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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]The only way to end it[/b] is to vote out the county council and county executive.  The county council is one giant echo chamber with one lemming idea after another.  County executive just hasn't gotten anything done, which is part of why people elected him I think - a status quo candidate.  It's been years of suboptimal growth, and I don't know why we keep voting for these losers to continue to suboptimal growth.

We also need to fix the primary system.  Basically whoever wins the primary wins the general election, and you can win the primary with less than 30% of the vote...so stupid.  They need to send the top two vote-getters to a run-off so you don't have candidates who never stood a chance siphoning votes away from the top candidates.  [/quote]

How can we end something that doesn't exist in the first place?[/quote]

Again, semantics.  I really wish people would stop calling it socialism because people start arguing how it is/is not socialism.  Whatever it is, it's just ineffective government, inefficient government, irresponsible spending (yay we get two more people on the county council likely with nothing original to say), and not creating an environment that's competitive with DC or other surrounding jurisdictions.  I don't understand the status quo folks.  If you're not moving forward, then you're moving backwards, because everyone else is not content with standing pat.  [/quote]
I absolutely agree with this.

Basically since the financial crisis (and actually even a little bit before), this county has been horribly mismanaged. Run into the ground by people who seem to prefer posturing over the hard work of governing. People who think that subsidizing developers is economic development. People who love to talk about how rich we are as a reason why we can afford their pet cause, while we gradually get poorer and poorer. Adjusted for inflation, median household income in 2016 was lower than it was in 1989. That’s a real accomplishment.

What worries me the most is that after finally removing the ossified cadre of mediocre electeds who prioritized their own longevity in office over the county. We have only replaced them with what mostly seem to be unserious clowns (excepting Friedson) who have seemingly confused good governance with maximizing engagement on social media.

I find the politics of this county to be absolutely childish. Spending 100% of the time trying to figure out how to increase the number of poor residents while totally disinterested in trying to figure out how to improve the number of high wage jobs and make the county more attractive to high wage earners. There is a blasé attitude about wealth and economic growth that borders on arrogance. [/quote]

Friedson is Development Boy. He's a different kind of clown.[/quote]

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