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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am looking forward to Marilyn Balcombe and Dawn Luedtke as a couple of new rational voices.  I may not always agree with them, but they are rational and have real leadership abilities.  I am hopeful about Laurie Anne Sayles for the same reasons, although I know less about her.

Kristin Mink strikes me as a loose cannon.   I hope I'm wrong.

I know nothing about Kate Stewart or Natali Fani Gonzalez.

All in all, though, the new group of women seem to have much better leadership skills than any of the men currently on Council.  They are weak, at best, and generally just go whichever way twitter bullies tell them. [/quote]

Mink and Stewart are extremely weak on crime and I expect crime in the county to explode if they have their way.  Terrible leadership skills.[/quote]

How do you know they are weak on crime? [/quote]

I’m a DP.

Kate Stewart’s time as mayor of Takoma Park doesn’t give me a lot of confidence. Her “public safety” page on her campaign site shows she campaigned on a promise to make officers (and their cars) less intimidating. That’s not language that would come from somebody who can take on rising crime in this county. As for Mink, her site shows she wants police only to respond to violent crime, keeping them away from less serious calls for service. Her page demonstrates a remarkably naive view of policing which assumes officers are the problem, not the people committing crimes.

I suspect they’ll both fit in quite well with the existing members, unfortunately. Crime will rise because Montgomery County will appear (and will actually be) weak. For opportunist criminals, a county with a diminished police department and soft penalties looks quite attractive. [/quote]

Police would only respond to violent crime? What is going to stop property crimes like theft, vandalism, etc?[/quote]

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