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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who keeps voting these jokers back on the county council?  And why is every at-large member from Takoma Park/Silver Spring?  Citizens need to be more vocal about asking them to not raise taxes, they just raised them two years ago...not sustainable.  Moco needs to cut programs, not raise taxes.  Just need one no vote on the council.  [/quote]

A good start is ranked-choice voting. We had a clown car of over 30 candidates for county council, just on the Dem side, in the primaries who are vying for 4 spaces.

You can see what happens when we have too many -- the County Exec primary was a 6-way race on the Dem side, so a candidate needs to just court a fringe group and get enough votes from them, while the moderate vote is spread across 5 other candidates. Elrich won in the primary by 77 votes over Blair, thanks for tying up union support.

To give you an idea of how 'big government' Elrich is, his _transition team_ alone is 180 people! What are they all going to do?!

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/politics/whos-who-on-county-executive-elect-marc-elrichs-transition-team/

Obama's transition team in 2008 was 450 by comparison.. for the entire country.[/quote]

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