MoCo BOE primary election results

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Anonymous wrote:Glad to see hateful Austin trailing.

As of last night, he'd received 8,826 mail votes and 428 in-person votes. That's not many more votes than he has Facebook "friends".

And those 8826 and counting voters are not going anywhere... and will influence future democratic primary elections, starting with when Cheryl Kagan runs for re-election.

It's cute that you think Austin's base are registered Democrats.

It's cute how you think we will not change our parties next time just to vote in the Democratic primaries. It took less than 5 minutes for me to do it this this.

DP. Have at it. Of course, you will also need to find a candidate to run against her in the primary.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Glad to see hateful Austin trailing.

As of last night, he'd received 8,826 mail votes and 428 in-person votes. That's not many more votes than he has Facebook "friends".

And those 8826 and counting voters are not going anywhere... and will influence future democratic primary elections, starting with when Cheryl Kagan runs for re-election.

It's cute that you think Austin's base are registered Democrats.

It's cute how you think we will not change our parties next time just to vote in the Democratic primaries. It took less than 5 minutes for me to do it this this.

DP. Have at it. Of course, you will also need to find a candidate to run against her in the primary.

It will be another democrat who likely supports the same issues as Kagan. Just wait for the general and vote for the Republican candidate if that's what you really want

[Anonymous]

Austin didn't fail miserably. He's in 3rd place out of 14 candidates. The poorest showing I'd say is Guan -- he was funded better than any of them, and he's currently in 5th behind Geller (who?).

If the general election ballot ends up being Harris vs Dasgupta, I guess I'd end up voting for Dasgupta.


Also according to the Seventh State blog, only about half of ballots have been talllied so far, so there's still a possibility of changes though I think it's unlikely looking at the trends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Austin didn't fail miserably. He's in 3rd place out of 14 candidates. The poorest showing I'd say is Guan -- he was funded better than any of them, and he's currently in 5th behind Geller (who?).

If the general election ballot ends up being Harris vs Dasgupta, I guess I'd end up voting for Dasgupta.

Also according to the Seventh State blog, only about half of ballots have been talllied so far, so there's still a possibility of changes though I think it's unlikely looking at the trends.

Third place is a miserable finish, when it's 16% of the vote, compared to >46% for the NOT-Austin candidates. What's he going to do with all those campaign contributions he didn't spend?

Paul Geller is a former MCCPTA president.

I agree that Jay Guan did not do well. No upcounty candidate, yet, has managed to persuade enough people in the rest of the county to vote for them.

[Anonymous]

Austin is still within a margin of error depending on how many ballots were mailed. I sure hope he pulls it off. If not, I'll be asking whose less likely to bus my kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Austin is still within a margin of error depending on how many ballots were mailed. I sure hope he pulls it off. If not, I'll be asking whose less likely to bus my kids.

There isn't a margin of error. It's voting, not a poll. Do you have a hypothesis explaining why Austin voters would be disproportionately likely to mail their ballots late?

My kid is bused right now, so I don't have much sympathy for your misinformed fears.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Austin didn't fail miserably. He's in 3rd place out of 14 candidates. The poorest showing I'd say is Guan -- he was funded better than any of them, and he's currently in 5th behind Geller (who?).

If the general election ballot ends up being Harris vs Dasgupta, I guess I'd end up voting for Dasgupta.

Also according to the Seventh State blog, only about half of ballots have been talllied so far, so there's still a possibility of changes though I think it's unlikely looking at the trends.

Third place is a miserable finish, when it's 16% of the vote, compared to >46% for the NOT-Austin candidates. What's he going to do with all those campaign contributions he didn't spend?

Paul Geller is a former MCCPTA president.

I agree that Jay Guan did not do well. No upcounty candidate, yet, has managed to persuade enough people in the rest of the county to vote for them.

I don't thikn it's miserable. His vote count is not far from Dasgupta, who is Apple Ballot. With that machinery behind him, including their mailer to every MoCo voter with Dasgupta's face on it, you'd think Dasgupta would have a stronger lead. I expected him to be in 1st actually.

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Anonymous wrote:Glad to see hateful Austin trailing.

Hateful seems to have lost any meaning in the way you use it. Disagree with Austin, fine. Think he would be bad for MCPS, fine. But to say that he is a purveyor of hate because he disagrees with current progressive policy devalues the meaning of the word and lessens the impact when it is used against truly hateful people.

His “disagreement with current progressive policy” as you antiseptically refer to it was to stir up fear of white wealthy kids being bussed to schools with lots of black and brown children and vice versa and prey upon economic and social divides in this county. “But our property values!” just a proxy for brown / black kids make our schools less desirable.

This is what Austin peddles and traffics in. The root of that is hatefulness and an us vs them mentality that maintains the growing gap between schools in wealthy areas and schools in more economically and racially diverse areas. Whats the point of putting lipstick on the pig? Own it. And it’s not “new thinking” or “refreshing” as Austin defenders like to put it. It’s one thing to bring new ideas and insights; it’s another to prey upon divide.

Sorry, it is not hateful for someone to oppose bussing students and using racial demographics as a significant factor in drawing school boundaries. There are plenty of reasons one can disagree with his policies, but attempting to simply declare them out of bounds from reasonable discussion is intellectually dishonest.

Calling something "hateful" is absolutely declaring out of bounds for reasonable discussion. And I don't believe he has backed away from his views, which are perfectly reasonable even if you disagree with them.

Good thing the PP didn't do that, then.

The man said what he said, and did what he did. He should take responsibility for his words and actions.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Glad to see hateful Austin trailing.

As of last night, he'd received 8,826 mail votes and 428 in-person votes. That's not many more votes than he has Facebook "friends".

Not everyone in that FB group supports what Austin is doing. I am and I certainly don’t, and I voted for Harris.

Same - in FB group, don't support Austin (just wanted to know more about him) & voted for Harris. Mailed Monday also.

[Anonymous]

Elections board is predicting about 100k ballots will be cast, and ther's 600k registered voters I believe. Seems a pretty dismal showing given that everyone got a ballot in the mail. They just had to mail it back -- didn't even require a stamp. How hard is that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Elections board is predicting about 100k ballots will be cast, and ther's 600k registered voters I believe. Seems a pretty dismal showing given that everyone got a ballot in the mail. They just had to mail it back -- didn't even require a stamp. How hard is that?

People are lazy, disengaged, but then love to whine and complain.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Elections board is predicting about 100k ballots will be cast, and ther's 600k registered voters I believe. Seems a pretty dismal showing given that everyone got a ballot in the mail. They just had to mail it back -- didn't even require a stamp. How hard is that?

People are lazy, disengaged, but then love to whine and complain.

Unless you were engaged in the school board races or the judge races - which most people aren't - there wasn't much to vote on, in the primary ballot.

[Anonymous]

"black lives matter!!" - said no one named Stephen Austin

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Glad to see hateful Austin trailing.

Hateful seems to have lost any meaning in the way you use it. Disagree with Austin, fine. Think he would be bad for MCPS, fine. But to say that he is a purveyor of hate because he disagrees with current progressive policy devalues the meaning of the word and lessens the impact when it is used against truly hateful people.

His “disagreement with current progressive policy” as you antiseptically refer to it was to stir up fear of white wealthy kids being bussed to schools with lots of black and brown children and vice versa and prey upon economic and social divides in this county. “But our property values!” just a proxy for brown / black kids make our schools less desirable.

This is what Austin peddles and traffics in. The root of that is hatefulness and an us vs them mentality that maintains the growing gap between schools in wealthy areas and schools in more economically and racially diverse areas. Whats the point of putting lipstick on the pig? Own it. And it’s not “new thinking” or “refreshing” as Austin defenders like to put it. It’s one thing to bring new ideas and insights; it’s another to prey upon divide.

Sorry, it is not hateful for someone to oppose bussing students and using racial demographics as a significant factor in drawing school boundaries. There are plenty of reasons one can disagree with his policies, but attempting to simply declare them out of bounds from reasonable discussion is intellectually dishonest.

Good thing the PP didn't do that, then.

The man said what he said, and did what he did. He should take responsibility for his words and actions.

Yes. Exactly.

And what’s intellectually dishonest is coyly pretending that Austin wasn’t pulling the fear and hate thread.

[Anonymous]

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Calling something "hateful" is absolutely declaring out of bounds for reasonable discussion. And I don't believe he has backed away from his views, which are perfectly reasonable even if you disagree with them.

PP, the man is not a victim. Nobody has silenced him. Nobody has said that he shouldn't be allowed to say what he wants to say. Nobody has said that he shouldn't be allowed to run for public office.

As a candidate, he gets to say what he wants to say, however he wants to say it - and then the voters can decide whether or not to vote for him. Evidently get to have opinions about that.