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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don't underestimate the pro-Elrich vote. His base consists of the following:

1. Labor unions
2. Socialists
3. Opponents to development (From the right and from the left, NIMBYs and tree huggers)
4. Various social justice warriors and civic activists, Takoma Park types
and now a fifth component:
Covid Karens, the "shelter forever" types who complain on Nextdoor about runners not wearing masks

Sadly I see this making up a strong plurality of the vote.[/quote]

Not to direct this only at you, but this thread could be a great place to discuss reasons to vote FOR Blair — not just against Elrich.  When I voted, I didn’t have the sense that Blair reached out to me with good reasons why someone like me should vote for him or for someone like him.  It was great to meet him on Election Day — but by then, I had already voted.

So: Why Blair?  I’d genuinely like to know, and I’m probably not the only one. [/quote]

You're not the only one! I'm pretty undecided. [/quote]

These are fair questions.

And he definitely needs to answer them.

But as a liberal, I understand the focus on equity.  But there's also not a blank checkbook.  And our county is basically staying flat when it comes to jobs.  But even worse, high paying job are leaving the county, replaced by low wage jobs.  So you have to view business as the platform on which equity initiatives can be done.  And that platform is currently not holding the weight of the equity initiatives

I've worked for VERY large technology firms, and owned a small business.  MoCo is not a friendly place for either of them.  We can't keep robbing from Peter to pay Paul without addressing the underlying issue of why our county attract businesses that pay good salaries.  There's a good reason almost all of the large federal outsourcing/tech firms are in Virginia.  [/quote]

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