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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think Montgomery County has a growing conservative population - of people they don't really expect -- immigrants.  But I think it will take 15 years or so to really make a bigger dent.

And that doesn't mean Republican, although perhaps in District 1 Friedson's district - where we last had a Republican. I think it means more mainline Democrats will win.

Redistricting and expanding the Council to 11 members did that to a degree.  It watered down the super-progressives a bit. You have Friedson, Balcombe, Leudtke, Albornoz, and Fani-Gonzalez who are a bit more "normal," as it were.  Mink and Jawando are still super-progressive, but as you can see, their bills are more often dying than not.  That's a stark contrast to Jawando being a legislative machine in his first term.  Stewart is turning out to be more practical than I had originally thought.  Glass just does what best suits him, so he ends up being a bit mercurial depending on the issue. But I'd lump him with progressives.[/quote]
The only thing growing in Montgomery County is poverty. [/quote]

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