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[quote=Anonymous]It looks like you feel as though you haven't gotten your message out, despite posting the same thing in every topic on BOE candidates for over 2 years, back to when she ran in 2024, so you need to have a headline of your own.

I'm not a Diaz fan, but the other candidates have flaws, as well.  Lazo has shown that he is part of the MoCo/MD political machine that locks out meaningful community input.  Chase has failed to demonstrate her advocacy is meaningfully multidimensional, likely part of that machine, too.  Wicks effectively dropped out.

Even your post, here, is political-machine-driven -- "it should be noted that the official position of the MCPS Democratic Party opposes her" is dog whistling in what is supposed to be a non-partisan race.  For BOE, it's a county primary to winnow the field to two candidates for November, not a Dem primary to pick against a Repub (destined to lose in this deep blue county).  Between now and then, having someone like Diaz, warts and all, as a counter [i]option[/i] to the machine might be more appealing than having a choice between two insiders.  With Rivera-Oven (note Marco, with endorsements, on the MoCo party committee ballot) and Diggs (Wolff's hand-picked successor) each running unopposed for those respective seats, we're certain to get no change from them, and Montoya (the only one who rocks the boat, and only when there is a personal interest, it seems), Stewart & Zimmerman not up for re-election until 2028, do we really need this at-large seat occupied by more of the same?  Without even putting the Apple-ballot anointee to the test?

We always can make the choice not to have her elected in November.  Maybe just having her on the ballot would send a message to MCPS/the current BOE, if not the rest of the party apparatus, that they should start looking for candidates that do a better job of actually representing us.

I can only hope the Democratic party, as a whole, wakes up to that one day, because what we've gotten, for decades, now, is ineffective strategy that somehow keeps the table tilted while, amazingly befuddlingly, from the point of view of their stated aims and the significant majority we'd think should align with those, but also clearly, from electoral results over that time, providing unreasonable space for reactionaries, again and again, to gain ascendancy.  SMDH...[/quote]

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