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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I assume if any of the prominent AEM posters are reading here, they’re shrugging off everything said here as uninformed. But let me say as a lifelong progressive, I am voting for Parisa, but honestly it’s in spite on the AEM posts and comments, not because of them.

To those posters: I understand that your guard goes up when people post here or elsewhere about opposition to the issues that literally define your day to day lives, but I say from real experience that shooting everyone else down and steamrolling the narrative will not work. It’s incredibly off putting and counterproductive.

As a Parisa supporter, I ask that you please, please consider a different approach. [/quote]

Those posters aren’t even what has turned me off the most, though they have exposed some problems with the campaign itself. The ideas were good enough on their own, and [b]they didn’t need to try to destroy the reputation of the current CA as a child-hating racist monster who supports police brutality[/b] in order to win. I don’t like this type of politics, especially at the local level. I don’t want to reward that kind of campaign with my vote, even though I probably agree with Tafti on needed reforms and was leaning towards her before that mailer and these misleading letters to the editor. Win at all costs does not work for me. Last time we had a slash-and-burn campaign in Arlington, I wound up voting for Garvey, even though I don’t love her (especially after all that trolley stuff) when the opposing campaign tried to paint her out as wanting to throw grandmothers out on the street for simply asking the question about whether heirs should be able to inherit valuable homes without ever paying back deferred taxes to the county.

I don’t think this kind of campaign belongs in Arlington. It’s too small a county to pit literal neighbors against neighbors in such a way.

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Yes.  While I agree there are reforms needed, I can't possible vote for Tafti.  [/quote]

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