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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly I don't know who to vote for/against - but I strongly disagree with the proposed changes to zoning.

Who should I vote for or against?

Thank you![/quote]

Well, you vote against term limits to try to keep Elrich for a while.

You can look up others running to see where they align on any similar issues.

You can always vote for Hogan as a protest.[/quote]

As a protest against what? Hogan is a developer.[/quote]

A protest vote.  You can vote for Hogan as a message to Maryland Democrats, including local ones in the county pushing this upzoning nonsense, that just because we are a blue state doesn’t mean that we aren’t without power to make disagreement known within the party.  Our own little “uncommitted” campaign, in a way.[/quote]

You could.  But I agree with others that [b]people should have some perspective here.[/b]  That race is close, and Hogan could win as a result of what you think is just a throwaway protest messaging vote.  That race has no impact on local zoning and it could give republicans control of a chamber, potentially under a Republican president.  Is that really worth it just to send a message?

If you really want to send a message, vote against the term limits (even though that too would have limited impact, at least it wouldn't have a negative impact on the whole country.)[/quote]

The County Council could take that medicine, realize that their push for density, with all of the concerns about process and effect unmet, might cause some to make such a rash protest vote in a tight race, and definitively and publicly dial things back by committing themselves to a plebecite on the zoning matter at the following election, to reducing the scope/extent of any measure, to limiting the impact of the measure in any one neighborhood and to tying any zoning allowances to true ensurance of adequate public facilities.

Harris' trumpeting of housing issues also might be conflated with initiatives such as MoCo's AHS, and that, too, could send some Hogan's way (if not Trump's).  Democrats are playing with fire, here.[/quote]

Oh my goodness. No, if the PP votes for Hogan in a preposterous vote that is intended as a protest against zoning changes, it's not the County Council's fault for not holding a referendum on zoning changes. [/quote]

Their fault, as politicians, would be in being so foused on delivering an unpopular and divisive policy change that they would risk the votes of the many who would not differentiate well enough, entering the protest vote described in great enough numbers to endanger their statewide candidate in a tight race amid the backdrop of party control of the Senate.  Solid blue Maryland (as a whole -- lots of Red outside of the population centers) should be a slam dunk for Democrats, but they won't even learn from Hogan's having been twice elected as governor.

Again, they play with fire, whether they consider it their "fault" or not.[/quote]

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