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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A[b]t the county level, would MoCo ever seriously consider electing a Republican?[/b]

It just seems that everybody hates the council & executive. Complaints about every policy of theirs every which-way.... they are either too NIMBY or too beholden to developers (pick one), too anti-business, too pro-union, or not enough, they are opening up too quickly or not quickly enough, they go against LArry Hogan too much or they aren't standing up to him enough, blah blah blah. People on DCUM especially love to hate Marc Elrich, who won every race for council at large and then won handily over Floreen AND Ficker, combined.

So if the council and executive are so universally despised.... why do you keep re-electing them?

Contrary to popular belief, there is more than one political party. As Hogan (at least before the covid vaccine debacle) is relatively popular and moderate, why can't a Republican of the Hogan model run and compete in Montgomery County? Not a nutter like Ficker. Is there any chance that a non-corrupt, never-Trumper, sane, moderate Republican could win a GOP primary and win a general election for Council or Executive? Or is the R label too toxic here?

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Depends. Would the Republican Party ever seriously consider putting up a Republican candidate whom Montgomery County voters might actually vote for? Their record on that is terrible. In recent years, there have been several occasions where I thought about voting for the Republican candidate purely as a protest vote, because I was so angry about something the Democratic candidate had done - and then I looked at the Republican candidate, and N O P E nope. So instead I wrote in my neighbor, or my cat.

The non-corrupt, never-Trumper, sane, moderate Republicans in Montgomery County run as Democrats. The Republican Party puts up corrupt, Trumpy, nutty, right-wingers. And then they play the aggrieved victim when the voters don't want what they're peddling.[/quote]

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