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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only competent member is Friedson.

1/3 of MoCo registered voters are independents, [b]so we get no voice in the primaries[/b]. We need open primaries.[/quote]

Have you considered switching your party registration so that you can have a voice in the primaries?[/quote]

That’s not an acceptable solution, in my opinion.

I used to think more highly of Friedson, but then he got on the Casey Anderson/Hans Riemer developer subsidy/trickle-down economics bandwagon. [/quote]

Why don't you accept that as a solution?

Friedson ran on being pro-business. What did you think that meant? [/quote]

Pro-business is fine.  He's just a liar.  He will campaigned relentlessly for new developments, and when residence complain that there's no infrastructure in place for parking for example, he will deny being for that new development.[/quote]

Subsidies for residential developers are pretty short sighted as a pro-business plan. Residential development creates some temporary low-paying jobs (he has opposed amendments requiring developers to pay workers a living wage), but it's very expensive for the county to support over the long term. A real pro-business plan would be removing barriers to doing business. Developers have told the county they're not building housing because the county doesn't create enough jobs.

The thing about Friedson's subsidies is that they don't cause housing to get built anyway. Developers build when they think the market is ready, and if they get a subsidy, they pass it on to Wall Street. When we write checks to businesses, long-term, high-paying jobs should be part of the deal.

Also, Bethesda has had a parking surplus since building the new garage on Woodmont. It doesn't need more parking. But the builder of the farm market project wants a garage for its building, so the county will subsidize building one.[/quote]

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