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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seriously..those who voted for Elrich..do you honestly think he is good for business and job growth? Whst has he done to prove this? Or do you not care about this?[/quote]

I care about business and job growth, but those things aren’t at the very top of my list of priorities. 
There are a lot of things about Blair that, for me, raise serious concerns, that weren’t allayed despite my efforts to get more specific information.

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Do you care about public safety? Do you want a fully-staffed police force? Or is public safety also not on your list of priorities?[/quote]

You seem to be much more interested in spewing out your own priorities than in genuinely being concerned about mine. Have at it.  
And know that your ranting is the opposite of persuasive. [/quote]

Safety is my priority, for me and for my entire community. I’m frustrated that our officials make decisions that put us at risk. That includes their call to reduce police staffing by 50% in Wheaton and Silver Spring, claiming those areas need reduced interactions with police. (Note that they don’t seem concerned about who will respond to crime in those areas.). Elrich also pulled SROs against the wishes of many.

You never actually said what your priorities are. (If you are the poster above, you claimed what they aren’t: business and job growth.) I probably care about your priorities, as well, or at least I can respect them. Can you do the same?[/quote]

Yes I can, and I would have been more specific if you had asked — instead of emphasizing your own priorities. Honestly, I’m kind of tired. (Not of addressing this with you, PP, just with the current realities of politics.)

Safety is my number one priority. But it has to be acknowledged that “safety” doesn’t mean the same things for all of us in our community — whether that’s SROs, the behavior of police officers, health care and the way that COVID and other public health issues are handled, gun violence, domestic violence, or other things that affect our well-being as individuals and as communities.  My Safety list clearly overlaps with Health, and Education.  I have priorities as well, but Safety, Health, and Education are broad enough to cover quite a lot of my concerns.

I voted for Elrich in large part because I’m comfortable with the way that our county handled COVID — a novel, communicable, potentially fatal or disabling disease that has decimated my community.   I’m uncomfortable with Blair for a variety of reasons— including his background, his lack of specifics in the materials that his campaign provided, his self-funded campaign, and a brief personal interaction with him. One of the questions I have about Blair’s background is his lack of public service —including the way he spent his time between elections, and general questions about what it is that he wants so much that he’s willing to spend quite a lot of his own money to get it.

I, too, am frustrated that our officials make decisions that put us at risk.

I’ll add that I’m not anti-police, and have had both personal and professional relationships with many police officers. The presence of police officers, though, without making explicit statements about training, recruiting, and codes of conduct, doesn’t make me or some of the communities that I am a part of “safer”.

If you’re genuinely interested in seriously discussing these types of issues, I’m open to doing so —perhaps in a dedicated thread. I’ll even use a pseudonym to make it easier to follow the thread.

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