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So just because you don't like these 2 groups, you automatically assume that it's partisan issue? Did you even research why many folks across the aisle wanted Question D? All the reasons why this is a bipartisan issue are all available online. I'm asking YOU why it's a partisan issue for you. [/quote]

Please stop. Question D was pushed by Republicans. That's a fact. That doesn't mean that you, as a Democrat, didn't vote for it, or other Democrats didn't vote for it. It just means that it was pushed by Republicans.

Now, why did the Republicans push it? I mean, you'd have to ask them, but in my opinion, it's because they believed it was their last best hope for getting a Republican on the county council. I'm not even sure that's true, because it would take a lot of gerrymandering to put together a council district where registered Republicans were the majority. One of the people who write for the blog Seventh State ran the numbers on that, so you can look it up there if you want.

I, personally, think that the Republicans would have more success in elections if they ran candidates that more voters in Montgomery County would consider voting for, but they don't seem to favor that approach. Or maybe they can't get anybody plausible to run as a Republican in Montgomery County.

I also think that more candidates who live in the upcounty would get elected in county-wide elections if upcounty residents voted in elections at the same rates as downcounty residents AND if upcounty candidates did more campaigning downcounty and broadened their message to appeal to downcounty voters. The state and local elections are coming up in two years, so if you want to get involved, the spring of 2021 is the time for you to get started.[/quote]

Advocates thought that this had a good chance of breaking up the groupthink that dominates the current council.  The misplaced priorities of the current batch of council members are absurd.  They’re killing the business environment, abandoning all fiscal responsibility, and sending the county over an economic cliff, and no one seems to care.  This wasn’t about politics; this was about preserving the economic viability of the county.[/quote]

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