others don't have the right experience.

But like a PP said, most people don't follow the elections, so the democratic primary is when the exec will be effectively decided. Since there aren't open primaries, I, like 30% of registered voters in MoCo with no affiliation, won't be able to make such a choice in the primaries.

Silly to argue Frick has more relevant experience than Krasnow, leaving aside that he can't seem to decide which elected office he wants to run for.

Frick is currently a MD delegate, and worked to end the DLC (liquor) monpoly. Krasnow has been out of the game for over a decade.

Being deputy director of the Planning Department hardly qualifies as "out of the game".

Elrich is a hypocrite. He says that he supports transit, but then he accuses the Planning Department of "ethnic cleansing" on the Purple Line route. He says that he's not part of the government, he's a community activist -- after 19 years on the Takoma Park City Council and three four-year terms on the Montgomery County Council.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No George lenenthal. No one who has been in politics before. No rich clueless people.
No David Blair with his rich liberal guilt - many of us working stiffs don’t actually want to give all of our money away to every illegal immigrant who runs across the border that the big businesses then use to increase their profits via paying low wages (and having us middle class people pay for their legal, medical and schooling).

Would be nice to have a conservative smart Democrat running but all I see is people who want to use people’s money to further their own interests.

Conservative Democrat or moderate republican where are you?

How did that work out with Donald Trump?

Montgomery County has a bigger population than Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Delaware, and it's almost as big as Montana and Rhode Island. If a person is going to be the executive of a county with 1.04 million people and a $5.5 billion budget, I want them to have some actual experience in governing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:David Blair

No - he can go supervise Badlands instead.