David Blair for MoCo executive

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Anonymous wrote:Running a business has no relationship whatsoever to being a county executive who has to negotiate with and persuade county councilmembers who do not answer to the county executive and who have their own agendas and political bases. Similarly, running a business with workers who are not in unions has no relationship to running a county government and negotiating with with big and powerful unions. Blair has no experience with enacting legislation or working with unions. If you want to elect a rookie who stands for nothing and has tons of support from developers -- go for it.

So by this logic, nobody without past political experience should ever run for political office?

DP: Nope. Although it might suggest that people who work their way up through the ranks might have more appropriate and possibly more appealing skill sets.

Through what ranks? County council? A lot of being county exec is actually managing people and money, just because someone has served on the council does not mean they will be a good manager. In fact, from what I observed of Elrich while he was in the council, I thought he was poorly suited to the country ty exec position due to his lack of both leadership skills and ability to work with others. And he’s proved to be an incompetent manager.

I think the moderate wing of the Democrats needs to consider how amenable people will be to the "I'm a rich businessman and can therefore run government well" argument in the post Trump era. It's 100% a turnoff for me. Blair just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Between Blair and Elrich I will vote for Elrich even though I think he's seriously stumbled as a manager. Between Elrich, Rice, Blair and Riemer I would vote for Rice.[b]

I honestly don't understand how people are okay regardless of party affiliation that MoCo is on a downward spiral economically, zero job growth, etc. No one in the current council including Elrich is capable of turning things around for this county and they have had years to prove it in addition to having government experience. We should be lucky Blair is running and whoever is correlating the fact that he's a businessman to Trump isn't thinking logically. There is nothing about Blair that is Trump-like. Not all business people are like Trump.

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Anonymous wrote:Running a business has no relationship whatsoever to being a county executive who has to negotiate with and persuade county councilmembers who do not answer to the county executive and who have their own agendas and political bases. Similarly, running a business with workers who are not in unions has no relationship to running a county government and negotiating with with big and powerful unions. Blair has no experience with enacting legislation or working with unions. If you want to elect a rookie who stands for nothing and has tons of support from developers -- go for it.

So by this logic, nobody without past political experience should ever run for political office?

DP: Nope. Although it might suggest that people who work their way up through the ranks might have more appropriate and possibly more appealing skill sets.

Through what ranks? County council? A lot of being county exec is actually managing people and money, just because someone has served on the council does not mean they will be a good manager. In fact, from what I observed of Elrich while he was in the council, I thought he was poorly suited to the country ty exec position due to his lack of both leadership skills and ability to work with others. And he’s proved to be an incompetent manager.

I think the moderate wing of the Democrats needs to consider how amenable people will be to the "I'm a rich businessman and can therefore run government well" argument in the post Trump era. It's 100% a turnoff for me. Blair just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Between Blair and Elrich I will vote for Elrich even though I think he's seriously stumbled as a manager. Between Elrich, Rice, Blair and Riemer I would vote for Rice.[b]

Absolutely -- I'd love to see Rice or Jawando get in the race.

I’m telling you right now that if Jawando is on the ticket I will vote for Flicker.

Is Jawando considered "moderate"?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Running a business has no relationship whatsoever to being a county executive who has to negotiate with and persuade county councilmembers who do not answer to the county executive and who have their own agendas and political bases. Similarly, running a business with workers who are not in unions has no relationship to running a county government and negotiating with with big and powerful unions. Blair has no experience with enacting legislation or working with unions. If you want to elect a rookie who stands for nothing and has tons of support from developers -- go for it.

So by this logic, nobody without past political experience should ever run for political office?

DP: Nope. Although it might suggest that people who work their way up through the ranks might have more appropriate and possibly more appealing skill sets.

Through what ranks? County council? A lot of being county exec is actually managing people and money, just because someone has served on the council does not mean they will be a good manager. In fact, from what I observed of Elrich while he was in the council, I thought he was poorly suited to the country ty exec position due to his lack of both leadership skills and ability to work with others. And he’s proved to be an incompetent manager.

I think the moderate wing of the Democrats needs to consider how amenable people will be to the "I'm a rich businessman and can therefore run government well" argument in the post Trump era. It's 100% a turnoff for me. Blair just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Between Blair and Elrich I will vote for Elrich even though I think he's seriously stumbled as a manager. Between Elrich, Rice, Blair and Riemer I would vote for Rice.[b]

Absolutely -- I'd love to see Rice or Jawando get in the race.

I’m telling you right now that if Jawando is on the ticket I will vote for Flicker.

Is Jawando considered "moderate"?

No.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Running a business has no relationship whatsoever to being a county executive who has to negotiate with and persuade county councilmembers who do not answer to the county executive and who have their own agendas and political bases. Similarly, running a business with workers who are not in unions has no relationship to running a county government and negotiating with with big and powerful unions. Blair has no experience with enacting legislation or working with unions. If you want to elect a rookie who stands for nothing and has tons of support from developers -- go for it.

So by this logic, nobody without past political experience should ever run for political office?

DP: Nope. Although it might suggest that people who work their way up through the ranks might have more appropriate and possibly more appealing skill sets.

Through what ranks? County council? A lot of being county exec is actually managing people and money, just because someone has served on the council does not mean they will be a good manager. In fact, from what I observed of Elrich while he was in the council, I thought he was poorly suited to the country ty exec position due to his lack of both leadership skills and ability to work with others. And he’s proved to be an incompetent manager.

I think the moderate wing of the Democrats needs to consider how amenable people will be to the "I'm a rich businessman and can therefore run government well" argument in the post Trump era. It's 100% a turnoff for me. Blair just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Between Blair and Elrich I will vote for Elrich even though I think he's seriously stumbled as a manager. Between Elrich, Rice, Blair and Riemer I would vote for Rice.[b]

Absolutely -- I'd love to see Rice or Jawando get in the race.

I’m telling you right now that if Jawando is on the ticket I will vote for Flicker.

Is Jawando considered "moderate"?

No.

I didn't think so. I might end up voting for Flickr, too if either Jawando or Elrich runs. I've had it with progressives in MoCo, and so has DH.

Just as Trump lost due to how he mismanaged the covid crisis, Elrich should lose for mismanaging how the county has dealt with covid and the vaccine rollout. The county's metrics are ridiculous. Way too conservative. They don't seem to get that the impact to employment for lower income people has been hit much harder than upper income folks. They keep dragging the closures on by having metrics that is out of line with the state. All that does is keep lower income people unemployed and kids out of school.

When covid first hit, shutting things down was the right call as we did not know much about covid, and the death rates were much higher. But over the summer, when the numbers looked much better and we knew more about covid and how to manage it, things should've opened back up more, and schools should also have opened in the fall when the numbers were much lower.

Elrich and his team were too concerned with equity rather than having the county open up, which in the end, would actually help lower income people more. Elrich is short sighted, and IMO, catering to one group over another. I don't feel he represents everyone in the county; IMO, he seems to only want to represent certain segments in the county. He doesn't seem to be open to listening to people with opposing views. He tells everyone to be patient. I'm sorry, but even places like NY and NJ, the hardest hit states, have opened up more than we have.

I really don't understand why MoCo is so behind. It's like they are paralyzed by their fear. Not a good leadership style.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Running a business has no relationship whatsoever to being a county executive who has to negotiate with and persuade county councilmembers who do not answer to the county executive and who have their own agendas and political bases. Similarly, running a business with workers who are not in unions has no relationship to running a county government and negotiating with with big and powerful unions. Blair has no experience with enacting legislation or working with unions. If you want to elect a rookie who stands for nothing and has tons of support from developers -- go for it.

So by this logic, nobody without past political experience should ever run for political office?

DP: Nope. Although it might suggest that people who work their way up through the ranks might have more appropriate and possibly more appealing skill sets.

Through what ranks? County council? A lot of being county exec is actually managing people and money, just because someone has served on the council does not mean they will be a good manager. In fact, from what I observed of Elrich while he was in the council, I thought he was poorly suited to the country ty exec position due to his lack of both leadership skills and ability to work with others. And he’s proved to be an incompetent manager.

I think the moderate wing of the Democrats needs to consider how amenable people will be to the "I'm a rich businessman and can therefore run government well" argument in the post Trump era. It's 100% a turnoff for me. Blair just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Between Blair and Elrich I will vote for Elrich even though I think he's seriously stumbled as a manager. Between Elrich, Rice, Blair and Riemer I would vote for Rice.

Absolutely -- I'd love to see Rice or Jawando get in the race.

[b]I’m telling you right now that if Jawando is on the ticket I will vote for Flicker.

Sure. Because you're a fake Dem and a racist.

[Anonymous]

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I honestly don't understand how people are okay regardless of party affiliation that MoCo is on a downward spiral economically, zero job growth, etc. No one in the current council including Elrich is capable of turning things around for this county and they have had years to prove it in addition to having government experience. We should be lucky Blair is running and whoever is correlating the fact that he's a businessman to Trump isn't thinking logically. There is nothing about Blair that is Trump-like. Not all business people are like Trump.

His position video last time was pretty Trump like. Talking about how horrible everything in the county is. No tangible solutions apart from "tax increases are bad". I want to know what a candidate will actually do besides bash my community that I love.

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Absolutely -- I'd love to see Rice or Jawando get in the race.

Rice is an empty suit, and the people who live in his council district know it. In 2014, after one term, he only got 75.9% of the vote in the Democratic primary, against an opponent who barely campaigned. In 2018, after two terms, he only got 73.4% of the vote, against an opponent who didn't campaign at all.

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I didn't think so. I might end up voting for Flickr, too if either Jawando or Elrich runs. I've had it with progressives in MoCo, and so has DH.

If you want to vote for Robin Flickr, you'll have to persuade him to run for county executive as well as governor. He might even do it, because that's the kind of guy he is.

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Anonymous wrote:Running a business has no relationship whatsoever to being a county executive who has to negotiate with and persuade county councilmembers who do not answer to the county executive and who have their own agendas and political bases. Similarly, running a business with workers who are not in unions has no relationship to running a county government and negotiating with with big and powerful unions. Blair has no experience with enacting legislation or working with unions. If you want to elect a rookie who stands for nothing and has tons of support from developers -- go for it.

So by this logic, nobody without past political experience should ever run for political office?

DP: Nope. Although it might suggest that people who work their way up through the ranks might have more appropriate and possibly more appealing skill sets.

Through what ranks? County council? A lot of being county exec is actually managing people and money, just because someone has served on the council does not mean they will be a good manager. In fact, from what I observed of Elrich while he was in the council, I thought he was poorly suited to the country ty exec position due to his lack of both leadership skills and ability to work with others. And he’s proved to be an incompetent manager.

I think the moderate wing of the Democrats needs to consider how amenable people will be to the "I'm a rich businessman and can therefore run government well" argument in the post Trump era. It's 100% a turnoff for me. Blair just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Between Blair and Elrich I will vote for Elrich even though I think he's seriously stumbled as a manager. Between Elrich, Rice, Blair and Riemer I would vote for Rice.[b]

I really hope Jawando runs because I think he would split enough of the Elrich vote that neither would win the primary. But if it came down to Jawando vs Ficker in the general, I would probably just sit the election out. Jawando would win regardless of my vote, and I would poke out my eye before I would cast a vote for Ficker.

Absolutely -- I'd love to see Rice or Jawando get in the race.

I’m telling you right now that if Jawando is on the ticket I will vote for Flicker.

[Anonymous]

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Absolutely -- I'd love to see Rice or Jawando get in the race.

Rice is an empty suit, and the people who live in his council district know it. In 2014, after one term, he only got 75.9% of the vote in the Democratic primary, against an opponent who barely campaigned. In 2018, after two terms, he only got 73.4% of the vote, against an opponent who didn't campaign at all.

Pretty impressive for a Black man considering his district includes Damascus

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Anonymous wrote:Running a business has no relationship whatsoever to being a county executive who has to negotiate with and persuade county councilmembers who do not answer to the county executive and who have their own agendas and political bases. Similarly, running a business with workers who are not in unions has no relationship to running a county government and negotiating with with big and powerful unions. Blair has no experience with enacting legislation or working with unions. If you want to elect a rookie who stands for nothing and has tons of support from developers -- go for it.

So by this logic, nobody without past political experience should ever run for political office?

DP: Nope. Although it might suggest that people who work their way up through the ranks might have more appropriate and possibly more appealing skill sets.

Through what ranks? County council? A lot of being county exec is actually managing people and money, just because someone has served on the council does not mean they will be a good manager. In fact, from what I observed of Elrich while he was in the council, I thought he was poorly suited to the country ty exec position due to his lack of both leadership skills and ability to work with others. And he’s proved to be an incompetent manager.

I think the moderate wing of the Democrats needs to consider how amenable people will be to the "I'm a rich businessman and can therefore run government well" argument in the post Trump era. It's 100% a turnoff for me. Blair just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Between Blair and Elrich I will vote for Elrich even though I think he's seriously stumbled as a manager. Between Elrich, Rice, Blair and Riemer I would vote for Rice.[b]

Absolutely -- I'd love to see Rice or Jawando get in the race.

I’m telling you right now that if Jawando is on the ticket I will vote for Flicker.

I really hope Jawando runs because I think he would split enough of the Elrich vote that neither would win the primary. But if it came down to Jawando vs Ficker in the general, I would probably just sit the election out. Jawando would win regardless of my vote, and I would poke out my eye before I would cast a vote for Ficker.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Running a business has no relationship whatsoever to being a county executive who has to negotiate with and persuade county councilmembers who do not answer to the county executive and who have their own agendas and political bases. Similarly, running a business with workers who are not in unions has no relationship to running a county government and negotiating with with big and powerful unions. Blair has no experience with enacting legislation or working with unions. If you want to elect a rookie who stands for nothing and has tons of support from developers -- go for it.

So by this logic, nobody without past political experience should ever run for political office?

DP: Nope. Although it might suggest that people who work their way up through the ranks might have more appropriate and possibly more appealing skill sets.

Through what ranks? County council? A lot of being county exec is actually managing people and money, just because someone has served on the council does not mean they will be a good manager. In fact, from what I observed of Elrich while he was in the council, I thought he was poorly suited to the country ty exec position due to his lack of both leadership skills and ability to work with others. And he’s proved to be an incompetent manager.

I think the moderate wing of the Democrats needs to consider how amenable people will be to the "I'm a rich businessman and can therefore run government well" argument in the post Trump era. It's 100% a turnoff for me. Blair just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Between Blair and Elrich I will vote for Elrich even though I think he's seriously stumbled as a manager. Between Elrich, Rice, Blair and Riemer I would vote for Rice.[b]

Absolutely -- I'd love to see Rice or Jawando get in the race.

I’m telling you right now that if Jawando is on the ticket I will vote for Flicker.

Is Jawando considered "moderate"?

Lol.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Running a business has no relationship whatsoever to being a county executive who has to negotiate with and persuade county councilmembers who do not answer to the county executive and who have their own agendas and political bases. Similarly, running a business with workers who are not in unions has no relationship to running a county government and negotiating with with big and powerful unions. Blair has no experience with enacting legislation or working with unions. If you want to elect a rookie who stands for nothing and has tons of support from developers -- go for it.

So by this logic, nobody without past political experience should ever run for political office?

DP: Nope. Although it might suggest that people who work their way up through the ranks might have more appropriate and possibly more appealing skill sets.

Through what ranks? County council? A lot of being county exec is actually managing people and money, just because someone has served on the council does not mean they will be a good manager. In fact, from what I observed of Elrich while he was in the council, I thought he was poorly suited to the country ty exec position due to his lack of both leadership skills and ability to work with others. And he’s proved to be an incompetent manager.

I think the moderate wing of the Democrats needs to consider how amenable people will be to the "I'm a rich businessman and can therefore run government well" argument in the post Trump era. It's 100% a turnoff for me. Blair just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Between Blair and Elrich I will vote for Elrich even though I think he's seriously stumbled as a manager. Between Elrich, Rice, Blair and Riemer I would vote for Rice.[b]

I really hope Jawando runs because I think he would split enough of the Elrich vote that neither would win the primary. But if it came down to Jawando vs Ficker in the general, I would probably just sit the election out. Jawando would win regardless of my vote, and I would poke out my eye before I would cast a vote for Ficker.

Absolutely -- I'd love to see Rice or Jawando get in the race.

I’m telling you right now that if Jawando is on the ticket I will vote for Flicker.

Same here and I loathe Ficker. But Jawando is even more dangerous.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Running a business has no relationship whatsoever to being a county executive who has to negotiate with and persuade county councilmembers who do not answer to the county executive and who have their own agendas and political bases. Similarly, running a business with workers who are not in unions has no relationship to running a county government and negotiating with with big and powerful unions. Blair has no experience with enacting legislation or working with unions. If you want to elect a rookie who stands for nothing and has tons of support from developers -- go for it.

So by this logic, nobody without past political experience should ever run for political office?

DP: Nope. Although it might suggest that people who work their way up through the ranks might have more appropriate and possibly more appealing skill sets.

Through what ranks? County council? A lot of being county exec is actually managing people and money, just because someone has served on the council does not mean they will be a good manager. In fact, from what I observed of Elrich while he was in the council, I thought he was poorly suited to the country ty exec position due to his lack of both leadership skills and ability to work with others. And he’s proved to be an incompetent manager.

I think the moderate wing of the Democrats needs to consider how amenable people will be to the "I'm a rich businessman and can therefore run government well" argument in the post Trump era. It's 100% a turnoff for me. Blair just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Between Blair and Elrich I will vote for Elrich even though I think he's seriously stumbled as a manager. Between Elrich, Rice, Blair and Riemer I would vote for Rice.

Absolutely -- I'd love to see Rice or Jawando get in the race.

[b]I’m telling you right now that if Jawando is on the ticket I will vote for Flicker.

Sure. Because you're a fake Dem and a racist.

Not that poster but disliking Jawando has nothing to do with race. He is a jerk regardless of color.

[Anonymous]

Elrich is giving a five million EITC to undocumented workers. This is not the policy approach to take when we don’t have money.