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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Montgomery mall is perfectly nice. I don’t get the badmouthing comments here. It’s smaller than Tyson’s yes but it has everything I need for mall things. I get jeans from Macys, stuff from j crew and from the tailor downstairs, and the jewelers there (the ljungqvist place or however you call it) are super nice and attentive of my watches. Wheaton mall is a more average mall land yea, it’s seen better days [/quote]

If Westfield lets the mall become 50 percent vacant and builds a little housing on the property, they get a 20-year property tax abatement thanks to Andrew Friedson. Westfield and its local counsel have donated thousands of dollars to Friedson. [/quote]

Your anti Friedson posts are unhinged.  You aren't having the effect you want.  [/quote]

I get that his record isn’t what he claims it to be so you wouldn’t want people bringing it up. Notably you never claim these things aren’t true. That’s because they are.  [/quote]

Everyone on Council voted for that bill except Jawando.   Everyone on Council voted to overturn the veto except Jawando and Mink.  You act like Friedson functions in a silo and is all powerful.  He's not.

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So, vote for Jawando.[/quote]

lol never. He's as self serving as Trump and will burn the rest of us down. It just feels more palatable because he's liberal. [/quote]

The other two candidates will crush us too.[/quote]

Friedson, with a somewhat moderate council - Ashman, Yang, Goldberg, Pope, Luedtke, Balcomb, McNulty maybe, and Stewart -- would be a breath of fresh good governance air.  They have a lot of damage to clean up.[/quote]

Nightmare.  What group which would  really presents much of a hindrance?

Yang is desparately trying to prove herself to the same hegemonic MoCo political machine to which Friedson and Leudtke are already beholden.  Stewart's only hedge, there, is that she furthers initiatives even farther left than that machine generally wants.

And this is forgetting that Fani-Gonzàlez has been the true force planning (literally -- back to her days on Montgomery Planning) all of those things for which Friedson took on the role of public face in the past couple of years, hoping to capture votes from outside his district while staving off damage to his district popularity by definitionally limiting effects, there.  (All he really has to do, now, to make an election case within his district is vote against the tax increases made necessary by the handouts to developers.)

Friedson is as self-serving as it gets.  Not that Jawando isn't, just that Friedson's self-service comes by way of niche-wealth special interests to whom he is beholden, while Jawando's comes by way of less-niche-issue-based special-interest  groups whom he hopes to agglomerate for a more populist approach.

There will be no Friedson-moderating majority on the council.  Heck, there was no real Elrich block to these council initiatives, as all his vetos were overridden.  And those Jawando votes against/votes against overrides were window dressing -- no real attempt to pull in enough others to make a difference.[/quote]

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