School board - who to vote for

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Moderately MoCo put together a great ballot which makes recommendations for a bunch of races including BOE, vetting candidates who are not incumbents and not Apple ballot. Incumbents and Apple Ballot got us where we are. Time for a change.

Yeah, no. “Moderately MoCo” and “Clean Slate MoCo” are clearly pals with Dawn, Fryar, and Wells. There are more qualified candidates out there that are neither incumbents, nor Apple ballot endorsed, but they’re oddly silent about them

I am not a fan of these anonymous accounts. They could be Dawn, Fryar, and/or Wells themselves— it’s impossible to know. So shady.

So basically these organizations front GOP candidates posing as DEMS?

Not Dems per se, because the BOE election is nonpartisan.

Uh, the race may be nonpartisan, but Fryar, Wells, and Fahmy are all registered Republicans: https://twitter.com/gunsensemelissa/status/1545129870220484608?s=21&t=wyPQgB9JDmWdcOIDrNT1wg

Yes, but they're not "posing as Dems." All voters of any political party or unaffiliated are voting in the same BOE races.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Moderately MoCo put together a great ballot which makes recommendations for a bunch of races including BOE, vetting candidates who are not incumbents and not Apple ballot. Incumbents and Apple Ballot got us where we are. Time for a change.

Yeah, no. “Moderately MoCo” and “Clean Slate MoCo” are clearly pals with Dawn, Fryar, and Wells. There are more qualified candidates out there that are neither incumbents, nor Apple ballot endorsed, but they’re oddly silent about them

I am not a fan of these anonymous accounts. They could be Dawn, Fryar, and/or Wells themselves— it’s impossible to know. So shady.

Don't know about Clean Slate, but ModeratelyMoCo has been around for quite awhile -- long before these three candidates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Moderately MoCo put together a great ballot which makes recommendations for a bunch of races including BOE, vetting candidates who are not incumbents and not Apple ballot. Incumbents and Apple Ballot got us where we are. Time for a change.

Yeah, no. “Moderately MoCo” and “Clean Slate MoCo” are clearly pals with Dawn, Fryar, and Wells. There are more qualified candidates out there that are neither incumbents, nor Apple ballot endorsed, but they’re oddly silent about them

I am not a fan of these anonymous accounts. They could be Dawn, Fryar, and/or Wells themselves— it’s impossible to know. So shady.

Don't know about Clean Slate, but ModeratelyMoCo has been around for quite awhile -- long before these three candidates.

Sounds like they're a front for right-wing radicals. Even their Orwellian name gives me the creeps, "We're not Republicans really...". The irony being that even Republicans like Reagan and Nixon were super liberals by today's standards.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:With so many folks working for MCPS ir having a family member who works for MCPS really it doesn’t matter - you are in Caracas and Madera is on the ballot.

If you want change you gotta move to another county I fear.

Otherwise I would for sanity sake avoid Apple Ballot at nearly all costs.

—Former 30 year county resident who simply moved to saner more moderate place.

Oh, hey, it’s you again, back to post the same utter nonsense on every thread. Just because you know a few people who have relatives working for the school system doesn’t mean everyone in MoCo has a relative working for MCPS.

I’m not sure how this particular bee got in your bonnet, but it seems to be pretty well stuck in there, because you keep coming back to post this nonsense even after moving out of the county.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is the first year I may consider supporting the Apple Ballot. The Apple Ballot is a list of who the teacher union supports and this time they are not endorsing any incumbents.

The BOE did a horrible job keeping schools closed for 18 months for most students, there’s been a lack of resources at the school level to address the pandemic learning loss, there’s been no plan to address the shortages for in school and substitute positions, and the BOE gave a contract to a Superintendent that had two votes of no confidence by the union members underneath her.

One quick note, while we're discussing incumbents and pandemic - Scott Joftus was appointed to the BoE in December, to fill the seat vacated by Patricia O'Neill's passing. So while he is technically an incumbent he does not bear any responsibility for the Board's handling of the first 18 months of pandemic. I'd urge people to keep this in mind before chucking him out with the rest of the incumbents.

For those who aren't aware of Joftus's background, he has a very different profile / background than the average BoE member and is in my view much more qualified:
https://joftus4boe.com/about/

And way to go making the KID Museum even more inaccessible to county kids by moving it to downtown Bethesda AND raising the cost for families.

And his wife gets $2M from the Board of Education in a no bid procurement! So please keep his wife happy and keep him on the Board of Education so she can bring home the education dollars!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:With so many folks working for MCPS ir having a family member who works for MCPS really it doesn’t matter - you are in Caracas and Madera is on the ballot.

If you want change you gotta move to another county I fear.

Otherwise I would for sanity sake avoid Apple Ballot at nearly all costs.

—Former 30 year county resident who simply moved to saner more moderate place.

Another cultural warrior! Yay! Or something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No f'ing way will I ever vote for the incumbents this year - ESPECIALLY JOFTUS after that Kid Museum ESSER III covid money grant!!!!!!

Apple Ballot all the way.

Oh that's too bad. We love the kids museum! I voted for him too.

I mean, there's a difference between liking the Kid Museum and approving MCPS using Covid relief funds to gift a large no-bid contract to a board member's family member.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No f'ing way will I ever vote for the incumbents this year - ESPECIALLY JOFTUS after that Kid Museum ESSER III covid money grant!!!!!!

Apple Ballot all the way.

Oh that's too bad. We love the kids museum! I voted for him too.

I mean, there's a difference between liking the Kid Museum and approving MCPS using Covid relief funds to gift a large no-bid contract to a board member's family member.

You know that MCPS has been contracting with the Kid Museum since something like 2017, right? Long before Joftus was on the board.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No f'ing way will I ever vote for the incumbents this year - ESPECIALLY JOFTUS after that Kid Museum ESSER III covid money grant!!!!!!

Apple Ballot all the way.

Oh that's too bad. We love the kids museum! I voted for him too.

I mean, there's a difference between liking the Kid Museum and approving MCPS using Covid relief funds to gift a large no-bid contract to a board member's family member.

You know that MCPS has been contracting with the Kid Museum since something like 2017, right? Long before Joftus was on the board.

Why should I care about facts! There's a conspiracy! Next the Kid Museum will have an exhibit on the history of bocce and everyone will know they're up to something!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:With so many folks working for MCPS ir having a family member who works for MCPS really it doesn’t matter - you are in Caracas and Madera is on the ballot.

If you want change you gotta move to another county I fear.

Otherwise I would for sanity sake avoid Apple Ballot at nearly all costs.

—Former 30 year county resident who simply moved to saner more moderate place.

Another cultural warrior! Yay! Or something.

It would be great if all the kooks moved to another county.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No f'ing way will I ever vote for the incumbents this year - ESPECIALLY JOFTUS after that Kid Museum ESSER III covid money grant!!!!!!

Apple Ballot all the way.

Oh that's too bad. We love the kids museum! I voted for him too.

I mean, there's a difference between liking the Kid Museum and approving MCPS using Covid relief funds to gift a large no-bid contract to a board member's family member.

You know that MCPS has been contracting with the Kid Museum since something like 2017, right? Long before Joftus was on the board.

And you know, that they got a ton more money once he was on the board right??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No f'ing way will I ever vote for the incumbents this year - ESPECIALLY JOFTUS after that Kid Museum ESSER III covid money grant!!!!!!

Apple Ballot all the way.

Oh that's too bad. We love the kids museum! I voted for him too.

I mean, there's a difference between liking the Kid Museum and approving MCPS using Covid relief funds to gift a large no-bid contract to a board member's family member.

You know that MCPS has been contracting with the Kid Museum since something like 2017, right? Long before Joftus was on the board.

And you know, that they got a ton more money once he was on the board right??

If you were supposedly talking about the ESSER III grant, that was authorized prior to Joftus being appointed to the board.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No f'ing way will I ever vote for the incumbents this year - ESPECIALLY JOFTUS after that Kid Museum ESSER III covid money grant!!!!!!

Apple Ballot all the way.

Oh that's too bad. We love the kids museum! I voted for him too.

I mean, there's a difference between liking the Kid Museum and approving MCPS using Covid relief funds to gift a large no-bid contract to a board member's family member.

You know that MCPS has been contracting with the Kid Museum since something like 2017, right? Long before Joftus was on the board.

And you know, that they got a ton more money once he was on the board right??

If you were supposedly talking about the ESSER III grant, that was authorized prior to Joftus being appointed to the board.

Yep--see this from Sept re the funding decision:
https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/C6GJTZ4E2726/$file/Cont%20Apprv%20Bid%204403.1%20STEM%20Programs.pdf

He was appointed to fill the seat three months later, in December, after previous BoE member Pat O'Neill passed. This line of attack is slander, and stupid slander at that because it's so cleary bogus.

I don't know Joftus personally but he's supported by many people I respect. Here's an endorsement from Jamie Raskin:

"Scott is doing a great job for us on the Board of Education. We are benefiting from his work with school districts across the country and his significant insight as a professor of educational leadership. We're lucky to have him where he is using his expertise on behalf of our students and our schools."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't currently have kids in public school, so I feel a little out of the loop here - who does DCUM recommend for school board? I have at large, district 1, district 3, and district 5 on my ballot.

This is somewhat useful:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/07/06/montgomery-county-school-board-election-candidates/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No f'ing way will I ever vote for the incumbents this year - ESPECIALLY JOFTUS after that Kid Museum ESSER III covid money grant!!!!!!

Apple Ballot all the way.

Oh that's too bad. We love the kids museum! I voted for him too.

I mean, there's a difference between liking the Kid Museum and approving MCPS using Covid relief funds to gift a large no-bid contract to a board member's family member.

You know that MCPS has been contracting with the Kid Museum since something like 2017, right? Long before Joftus was on the board.

And you know, that they got a ton more money once he was on the board right??

If you were supposedly talking about the ESSER III grant, that was authorized prior to Joftus being appointed to the board.

Why let facts get in the way of a good conspiracy story!?!