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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lol. Every time David Blair supporters grasp at "so THERE'S A CHANCE!!!" only to be disappointed, I laugh, gleefully. First you thought Elrich would stay behind in the mail in votes. Then you thought Blair would win with the provisionals. Then you thought the extra ballots found would flip the results to Blair. Now you have all your hopes on the recount. Then, what, you're going to pray for a Hail Mary and a Republican victory in a county that's D+50? More Copium![/quote]

You’re laughing that your candidate won a primary by 35 votes? Ok. [/quote]

+1honestlu, thanks for the reminder Elrich voters are dumb as rock's [/quote]

No, we live on the east side of the county (not TP) where developers want to throw up crap dense housing for poorer people.

I didn't want to elect someone funded out of his own pocket (Blair) who would probably throw us to the developer wolves and chase us non wealthy sfh owners out to Frederick. I actually make under 150k, work in in MoCo and want to be able.yo afford to buy a sfh in MoCo.

If anyone pays that much money out of their own pocket to win an election, there is a reason. Hopefully my vote was one of 35.

I'm all for business development in MoCo, but with someone else besides Blair. [/quote]

Don’t understand the logic: Blair was the only pro-business candidate.  When you voted for Erlich you decided for Frederick business growth.  [/quote]

Yes. Which Elrich is fine with. I am bookmarking this thread and will resurrect it when taxes go up and services get cut.  People get the government they deserve. [/quote]
Service cuts won’t happen until later.

The first step is cuts to the Capital budget, so all the infrastructure will deteriorate. Second step is new programs for targeted groups. Third step is to reduce or flatline services to more affluent areas in the county. This will take about 4-5 years to really come to a head before the council will need to make major announced service cuts or even have to face clear choices, like running libraries full time or maintaining sidewalks versus giving millions in non-competive grants to CASA or snowplowing some peoples sidewalks but not others because they are “needy”.[/quote]

It's been happening, and now he can do more.  He already cut police services.

He added 10% cost or so to the CIP without really adding anything new.    That's for his Net Zero energy sources/infrastructure.   Meanwhile, everyone scrambled to delay other projects so that the CIP was balanced.  To me, that's de facto cutting the capital budget.   How many school projects got delayed to make fiscal room for his Net Zero crap?

There will be no cuts to CASA.
There will be no cuts to fund lawyers for immigrants facing deportation.
There will be no cuts to housing the immigrants being bussed in from Texas.
There will be no cuts to the Green Bank ($18 million a year based on a "temporary tax" that Leggett put in place a decade ago).
There will be no cuts to building the electric fleet, even though they can't afford to replace all the vehicles they need to replace.   And "that" will cut services.   Or demand emergency appropriations to buy more.

And don't forget, he built this year's budget on one-time federal funds that they won't have anymore.     A savings plan later this fiscal year, or sometime next year is almost guaranteed.

Council is to blame too.   But they work off of what the CE gives them.

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