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I work in county government.  Backstory:

1. MoCo decline is real and has been going on for a while.  Elrich not the cause.  You can go to empowermontgomery.com and read a whole report about it if you want.

2. To stop that it would be helpful to make MoCo an easier place to do business.

3.  Elrich and his policies and his personality aren't helping with that.

4.  County is already unattractive to businesses, making it also unattractive to rich residents is going to cause tax revenues to collapse.  Which would have a lot of bad knock-on effects.

5.  If you want housing affordability, it would be much more logical to just support more affordable housing development rather than purposefully try to make the place you want to live so unappealing that nobody else wants to live there.  That would seem to me to be a bad plan for you and everyone else.

Aside, parts of county government are dsyfunctional and it would be fine with me if someone came in and cleaned house (as long as they got rid of the right people).  I have little hope that will actually happen (or if it does they will actually get rid of the right people rather than just do some first-in first-out thing which is probably the opposite of what's needed, honestly).
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Empower Montgomery is owned and run by Washington Property Company, which is a large Montgomery County developer. Please stop touting them as impartial. They hide behind their 501(c)(4) status to fool you that they're some kind of citizen advocacy group. Stop pretending you work in county government.[/quote]

One can work for the County government and also support economic development.

If you don't like that source, here's a news article:  [url]https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2019/12/montgomery-county-budget-story/[/url]

You can pretend it isn't happening but it will still happen regardless.

Sorry if I triggered anyone by spelling Riemer's name wrong.  I didn't realize he didn't support the Ag Reserve (which I fully support) so will need to look into that.  But at least in this random news article I googled, he sounds rational.

“We need to do more in the county to attract and grow businesses,” Riemer said.  “Anything we can do to spur growth in the commercial sector, to make companies feel more supported, is going to help. That will pay off in higher wage job growth and salaries and that will flow in through more property and income taxes.”[/quote]

Out of curiosity, where do you live?

I have a hard time understanding why anyone would support the ag reserve unless they already live out there and want to keep others out.

I was the one saying before that I didn't like Riemer, but couldn't remember why.  But the more I hear about him, the more I seem to like him.  The Ag Reserve makes no sense.[/quote]

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