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I work in county government.  Backstory:

1. MoCo decline is real and has been going on for a while.  Elrich not the cause.  You can go to empowermontgomery.com and read a whole report about it if you want.

2. To stop that it would be helpful to make MoCo an easier place to do business.

3.  Elrich and his policies and his [b]personality[/b] aren't helping with that.

4.  County is already unattractive to businesses, making it also unattractive to rich residents is going to cause tax revenues to collapse.  Which would have a lot of bad knock-on effects.

5.  If you want housing affordability, it would be much more logical to just support more affordable housing development rather than purposefully try to make the place you want to live so unappealing that nobody else wants to live there.  That would seem to me to be a bad plan for you and everyone else.

Aside, parts of county government are dsyfunctional and it would be fine with me if someone came in and cleaned house (as long as they got rid of the right people).  I have little hope that will actually happen (or if it does they will actually get rid of the right people rather than just do some first-in first-out thing which is probably the opposite of what's needed, honestly).
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Care to elaborate? I’ve met him a few times, he seems like a nice guy.[/quote]

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