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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Between now and then, having someone like Diaz, warts and all, as a counter [i]option[/i] to the machine might be more appealing than having a choice between two insiders.[/quote]
There were people in 2016 saying this about Trump. How's that been going?[/quote]

Was his orangeness running for one spot out of seven where the remaining six held overwhelming majority sway in the other direction?  Or was it for a position where one person could run roughshod, especially with sympathetic majorities in any body which held checks over that power?[/quote]

Why vote for a deranged lunatic as a protest vote?

Vote for yourself as a protest vote, or leave that spot on the ballot blank. [/quote]

Because the one gets ignored completely and the other has a chance of gaining attention.[/quote]

It sure will get attention. That attention will be, for the Superintendent, a welcome distraction from all his crazy decisions. Are you concerned about his choice to censor student journalists? Wait look over here there is a crazy rwnj, go protest her![/quote]

That's if she'd have a chance of winning an actual seat in the November general election if she beat out Chase for second in the primary.  She doesn't -- MoCo is too blue and Lazo is a shoo-in with the Apple Ballot and the rest of the machine behind him.

Unless he can't present [i]anything[/i] compelling in addition to some total blunder along the way by either him or MCPS that would make Diaz a remote possibility.

Of course, Chase would be in a similarly unlikely spot if she adanced to the general.  She would have more possibility in the blunder scenario than Diaz, but there would be nothing at all from the perspective of debate about change in the lead-up to a Lazo-Chase contest, where there'd be a good amout with a Lazo-Diaz contest.  If he [i]bothered[/i] to debate, that is, with his position as the presumptive winner.

If you think Lazo is likely to act as a counter to MCPS central positions like the one you use as an example such that Taylor would need to answer with depth instead of distract when one of his leads presents some agenda-driven, poorly considered plan, I think you have another thing coming.[/quote]

I have no illusions that any of the candidates will effectively "act as a counter" but at least Lazo or Chase wouldn't become Taylor's pet straw man[/quote]

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