What will MoCo do now that Amazon isn't coming?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who keeps voting these jokers back on the county council? And why is every at-large member from Takoma Park/Silver Spring? Citizens need to be more vocal about asking them to not raise taxes, they just raised them two years ago...not sustainable. Moco needs to cut programs, not raise taxes. Just need one no vote on the council.

A good start is ranked-choice voting. We had a clown car of over 30 candidates for county council, just on the Dem side, in the primaries who are vying for 4 spaces.

You can see what happens when we have too many -- the County Exec primary was a 6-way race on the Dem side, so a candidate needs to just court a fringe group and get enough votes from them, while the moderate vote is spread across 5 other candidates. Elrich won in the primary by 77 votes over Blair, thanks for tying up union support.

To give you an idea of how 'big government' Elrich is, his _transition team_ alone is 180 people! What are they all going to do?!

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/politics/whos-who-on-county-executive-elect-marc-elrichs-transition-team/

Obama's transition team in 2008 was 450 by comparison.. for the entire country.

Ranked choice voting violates the 14th Amendment and Voting Rights Act.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MoCo will move forward. People have to learn how to stop voting far left and vote what’s best for economic interest. We also need to think about implementing policies to stop making it an immigrant haven. For example, we have stopped donating to Casa de Maryland. Gaithersburg, Wheaton and other parts of the county can not afford more crime ridden neighborhoods and our schools cannot afford to be secondary parents.

Wow, you grossly overestimate what Casa is able to achieve. Most immigrant families are surviving on wages and help from loved ones, not Casa.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who keeps voting these jokers back on the county council? And why is every at-large member from Takoma Park/Silver Spring? Citizens need to be more vocal about asking them to not raise taxes, they just raised them two years ago...not sustainable. Moco needs to cut programs, not raise taxes. Just need one no vote on the council.

A good start is ranked-choice voting. We had a clown car of over 30 candidates for county council, just on the Dem side, in the primaries who are vying for 4 spaces.

You can see what happens when we have too many -- the County Exec primary was a 6-way race on the Dem side, so a candidate needs to just court a fringe group and get enough votes from them, while the moderate vote is spread across 5 other candidates. Elrich won in the primary by 77 votes over Blair, thanks for tying up union support.

To give you an idea of how 'big government' Elrich is, his _transition team_ alone is 180 people! What are they all going to do?!

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/politics/whos-who-on-county-executive-elect-marc-elrichs-transition-team/

Obama's transition team in 2008 was 450 by comparison.. for the entire country.

Ranked choice voting violates the 14th Amendment and Voting Rights Act.

Why? 7 states currently use it, and surely there would have been a Supreme Court challenge by this point if it did violate it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who keeps voting these jokers back on the county council? And why is every at-large member from Takoma Park/Silver Spring? Citizens need to be more vocal about asking them to not raise taxes, they just raised them two years ago...not sustainable. Moco needs to cut programs, not raise taxes. Just need one no vote on the council.

A good start is ranked-choice voting. We had a clown car of over 30 candidates for county council, just on the Dem side, in the primaries who are vying for 4 spaces.

You can see what happens when we have too many -- the County Exec primary was a 6-way race on the Dem side, so a candidate needs to just court a fringe group and get enough votes from them, while the moderate vote is spread across 5 other candidates. Elrich won in the primary by 77 votes over Blair, thanks for tying up union support.

To give you an idea of how 'big government' Elrich is, his _transition team_ alone is 180 people! What are they all going to do?!

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/politics/whos-who-on-county-executive-elect-marc-elrichs-transition-team/

Obama's transition team in 2008 was 450 by comparison.. for the entire country.

Ranked choice voting violates the 14th Amendment and Voting Rights Act.

Why? 7 states currently use it, and surely there would have been a Supreme Court challenge by this point if it did violate it.

Robin Ficker, if you're lurking out there, here's referendum idea with your name on it: ranked choice voting for county council and/or executive! We could've had David Blair, but instead we have Sir Taxalot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who keeps voting these jokers back on the county council? And why is every at-large member from Takoma Park/Silver Spring? Citizens need to be more vocal about asking them to not raise taxes, they just raised them two years ago...not sustainable. Moco needs to cut programs, not raise taxes. Just need one no vote on the council.

A good start is ranked-choice voting. We had a clown car of over 30 candidates for county council, just on the Dem side, in the primaries who are vying for 4 spaces.

You can see what happens when we have too many -- the County Exec primary was a 6-way race on the Dem side, so a candidate needs to just court a fringe group and get enough votes from them, while the moderate vote is spread across 5 other candidates. Elrich won in the primary by 77 votes over Blair, thanks for tying up union support.

To give you an idea of how 'big government' Elrich is, his _transition team_ alone is 180 people! What are they all going to do?!

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/politics/whos-who-on-county-executive-elect-marc-elrichs-transition-team/

Obama's transition team in 2008 was 450 by comparison.. for the entire country.

Ranked choice voting violates the 14th Amendment and Voting Rights Act.

Why? 7 states currently use it, and surely there would have been a Supreme Court challenge by this point if it did violate it.

Someone has just filed a lawsuit.

[Anonymous]

What lawsuit?

Yes, ranked choice as a ballot initiative

I would go door to door to get signatures

[Anonymous]

Oh you mean the lawsuit by the Republican who is mad about losing

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/15/politics/democrats-maine-house-ranked-choice-jared-golden/index.html

Republicans have shown they are willing to do long term damage to our democracy in exchange for short term partisan power so I won't take that suit very seriously

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who keeps voting these jokers back on the county council? And why is every at-large member from Takoma Park/Silver Spring? Citizens need to be more vocal about asking them to not raise taxes, they just raised them two years ago...not sustainable. Moco needs to cut programs, not raise taxes. Just need one no vote on the council.

A good start is ranked-choice voting. We had a clown car of over 30 candidates for county council, just on the Dem side, in the primaries who are vying for 4 spaces.

You can see what happens when we have too many -- the County Exec primary was a 6-way race on the Dem side, so a candidate needs to just court a fringe group and get enough votes from them, while the moderate vote is spread across 5 other candidates. Elrich won in the primary by 77 votes over Blair, thanks for tying up union support.

To give you an idea of how 'big government' Elrich is, his _transition team_ alone is 180 people! What are they all going to do?!

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/politics/whos-who-on-county-executive-elect-marc-elrichs-transition-team/

Obama's transition team in 2008 was 450 by comparison.. for the entire country.

Ranked choice voting violates the 14th Amendment and Voting Rights Act.

Why? 7 states currently use it, and surely there would have been a Supreme Court challenge by this point if it did violate it.

Someone has just filed a lawsuit.

https://bangordailynews.com/2018/11/14/politics/judge-will-decide-the-fate-of-ranked-choice-voting-in-maines-2nd-district/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who keeps voting these jokers back on the county council? And why is every at-large member from Takoma Park/Silver Spring? Citizens need to be more vocal about asking them to not raise taxes, they just raised them two years ago...not sustainable. Moco needs to cut programs, not raise taxes. Just need one no vote on the council.

A good start is ranked-choice voting. We had a clown car of over 30 candidates for county council, just on the Dem side, in the primaries who are vying for 4 spaces.

You can see what happens when we have too many -- the County Exec primary was a 6-way race on the Dem side, so a candidate needs to just court a fringe group and get enough votes from them, while the moderate vote is spread across 5 other candidates. Elrich won in the primary by 77 votes over Blair, thanks for tying up union support.

To give you an idea of how 'big government' Elrich is, his _transition team_ alone is 180 people! What are they all going to do?!

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/politics/whos-who-on-county-executive-elect-marc-elrichs-transition-team/

Obama's transition team in 2008 was 450 by comparison.. for the entire country.

Ranked choice voting violates the 14th Amendment and Voting Rights Act.

Why? 7 states currently use it, and surely there would have been a Supreme Court challenge by this point if it did violate it.

Someone has just filed a lawsuit.

https://bangordailynews.com/2018/11/14/politics/judge-will-decide-the-fate-of-ranked-choice-voting-in-maines-2nd-district/

[Anonymous]

Here’s what we do. We get over it and move on.
I don’t want to subsidize the richest man in the world so he can bring in a second headquarters for a company that stomps our local businesses and brings jobs that probably won’t even be filled by locals & drive up prices incl. housing and rent for the rest of us. No thanks. #Bye.

Oh, and I’m for rank choice voting and I voted for Elrich. Where were the rest of you on rank choice voting before Elrich won?

[Anonymous]

Elrich IS the reason we didn't get Amazon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who keeps voting these jokers back on the county council? And why is every at-large member from Takoma Park/Silver Spring? Citizens need to be more vocal about asking them to not raise taxes, they just raised them two years ago...not sustainable. Moco needs to cut programs, not raise taxes. Just need one no vote on the council.

Because this county is overflowing with idiots who see "D" beside a candidate's and vote for them simply based on that.

What's the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing, over and over, and expecting a different outcome.

Well, it obvious at least 70% of voting age adults here are insane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here’s what we do. We get over it and move on.
I don’t want to subsidize the richest man in the world so he can bring in a second headquarters for a company that stomps our local businesses and brings jobs that probably won’t even be filled by locals & drive up prices incl. housing and rent for the rest of us. No thanks. #Bye.

Oh, and I’m for rank choice voting and I voted for Elrich. Where were the rest of you on rank choice voting before Elrich won?

I'm for rank choice voting too, how does one get a ballot initiative started?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MoCo will move forward. People have to learn how to stop voting far left and vote what’s best for economic interest. We also need to think about implementing policies to stop making it an immigrant haven. For example, we have stopped donating to Casa de Maryland. Gaithersburg, Wheaton and other parts of the county can not afford more crime ridden neighborhoods and our schools cannot afford to be secondary parents.

Wow, you grossly overestimate what Casa is able to achieve. Most immigrant families are surviving on wages and help from loved ones, not Casa.

DP here. And pls note that Cada Dr Maryland is not unique to MD. There's also Casa de Virginia for instance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MoCo will move forward. People have to learn how to stop voting far left and vote what’s best for economic interest. We also need to think about implementing policies to stop making it an immigrant haven. For example, we have stopped donating to Casa de Maryland. Gaithersburg, Wheaton and other parts of the county can not afford more crime ridden neighborhoods and our schools cannot afford to be secondary parents.

Wow, you grossly overestimate what Casa is able to achieve. Most immigrant families are surviving on wages and help from loved ones, not Casa.

DP here. And pls note that Cada Dr Maryland is not unique to MD. There's also Casa de Virginia for instance.

But the MD one is a mcmansion!