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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has Mr. Austin ever released a resume? All we know from his campaign and his public statements is that he works at a Lockeed Martin subsidiary and worked for Merrill Lynch when that company was heavily into subprime mortgages and nearly bankrupted itself. Then he worked for a couple of hedge funds—you know, the kind of people who take perfectly good companies, do a leveraged buyout, saddle the company with debt, and then take the money and run when the company can’t make the debt payments. Toys R Us is a good example, if you want to look into it. There are big gaps in his work timeline. He could fill in those gaps if he just told voters what he has done for a living. But, he hasn’t. Why not?
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Hah. This is how much the establishment is worried about Austin.. So much nitpicking. My guess is Austin was not the CEO of Merrill 12 years ago and was not making top-level decisions about mortgages.

Let's see what the establishment candidate Dasgupta has posted:
https://www.sunildasgupta.com/about-sunil.html

Hmm, 11 years at UMBC. So he was there during the sexual assault scandal:
https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-1001-umbc-assault-20180928-story.html

He was probably as much involved in that scandal as Austin was in subprime mortages -- not at all. Both UMBC and Merrill are massive organizations.

And all we see with Dasgupta is 11 years at UMBC. What was he doing before that? Where's his resume? Let's pick that apart too![/quote]

Mr. Austin is running as a “finance guy” and as somebody who wants more transparency in MCPS. It’s not nit picking to want to know what his background is. If he wasn’t in the Merrill division that was pushing risky investment strategies, he should make that clear. If he thinks hedge funds are a good idea, he should say why. This is a basic request for some transparency. Just asking a question doesn’t make me part of the “establishment.” I simply want to know something more about a candidate who wants my vote. Why the vitriol?
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