So what’s this Moco racial equity thing going on

[Anonymous]

this is what happens in one party rule areas the loudest aka most extreme and partisan get their way

looking forward to 2020 please don't put up some progressive clown for President I don't want another term for Donald Trump

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Its becoming a real problem that all of these events are either held at Silver Spring facilities or are pre-stocked with an entire entourage and audience from Silver Spring. They don't want community input they only want to hear from a small portion of Silver Spring.

I mean, Silver Spring is enormous in both population and land mass, so I don't see how holding public events in the largest city in the county two blocks from the Metro is supposed to be a bad thing.

Silver Spring isn't even a city and has no population or land mass. It's unincorporated, so basically any part of MoCo that wants can call itself Silver Spring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Its becoming a real problem that all of these events are either held at Silver Spring facilities or are pre-stocked with an entire entourage and audience from Silver Spring. They don't want community input they only want to hear from a small portion of Silver Spring.

I mean, Silver Spring is enormous in both population and land mass, so I don't see how holding public events in the largest city in the county two blocks from the Metro is supposed to be a bad thing.

Silver Spring isn't even a city and has no population or land mass. It's unincorporated, so basically any part of MoCo that wants can call itself Silver Spring.

Then we can go by the post office definition, where boundaries are clear.

They should hold these meetings in Rockville. It's the county seat, and has plenty of public tranportation access as well.

[Anonymous]

Let's all just declare an Independent People's Republic of Takoma Park/Silver Spring!

[Anonymous]

Who knew the concept of racial equity would be seen as crazy radical.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who knew the concept of racial equity would be seen as crazy radical.

reparations!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why do these nuts keep on getting elected ?

Because we dont' have open primaries. What happened is 6 people threw their hat in the ring for county exec. Since the voting was split so broadly, to win you just needed to get the votes from one group (any group) and you'd beat the rest. Elrich did this with unions, but it was close -- he won by 77 votes over Blair. Elrich's vote count was equivalent to less than 5% of all registered voters in MoCo. Only the most engaged voters vote in the primary, so just pander to one group and you win it.

Then in the primary, the average joe votes and whoever is the democrat is who they select.

With open primaries, realistically it would be 2 dems who end up on the main ticket, and hopefully at least one will be moderate.

Watch this happen again in the 2020 presidential election. Dems will put up a very progressive candidate, and will lose to Trump. You need a moderate to win.

If you care about what Democrats win the primary elections in Montgomery County, you really need to register as a Democrat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who knew the concept of racial equity would be seen as crazy radical.

Democrats have run the county for decades so what have democrats been doing that isn’t racislly equitable?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Who knew the concept of racial equity would be seen as crazy radical.

Democrats have run the county for decades so what have democrats been doing that isn’t racislly equitable?

What makes you think democrats care about racism? White people are white. Doesn’t matter the political party. We had to get a Council president of color and a CE with kids of color before anything started moving.