Things I don't want to hear from the next Montgomery County Executive

[Anonymous]

I don't care who it is - if it's Blair, Riemer, or an enlightened Elrich, here are my list of banned words for the next Montgomery County Executive in 2022:

"Reimagine"
"Equity" unless it's actually referring to finance
"Task force"
"a new commission to study X"
"social justice"

Enough governing by Social Justice Task Forces who navel gaze and "reimagine" things. More DOING, please. Save the economy, streamline our government services, and justify our tax dollars before asking for more of them please.

[Anonymous]

We're going to create a task force to put together a document for our new commission to reimagine the social justice and equity problems of the county.

[Anonymous]

If you're not interested in county efforts to make sure that county government works as well in areas with less-affluent people as in areas with affluent people - then, ok, I guess? But I am.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I don't care who it is - if it's Blair, Riemer, or an enlightened Elrich, here are my list of banned words for the next Montgomery County Executive in 2022:

"Reimagine"
"Equity" unless it's actually referring to finance
"Task force"
"a new commission to study X"
"social justice"

Enough governing by Social Justice Task Forces who navel gaze and "reimagine" things. More DOING, please. Save the economy, streamline our government services, and justify our tax dollars before asking for more of them please.

“Outcome based”

“Best practices”

“Inclusive”


Three more eye-rolling buzzwords that need to be purged forever.

[Anonymous]

We will never stop creating new task forces and commissions. NEVER.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're going to create a task force to put together a document for our new commission to reimagine the social justice and equity problems of the county.

Is that you, Marc?

[Anonymous]

“Surprised”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I don't care who it is - if it's Blair, Riemer, or an enlightened Elrich, here are my list of banned words for the next Montgomery County Executive in 2022:

"Reimagine"
"Equity" unless it's actually referring to finance
"Task force"
"a new commission to study X"
"social justice"

Enough governing by Social Justice Task Forces who navel gaze and "reimagine" things. More DOING, please. Save the economy, streamline our government services, and justify our tax dollars before asking for more of them please.

“Outcome based”

“Best practices”

“Inclusive”


Three more eye-rolling buzzwords that need to be purged forever.

I think we have a drinking game for the 2022 Montgomery Co Executive candidate forums.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you're not interested in county efforts to make sure that county government works as well in areas with less-affluent people as in areas with affluent people - then, ok, I guess? But I am.

If you were truly interested, you'd stop the cluster fu** that's happening at the county right now. They have three different task forces to implement what safety or wellness or possibly both will look like in schools now that SROs are gone. Because every politician wants to be able to claim credit for student-centered reform. Yesterday, one of them was discussing the decolonization of the curriculum. How this relates to safety, I'm not sure.

What happens if they come up with all different recommendations?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you're not interested in county efforts to make sure that county government works as well in areas with less-affluent people as in areas with affluent people - then, ok, I guess? But I am.

If you were truly interested, you'd stop the cluster fu** that's happening at the county right now. They have three different task forces to implement what safety or wellness or possibly both will look like in schools now that SROs are gone. Because every politician wants to be able to claim credit for student-centered reform. Yesterday, one of them was discussing the decolonization of the curriculum. How this relates to safety, I'm not sure.

What happens if they come up with all different recommendations?

Those are two separate issues, though.

1. Should the county government work as well in areas with less-affluent people as in areas with affluent people? Yes.
2. What should the county government do to achieve that goal?


Also, if I were making list of equity (or whatever you want to call it) issues in Montgomery County, SROs would not be at the top of the list. So I'm a bit surprised that of all those issues, SROs is the one you chose to mention.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you're not interested in county efforts to make sure that county government works as well in areas with less-affluent people as in areas with affluent people - then, ok, I guess? But I am.

If you were truly interested, you'd stop the cluster fu** that's happening at the county right now. They have three different task forces to implement what safety or wellness or possibly both will look like in schools now that SROs are gone. Because every politician wants to be able to claim credit for student-centered reform. Yesterday, one of them was discussing the decolonization of the curriculum. How this relates to safety, I'm not sure.

What happens if they come up with all different recommendations?

Those are two separate issues, though.

1. Should the county government work as well in areas with less-affluent people as in areas with affluent people? Yes.
2. What should the county government do to achieve that goal?


Also, if I were making list of equity (or whatever you want to call it) issues in Montgomery County, SROs would not be at the top of the list. So I'm a bit surprised that of all those issues, SROs is the one you chose to mention.

That's the only tangible that's come out of the "Task Force to Reimagine Public Safety."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're going to create a task force to put together a document for our new commission to reimagine the social justice and equity problems of the county.

And it's going to cost taxpayers $11 million.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you're not interested in county efforts to make sure that county government works as well in areas with less-affluent people as in areas with affluent people - then, ok, I guess? But I am.

If you were truly interested, you'd stop the cluster fu** that's happening at the county right now. They have three different task forces to implement what safety or wellness or possibly both will look like in schools now that SROs are gone. Because every politician wants to be able to claim credit for student-centered reform. Yesterday, one of them was discussing the decolonization of the curriculum. How this relates to safety, I'm not sure.

What happens if they come up with all different recommendations?

Those are two separate issues, though.

1. Should the county government work as well in areas with less-affluent people as in areas with affluent people? Yes.
2. What should the county government do to achieve that goal?


Also, if I were making list of equity (or whatever you want to call it) issues in Montgomery County, SROs would not be at the top of the list. So I'm a bit surprised that of all those issues, SROs is the one you chose to mention.

That's the only tangible that's come out of the "Task Force to Reimagine Public Safety."

OK, and so...?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“Surprised”

+100

[Anonymous]

I’d like to Reimagine the County Executive as not Marc Elrich.