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[quote=Anonymous]Do you think he’s capable of hiring good department heads? That’s who does the work. He very likely will encounter a Trump-like situation where he can’t attract decent people.

What happens when he implements a 15g plan in the county and makes the police do immigration enforcement? He says he will fire Chief Tom Manger the first day. Chief Manger is likely the best police Chief in the nation.

He thinks he can get more education finds out of Annapolis. He has absolutely no idea how that works.

He thinks he can hold the school system accountable. Again, he has absolutely no idea how our bizarre, quasi-independent  school system works.  We can appropriate to pots of money in their budget. We can’t make them do anything.

His website states, “Children that read a great deal are inevitably booming successes in later life.” If he’s so educated, he’d know it’s “children who read.” I don’t go all grammar nazi often, but if you are criticizing education, try to get it right.

He says he won’t raise taxes for the next four years. That means services will be cut. What should get cut? Libraries? Fire Stations? Trash collection? The county funding structure is in big trouble.  We have revenue write-downs all the time now. We can’t fund the schools any less because of the state maintenance of effort law. So that leaves cutting the rest of government services. 80% of the budget goes to personnel costs. Cut people, and services suffer.
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