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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kristin Mink and Will Jawando routinely get outvoted by the 9 other councilmembers that are all more moderate than they are.

Elrich is not in office because he is progressive. He is in office because he combines support of the unions with support from NIMBYs.

The problem with Montgomery County is not ideology. It's that unions and NIMBYs have too much power and they stifle any effort to grow the county's economy. Forget about making things business-friendly, we can't do that. Forget about changes to neighborhoods designed in the 1940s, we can't do that. [/quote]

Are you just naming things that you don’t like, or are you saying that any of those things are related?

I don’t know which neighborhoods you are talking about, but the ones I am familiar with don’t look anything like they did in the 1940’s.  People bought homes, they have been improved and enlarged, and the neighborhoods have improved over time.  Those neighborhoods attract businesses that employ people. I think that you are somehow implying that the people that own the homes and have made the improvements are NIMBYs because they don’t support the tearing down of their communities and disruption of their lives via zoning changes.  They have built plenty.  They continue to spend money  and pay taxes and generate economic growth in the county.  There are plenty of places to build near transit for density, there is no real need to evenly distribute density, and it seems terrible expensive for MOCO to build transit just to to say that existing areas are now near transit just to distribute density.  It doesn’t even make sense.

What does that all have to do with unions?  Is your plan to keep everyone poor and build garbage density all over so that we live in some giant company town?  We can both attract high wage tech companies and also make sure that people at the lower end of the scale can eat.[/quote]

Found one of the NIMBYs

Thanks for making an appearance.[/quote]

Another NIMBY here.  Proud one too.  Get a life![/quote]

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