BOE election candidates 2024

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Anonymous wrote:Oh look, it's the Bethany Mandel supporters going after Laura Stewart on DCUM (anonymously) just like they're doing on Twitter (semi-anonymously).

This Laura Stewart/Bethany Mandel race between ultra partisans on the left and right is going to be exhausting. It’s troubling that the BOE race is going to be so partisan. For all of her faults, at least Shebra Evans seems to stick to the issues that are relevant to the BOE and more middle of the road on issues that aren’t.

What issues does Shebra stick to? What does Shebra believe in? I've been waiting years to find out.

You can watch the years of BOE meetings that Shebra has been a part of to find out. Unlike the other 2 ideologues in the race, she doesn’t take to twitter to comment on everything going on in the country, so you won’t be able to find out that way.

Although I guess you could say the same about Laura Stewart, who made her formerly public twitter page private once she decided to run for office. I wonder what historical posts she was so worried about that made her take down the whole page and keep it out of view.

Shebra could be an ideologue if she had ideas to share. I've looked at Shebra's Twitter account. Pretty sparse, accept for wishing her daughter well in college (which is truly very sweet) and thanking schools for having her in for a visit.

I don’t think she wants to be an ideologue. It’s not her personal style and it isn’t politically popular when you’re on the BOE, which is probably why Laura Stewart switched her twitter account to private and blocked anyone from seeing her ideas there once she decided to run for office as the accountability and transparency candidate.

Evans has to have an idea before she can be an ideologue but I will still take her benign neglect over Laura Stewart or Bethany Mandel (literally two sides of the same coin) any day.

You can try to gaslight Laura Stewart by saying she is similar to Bethany Mandel, but that just catch traction with anyone.

Far left vs. far right. Both live in echo chambers. Correct me where I’m wrong.

You live in a polarized world. So sorry about that.

I would be willing to consider supporting Shebra Evans. The problem is that Shebra just hasn't done anything on the BOE for the last 8 years. Shebra rubber-stamped Smith and McKnight positions.

The BOE deliberated those hires in closed sessions. How do you know what happened there? One person who probably got a play-by-play was Laura Stewart. Did she share the readout with you?

The anti-Stewart trolling is really over the top tonight

Dismissing everyone who disagrees with you or everyone who says something you don’t like is how we got today’s MCPS.

It's merely factual to characterize the anti-Stewart troll posts as anti-Stewart troll posts.

I looked up the candidates on credible sources like moco360. Mandrel is cray-cray. Evans and Stewart seem basically the same in terms of their positions. Evans is an incumbent who hasn't done much and I'm not happy with the direction things are going so will support Stewart.

Stewart is too partisan for me. If this were a county council or state house race I would agree but we don’t need partisanship on the school board.

What positions/actions has Evans taken that indicate she is less partisan than Stewart?

It’s more about what Evans hasn’t done. Sometimes doing nothing and not wading in is better for the organization than wading in. Stewart is many many more times a partisan than Evans. Stewart, for example, has multiple partisan leadership positions while Evans has none.

Oh? Which "partisan leadership positions" has she had?

This op-ed from her - calling out the WaPo for resorting to “racist tropes” when they endorsed Will Jawando “with reservations” due to his support for removing SROs from schools - says she’s President of the Montgomery County Women’s Democratic Club.

This piece she wrote lists her as a Precinct Chair for the Democratic party - its an interesting read where she highlights that District 1 (in Bethesda, where the Whitman cluster is) receives much more money for school construction and improvement than the rest of the county and to remedy this, we need to change the allocation of these funds by looking at every CIP “through an equity lens” and using the WXY report that the BOE commissioned when it did the district wide boundary analysis to make sure that funds are allocated in an “efficient AND equitable” manner.

So we shouldn't elect anybody to the Montgomery County board of education who's been involved in Montgomery County politics?

No ones saying that. But nice straw man.

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Evans or Stewart seems fine, but I'll probably just vote Apple ballot.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh look, it's the Bethany Mandel supporters going after Laura Stewart on DCUM (anonymously) just like they're doing on Twitter (semi-anonymously).

This Laura Stewart/Bethany Mandel race between ultra partisans on the left and right is going to be exhausting. It’s troubling that the BOE race is going to be so partisan. For all of her faults, at least Shebra Evans seems to stick to the issues that are relevant to the BOE and more middle of the road on issues that aren’t.

What issues does Shebra stick to? What does Shebra believe in? I've been waiting years to find out.

You can watch the years of BOE meetings that Shebra has been a part of to find out. Unlike the other 2 ideologues in the race, she doesn’t take to twitter to comment on everything going on in the country, so you won’t be able to find out that way.

Although I guess you could say the same about Laura Stewart, who made her formerly public twitter page private once she decided to run for office. I wonder what historical posts she was so worried about that made her take down the whole page and keep it out of view.

Shebra could be an ideologue if she had ideas to share. I've looked at Shebra's Twitter account. Pretty sparse, accept for wishing her daughter well in college (which is truly very sweet) and thanking schools for having her in for a visit.

I don’t think she wants to be an ideologue. It’s not her personal style and it isn’t politically popular when you’re on the BOE, which is probably why Laura Stewart switched her twitter account to private and blocked anyone from seeing her ideas there once she decided to run for office as the accountability and transparency candidate.

Evans has to have an idea before she can be an ideologue but I will still take her benign neglect over Laura Stewart or Bethany Mandel (literally two sides of the same coin) any day.

You can try to gaslight Laura Stewart by saying she is similar to Bethany Mandel, but that just catch traction with anyone.

Far left vs. far right. Both live in echo chambers. Correct me where I’m wrong.

You live in a polarized world. So sorry about that.

I would be willing to consider supporting Shebra Evans. The problem is that Shebra just hasn't done anything on the BOE for the last 8 years. Shebra rubber-stamped Smith and McKnight positions.

The BOE deliberated those hires in closed sessions. How do you know what happened there? One person who probably got a play-by-play was Laura Stewart. Did she share the readout with you?

The anti-Stewart trolling is really over the top tonight

Dismissing everyone who disagrees with you or everyone who says something you don’t like is how we got today’s MCPS.

It's merely factual to characterize the anti-Stewart troll posts as anti-Stewart troll posts.

I looked up the candidates on credible sources like moco360. Mandrel is cray-cray. Evans and Stewart seem basically the same in terms of their positions. Evans is an incumbent who hasn't done much and I'm not happy with the direction things are going so will support Stewart.

+1

I’m looking forward to candidate forums and things like that where we can see how the 2 normal candidates differ from each other. Although I do find it odd that Laura Stewart did 2 things so far after filing for her candidacy: created a campaign website where 2 of the 3 prongs of her campaign are Accountability and Transparency but then shut down her formerly public twitter site so that there’s no longer any Transparency into what she believes or holding her Accountable for prior views and posts. Hopefully this kind of “transparency and accountability for thee but not for me” doesn’t carry over to her service on the Board and is then an insider.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh look, it's the Bethany Mandel supporters going after Laura Stewart on DCUM (anonymously) just like they're doing on Twitter (semi-anonymously).

This Laura Stewart/Bethany Mandel race between ultra partisans on the left and right is going to be exhausting. It’s troubling that the BOE race is going to be so partisan. For all of her faults, at least Shebra Evans seems to stick to the issues that are relevant to the BOE and more middle of the road on issues that aren’t.

What issues does Shebra stick to? What does Shebra believe in? I've been waiting years to find out.

You can watch the years of BOE meetings that Shebra has been a part of to find out. Unlike the other 2 ideologues in the race, she doesn’t take to twitter to comment on everything going on in the country, so you won’t be able to find out that way.

Although I guess you could say the same about Laura Stewart, who made her formerly public twitter page private once she decided to run for office. I wonder what historical posts she was so worried about that made her take down the whole page and keep it out of view.

Shebra could be an ideologue if she had ideas to share. I've looked at Shebra's Twitter account. Pretty sparse, accept for wishing her daughter well in college (which is truly very sweet) and thanking schools for having her in for a visit.

I don’t think she wants to be an ideologue. It’s not her personal style and it isn’t politically popular when you’re on the BOE, which is probably why Laura Stewart switched her twitter account to private and blocked anyone from seeing her ideas there once she decided to run for office as the accountability and transparency candidate.

Evans has to have an idea before she can be an ideologue but I will still take her benign neglect over Laura Stewart or Bethany Mandel (literally two sides of the same coin) any day.

You can try to gaslight Laura Stewart by saying she is similar to Bethany Mandel, but that just catch traction with anyone.

Far left vs. far right. Both live in echo chambers. Correct me where I’m wrong.

You live in a polarized world. So sorry about that.

I would be willing to consider supporting Shebra Evans. The problem is that Shebra just hasn't done anything on the BOE for the last 8 years. Shebra rubber-stamped Smith and McKnight positions.

The BOE deliberated those hires in closed sessions. How do you know what happened there? One person who probably got a play-by-play was Laura Stewart. Did she share the readout with you?

The anti-Stewart trolling is really over the top tonight

Dismissing everyone who disagrees with you or everyone who says something you don’t like is how we got today’s MCPS.

It's merely factual to characterize the anti-Stewart troll posts as anti-Stewart troll posts.

I looked up the candidates on credible sources like moco360. Mandrel is cray-cray. Evans and Stewart seem basically the same in terms of their positions. Evans is an incumbent who hasn't done much and I'm not happy with the direction things are going so will support Stewart.

Stewart is too partisan for me. If this were a county council or state house race I would agree but we don’t need partisanship on the school board.

What positions/actions has Evans taken that indicate she is less partisan than Stewart?

It’s more about what Evans hasn’t done. Sometimes doing nothing and not wading in is better for the organization than wading in. Stewart is many many more times a partisan than Evans. Stewart, for example, has multiple partisan leadership positions while Evans has none.

Oh? Which "partisan leadership positions" has she had?

This op-ed from her - calling out the WaPo for resorting to “racist tropes” when they endorsed Will Jawando “with reservations” due to his support for removing SROs from schools - says she’s President of the Montgomery County Women’s Democratic Club.

This piece she wrote lists her as a Precinct Chair for the Democratic party - its an interesting read where she highlights that District 1 (in Bethesda, where the Whitman cluster is) receives much more money for school construction and improvement than the rest of the county and to remedy this, we need to change the allocation of these funds by looking at every CIP “through an equity lens” and using the WXY report that the BOE commissioned when it did the district wide boundary analysis to make sure that funds are allocated in an “efficient AND equitable” manner.

{DP, here. Not new to the thread, but not the PP to whom you responded.}

So Stewart uses data to point out an inequity, suggesting that it get fixed, and that makes her ultra-leftist? Or just not what entitled Whitman folks would want?

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Anonymous wrote:Oh look, it's the Bethany Mandel supporters going after Laura Stewart on DCUM (anonymously) just like they're doing on Twitter (semi-anonymously).

This Laura Stewart/Bethany Mandel race between ultra partisans on the left and right is going to be exhausting. It’s troubling that the BOE race is going to be so partisan. For all of her faults, at least Shebra Evans seems to stick to the issues that are relevant to the BOE and more middle of the road on issues that aren’t.

What issues does Shebra stick to? What does Shebra believe in? I've been waiting years to find out.

You can watch the years of BOE meetings that Shebra has been a part of to find out. Unlike the other 2 ideologues in the race, she doesn’t take to twitter to comment on everything going on in the country, so you won’t be able to find out that way.

Although I guess you could say the same about Laura Stewart, who made her formerly public twitter page private once she decided to run for office. I wonder what historical posts she was so worried about that made her take down the whole page and keep it out of view.

Shebra could be an ideologue if she had ideas to share. I've looked at Shebra's Twitter account. Pretty sparse, accept for wishing her daughter well in college (which is truly very sweet) and thanking schools for having her in for a visit.

I don’t think she wants to be an ideologue. It’s not her personal style and it isn’t politically popular when you’re on the BOE, which is probably why Laura Stewart switched her twitter account to private and blocked anyone from seeing her ideas there once she decided to run for office as the accountability and transparency candidate.

Evans has to have an idea before she can be an ideologue but I will still take her benign neglect over Laura Stewart or Bethany Mandel (literally two sides of the same coin) any day.

You can try to gaslight Laura Stewart by saying she is similar to Bethany Mandel, but that just catch traction with anyone.

Far left vs. far right. Both live in echo chambers. Correct me where I’m wrong.

You live in a polarized world. So sorry about that.

I would be willing to consider supporting Shebra Evans. The problem is that Shebra just hasn't done anything on the BOE for the last 8 years. Shebra rubber-stamped Smith and McKnight positions.

The BOE deliberated those hires in closed sessions. How do you know what happened there? One person who probably got a play-by-play was Laura Stewart. Did she share the readout with you?

The anti-Stewart trolling is really over the top tonight

Dismissing everyone who disagrees with you or everyone who says something you don’t like is how we got today’s MCPS.

It's merely factual to characterize the anti-Stewart troll posts as anti-Stewart troll posts.

I looked up the candidates on credible sources like moco360. Mandrel is cray-cray. Evans and Stewart seem basically the same in terms of their positions. Evans is an incumbent who hasn't done much and I'm not happy with the direction things are going so will support Stewart.

Stewart is too partisan for me. If this were a county council or state house race I would agree but we don’t need partisanship on the school board.

What positions/actions has Evans taken that indicate she is less partisan than Stewart?

It’s more about what Evans hasn’t done. Sometimes doing nothing and not wading in is better for the organization than wading in. Stewart is many many more times a partisan than Evans. Stewart, for example, has multiple partisan leadership positions while Evans has none.

Oh? Which "partisan leadership positions" has she had?

This op-ed from her - calling out the WaPo for resorting to “racist tropes” when they endorsed Will Jawando “with reservations” due to his support for removing SROs from schools - says she’s President of the Montgomery County Women’s Democratic Club.

This piece she wrote lists her as a Precinct Chair for the Democratic party - its an interesting read where she highlights that District 1 (in Bethesda, where the Whitman cluster is) receives much more money for school construction and improvement than the rest of the county and to remedy this, we need to change the allocation of these funds by looking at every CIP “through an equity lens” and using the WXY report that the BOE commissioned when it did the district wide boundary analysis to make sure that funds are allocated in an “efficient AND equitable” manner.

{DP, here. Not new to the thread, but not the PP to whom you responded.}

So Stewart uses data to point out an inequity, suggesting that it get fixed, and that makes her ultra-leftist? Or just not what entitled Whitman folks would want?

No one said that. But nice straw man.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh look, it's the Bethany Mandel supporters going after Laura Stewart on DCUM (anonymously) just like they're doing on Twitter (semi-anonymously).

This Laura Stewart/Bethany Mandel race between ultra partisans on the left and right is going to be exhausting. It’s troubling that the BOE race is going to be so partisan. For all of her faults, at least Shebra Evans seems to stick to the issues that are relevant to the BOE and more middle of the road on issues that aren’t.

What issues does Shebra stick to? What does Shebra believe in? I've been waiting years to find out.

You can watch the years of BOE meetings that Shebra has been a part of to find out. Unlike the other 2 ideologues in the race, she doesn’t take to twitter to comment on everything going on in the country, so you won’t be able to find out that way.

Although I guess you could say the same about Laura Stewart, who made her formerly public twitter page private once she decided to run for office. I wonder what historical posts she was so worried about that made her take down the whole page and keep it out of view.

Shebra could be an ideologue if she had ideas to share. I've looked at Shebra's Twitter account. Pretty sparse, accept for wishing her daughter well in college (which is truly very sweet) and thanking schools for having her in for a visit.

I don’t think she wants to be an ideologue. It’s not her personal style and it isn’t politically popular when you’re on the BOE, which is probably why Laura Stewart switched her twitter account to private and blocked anyone from seeing her ideas there once she decided to run for office as the accountability and transparency candidate.

Evans has to have an idea before she can be an ideologue but I will still take her benign neglect over Laura Stewart or Bethany Mandel (literally two sides of the same coin) any day.

You can try to gaslight Laura Stewart by saying she is similar to Bethany Mandel, but that just catch traction with anyone.

Far left vs. far right. Both live in echo chambers. Correct me where I’m wrong.

You live in a polarized world. So sorry about that.

I would be willing to consider supporting Shebra Evans. The problem is that Shebra just hasn't done anything on the BOE for the last 8 years. Shebra rubber-stamped Smith and McKnight positions.

The BOE deliberated those hires in closed sessions. How do you know what happened there? One person who probably got a play-by-play was Laura Stewart. Did she share the readout with you?

The anti-Stewart trolling is really over the top tonight

Dismissing everyone who disagrees with you or everyone who says something you don’t like is how we got today’s MCPS.

It's merely factual to characterize the anti-Stewart troll posts as anti-Stewart troll posts.

I looked up the candidates on credible sources like moco360. Mandrel is cray-cray. Evans and Stewart seem basically the same in terms of their positions. Evans is an incumbent who hasn't done much and I'm not happy with the direction things are going so will support Stewart.

+1

I’m looking forward to candidate forums and things like that where we can see how the 2 normal candidates differ from each other. Although I do find it odd that Laura Stewart did 2 things so far after filing for her candidacy: created a campaign website where 2 of the 3 prongs of her campaign are Accountability and Transparency but then shut down her formerly public twitter site so that there’s no longer any Transparency into what she believes or holding her Accountable for prior views and posts. Hopefully this kind of “transparency and accountability for thee but not for me” doesn’t carry over to her service on the Board and is then an insider.

For most people, the major issue in this campaign will not be "Did the candidate put their Twitter account on private after they filed for candidacy"?

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Anonymous wrote:Oh look, it's the Bethany Mandel supporters going after Laura Stewart on DCUM (anonymously) just like they're doing on Twitter (semi-anonymously).

This Laura Stewart/Bethany Mandel race between ultra partisans on the left and right is going to be exhausting. It’s troubling that the BOE race is going to be so partisan. For all of her faults, at least Shebra Evans seems to stick to the issues that are relevant to the BOE and more middle of the road on issues that aren’t.

What issues does Shebra stick to? What does Shebra believe in? I've been waiting years to find out.

You can watch the years of BOE meetings that Shebra has been a part of to find out. Unlike the other 2 ideologues in the race, she doesn’t take to twitter to comment on everything going on in the country, so you won’t be able to find out that way.

Although I guess you could say the same about Laura Stewart, who made her formerly public twitter page private once she decided to run for office. I wonder what historical posts she was so worried about that made her take down the whole page and keep it out of view.

Shebra could be an ideologue if she had ideas to share. I've looked at Shebra's Twitter account. Pretty sparse, accept for wishing her daughter well in college (which is truly very sweet) and thanking schools for having her in for a visit.

I don’t think she wants to be an ideologue. It’s not her personal style and it isn’t politically popular when you’re on the BOE, which is probably why Laura Stewart switched her twitter account to private and blocked anyone from seeing her ideas there once she decided to run for office as the accountability and transparency candidate.

Evans has to have an idea before she can be an ideologue but I will still take her benign neglect over Laura Stewart or Bethany Mandel (literally two sides of the same coin) any day.

You can try to gaslight Laura Stewart by saying she is similar to Bethany Mandel, but that just catch traction with anyone.

Far left vs. far right. Both live in echo chambers. Correct me where I’m wrong.

You live in a polarized world. So sorry about that.

I would be willing to consider supporting Shebra Evans. The problem is that Shebra just hasn't done anything on the BOE for the last 8 years. Shebra rubber-stamped Smith and McKnight positions.

The BOE deliberated those hires in closed sessions. How do you know what happened there? One person who probably got a play-by-play was Laura Stewart. Did she share the readout with you?

The anti-Stewart trolling is really over the top tonight

Dismissing everyone who disagrees with you or everyone who says something you don’t like is how we got today’s MCPS.

It's merely factual to characterize the anti-Stewart troll posts as anti-Stewart troll posts.

I looked up the candidates on credible sources like moco360. Mandrel is cray-cray. Evans and Stewart seem basically the same in terms of their positions. Evans is an incumbent who hasn't done much and I'm not happy with the direction things are going so will support Stewart.

+1

I’m looking forward to candidate forums and things like that where we can see how the 2 normal candidates differ from each other. Although I do find it odd that Laura Stewart did 2 things so far after filing for her candidacy: created a campaign website where 2 of the 3 prongs of her campaign are Accountability and Transparency but then shut down her formerly public twitter site so that there’s no longer any Transparency into what she believes or holding her Accountable for prior views and posts. Hopefully this kind of “transparency and accountability for thee but not for me” doesn’t carry over to her service on the Board and is then an insider.

For most people, the major issue in this campaign will not be "Did the candidate put their Twitter account on private after they filed for candidacy"?

Correct. I think it will be more about whether a candidate calling for accountability and transparency can be trusted when they don’t apply those same standards to their own views and platform.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh look, it's the Bethany Mandel supporters going after Laura Stewart on DCUM (anonymously) just like they're doing on Twitter (semi-anonymously).

This Laura Stewart/Bethany Mandel race between ultra partisans on the left and right is going to be exhausting. It’s troubling that the BOE race is going to be so partisan. For all of her faults, at least Shebra Evans seems to stick to the issues that are relevant to the BOE and more middle of the road on issues that aren’t.

What issues does Shebra stick to? What does Shebra believe in? I've been waiting years to find out.

You can watch the years of BOE meetings that Shebra has been a part of to find out. Unlike the other 2 ideologues in the race, she doesn’t take to twitter to comment on everything going on in the country, so you won’t be able to find out that way.

Although I guess you could say the same about Laura Stewart, who made her formerly public twitter page private once she decided to run for office. I wonder what historical posts she was so worried about that made her take down the whole page and keep it out of view.

Shebra could be an ideologue if she had ideas to share. I've looked at Shebra's Twitter account. Pretty sparse, accept for wishing her daughter well in college (which is truly very sweet) and thanking schools for having her in for a visit.

I don’t think she wants to be an ideologue. It’s not her personal style and it isn’t politically popular when you’re on the BOE, which is probably why Laura Stewart switched her twitter account to private and blocked anyone from seeing her ideas there once she decided to run for office as the accountability and transparency candidate.

Evans has to have an idea before she can be an ideologue but I will still take her benign neglect over Laura Stewart or Bethany Mandel (literally two sides of the same coin) any day.

You can try to gaslight Laura Stewart by saying she is similar to Bethany Mandel, but that just catch traction with anyone.

Far left vs. far right. Both live in echo chambers. Correct me where I’m wrong.

You live in a polarized world. So sorry about that.

I would be willing to consider supporting Shebra Evans. The problem is that Shebra just hasn't done anything on the BOE for the last 8 years. Shebra rubber-stamped Smith and McKnight positions.

The BOE deliberated those hires in closed sessions. How do you know what happened there? One person who probably got a play-by-play was Laura Stewart. Did she share the readout with you?

The anti-Stewart trolling is really over the top tonight

Dismissing everyone who disagrees with you or everyone who says something you don’t like is how we got today’s MCPS.

It's merely factual to characterize the anti-Stewart troll posts as anti-Stewart troll posts.

I looked up the candidates on credible sources like moco360. Mandrel is cray-cray. Evans and Stewart seem basically the same in terms of their positions. Evans is an incumbent who hasn't done much and I'm not happy with the direction things are going so will support Stewart.

Stewart is too partisan for me. If this were a county council or state house race I would agree but we don’t need partisanship on the school board.

What positions/actions has Evans taken that indicate she is less partisan than Stewart?

It’s more about what Evans hasn’t done. Sometimes doing nothing and not wading in is better for the organization than wading in. Stewart is many many more times a partisan than Evans. Stewart, for example, has multiple partisan leadership positions while Evans has none.

Oh? Which "partisan leadership positions" has she had?

If you’re truly this uniformed you must be a Mandel supporter.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh look, it's the Bethany Mandel supporters going after Laura Stewart on DCUM (anonymously) just like they're doing on Twitter (semi-anonymously).

This Laura Stewart/Bethany Mandel race between ultra partisans on the left and right is going to be exhausting. It’s troubling that the BOE race is going to be so partisan. For all of her faults, at least Shebra Evans seems to stick to the issues that are relevant to the BOE and more middle of the road on issues that aren’t.

What issues does Shebra stick to? What does Shebra believe in? I've been waiting years to find out.

You can watch the years of BOE meetings that Shebra has been a part of to find out. Unlike the other 2 ideologues in the race, she doesn’t take to twitter to comment on everything going on in the country, so you won’t be able to find out that way.

Although I guess you could say the same about Laura Stewart, who made her formerly public twitter page private once she decided to run for office. I wonder what historical posts she was so worried about that made her take down the whole page and keep it out of view.

Shebra could be an ideologue if she had ideas to share. I've looked at Shebra's Twitter account. Pretty sparse, accept for wishing her daughter well in college (which is truly very sweet) and thanking schools for having her in for a visit.

I don’t think she wants to be an ideologue. It’s not her personal style and it isn’t politically popular when you’re on the BOE, which is probably why Laura Stewart switched her twitter account to private and blocked anyone from seeing her ideas there once she decided to run for office as the accountability and transparency candidate.

Evans has to have an idea before she can be an ideologue but I will still take her benign neglect over Laura Stewart or Bethany Mandel (literally two sides of the same coin) any day.

You can try to gaslight Laura Stewart by saying she is similar to Bethany Mandel, but that just catch traction with anyone.

Far left vs. far right. Both live in echo chambers. Correct me where I’m wrong.

You live in a polarized world. So sorry about that.

I would be willing to consider supporting Shebra Evans. The problem is that Shebra just hasn't done anything on the BOE for the last 8 years. Shebra rubber-stamped Smith and McKnight positions.

The BOE deliberated those hires in closed sessions. How do you know what happened there? One person who probably got a play-by-play was Laura Stewart. Did she share the readout with you?

The anti-Stewart trolling is really over the top tonight

Dismissing everyone who disagrees with you or everyone who says something you don’t like is how we got today’s MCPS.

It's merely factual to characterize the anti-Stewart troll posts as anti-Stewart troll posts.

I looked up the candidates on credible sources like moco360. Mandrel is cray-cray. Evans and Stewart seem basically the same in terms of their positions. Evans is an incumbent who hasn't done much and I'm not happy with the direction things are going so will support Stewart.

+1

I’m looking forward to candidate forums and things like that where we can see how the 2 normal candidates differ from each other. Although I do find it odd that Laura Stewart did 2 things so far after filing for her candidacy: created a campaign website where 2 of the 3 prongs of her campaign are Accountability and Transparency but then shut down her formerly public twitter site so that there’s no longer any Transparency into what she believes or holding her Accountable for prior views and posts. Hopefully this kind of “transparency and accountability for thee but not for me” doesn’t carry over to her service on the Board and is then an insider.

For most people, the major issue in this campaign will not be "Did the candidate put their Twitter account on private after they filed for candidacy"?

Correct. I think it will be more about whether a candidate calling for accountability and transparency can be trusted when they don’t apply those same standards to their own views and platform.

Weird to be so obsessed about one person's account on a dying social media platform, but you do you.

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This Laura Stewart/Bethany Mandel race between ultra partisans on the left and right is going to be exhausting. It’s troubling that the BOE race is going to be so partisan. For all of her faults, at least Shebra Evans seems to stick to the issues that are relevant to the BOE and more middle of the road on issues that aren’t.

What issues does Shebra stick to? What does Shebra believe in? I've been waiting years to find out.

You can watch the years of BOE meetings that Shebra has been a part of to find out. Unlike the other 2 ideologues in the race, she doesn’t take to twitter to comment on everything going on in the country, so you won’t be able to find out that way.

Although I guess you could say the same about Laura Stewart, who made her formerly public twitter page private once she decided to run for office. I wonder what historical posts she was so worried about that made her take down the whole page and keep it out of view.

Shebra could be an ideologue if she had ideas to share. I've looked at Shebra's Twitter account. Pretty sparse, accept for wishing her daughter well in college (which is truly very sweet) and thanking schools for having her in for a visit.

I don’t think she wants to be an ideologue. It’s not her personal style and it isn’t politically popular when you’re on the BOE, which is probably why Laura Stewart switched her twitter account to private and blocked anyone from seeing her ideas there once she decided to run for office as the accountability and transparency candidate.

Evans has to have an idea before she can be an ideologue but I will still take her benign neglect over Laura Stewart or Bethany Mandel (literally two sides of the same coin) any day.

You can try to gaslight Laura Stewart by saying she is similar to Bethany Mandel, but that just catch traction with anyone.

Far left vs. far right. Both live in echo chambers. Correct me where I’m wrong.

You live in a polarized world. So sorry about that.

I would be willing to consider supporting Shebra Evans. The problem is that Shebra just hasn't done anything on the BOE for the last 8 years. Shebra rubber-stamped Smith and McKnight positions.

The BOE deliberated those hires in closed sessions. How do you know what happened there? One person who probably got a play-by-play was Laura Stewart. Did she share the readout with you?

The anti-Stewart trolling is really over the top tonight

Dismissing everyone who disagrees with you or everyone who says something you don’t like is how we got today’s MCPS.

It's merely factual to characterize the anti-Stewart troll posts as anti-Stewart troll posts.

I looked up the candidates on credible sources like moco360. Mandrel is cray-cray. Evans and Stewart seem basically the same in terms of their positions. Evans is an incumbent who hasn't done much and I'm not happy with the direction things are going so will support Stewart.

+1

I’m looking forward to candidate forums and things like that where we can see how the 2 normal candidates differ from each other. Although I do find it odd that Laura Stewart did 2 things so far after filing for her candidacy: created a campaign website where 2 of the 3 prongs of her campaign are Accountability and Transparency but then shut down her formerly public twitter site so that there’s no longer any Transparency into what she believes or holding her Accountable for prior views and posts. Hopefully this kind of “transparency and accountability for thee but not for me” doesn’t carry over to her service on the Board and is then an insider.

For most people, the major issue in this campaign will not be "Did the candidate put their Twitter account on private after they filed for candidacy"?

Correct. I think it will be more about whether a candidate calling for accountability and transparency can be trusted when they don’t apply those same standards to their own views and platform.

+1. I remember her equivocating about McKnight and whether the BOE was handling the scandals well. Maybe one of her followers (there seem to be many here) can unearth those posts and paste them here for the rest of us to see.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh look, it's the Bethany Mandel supporters going after Laura Stewart on DCUM (anonymously) just like they're doing on Twitter (semi-anonymously).

This Laura Stewart/Bethany Mandel race between ultra partisans on the left and right is going to be exhausting. It’s troubling that the BOE race is going to be so partisan. For all of her faults, at least Shebra Evans seems to stick to the issues that are relevant to the BOE and more middle of the road on issues that aren’t.

What issues does Shebra stick to? What does Shebra believe in? I've been waiting years to find out.

You can watch the years of BOE meetings that Shebra has been a part of to find out. Unlike the other 2 ideologues in the race, she doesn’t take to twitter to comment on everything going on in the country, so you won’t be able to find out that way.

Although I guess you could say the same about Laura Stewart, who made her formerly public twitter page private once she decided to run for office. I wonder what historical posts she was so worried about that made her take down the whole page and keep it out of view.

Shebra could be an ideologue if she had ideas to share. I've looked at Shebra's Twitter account. Pretty sparse, accept for wishing her daughter well in college (which is truly very sweet) and thanking schools for having her in for a visit.

I don’t think she wants to be an ideologue. It’s not her personal style and it isn’t politically popular when you’re on the BOE, which is probably why Laura Stewart switched her twitter account to private and blocked anyone from seeing her ideas there once she decided to run for office as the accountability and transparency candidate.

Evans has to have an idea before she can be an ideologue but I will still take her benign neglect over Laura Stewart or Bethany Mandel (literally two sides of the same coin) any day.

You can try to gaslight Laura Stewart by saying she is similar to Bethany Mandel, but that just catch traction with anyone.

Far left vs. far right. Both live in echo chambers. Correct me where I’m wrong.

You live in a polarized world. So sorry about that.

I would be willing to consider supporting Shebra Evans. The problem is that Shebra just hasn't done anything on the BOE for the last 8 years. Shebra rubber-stamped Smith and McKnight positions.

The BOE deliberated those hires in closed sessions. How do you know what happened there? One person who probably got a play-by-play was Laura Stewart. Did she share the readout with you?

The anti-Stewart trolling is really over the top tonight

Dismissing everyone who disagrees with you or everyone who says something you don’t like is how we got today’s MCPS.

It's merely factual to characterize the anti-Stewart troll posts as anti-Stewart troll posts.

I looked up the candidates on credible sources like moco360. Mandrel is cray-cray. Evans and Stewart seem basically the same in terms of their positions. Evans is an incumbent who hasn't done much and I'm not happy with the direction things are going so will support Stewart.

+1

I’m looking forward to candidate forums and things like that where we can see how the 2 normal candidates differ from each other. Although I do find it odd that Laura Stewart did 2 things so far after filing for her candidacy: created a campaign website where 2 of the 3 prongs of her campaign are Accountability and Transparency but then shut down her formerly public twitter site so that there’s no longer any Transparency into what she believes or holding her Accountable for prior views and posts. Hopefully this kind of “transparency and accountability for thee but not for me” doesn’t carry over to her service on the Board and is then an insider.

For most people, the major issue in this campaign will not be "Did the candidate put their Twitter account on private after they filed for candidacy"?

Correct. I think it will be more about whether a candidate calling for accountability and transparency can be trusted when they don’t apply those same standards to their own views and platform.

+1. I remember her equivocating about McKnight and whether the BOE was handling the scandals well. Maybe one of her followers (there seem to be many here) can unearth those posts and paste them here for the rest of us to see.

But her Twitter account!

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Anonymous wrote:Oh look, it's the Bethany Mandel supporters going after Laura Stewart on DCUM (anonymously) just like they're doing on Twitter (semi-anonymously).

This Laura Stewart/Bethany Mandel race between ultra partisans on the left and right is going to be exhausting. It’s troubling that the BOE race is going to be so partisan. For all of her faults, at least Shebra Evans seems to stick to the issues that are relevant to the BOE and more middle of the road on issues that aren’t.

What issues does Shebra stick to? What does Shebra believe in? I've been waiting years to find out.

You can watch the years of BOE meetings that Shebra has been a part of to find out. Unlike the other 2 ideologues in the race, she doesn’t take to twitter to comment on everything going on in the country, so you won’t be able to find out that way.

Although I guess you could say the same about Laura Stewart, who made her formerly public twitter page private once she decided to run for office. I wonder what historical posts she was so worried about that made her take down the whole page and keep it out of view.

Shebra could be an ideologue if she had ideas to share. I've looked at Shebra's Twitter account. Pretty sparse, accept for wishing her daughter well in college (which is truly very sweet) and thanking schools for having her in for a visit.

I don’t think she wants to be an ideologue. It’s not her personal style and it isn’t politically popular when you’re on the BOE, which is probably why Laura Stewart switched her twitter account to private and blocked anyone from seeing her ideas there once she decided to run for office as the accountability and transparency candidate.

Evans has to have an idea before she can be an ideologue but I will still take her benign neglect over Laura Stewart or Bethany Mandel (literally two sides of the same coin) any day.

You can try to gaslight Laura Stewart by saying she is similar to Bethany Mandel, but that just catch traction with anyone.

Far left vs. far right. Both live in echo chambers. Correct me where I’m wrong.

You live in a polarized world. So sorry about that.

I would be willing to consider supporting Shebra Evans. The problem is that Shebra just hasn't done anything on the BOE for the last 8 years. Shebra rubber-stamped Smith and McKnight positions.

The BOE deliberated those hires in closed sessions. How do you know what happened there? One person who probably got a play-by-play was Laura Stewart. Did she share the readout with you?

The anti-Stewart trolling is really over the top tonight

Dismissing everyone who disagrees with you or everyone who says something you don’t like is how we got today’s MCPS.

It's merely factual to characterize the anti-Stewart troll posts as anti-Stewart troll posts.

I looked up the candidates on credible sources like moco360. Mandrel is cray-cray. Evans and Stewart seem basically the same in terms of their positions. Evans is an incumbent who hasn't done much and I'm not happy with the direction things are going so will support Stewart.

+1

I’m looking forward to candidate forums and things like that where we can see how the 2 normal candidates differ from each other. Although I do find it odd that Laura Stewart did 2 things so far after filing for her candidacy: created a campaign website where 2 of the 3 prongs of her campaign are Accountability and Transparency but then shut down her formerly public twitter site so that there’s no longer any Transparency into what she believes or holding her Accountable for prior views and posts. Hopefully this kind of “transparency and accountability for thee but not for me” doesn’t carry over to her service on the Board and is then an insider.

For most people, the major issue in this campaign will not be "Did the candidate put their Twitter account on private after they filed for candidacy"?

Correct. I think it will be more about whether a candidate calling for accountability and transparency can be trusted when they don’t apply those same standards to their own views and platform.

Weird to be so obsessed about one person's account on a dying social media platform, but you do you.

Just stop it. You know she took down twitter because her prior posts are politically damaging. Refusing to admit that and chalking it up to a coincidence of her moving away from a dying platform is weak sauce.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh look, it's the Bethany Mandel supporters going after Laura Stewart on DCUM (anonymously) just like they're doing on Twitter (semi-anonymously).

This Laura Stewart/Bethany Mandel race between ultra partisans on the left and right is going to be exhausting. It’s troubling that the BOE race is going to be so partisan. For all of her faults, at least Shebra Evans seems to stick to the issues that are relevant to the BOE and more middle of the road on issues that aren’t.

What issues does Shebra stick to? What does Shebra believe in? I've been waiting years to find out.

You can watch the years of BOE meetings that Shebra has been a part of to find out. Unlike the other 2 ideologues in the race, she doesn’t take to twitter to comment on everything going on in the country, so you won’t be able to find out that way.

Although I guess you could say the same about Laura Stewart, who made her formerly public twitter page private once she decided to run for office. I wonder what historical posts she was so worried about that made her take down the whole page and keep it out of view.

Shebra could be an ideologue if she had ideas to share. I've looked at Shebra's Twitter account. Pretty sparse, accept for wishing her daughter well in college (which is truly very sweet) and thanking schools for having her in for a visit.

I don’t think she wants to be an ideologue. It’s not her personal style and it isn’t politically popular when you’re on the BOE, which is probably why Laura Stewart switched her twitter account to private and blocked anyone from seeing her ideas there once she decided to run for office as the accountability and transparency candidate.

Evans has to have an idea before she can be an ideologue but I will still take her benign neglect over Laura Stewart or Bethany Mandel (literally two sides of the same coin) any day.

You can try to gaslight Laura Stewart by saying she is similar to Bethany Mandel, but that just catch traction with anyone.

Far left vs. far right. Both live in echo chambers. Correct me where I’m wrong.

You live in a polarized world. So sorry about that.

I would be willing to consider supporting Shebra Evans. The problem is that Shebra just hasn't done anything on the BOE for the last 8 years. Shebra rubber-stamped Smith and McKnight positions.

The BOE deliberated those hires in closed sessions. How do you know what happened there? One person who probably got a play-by-play was Laura Stewart. Did she share the readout with you?

The anti-Stewart trolling is really over the top tonight

Dismissing everyone who disagrees with you or everyone who says something you don’t like is how we got today’s MCPS.

It's merely factual to characterize the anti-Stewart troll posts as anti-Stewart troll posts.

I looked up the candidates on credible sources like moco360. Mandrel is cray-cray. Evans and Stewart seem basically the same in terms of their positions. Evans is an incumbent who hasn't done much and I'm not happy with the direction things are going so will support Stewart.

+1

I’m looking forward to candidate forums and things like that where we can see how the 2 normal candidates differ from each other. Although I do find it odd that Laura Stewart did 2 things so far after filing for her candidacy: created a campaign website where 2 of the 3 prongs of her campaign are Accountability and Transparency but then shut down her formerly public twitter site so that there’s no longer any Transparency into what she believes or holding her Accountable for prior views and posts. Hopefully this kind of “transparency and accountability for thee but not for me” doesn’t carry over to her service on the Board and is then an insider.

For most people, the major issue in this campaign will not be "Did the candidate put their Twitter account on private after they filed for candidacy"?

Correct. I think it will be more about whether a candidate calling for accountability and transparency can be trusted when they don’t apply those same standards to their own views and platform.

Weird to be so obsessed about one person's account on a dying social media platform, but you do you.

Just stop it. You know she took down twitter because her prior posts are politically damaging. Refusing to admit that and chalking it up to a coincidence of her moving away from a dying platform is weak sauce.

It’s dishonest because she has a campaign account that she’s regularly posting too. It says a lot about her integrity.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh look, it's the Bethany Mandel supporters going after Laura Stewart on DCUM (anonymously) just like they're doing on Twitter (semi-anonymously).

This Laura Stewart/Bethany Mandel race between ultra partisans on the left and right is going to be exhausting. It’s troubling that the BOE race is going to be so partisan. For all of her faults, at least Shebra Evans seems to stick to the issues that are relevant to the BOE and more middle of the road on issues that aren’t.

What issues does Shebra stick to? What does Shebra believe in? I've been waiting years to find out.

You can watch the years of BOE meetings that Shebra has been a part of to find out. Unlike the other 2 ideologues in the race, she doesn’t take to twitter to comment on everything going on in the country, so you won’t be able to find out that way.

Although I guess you could say the same about Laura Stewart, who made her formerly public twitter page private once she decided to run for office. I wonder what historical posts she was so worried about that made her take down the whole page and keep it out of view.

Shebra could be an ideologue if she had ideas to share. I've looked at Shebra's Twitter account. Pretty sparse, accept for wishing her daughter well in college (which is truly very sweet) and thanking schools for having her in for a visit.

I don’t think she wants to be an ideologue. It’s not her personal style and it isn’t politically popular when you’re on the BOE, which is probably why Laura Stewart switched her twitter account to private and blocked anyone from seeing her ideas there once she decided to run for office as the accountability and transparency candidate.

Evans has to have an idea before she can be an ideologue but I will still take her benign neglect over Laura Stewart or Bethany Mandel (literally two sides of the same coin) any day.

You can try to gaslight Laura Stewart by saying she is similar to Bethany Mandel, but that just catch traction with anyone.

Far left vs. far right. Both live in echo chambers. Correct me where I’m wrong.

You live in a polarized world. So sorry about that.

I would be willing to consider supporting Shebra Evans. The problem is that Shebra just hasn't done anything on the BOE for the last 8 years. Shebra rubber-stamped Smith and McKnight positions.

The BOE deliberated those hires in closed sessions. How do you know what happened there? One person who probably got a play-by-play was Laura Stewart. Did she share the readout with you?

The anti-Stewart trolling is really over the top tonight

Dismissing everyone who disagrees with you or everyone who says something you don’t like is how we got today’s MCPS.

It's merely factual to characterize the anti-Stewart troll posts as anti-Stewart troll posts.

I looked up the candidates on credible sources like moco360. Mandrel is cray-cray. Evans and Stewart seem basically the same in terms of their positions. Evans is an incumbent who hasn't done much and I'm not happy with the direction things are going so will support Stewart.

+1

I’m looking forward to candidate forums and things like that where we can see how the 2 normal candidates differ from each other. Although I do find it odd that Laura Stewart did 2 things so far after filing for her candidacy: created a campaign website where 2 of the 3 prongs of her campaign are Accountability and Transparency but then shut down her formerly public twitter site so that there’s no longer any Transparency into what she believes or holding her Accountable for prior views and posts. Hopefully this kind of “transparency and accountability for thee but not for me” doesn’t carry over to her service on the Board and is then an insider.

For most people, the major issue in this campaign will not be "Did the candidate put their Twitter account on private after they filed for candidacy"?

Correct. I think it will be more about whether a candidate calling for accountability and transparency can be trusted when they don’t apply those same standards to their own views and platform.

Weird to be so obsessed about one person's account on a dying social media platform, but you do you.

Just stop it. You know she took down twitter because her prior posts are politically damaging. Refusing to admit that and chalking it up to a coincidence of her moving away from a dying platform is weak sauce.

I expect she put her Twitter account on private because the same people who are now hollering on DCUM (!) about how she put her account on private were previously harassing her on Twitter. Everyone on Montgomery County Twitter knows who the right-wing Montgomery County Twitter trolls are. There are people in Montgomery County who say controversial things on Twitter, but she isn't one of them (except from the point of view of the right-wing Montgomery County Twitter trolls).

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Anonymous wrote:Oh look, it's the Bethany Mandel supporters going after Laura Stewart on DCUM (anonymously) just like they're doing on Twitter (semi-anonymously).

This Laura Stewart/Bethany Mandel race between ultra partisans on the left and right is going to be exhausting. It’s troubling that the BOE race is going to be so partisan. For all of her faults, at least Shebra Evans seems to stick to the issues that are relevant to the BOE and more middle of the road on issues that aren’t.

What issues does Shebra stick to? What does Shebra believe in? I've been waiting years to find out.

You can watch the years of BOE meetings that Shebra has been a part of to find out. Unlike the other 2 ideologues in the race, she doesn’t take to twitter to comment on everything going on in the country, so you won’t be able to find out that way.

Although I guess you could say the same about Laura Stewart, who made her formerly public twitter page private once she decided to run for office. I wonder what historical posts she was so worried about that made her take down the whole page and keep it out of view.

Shebra could be an ideologue if she had ideas to share. I've looked at Shebra's Twitter account. Pretty sparse, accept for wishing her daughter well in college (which is truly very sweet) and thanking schools for having her in for a visit.

I don’t think she wants to be an ideologue. It’s not her personal style and it isn’t politically popular when you’re on the BOE, which is probably why Laura Stewart switched her twitter account to private and blocked anyone from seeing her ideas there once she decided to run for office as the accountability and transparency candidate.

Evans has to have an idea before she can be an ideologue but I will still take her benign neglect over Laura Stewart or Bethany Mandel (literally two sides of the same coin) any day.

You can try to gaslight Laura Stewart by saying she is similar to Bethany Mandel, but that just catch traction with anyone.

Far left vs. far right. Both live in echo chambers. Correct me where I’m wrong.

You live in a polarized world. So sorry about that.

I would be willing to consider supporting Shebra Evans. The problem is that Shebra just hasn't done anything on the BOE for the last 8 years. Shebra rubber-stamped Smith and McKnight positions.

The BOE deliberated those hires in closed sessions. How do you know what happened there? One person who probably got a play-by-play was Laura Stewart. Did she share the readout with you?

The anti-Stewart trolling is really over the top tonight

Dismissing everyone who disagrees with you or everyone who says something you don’t like is how we got today’s MCPS.

It's merely factual to characterize the anti-Stewart troll posts as anti-Stewart troll posts.

I looked up the candidates on credible sources like moco360. Mandrel is cray-cray. Evans and Stewart seem basically the same in terms of their positions. Evans is an incumbent who hasn't done much and I'm not happy with the direction things are going so will support Stewart.

+1

I’m looking forward to candidate forums and things like that where we can see how the 2 normal candidates differ from each other. Although I do find it odd that Laura Stewart did 2 things so far after filing for her candidacy: created a campaign website where 2 of the 3 prongs of her campaign are Accountability and Transparency but then shut down her formerly public twitter site so that there’s no longer any Transparency into what she believes or holding her Accountable for prior views and posts. Hopefully this kind of “transparency and accountability for thee but not for me” doesn’t carry over to her service on the Board and is then an insider.

For most people, the major issue in this campaign will not be "Did the candidate put their Twitter account on private after they filed for candidacy"?

As the candidate who’s running on a platform for being able to shake things up and do the hard work of standing up to MCPS central office, it doesn’t bode well in my mind that Laura Stewart doesn’t even have the back bone to stand behind her own views. Totally can trust her to stand up for others when it’s not politically expedient.