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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Moon is running, he absolutely has my vote. Kyle McDaniel announced that he is also running for the D endorsement for at-large. What do we think about him?[/quote]

He’s a former Republican (Herrity staffer) who first became an independent due to his distaste for Trump and now is seeking a Democratic endorsement. Thought he would have been preferable to both Schultz and Cohen when he ran for the Springfield seat in 2019 although he predictably lost without a party endorsement. [/quote]

Mainstream democrats today are too far to the right of traditional Republicans (of the 80s like Bush or Reagan) for my taste.[/quote]

Yes, by today's standards Nixon would be a flat-out socialist since he did things like starting the EPA or considered national health care. Even Reagan with his amnesty for illegals was very progressive by today's standards. The whole country has moved rightward these past few decades.[/quote]

Nah, the political parties and those funding them have moved right. The actual people have proven time and time again that left-leaving policies are popular, but between parties running centrist-at-best candidates, gerrymandering, voter suppression and judiciaries hell-bent on enforcing right-wing doctrine, well, here we are.[/quote]

Academics should come first.

Sure, sure.  Keep telling yourself that.
DP[/quote]

For example, abortion rights are wildly popular, even scoring high among Republicans, but a few key elected republicans here, a few centrist Dems concerned they might have to take any ideological stance there, and a bought-and-paid for reactionary judiciary and we have a real possibility of abortion being available in like 10 states within a couple years.

That template applies to lots of things besides abortion, but your inability to grasp that means you’re part of the problem. [/quote]

On cue the local FCDC proxy deflects any discussion of Keys Gamarra’s performance as a local SB member by trying to turn it into a discussion of state and national abortion rights.  It’s an important topic yet irrelevant here.  I don’t recall FCPS getting involved in providing abortion services - at least not yet. [/quote]

And while there is a lot to be said about American policy in Palestine/Israel, I don’t see it as contextual for FCPS.  But if the R’s bring in some like Palathingal, I will vote for a log that is opposing him.  [/quote]

He was rough around the edges but would have done a better job than Omeish or Keys Gamarra.  At least he cared about academics. [/quote]

One of the interviews from 2019 states his priorities were academics, fiscal prudence, and transparency. I wonder if he would have been transparently honest with himself and the community that unpopular boundary adjustments are by far the most fiscally prudent approaches to fixing our facilities and overcrowding issues. He's based in McLean, so probably not. GOP-backed candidates tend to run on those same principles, and at the end of the day they don't act on them because it wouldn't benefit them.[/quote][/quote]

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