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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A cornerstone of his campaign is his purported financial expertise. Portfolio manager at a big defense contractor? Geez,  I’d be awfully surprised if a multi-billion-dollar enterprise like Lockheed Martin would be shaking in its boots because of a county board of education race, no matter hot heated. Austin has said he worked for a couple of hedge funds (unnamed and for an unspecified amount of time) and at Merrill Lynch, after the dot.com bust. That would put him smack in the middle of the timeframe when Merrill almost went belly up because of its enthusiastic dive into risky subprime mortgages and related investment schemes. So, yeah, i’d like to know more about his finance background before entrusting him with making decisions about taxpayer money. 
Maybe he is a financial wizard! Who knows? He won’t say. Has he ever worked for a developer? If so, who? when? He talks the talk about transparency, and is highly critical of the lack of transparency from the current BOE, so to be consistent, he should walk the walk when it comes to his own campaign. Otherwise...he’ll just come across as another hypocritical, two-bit politician.[/quote]

I'll vote for Austin because he said this:

7 – How well has Jack Smith done as superintendent? Give specific examples (100 words max)

I would give him a mixed review. He has overseen the communication and the process of the Boundary Analysis, and I think that has been very poorly executed. I like him as a person, and he has an impressive background. He did actually warn the Board of Education of unintended consequences when they voted to elevate diversity above all the other factors in a boundary change. All that said, [b]I would not have voted to renew his contract.[/b]

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2020-primary-voters-guide/montgomery-county-board-of-education-at-large/
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