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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are complaining that the Montgomery County Council is following their well-established processes for considering and enacting laws, after the Montgomery Planning Board followed their well-established processes for considering and making recommendations.

It reminds me of people standing up at public meetings to complain that they do not have any opportunity to make their voice heard.[/quote]

People wanting their voice heard want the opportunity for well-informed agency/impact that is inherent to well functioning societies.  The council & board must follow their processes in that spirit, not just in name, as they have here with recommendations far beyond anything they had vetted widely with the impacted communities.

Or they can simply decide to get one over on their constituents.  It looks like that's the approach they decided to take.[/quote]

People who don't like the outcome (or the likely outcome) complain about the process.

If the constituents don't like the outcome, or the actions of their elected representatives, they can express their disapproval at the polls.[/quote]

This has been discussed many times in this thread.  That is a specious dismissal.[/quote]

Which part do you think is a fallacy? The part about complaining about the process when you don't like the outcome? The part about voters deciding? Or both?[/quote]

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