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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a liberal Democrat, and Blair has my vote!  I’m done with Elrich after the pandemic and his utter hypocrisy.  Time for a new start.[/quote]

Still wondering why so many people view lack of actual government experiences as a plus. Also wondering why so few Blair supporters on this site support their positions with actual specifics.  I guess my takeaway should be to recognize how limited using a site like this can be when it comes to getting detailed information on even prominent local candidates.  I’m planning to vote for Elrich — unless I can get information that goes beyond the level of the stuff that gets put on campaign flyers for Blair.

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DP and for me it’s not that the lack of local government experience is a plus, I just don’t view it as a negative.  You have to start somewhere and I think Blair’s ripe if experience would translate well to county executive.  And while the other two candidates have years of local govt experience, neither are particularly good at their jobs.

I find flyers/texts pretty useless too but you can learn much more at the campaign websites.[/quote]

Thanks! I find Blair’s flyers to be somewhat misleading. I will try again with his website, so thanks for the suggestion.  One of my concerns about Blair is that knowing —I guess — that he planned to run again for CE, he seems to have done nothing that I’m aware of that addressed my concern re: his lack of government experience. I agree that you do have to start somewhere, though. I’m concerned both about experiences and about genuine civic mindedness, and an understanding of non-profit types of goals, but I do get that much of his experience might translate well to the CE role.  
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DP. Misleading in what way?[/quote]

As an example: One was headlined with “The Washington Post Endorsed Democrat David Blair” in huge type, with columns contrasting Blair and Elrich.  It takes a lot of squinting at the fine print to see where the out of context comments come from, and lacks adequate citations that would allow me to track down the sources of the quotes. Maybe The Wash and Montgomery County Media are great sources — maybe not. Maybe the visually catchy checklist (Blair - all good, Elrich —all bad) is actually based on something substantive. Or maybe not.  It also wasn’t immediately clear that : 2022 Montgomery County Democratic Primary Voter Guide — was in fact promotional material paid for by Blair.

tldr: It should be immediately clear that a mailing is paid for promotional material— and it’s not. I haven’t had this concern with materials from other candidates.

It also irritates me that I’ve received multiple self-serving emails from Blair. I never gave Blair’s office my email address, and other candidates haven’t done this. While I’m assuming his campaign office got my email in a legal way, it feels shady.

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It confuses me that you were confused that a paid “voter guide” could have been from the BOE when it referenced candidate endorsements. That should have been a dead giveaway.[/quote]

And my point is that it should have been IMMEDIATELY obvious that something billed as a “MONTGOMERY COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY VOTER GUIDE” was actually promotional material for one candidate. It took flipping the page to see the list of comparisons, and flipping it again to find and read the fine print. Also, I said nothing about the BOE. Multiple sources could print “Montgomery County Democratic Primary Voter Guides” — major media outlets, the League of Women Voters and many other sources would be fine. It’s misleading coming from a candidate— particularly when you have to flip the page and read the fine print to see that, and even more so when you have to read the Very fine print to see that the “Facts” are using BlairForMontgmery,com as a cite.

So, we have different standards.  [/quote]

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