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[quote=Anonymous]Alsobrooks is pretty trustworthy with her identity and politics.

Trone, not so much.  As everyone knows, Trone is a businessman, through and through.  Prior to entering politics, he had been a fairweather Democrat.  He spent a lot of money buying, hosting, and supporting Republican candidates in MD and around the country when they influenced his business decisions.  For example, when Pennsylvania and Massachusetts were trying to restrict his liquor licenses for his alcohol distribution businesses, he invested heavily into Republican candidates to try and get them elected so that they would pass and change laws that would allow him to take advantage of low income customers.  He donated a significant amount of money to the campaigns of Texas' Greg Abbott and Dan Patrick, also North Carolina's Pat McCrory, all of whom are pretty soulless ultra-conservative Republicans.  Even as recently as the 2020 and 2022 elections, he has made significant campaign contributions to  conservative Wisconsin state candidates in order to again win advantages for his wine and liquor empire.  He's committed numerous business crimes in the state of Pennsylvania, but was very fortunate not to be convicted or imprisoned due to an error by the ATF which caused his case to be tossed out of court.  He also tried to get other heavily business oriented laws passed.  He was never a supporter of the poor and working classes until he became a politician himself.  And since he was a Montgomery County candidate, he changed his politics to be self-serving and support the voters that he was trying to cater to, so he started supporting a lot of socially liberal causes.

But he's just an opportunist.  And there is no guarantee from his personal history that today's political platform will stay his political platform.  If the opportunity to run elsewhere cropped up and it served his personal interests to become a Republican and support Republican causes, there's no guarantee that he wouldn't just jump ship and do what was best for him personally.  As a rich, white businessman, he has no particular need to back minority issues, whether race, creed, gender, sexuality, low socio-economic status, etc.  As the saying goes, he has no skin in the game, so he can quit the game at any time.

Alsobrooks has been consistent in her politics and policies and as a black woman, she is invested in the causes that she supports.  She has to be.  She's a single mother, so the plight of women, lower income and minorities has personal meaning and impact on her.

David Trone is not very trustworthy as a candidate and MD doesn't need that type of opportunist in the Senate.[/quote]

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