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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I voted for Lazo, reading her response about textbooks, reducing tech, etc. I might vote for Diaz in November. As someone said upthread, &quot;education matters more than how someone feels about pride flags.&quot;[/quote]

Flags are symbolic for real issues. Suicide among non-straight youth is high, because we live in an intolerant world, as evidenced by Diaz and her beliefs.[/quote]

I'm not worried that one school board member is going to turn 2026 Montgomery County MD into 1990's Kentucky on LGBTQ issues. I worry more about safety, discipline, and academic standards in this particular time and place.[/quote]

+1. I'm the one who made the comment about pride flags, and I agree. The safety of LGBT children and families is important to me (I am part of a queer family), but Brenda Diaz doesn't threaten that.

Here's what she's said about LGBT issues:

- She said parents should be able to opt out of LGBT books in the curriculum. This would have been the right choice in an environment where the Supreme Court was always going to rule the way it did. Instead we wasted money and energy on that fight only to wind up being forced to add the opt out anyway. 
-She said we needed to make sure students from families who don't share those values have a place in the school system. Maybe you're somewhere you have the luxury of not believing that, but I'm not. Our school has a lot of immigrant families from more conservative backgrounds. As a queer family, we have to navigate that, and the school board aggressively pushing makes that harder, not easier.[/quote]

Well I'd like to opt-out of any books that say slavery was wrong. We need to make sure students from families who don't share those values (that slavery is wrong) have a place in the school system.[/quote]

You want to opt out of books that say slavery is wrong because you think slavery was okay? Fantastic. Hope my kids aren’t friends with your kids because I don’t want them having to call you master or fear you’re going to make them work your fields. [/quote]

BS Diaz has said plenty worse.

1. Her social media says otherwise. She thinks LGBTQ people should be in institutions. Yep, her X account.  So much propaganda on that account it is horribly disturbing. 
2. Her social media banning books was her thing way before OPT OUT&gt; It's BS to think that was her only book banning agenda. And she got paid by America Legal First for her position in the OPT OUT. Yep she got paid by a RW group!
3. Diaz didn't show up for work before her time at Gaithesburg, HS parents petitioned to have her removed from the classroom. 
4. She's 100% anti vax not just covid her support of the idiot RFK JR proves that. Who voted for that shit?

[b]I have an idea how she got the votes she got because MAGA changed affiliation for the primaries[/b]. She will lose in the general.  [/quote]

Interesting thought.  At the last MoCo non-presidential primary (2022), there were something close to 140k dem ballots cast and 23k rep ballots cast.

So far counted, this primary appears to have close to 90k dem and 9k rep, with a bunch of mail-in yet to be counted.  Of course, not everyone marked a BOE candidate on their ballot and there are some independent voters who [i]only[/i] could vote for BOE.

If, when all is said and done, there are a lot fewer than 23k rep ballots and more dem ballots than expected, it's possible that there was some strategic subterfuge from that side, but with MoCo being so blue, generally, and the general election implications, then, I don't know if the juice would have been worth the squeeze.

But it really wouldn't make an impact for the BOE race, since it is non-partisan.  They could have/would have voted for Diaz and been counted regardless of which party ballot they chose.  Everyone gets to vote for any of the primary candidates, and only the top two vote-getters advance to November's ballot.  Not the top from each party, like with all the other primary races.

Of course, I suppose a conspiracy, if one could call it that, might involve simply getting more Rs to go to the primary polls in the first place, whichever ballot they choose.  If some group had been able to do that for large numbers, they could bottle it and sell it for a lot -- getting heavy participation in a [i]general[/i] election in the US has been ridiculously hard, not to speak of a primary.

It [i]would[/i] allow overweighting of a candidate's primary performance, though, versus general election expectation.  Again, we might see something in the totals, once final/official.

But I kind of doubt it.  More likely in my mind is the reasoning offered by others, here, that there were enough across the entire voting population who were fed up with the same type of BOE members we've had that they were willing to hold their nose on some of the less desirable characteristics of the candidate or presume that insinuations of that undesirability were being overplayed.[/quote]

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