How bad is MoCo council and why?

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Anonymous wrote:I am looking forward to Marilyn Balcombe and Dawn Luedtke as a couple of new rational voices. I may not always agree with them, but they are rational and have real leadership abilities. I am hopeful about Laurie Anne Sayles for the same reasons, although I know less about her.

Kristin Mink strikes me as a loose cannon. I hope I'm wrong.

I know nothing about Kate Stewart or Natali Fani Gonzalez.

All in all, though, the new group of women seem to have much better leadership skills than any of the men currently on Council. They are weak, at best, and generally just go whichever way twitter bullies tell them.

Mink and Stewart are extremely weak on crime and I expect crime in the county to explode if they have their way. Terrible leadership skills.

How do you know they are weak on crime?

For a couny the size of MoCo, they should have a police force with about twice the the manpower they currently have, if you compare to other similar jurisdictions (also suburban). Which council member is calling for that?

None. They cut 25 critical positions in the 2021 police budget and created such a hostile political climate, nobody wants to work here.

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We are one of the most educated and wealthiest counties in America, adjacent to the Nation's capital, and these clowns are the best we can get?

I hope they read these comments to know that they are the laughing stock of our county. Maybe they should pay these people more (crazy thought) to actually attract people with some resemblance of a brain.

Most Democrats are not anti-police. Crime is the biggest issue facing our county. Fix it. Screw the political nonsense and protect those you "theoretically" serve.

No one cares about some stupid street being reopened, they care about the safety of their family and property.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are one of the most educated and wealthiest counties in America, adjacent to the Nation's capital, and these clowns are the best we can get?

I hope they read these comments to know that they are the laughing stock of our county. Maybe they should pay these people more (crazy thought) to actually attract people with some resemblance of a brain.

Most Democrats are not anti-police. Crime is the biggest issue facing our county. Fix it. Screw the political nonsense and protect those you "theoretically" serve.

No one cares about some stupid street being reopened, they care about the safety of their family and property.

Hans Riemer fancies himself as the supposed “smart” one on the Council. Somehow a lot of supposedly “smart” people in this county think he’s smart, but the guy is really just dumb as rocks living in some sort of Peter Pan/George Costanza mashup world where he can make up his own reality. Thank god he’s leaving the Council and for the sake of this county we need this guy as far away as possible from any levers of power.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are one of the most educated and wealthiest counties in America, adjacent to the Nation's capital, and these clowns are the best we can get?

I hope they read these comments to know that they are the laughing stock of our county. Maybe they should pay these people more (crazy thought) to actually attract people with some resemblance of a brain.

Most Democrats are not anti-police. Crime is the biggest issue facing our county. Fix it. Screw the political nonsense and protect those you "theoretically" serve.

No one cares about some stupid street being reopened, they care about the safety of their family and property.

why would they care they get elected to office. This county is full of idiots

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are one of the most educated and wealthiest counties in America, adjacent to the Nation's capital, and these clowns are the best we can get?

I hope they read these comments to know that they are the laughing stock of our county. Maybe they should pay these people more (crazy thought) to actually attract people with some resemblance of a brain.

Most Democrats are not anti-police. Crime is the biggest issue facing our county. Fix it. Screw the political nonsense and protect those you "theoretically" serve.

No one cares about some stupid street being reopened, they care about the safety of their family and property.

I understand the sentiment here that more pay would attract a better class of candidates, but all it would do is jack up the pay for professional politicians like Jawando, and others who have had no real private sector experience.

Look at the bios of the whole council. They have all been government employees of state or fed in some capacity their entire careers. And the current salary is 140,371.

This may be a shock to the council members but that is mid to senior level management, with real numbers to hit in the private sector.