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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, at least recently. The county executive and several council members at large are from Silver Spring and Takoma Park, and the beliefs there are even farther left than most of the very liberal county.

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Regarding Elrich, he was chosen for us by the far left in Takoma Park/Silver Spring. A small plurality of a leftist registered Democrat base (barely) got him a win in the primary and the vast majority general election voters voted for anyone with a D next to their name (save for Hogan) because we despise Trump and want to send him a message. Elrich was not elected by a majority of voters enthusiastically voting for a socialist. The upside is that Elrich doesn't appear to be governing as one.[/quote]

We will see. Personally, I don’t think he’s governing  at all. He’s very disorganized and so is most of his close staff.   The recommended budget will be released soon. I don’t expect a huge change from last year because they’ve only had a few months to look at it and no real time to dig deeply.

However,  Councilmembers including Elrich were briefed last fall on rising County expenditures vs. slowing County revenues, and the most logical way to deal with structural deficits is to address employee compensation. But that will mean renegotiating with the unions, and I don’t  think Elrich is up for that.  At all.  Let’s see what happens this summer.[/quote]

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