Why do MoCoites keep voting for the same? Silver Spring residents are melting down due crime

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Anonymous wrote:Republicans in MoCo need to start registering as Democrats for local elections or we will just keep getting more of the same.

NO AND NO

Vet every single candidate.

Republicans are not acceptable for any position anywhere in the US full stop

What do you not understand about them wanting people stupid? School choice BS, Crime BS, book banning, increasing the pocketbooks of people like Betsey Devos, Hell no.

The history of republicans in any office is abysmal, history makes my words fact.

DP.. I agree with the ^PP and have been saying this for a while.

Rs need to change their affiliation to D for local elections so we have more say in local politics. Otherwise, your vote is a throw away.

It's super easy to change your affiliation in MD. You can do it online. I am actually an Independent and switched between R (to vote for someone other than Trump in the 2016 R primary) and back to D to vote in local primaries.

You can switch at any time. I urge all non Dems to do this. Otherwise, your vote is a throwaway.

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Vote for me

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The elections are over so it is not important who, what is import is what they will do. Has there been any communication from anyone in government that they have a plan to address this public safety problem? Aside the White Oak forum, it seems that they have gone completely silent. It’s very disappointing leadership.

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White liberals thinking defunding cops will make black people like them

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Anonymous wrote:The Online Left in Silver Spring, median age of 24, believe that Marc Elrich isn't woke enough because he loves cops too much. They want him to defund the police more.

24-year-olds in Montgomery County are living with their parents or other older relatives, because they can't afford the high cost of housing in Montgomery County.

A 1 minute search has informed me that you can rent a studio apartment in downtown Silver Spring for $810 per month. If you are 24 and cannot afford that then you have other problems rather than housing costs.

I'm guessing you haven't tried to get rental housing lately. Finding something on Google at an advertised rent is not the same as actually being able to rent it.

No. That was apartments.com that showed real-time availability. It also showed that there were 2-BD apartments for $1550. So that 24 year old Silver Spring resident could rent that and get a roommate, like a lot of current and past 24 year olds in the area. Including me.

No, it doesn't. It shows that people are advertising a studio in downtown Silver Spring for $810 per month. It doesn't mean that the unit is actually available, even if it is listed as available on apartments.com, and it also doesn't mean that a given person would be allowed to rent it. For example, that $810 studio in downtown Silver Spring on apartments.com is in the Charter House on Fenwick Lane, which is age-restricted to people who are 55 or older.

No. What it means is that you think the affordable apartments that are available to you are below your standards. There are plenty of 2 bedroom apartments in the $1600 per month range. Go get a roommate not normal people do. Or not. That’s your choice. My advice is that once you get over yourself and realize that the world doesn’t owe you anything and that you’re going to need to earn everything you want is when you’ll actually get to where you want to go in life. And the first way to do that is to stop wasting your precious time online. These are the years where dedication to your work or your craft can pay the most dividends. Or you can sit in your parents basement and whine about your situation and not get anywhere in life. It’s up to you. But when I was 24 I had roommates saved money, paid off student loans and worked hard. You can do the same if you want. It’s entirely your choice.

Really? In downtown Silver Spring?

Or elsewhere, where you have to add to your housing costs either the monetary cost of owning and operating a car, or the time cost of getting around the county by bus or bike (plus the opportunity cost of being unable to get to certain parts of the county reasonably, or indeed at all)?

You can't separate housing cost from transportation cost.

By the way, I don't know who this "you" is that you're addressing. I'm the PP who looked up the $810 studio. I haven't been 24 in decades.

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Anonymous wrote:White liberals thinking defunding cops will make black people like them

White liberals don’t know any Black people, so they have no idea that Black people are the vast majority of crime victims.

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This is the website of the 2022 Republican county council candidate for Silver Spring’s district. Any more questions about why she lost?

https://www.cherylriley4moco.com/

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Anonymous wrote:This is the website of the 2022 Republican county council candidate for Silver Spring’s district. Any more questions about why she lost?

https://www.cherylriley4moco.com/

Why so many random words in quotes?

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Anonymous wrote:This is the website of the 2022 Republican county council candidate for Silver Spring’s district. Any more questions about why she lost?

https://www.cherylriley4moco.com/

The new downtown Silver Spring-Kensington-North Bethesda district. She got 6,119 votes (12.43%), and yes, if county Republicans want to start winning elections, they need to stop running candidates like this.

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Anonymous wrote:This is the website of the 2022 Republican county council candidate for Silver Spring’s district. Any more questions about why she lost?

https://www.cherylriley4moco.com/

The new downtown Silver Spring-Kensington-North Bethesda district. She got 6,119 votes (12.43%), and yes, if county Republicans want to start winning elections, they need to stop running candidates like this.

The actual reason a Republican can never win is because the Democrats keep gerrymandering the Council District maps to prevent that from happening. If there was a District that spanned the border of the county with Frederick county as Republicans have requested, from Potomac to Poolesville to Clarksburg to Damascus, a Republican candidate would actually have a strong chance of winning which would encroach better Republican candidates to run. Aside from crazy people, who’s going to waste their time in futility.

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Anonymous wrote:White liberals thinking defunding cops will make black people like them

It's modern day white saviorism

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Anonymous wrote:This is the website of the 2022 Republican county council candidate for Silver Spring’s district. Any more questions about why she lost?

https://www.cherylriley4moco.com/

The new downtown Silver Spring-Kensington-North Bethesda district. She got 6,119 votes (12.43%), and yes, if county Republicans want to start winning elections, they need to stop running candidates like this.

The actual reason a Republican can never win is because the Democrats keep gerrymandering the Council District maps to prevent that from happening. If there was a District that spanned the border of the county with Frederick county as Republicans have requested, from Potomac to Poolesville to Clarksburg to Damascus, a Republican candidate would actually have a strong chance of winning which would encroach better Republican candidates to run. Aside from crazy people, who’s going to waste their time in futility.

Even if the county gerrymandered a district as affirmative action for Republicans, the Republican candidate still wouldn't have enough Republican votes. To win, any Republican candidate would have to get a lot of crossover votes from Democrats, and to do that, the Republican candidate would have to be, well, not a Republican candidate.

Marilyn Balcombe, a non-incumbent, won the open District 2 seat in November with 72% of the votes. Dawn Luedtke, also a non-incumbent, won the open district 7 seat with 67% of the votes. The margins aren't even close.

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Anonymous wrote:This is the website of the 2022 Republican county council candidate for Silver Spring’s district. Any more questions about why she lost?

https://www.cherylriley4moco.com/

The new downtown Silver Spring-Kensington-North Bethesda district. She got 6,119 votes (12.43%), and yes, if county Republicans want to start winning elections, they need to stop running candidates like this.

The actual reason a Republican can never win is because the Democrats keep gerrymandering the Council District maps to prevent that from happening. If there was a District that spanned the border of the county with Frederick county as Republicans have requested, from Potomac to Poolesville to Clarksburg to Damascus, a Republican candidate would actually have a strong chance of winning which would encroach better Republican candidates to run. Aside from crazy people, who’s going to waste their time in futility.

Even if the county gerrymandered a district as affirmative action for Republicans, the Republican candidate still wouldn't have enough Republican votes. To win, any Republican candidate would have to get a lot of crossover votes from Democrats, and to do that, the Republican candidate would have to be, well, not a Republican candidate.

Marilyn Balcombe, a non-incumbent, won the open District 2 seat in November with 72% of the votes. Dawn Luedtke, also a non-incumbent, won the open district 7 seat with 67% of the votes. The margins aren't even close.

I happen to really like both those councilmembers, but I am VERY disappointed in upcounty voters in general. They always have the lowest turnout, and they have similar registered numbers as different parts of down county. If they had a large turnout each election, they could effect the type of change they want (and that might be contrary to my own interests, but at least it would reflect the will of the residents).

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is the website of the 2022 Republican county council candidate for Silver Spring’s district. Any more questions about why she lost?

https://www.cherylriley4moco.com/

The new downtown Silver Spring-Kensington-North Bethesda district. She got 6,119 votes (12.43%), and yes, if county Republicans want to start winning elections, they need to stop running candidates like this.

The actual reason a Republican can never win is because the Democrats keep gerrymandering the Council District maps to prevent that from happening. If there was a District that spanned the border of the county with Frederick county as Republicans have requested, from Potomac to Poolesville to Clarksburg to Damascus, a Republican candidate would actually have a strong chance of winning which would encroach better Republican candidates to run. Aside from crazy people, who’s going to waste their time in futility.

Even if the county gerrymandered a district as affirmative action for Republicans, the Republican candidate still wouldn't have enough Republican votes. To win, any Republican candidate would have to get a lot of crossover votes from Democrats, and to do that, the Republican candidate would have to be, well, not a Republican candidate.

Marilyn Balcombe, a non-incumbent, won the open District 2 seat in November with 72% of the votes. Dawn Luedtke, also a non-incumbent, won the open district 7 seat with 67% of the votes. The margins aren't even close.

I happen to really like both those councilmembers, but I am VERY disappointed in upcounty voters in general. They always have the lowest turnout, and they have similar registered numbers as different parts of down county. If they had a large turnout each election, they could effect the type of change they want (and that might be contrary to my own interests, but at least it would reflect the will of the residents).

That's Marilyn Balcombe's point, no? Stop wasting time complaining about Takoma Park and start working on get out the vote.

Even with get out the vote, though, there's no way to draw a geographic boundary where a generic Republican candidate would even come close to winning, let alone an actual Republican candidate. The only way to do it would be to require a Republican seat on the County Council, like there are two required non-Democratic seats on the Planning Board. Or for the county, state, and national Republican party to become something other than what they currently are.

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Anonymous wrote:The Online Left in Silver Spring, median age of 24, believe that Marc Elrich isn't woke enough because he loves cops too much. They want him to defund the police more.

I believe that this "Online Left" is orchestrated the ones committing the crimes, or their friends. Convince everyone that the police and the criminal justice system are the problem so that you can commit crimes with no fear of being caught. It actually has worked brilliantly for them so far. Tons of people marched for defunding the police and the politicians listened; the criminals must have been watching with glee.

You give too much credit to these children. The online Left are not committing crimes, they are just tweeting. Stealing a car or covering for their friends would involve getting up from their Twitch streams and World of Warcraft.

Correct. They are just morons tweeting for social media engagement. What is interesting and scary is that they are able to capture the attention of many Councilmembers. It is bizarre to me that they can be so obviously immature, so wrong about issues as important as life and death and then still Councilmembers are quick to seek their approval and also boost these people on other issues. That is what troubles me the most.

They are also not all 24. Most seem to be in their mid to late 30s who share a common trait of being underemployed Millennials who blame other people for their situation. The oddest thing that they do is spend a disproportionate amount of their time concerned about what is going on in other peoples communities that are not their own or what other people do with their private affairs. I remember not too long ago that they used to do this creepy thing going around posting pictures of other peoples houses trying to generate outrage because they were too nice. Absolutely deranged group of people with internet poisioning.

Are you talking about people who's initials are D. R., or M.E. perhaps?

Every single person who treated reopening a street next a park that they don’t live by and never used as the biggest outrage of 2022. There was some seriously embarrassing behavior that I could only characterize as a toddler having a fit in a grocery store.

The freakout over the little acorn park street was quite something to behold.

I dated a girl that lived in the high rise right next to it- and most of the residents there HATED it.

But by all means, lets have some people who dont even live there, declare it some kind of absolute crisis that it was returned to being a road again, as the county burns.