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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some council members have clear agendas, like Jawando (anti-police).

Also a lot of them don't look at the big picture. They're took quick to dole out money without seeing if that will be effective. Very often, the county ends up duplicating the very same programs we have at the state or federal level, for no reason, like small business loans, earned income credit, and so on.

Then they'll stray off into areas way outside their remit, like issuing declarations in support of people in X country, when inter-country relations are the responsibility of the US State department.

The only 2 decent councilmembers are Friedman and Katz. Friedman used to do budget so he asked the right questions about that, while Katz used to be a business owner so he comes at it from that perspective.

However, all too often the council ends up with a unanimous vote on a bill.. it makes them come off as a bunch of yes-people.[/quote]
Not a bad analysis, but I don’t think Friedson is who you think he is.

My basic take about the County Council is that they are the political equivalent of ambulance chasing attorneys. They will do anything if they think it will get them attention, regardless of whether it is a smart thing to do. The recipirocal of that is that they don’t care about the important mundane tasks because those do not get attention.

Dead on correct.  You would have thought that reopening Newell Street was the biggest issue facing the council.  It was a few loud people on twitter who wanted to congregate in Acorn Park.  The actual residents (working people who dont tweet all day) actually wanted it reopened.

Or the amount of pixels yelling about Drag Queen story hour.

You can be all for LGBTQ rights, and still think this was getting more attention than say falling test scores in MCPS, or the sky rocketing crime rate.

The problem is that they easiest ways to get attention are to pander to a small group of liberals in Takoma Park and Silver Spring. So they follow that incentive structure which can sometimes lead them far astray. For example, a small group of these white progressive TPSS folks lodged a massive fit because the county was going to reopen a street in Silver Spring. Every CM jumped in to say how horrible it was. CM Glass even jumped in to say it was unjust because the immediate neighbors of this street were apartment dwellers who were mostly Black and immigrant and this closed street was important for recreation. Never once did any of these people, the TPSS progressive activists or CMs jumping on the bandwagon ask these folks who actually lived there what they thought. Turns out the people who lived there wanted the street reopened.

This is part of a small microcosm of the problem. Just a bunch of publicity hounds reacting to whatever the “outrage of the day” by their TPSS progressive friends. Not a single one of them interested in actually governing.[/quote][/quote]

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