Who should I vote for? Md, Montgomery county.
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Anonymous
| So, yes, I have no idea. Give me advice. One thing I like is that Hogan moved the school year after Labor Day because I was unhappy with mcps for constant days off, as soon as school started, and I am appalled by mcps board using our kids as pawns in their "fight" against Hogan.(plus look what is happening with mcps principals and athletics acting like bullies and covering up everything!) Otherwise I am, well, technically a socialist with some conservative streaks. I am all for sanctuary cities once people are here. I am against illegal immigration and all for legal immigration, being a legal immigrant myself. But, I am for illegal kids attending public schools. I am for pot legalization,(from CO prior to here) and severe gun control, I am in fact against anyone being able to buy a gun...I am for rights for all people, LGBTQ and equality in every way for all races, ethnic groups, etc... I think higher taxes are generally good if they pay for schools and other improvements. So, if you have the time, any advice? Thanks! |
Anonymous
| Sounds like you’re a Jealous and Elrich vote all the way. Sad though as Jealous isn’t going to win and Elrich is going to be horrible for MoCo. |
Anonymous
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We are mandated to spend a certain amount on schools every year. It’s the maintenance of effort law and it’s a state law. Nothing we can do about it at the county level. The schools take up half our budget. That’s why taxes go up. No aithority to find cost saving measures in the schools, which again, is HALF our budget.
State legislators and local board members....they matter more than it seems. |
Anonymous
| Sadlyyou are like 80% of voters, youhave no idea about the candidates and do as others tell you. Best not to vote but you Errol just so you can say you do. |
Anonymous
Yes, you are right. Yes, I am disillusioned with the whole voting process and I think that my vote means nothing anymore. One year I was living in Canada and drove like crazy and mailed my vote express, met the deadline, only to get a letter, sorry you didn't vote in the last election! I know I posted the darn thing by the deadline. Then, I am watching Democrats pushing Hilary like nuts, when US hates her, and not going Sanders route more and more... So, yes, but here I am again, trying do vote.. maybe I just shouldn't vote? That seems to be my best option, damned if I do, damned if I don't. Plus, I am sick of media, just so sick of it... both ways, it is like nobody sees that they lost their minds and there is no unbiased article to be found anywhere. |
Anonymous
Jealous and Elrich. Though most people on this forum hate Elrich. I like him. He was endorsed by basically all the civic organizations connected with things you care about. Most people on this forum are fiscally conservative and anti-union so they don’t like him. Your choices for County Executive are: Marc Elrich: pro-union, pro-labor, socially very liberal, pro-racial equity and has closer relations with the immigrant communities Nancy Floreen: pro-big business, pro-real estate developer, socially liberal though not as keen on marijuana legalization, loves to say the buzzword “expand the tax base” while somehow forgetting that you still have to tax it Robin Ficker: a complete wildcard and not a serious candidate. Former sports heckler, doesn’t have any consistent ideas besides lowering taxes. All over the place on everything else. Elrich is the progressive Democrat and Floreen is essentially in the role of a Republican. Elrich will probably win because there aren’t actually that many Republicans here and some will vote for Ficker. |
Anonymous
Thank you so much! And to other pp who answered me without pointing out that I am uneducated voter. I know that, I decided to tune out so much politics lately because it was unbearable. |
Anonymous
Vote for Floreen. Elrich is going to be horrible as would be Ficker |
Anonymous
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Elrich.
Flcker is awful, and Floreen was too cowardly to run in the primary; I'm also concerned she would encourage more and more development in western MoCo, where they don't need more. I would have rather had a candidate that was more removed from the past county council, but that is not what we have this time. Jealous for.governor. I actually like Hogan and am fine with the post labor day school start, I'm more disturbed by the lack of state employee hiring and the lack of raises; there was a large protest at the state house last week. For a while I thought I was looking at footage from my home state of NC! Much lower staffing at prisons under Hogan, which is not a good thing in a state with Baltimore. OP, your vote does count and it will count more for MoCo executive because there will be a three way split. If everyone thought their vote didn't count, we would end up with more people like Trump in office. |
Anonymous
You nailed it. |
Anonymous
Don't base your vote on this issue -- it's a decided issue (the Plyer case) by the Supreme Court decades ago. All children must be educated regardless of immigration status. |
Anonymous
In the last CoExec election in 2014, the Republican candidate got 33% of the votes, to 66% for Leggett. So if the democrat vote is split evenly between Elrich and Floreen, then Ficker actually has a chance of winning. Remember about 1/3d of registered voters in MoCo have no party affiliation. |
Anonymous
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Not sure where those stats are coming from. But 60% of county voters are democrat. 17% are republican. 20% are unaffiliated. The other 3% are Green Party and Libertarian.
https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/Elections/Resources/Files/pdfs/stats/2018/Monthly_Stats_Sept_2018%5B5924%5D.pdf |
Anonymous
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I early voted for Jealous and Elrich.
I voted for Jealous mainly because I do not support four more lanes on I-270. Reversible lanes haven't even been tried yet and I would like to see dollars put into public transit. I think widening roads forever is an environmental disaster. I voted for Elrich because Floreen has been purchased by developers, particularly Washington Property Company. Wealthy developers are determined to control the political agenda in MoCo and I don't like a small group having that much political power. https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/politics/county-above-party-raises-almost-300000-in-october/ |
Anonymous
| Hogan and I would rather vote for Floreen than Ehrlich |