How Come BOE Candidate Stephen Austin Won’t Say What His Employment Is??

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Anonymous wrote:Bionic Man?

lol.. that was my first thought, and DH's too.

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Anonymous wrote:Bionic Man?

lol.. that was my first thought, and DH's too.

actually.. that should be the "six million dollar man".

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Anonymous wrote:Bionic Man?

lol.. that was my first thought, and DH's too.

actually.. that should be the "six million dollar man".

Yes! 🤣 After all he’s a “finance guy”!

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Anonymous wrote:At least he hasn’t been involved in deportation efforts! Or isn’t a crappy teacher at Shady Grove!
He’s said where he’s worked in the past. He’s been harassed. People like you are obsessed with him. I don’t blame him.

Maybe he has. We don't know, do we?

He's hardly unique, as a candidate for BoE, in having unflattering things said about him. He does seem to be unique in declining to say where he works, though.

I’m certain his opponents would have turned it up by now if he had been.
Meanwhile Lynne Harris has her name on court cases deporting people and *crickets*.

Please provide specifics that explain why this is relevant to the BoE race in 2020?

You can’t be serious?

PP you're responding to. I absolutely am serious. When did she do what you're saying she did, and in what capacity?

A cornerstone of his campaign is his purported financial expertise. Portfolio manager at a big defense contractor? Geez, I’d be awfully surprised if a multi-billion-dollar enterprise like Lockheed Martin would be shaking in its boots because of a county board of education race, no matter hot heated. Austin has said he worked for a couple of hedge funds (unnamed and for an unspecified amount of time) and at Merrill Lynch, after the dot.com bust. That would put him smack in the middle of the timeframe when Merrill almost went belly up because of its enthusiastic dive into risky subprime mortgages and related investment schemes. So, yeah, i’d like to know more about his finance background before entrusting him with making decisions about taxpayer money.
Maybe he is a financial wizard! Who knows? He won’t say. Has he ever worked for a developer? If so, who? when? He talks the talk about transparency, and is highly critical of the lack of transparency from the current BOE, so to be consistent, he should walk the walk when it comes to his own campaign. Otherwise...he’ll just come across as another hypocritical, two-bit politician.

yikes.

Also there's this:

Political or education advocacy experience (public elected offices held and when, as well as unsuccessful campaigns for office and which years; can include PTA or similar experience; do not include political party positions): None

His sole focus seems to be on the boundary study. I guess if you are a single issue voter, and this is your single issue, and you absolutely do not care about any previous experience in education, then he's your pick.

Did he not even volunteer once at a school event?

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Anonymous wrote:Bionic Man?

lol.. that was my first thought, and DH's too.

actually.. that should be the "six million dollar man".

Yes! 🤣 After all he’s a “finance guy”!

As long as that six million dollar doesn't end up as $500K.

He has experience in managing investments, but not necessarily budgets. Those are two different things.

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More importantly he's extremely conservative in his views.

Think Trump/Stephen Miller.

Do we want someone who believes in book banning, conversion therapies, and is homophobic.

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Anonymous wrote:More importantly he's extremely conservative in his views.

Think Trump/Stephen Miller.

Do we want someone who believes in book banning, conversion therapies, and is homophobic.

PP, as far as I know, there is no evidence that he believes in book banning, conversion therapy, or homophobia.

On the other hand, there is plenty of evidence that he's thin-skinned, confrontational, non-transparent about his background, and lacking in basic knowledge about/experience with Montgomery County and MCPS.

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His sole focus seems to be on the boundary study. I guess if you are a single issue voter, and this is your single issue, and you absolutely do not care about any previous experience in education, then he's your pick.

Did he not even volunteer once at a school event?

Right?

I mean

Mitra Ahadpour: I have years of advocacy, volunteer and education experience as appointed chair of community projects at the Montgomery County Medical Society, elected chair of community service at Potomac Elementary School, and elected chair of the Substance Use Prevention Committee at Churchill High School.

Sunil Dasgupta: Volunteer positions and participation include PTA president and vice president, Earle B. Wood Middle School, 2017-19; Rockville cluster coordinator, MCCPTA board member, MCCPTA Health and Safety/Wellness Committee chair, 2017-2020; Founder and convener of Annual Mental Health and Wellness Forum for families, students, and staff, 2018, 2019, 2020. Member of the Schools Technical Advisory Team for the Planning Board’s Subdivision Staging Policy, 2019-2020.

Paul Geller: Candidate for Montgomery County Council At-Large, 2017-18, MCCPTA president, 2016-17, MCCPTA vice president of programs, 2013-16, Sherwood cluster coordinator, 2013-16, Belmont Elementary School PTA/PTSA president, 2012-16, Rosa M. Parks Middle School PTA grade vice president 2014-16, Maryland PTA membership chair, 2015-16

Jay Guan: ESOL/Bilingual Advisory Committee, MCPS; Asian Pacific American Student Achievement Action Group, MCPS; Board chair, Chinese American Parent Association, Montgomery County.

Lynne Harris: MCCPTA – the largest 501(c)(3) advocacy organization in Montgomery County: Legislative Committee chair, 2011-12, Vice president educational issues – May 2012-May 2013, Vice president legislation/advocacy – May 2013-June 2016, Area vice president, Downcounty Consortium – 2016-17, President, April 2017–January 2020

Dalbin Osorio: Ran for Montgomery County Council’s District 1 seat in 2018. Organizing Action Fellow in 2019. Worked for Obama ’08 and Clinton ’16 campaigns.

Darwin Romero: I previously ran an unsuccessful campaign for County Council at large and served as a member of the Latino Student Action Group, the Latin American Advisory Group, and the Sister Cities between Morazán, El Salvador and Montgomery County

Lumpoange Thomas: Former PTSA president, PTSA vice president, MCCPTA delegate

Steve Austin: None.

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Anonymous wrote:More importantly he's extremely conservative in his views.

Think Trump/Stephen Miller.

Do we want someone who believes in book banning, conversion therapies, and is homophobic.

PP, as far as I know, there is no evidence that he believes in book banning, conversion therapy, or homophobia.

On the other hand, there is plenty of evidence that he's thin-skinned, confrontational, non-transparent about his background, and lacking in basic knowledge about/experience with Montgomery County and MCPS.

He campaigns like Trump.

He took monies from GOP/right wing nuts.

One of his favorite people is a lawyer who is very outspoken about conversion therapy and etc...

Yes, I agree he's not qualified on a basic job interview level, no experience.

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Anonymous wrote:Poor guy. He really has had to put up with a ton of harassment from the club, hasn't he?

It’s really crazy to me. And the whole sign stealing thing from OneMontgomery. So two-faced.

The what?

Some lady took a steve Austin sign but she took
Some other people’s signs too like Sunil and Jay. Steve is very sensitive though and likes to make it seem like he’s being targeted. Too thin skinned.

I have seen tons of Steve Austin signs, all illegally placed. Not cool.

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Anonymous wrote:My goodness can you leave the personal life of this man alone. He's running for BOE not president of the US.

Actually no.

He has ties to conversion therapy groups, groups against LGBTQ, and he's doesn't have qualifications.

You are ridiculous.

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Anonymous wrote:My goodness can you leave the personal life of this man alone. He's running for BOE not president of the US.

Actually no.

He has ties to conversion therapy groups, groups against LGBTQ, and he's doesn't have qualifications.

You are ridiculous.

What are his qualifications?

[Anonymous]

Don’t forget that he and his lawyer are also suing to “re-open Maryland” so yeah, he’s that kind of extreme crazy AND has a mysterious employment background.

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t forget that he and his lawyer are also suing to “re-open Maryland” so yeah, he’s that kind of extreme crazy AND has a mysterious employment background.

This is a new claim and since most of these are not true, I’d love to see a link to the case.

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One Montgomery group tracked down his employer and started making inappropriate comments, so I’m sure if you are that concerned you can look there. So he did indeed have a reason to withhold it. He said he’d disclose if he made it through the Primary.
I also believe a BOE race doesn’t need to get this dirty.