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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Montgomery County has become a joke.

For the record, I'm a Democrat. A disillusioned Democrat, but still registered as one so I can have a chance to elect moderates in local elections. But I'm about to give up and move to Fairfax - where my new job is, where ALL THE JOBS ARE.
I would never vote for a Republican at the national level with the current clown circus that is the Party of Trump, but living in a One Party jurisdiction is NOT A GOOD THING.

Montgomery County politicians and the people who put them there are a parody of themselves. Their latest "community forum on policing" was 100% about complaining about how police officers are racist - absolutely nothing on how to reduce crime. the new Council and County Executive have a massive budget shortfall and dwindling tax base and what do they do? Hold a bajillion "racial equity and social justice" forums, listening sessions, galas, and fundraisers to show off their #wokeness with our taxpayer money. They replace the POW/MIA flag with the Pride flag. Every County staff hire is based around some kind of social justice and identity politics contest - you are unbeatable if you are black, disabled, and gay.

I'm a classical liberal - I'm for equality of opportunity, judging on content of our character, participating in a market equality. Meanwhile in MoCo, the Government is the biggest employer and it chooses based on identity politics and how woke you are.

My favorite thing to watch, though, is the Montgomery County Left eat itself up. It's all over Facebook and Twitter. There's the Social Justice Left (the Council and its allies) who obsess about transit-oriented LGBTQ housing and bike lanes and other things that only 1% of taxpayers would benefit from, and they are at war with the Socialist Left (the County Executive, who is a card-carrying member of the Democratic Socialists, and his friends), who oppose new housing developments because they are built by corporations who make money. It's pretty hilarious.

One of two things will happen. Either the two factions of the extreme left will eat each other up and the County will elect sensible moderates, or the county will continue its decline into becoming a socialist backwater. I hope it's the former, but I'm not sticking around for the latter. #Bye.[/quote]

The county does not have a huge budget shortfall. It was a $120 million shortfall on a FY19 $5.4 billion budget, and they closed it in late January.  2% shortfall. It’s been far worse, and much more painful to close.

The new FY 20 budget is $5.8 billion, and they met the target reserve goal and funded OPEB.  So not sure where you get this idea of a massive budget shortfall.

The forums don’t cost much at all, since they are held in government spaces, and racial equity will benefit 58% of the county. Sounds like government that’s responsive to its residents to me.

I’m not a big Elrich fan, but your view of government right now is not accurate. [/quote]

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