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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Observation:  This thread is almost entirely focused on the YIMBY/NIMBY debate.  I'm sure DCUM is not a representative sample, but it surprises me that there aren't a lot of other issues that come up in making this decision....[/quote]

None of the candidates has shown a willingness to stand up to unions. The biggest issue facing the county is a lack of economic growth, yet county and MCPS employee compensation costs keep growing faster than revenues. It is not sustainable but the CE and the Councilmembers never push back. So there is no real debate about this.[/quote]

The budgets that Elrich has developed are structurally unsound, and those structural deficits build on prior year problems.   The Council never had enough fortitude to correct them with any success.  What's left is raising taxes every few years to pay for compensation increases.

Otherwise, leaders have to do two things:  slow compensation and build a more robust economy by attracting more business.  Who has the best approach to doing that?  Who can build consensus with the new Council to make those two things happen? [/quote]

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