Montgomery County is Elrich country. What to do now

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Anonymous wrote:I hear ya OP. My family is upper middle class so I expect to pay more. But when we were victims of crime twice and when my husband lost his job for several months, there was no one was around to help. What I hate most about the current administration is the amount of $$$ wasted and not accounted for. Yet we keep electing the same people. I feel like there are so many people out there that have no clue what is going on and just vote for the most well known.
What are we going to do? My DD is graduating this year and we are moving out of state so we won’t have to deal with the awful crime.

Don't let the doors hit you on the way out

DP.. So, what happens if all UMC leave MoCo?

MoCo becomes more diverse, and even more desirable!

We’ll never run out of UMC earners to pay for stuff.

Did you actually read? If the UMC tax base leaves MoCo, please tell me how MoCo is going to pay for "stuff"?

There will always be enough rich people to fax. And if a few move away just raise the taxes on the ones remaining. This isn’t hard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So much for hoping that enough Dems would cross over to vote for Sully and send a message. I thought maybe he would get 40-45% like Hogan did.
Nope, Elrich wins with a 72% mandate.

And we have a decisively left wing council. Only Friedson and maybe Katz are moderate. The newcomers like Fani-Gonzalez, Kate Stewart (Takoma Park always having its way) and especially Kristin Mink are just wow.

If you’re a moderate, what do we do now? The county government are soon going to realize they’ll run out of money to woke-ify everything. Have we lost our last chance to hit the reset button and focus on bringing businesses and jobs other than Racial Equity Commissar of Justice Task Force Analyst?

I’m glad that crazy Republicans lost nationally but I’m deeply concerned about the hard left turn locally.

Friedson? What's moderate about him? You talkin' about Casey Anderson's best drinking buddy?

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Anonymous wrote:Step 1: Stop putting your hopes on the general election. Only Democrats win County Executive in MoCo. The time to make a change was in the primary.

Step 2: Identify the issues that actually impact you personally, and speak to your elected officials about those issues.

Step 3: If it is so bad that you'd rather live in a more "balanced" jurisdiction, then move there. Personally I like places run by people who don't hate transgender people and support abortion rights, so I'm pretty thankful to be living here.

This is a new poster. PP, I am pro choice and support transgender people, but I don’t like to see my quality of life decline because the Council wants to give more freebies away. The entitlement mentality in MoCo is astounding.

I believe everyone should do what is best for them. You should not feel obligated to continue living somewhere that you don't like living in. Which is why Step 3 of my advice is to move if you would rather live somewhere else. I like living here. Knowing that, at least for the foreseeable future, I will not be subject to an abortion ban and everything that comes with that, and that my child will not be taught to hate transgender people, is a big part of that. Those things, to me, outweigh the fact that I think Elrich is a terrible county executive and is not fiscally responsible. You may make a different choice, and that's your choice to make.

What happens when everywhere becomes Montgomery County?

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Anonymous wrote:Step 1: Stop putting your hopes on the general election. Only Democrats win County Executive in MoCo. The time to make a change was in the primary.

Step 2: Identify the issues that actually impact you personally, and speak to your elected officials about those issues.

Step 3: If it is so bad that you'd rather live in a more "balanced" jurisdiction, then move there. Personally I like places run by people who don't hate transgender people and support abortion rights, so I'm pretty thankful to be living here.

This is a new poster. PP, I am pro choice and support transgender people, but I don’t like to see my quality of life decline because the Council wants to give more freebies away. The entitlement mentality in MoCo is astounding.

I believe everyone should do what is best for them. You should not feel obligated to continue living somewhere that you don't like living in. Which is why Step 3 of my advice is to move if you would rather live somewhere else. I like living here. Knowing that, at least for the foreseeable future, I will not be subject to an abortion ban and everything that comes with that, and that my child will not be taught to hate transgender people, is a big part of that. Those things, to me, outweigh the fact that I think Elrich is a terrible county executive and is not fiscally responsible. You may make a different choice, and that's your choice to make.

What happens when everywhere becomes Montgomery County?

You think the US is going to establish permanent, national protection for abortion and eliminate discrimination and violence towards transgender people? Now that is a happy thought.

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Anonymous wrote:Step 1: Stop putting your hopes on the general election. Only Democrats win County Executive in MoCo. The time to make a change was in the primary.

Step 2: Identify the issues that actually impact you personally, and speak to your elected officials about those issues.

Step 3: If it is so bad that you'd rather live in a more "balanced" jurisdiction, then move there. Personally I like places run by people who don't hate transgender people and support abortion rights, so I'm pretty thankful to be living here.

This is a new poster. PP, I am pro choice and support transgender people, but I don’t like to see my quality of life decline because the Council wants to give more freebies away. The entitlement mentality in MoCo is astounding.

I believe everyone should do what is best for them. You should not feel obligated to continue living somewhere that you don't like living in. Which is why Step 3 of my advice is to move if you would rather live somewhere else. I like living here. Knowing that, at least for the foreseeable future, I will not be subject to an abortion ban and everything that comes with that, and that my child will not be taught to hate transgender people, is a big part of that. Those things, to me, outweigh the fact that I think Elrich is a terrible county executive and is not fiscally responsible. You may make a different choice, and that's your choice to make.

What happens when everywhere becomes Montgomery County?

You think the US is going to establish permanent, national protection for abortion and eliminate discrimination and violence towards transgender people? Now that is a happy thought.

+1

You are saying that everywhere can become a majority-minority, prosperous place with dense housing near transit, with a minimum wage over $17/hour tied to the consumer price index, with strong unions, a median household income over $112K, and a highly educated population? That sounds like a utopia. Bernie Sanders couldn't have promised so much.

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Anonymous wrote:Elrich is generally pretty terrible, but he showed me something when he at least asked for a sober pause (no pun intended) when the Council rammed Thrive through, less than 2 weeks after the entire planning board resigned in disgrace. That was a new low for the level of the council insulting the citizens.

Friedsen is OK, Katz is fine. Glass is occasionally allright.

Mink is frighteningly bad and incompetent. Kate Stewart was the mayor of Takoma Park so expect TP style politics from her. Natali comes fresh from the planning board, so you know she will rubber stamp all growth be it smart or not. Gabe seems logical, but also went through with the thrive grab.

Jawando is basically always wrong, and does more virtue signaling than even Mink.

Not even that, they don't even know who the citizens are! They only listen to the Twitteratti like Dan Reed, Jane Lyons and all the GGWash online YIMBYs. That's who they think represent the voting public.

Twitter isnt real life. The Dan Reed hyper YIMBYS are obsessed about an issue 75% of Moco wasnt even aware existed. Theyll figure it out fast once Thrive starts being implemented in their backyard, ad we'll see what, if anything happens then.

Reed, Mike English, all the other people who think zoning/housing are the only or most important issues in the world, are like the .001% of the real Montgomery County population who just want jobs, safety, and decent schools.

What’s funny is that the next phase of upzoning will by necessity all come back to Silver Spring once the Purple Line is finished. If the whole point is to increase density at transit stations, there is not much left to do outside of Silver Spring.

Downtown Bethesda = upzoned. Grosvenor = upzoned. White Flint = upzoned. Twinbrook = upzoned. Shady Grove = upzoned. Chevy Chase Lake = upzoned. Lytonnsville = upzoned.

Do you know what has not been upzoned? All of the Purple Line stops in Silver Spring. Takoma Metro Station infill. Forest Glenn Metro Station infill.

Low hanging fruit that need to be addressed before any other zoning changes are approved.

Then Riemer and his buddies should put their money where their mouth is and allow it in Takoma Park. Revoke the historical designation.

Fun fact, Hans Riemer and his YIMBY buddy George Leventhal helped to torpedo a plan to build housing on the Takoma Metro parking lot in 2007, which is in DC!

They should be required to produce a plan like municipalities are now required to do in California, to produce a thousand units of new MFH with 15% MPDUs within a half-mile the metro station. Let them figure out how they want to do it.

What’s amazing is that that’s where they live. Riemer lives in a huge Victorian in the single family historic district. Elrich lives in the more working class ward 5. He actually does have affordable housing and apartment buildings in his backyard.

What’s even funnier is that for all this hype about Hans being the housing candidate he opposed upzoning near metro stations. We don’t have enough affordable housing because Riemer and Leventhal and Anderson were mostly worried about developers making money. People who needed housing were just props in their debates.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Step 1: Stop putting your hopes on the general election. Only Democrats win County Executive in MoCo. The time to make a change was in the primary.

Step 2: Identify the issues that actually impact you personally, and speak to your elected officials about those issues.

Step 3: If it is so bad that you'd rather live in a more "balanced" jurisdiction, then move there. Personally I like places run by people who don't hate transgender people and support abortion rights, so I'm pretty thankful to be living here.

This is a new poster. PP, I am pro choice and support transgender people, but I don’t like to see my quality of life decline because the Council wants to give more freebies away. The entitlement mentality in MoCo is astounding.

I believe everyone should do what is best for them. You should not feel obligated to continue living somewhere that you don't like living in. Which is why Step 3 of my advice is to move if you would rather live somewhere else. I like living here. Knowing that, at least for the foreseeable future, I will not be subject to an abortion ban and everything that comes with that, and that my child will not be taught to hate transgender people, is a big part of that. Those things, to me, outweigh the fact that I think Elrich is a terrible county executive and is not fiscally responsible. You may make a different choice, and that's your choice to make.

What happens when everywhere becomes Montgomery County?

You don't get out much. There's zero chance of that happening.

[Anonymous]

I guess all you can do is live your values. This is what Montgomery County wanted, and now get to live with it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Step 1: Stop putting your hopes on the general election. Only Democrats win County Executive in MoCo. The time to make a change was in the primary.

Step 2: Identify the issues that actually impact you personally, and speak to your elected officials about those issues.

Step 3: If it is so bad that you'd rather live in a more "balanced" jurisdiction, then move there. Personally I like places run by people who don't hate transgender people and support abortion rights, so I'm pretty thankful to be living here.

This is a new poster. PP, I am pro choice and support transgender people, but I don’t like to see my quality of life decline because the Council wants to give more freebies away. The entitlement mentality in MoCo is astounding.

I believe everyone should do what is best for them. You should not feel obligated to continue living somewhere that you don't like living in. Which is why Step 3 of my advice is to move if you would rather live somewhere else. I like living here. Knowing that, at least for the foreseeable future, I will not be subject to an abortion ban and everything that comes with that, and that my child will not be taught to hate transgender people, is a big part of that. Those things, to me, outweigh the fact that I think Elrich is a terrible county executive and is not fiscally responsible. You may make a different choice, and that's your choice to make.

What happens when everywhere becomes Montgomery County?

You think the US is going to establish permanent, national protection for abortion and eliminate discrimination and violence towards transgender people? Now that is a happy thought.

Depends on the state in question.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Step 1: Stop putting your hopes on the general election. Only Democrats win County Executive in MoCo. The time to make a change was in the primary.

Step 2: Identify the issues that actually impact you personally, and speak to your elected officials about those issues.

Step 3: If it is so bad that you'd rather live in a more "balanced" jurisdiction, then move there. Personally I like places run by people who don't hate transgender people and support abortion rights, so I'm pretty thankful to be living here.

This is a new poster. PP, I am pro choice and support transgender people, but I don’t like to see my quality of life decline because the Council wants to give more freebies away. The entitlement mentality in MoCo is astounding.

I believe everyone should do what is best for them. You should not feel obligated to continue living somewhere that you don't like living in. Which is why Step 3 of my advice is to move if you would rather live somewhere else. I like living here. Knowing that, at least for the foreseeable future, I will not be subject to an abortion ban and everything that comes with that, and that my child will not be taught to hate transgender people, is a big part of that. Those things, to me, outweigh the fact that I think Elrich is a terrible county executive and is not fiscally responsible. You may make a different choice, and that's your choice to make.

What happens when everywhere becomes Montgomery County?

You think the US is going to establish permanent, national protection for abortion and eliminate discrimination and violence towards transgender people? Now that is a happy thought.

Depends on the state in question.

PP said "everywhere" which could be either the US or the whole world.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So much for hoping that enough Dems would cross over to vote for Sully and send a message. I thought maybe he would get 40-45% like Hogan did.
Nope, Elrich wins with a 72% mandate.

And we have a decisively left wing council. Only Friedson and maybe Katz are moderate. The newcomers like Fani-Gonzalez, Kate Stewart (Takoma Park always having its way) and especially Kristin Mink are just wow.

If you’re a moderate, what do we do now? The county government are soon going to realize they’ll run out of money to woke-ify everything. Have we lost our last chance to hit the reset button and focus on bringing businesses and jobs other than Racial Equity Commissar of Justice Task Force Analyst?

I’m glad that crazy Republicans lost nationally but I’m deeply concerned about the hard left turn locally.

Friedson? What's moderate about him? You talkin' about Casey Anderson's best drinking buddy?

Exactly. How this guy has earned his reputation as a “moderate”, I do not know. He disdains his own constituents.

[Anonymous]

What do you do now? You live in the world that you wished for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:So much for hoping that enough Dems would cross over to vote for Sully and send a message. I thought maybe he would get 40-45% like Hogan did.
Nope, Elrich wins with a 72% mandate.

And we have a decisively left wing council. Only Friedson and maybe Katz are moderate. The newcomers like Fani-Gonzalez, Kate Stewart (Takoma Park always having its way) and especially Kristin Mink are just wow.

If you’re a moderate, what do we do now? The county government are soon going to realize they’ll run out of money to woke-ify everything. Have we lost our last chance to hit the reset button and focus on bringing businesses and jobs other than Racial Equity Commissar of Justice Task Force Analyst?

I’m glad that crazy Republicans lost nationally but I’m deeply concerned about the hard left turn locally.

Friedson? What's moderate about him? You talkin' about Casey Anderson's best drinking buddy?

Exactly. How this guy has earned his reputation as a “moderate”, I do not know. He disdains his own constituents.

Not a moderate drinker.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So much for hoping that enough Dems would cross over to vote for Sully and send a message. I thought maybe he would get 40-45% like Hogan did.
Nope, Elrich wins with a 72% mandate.

And we have a decisively left wing council. Only Friedson and maybe Katz are moderate. The newcomers like Fani-Gonzalez, Kate Stewart (Takoma Park always having its way) and especially Kristin Mink are just wow.

If you’re a moderate, what do we do now? The county government are soon going to realize they’ll run out of money to woke-ify everything. Have we lost our last chance to hit the reset button and focus on bringing businesses and jobs other than Racial Equity Commissar of Justice Task Force Analyst?

I’m glad that crazy Republicans lost nationally but I’m deeply concerned about the hard left turn locally.

Friedson? What's moderate about him? You talkin' about Casey Anderson's best drinking buddy?

Exactly. How this guy has earned his reputation as a “moderate”, I do not know. He disdains his own constituents.

Not a moderate drinker.

If I could guess, he spends his evenings at Caddies with pitchers of Bud Lite playing Golden Tee?

[Anonymous]

Get ready for another four years of Elrich and his Revolutionary Vanguard!