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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At least he hasn’t been involved in deportation efforts!  Or isn’t a crappy teacher at Shady Grove!
He’s said where he’s worked in the past. He’s been harassed. People like you are obsessed with him. I don’t blame him. [/quote]

Maybe he has. We don't know, do we?

He's hardly unique, as a candidate for BoE, in having unflattering things said about him. He does seem to be unique in declining to say where he works, though.[/quote]
I’m certain his opponents would have turned it up by now if he had been. 
Meanwhile Lynne Harris has her name on court cases deporting people and *crickets*. [/quote]

Please provide specifics that explain why this is relevant to the BoE race in 2020?[/quote]
You can’t be serious?[/quote]

PP you're responding to. I absolutely am serious. When did she do what you're saying she did, and in what capacity?[/quote]

A cornerstone of his campaign is his purported financial expertise. Portfolio manager at a big defense contractor? Geez,  I’d be awfully surprised if a multi-billion-dollar enterprise like Lockheed Martin would be shaking in its boots because of a county board of education race, no matter hot heated. Austin has said he worked for a couple of hedge funds (unnamed and for an unspecified amount of time) and at Merrill Lynch, after the dot.com bust. That would put him smack in the middle of the timeframe when Merrill almost went belly up because of its enthusiastic dive into risky subprime mortgages and related investment schemes. So, yeah, i’d like to know more about his finance background before entrusting him with making decisions about taxpayer money. 
Maybe he is a financial wizard! Who knows? He won’t say. Has he ever worked for a developer? If so, who? when? He talks the talk about transparency, and is highly critical of the lack of transparency from the current BOE, so to be consistent, he should walk the walk when it comes to his own campaign. Otherwise...he’ll just come across as another hypocritical, two-bit politician.[/quote]

Wow, you guys are really pushing it. Whether Merrill did badly or poorly when he was there, I doubt this guy was so high up that he was steering the ship.

People in finance, at the very least know how to read financial statements and understand what financial auditors do and the need for it. I don't see anyone else on the BOE slate with similar experience.

MCPS BOE has been really lacking this. FCPS has an independent auditor, while MCPS does not.

What I find really funny is all the focus on Austin. THere's what, 15 candidates? Why are there no threads asking about Ahadpour, Chaudry, Geller, Odongo, Rhode, Osorio, etc?

All I can surmise is the two "establishment" candidates -- Dasgupta (support by MCEA teacher's union) and Harris (supported by MCCPTA) must really be worried about Austin and their supporters are starting all these threads about Austin.

What's next? Blame Austin for staging the moon landing? Attack his kids by spreading rumors one of them forgot to wash their hands after using the bathroom?[/quote]

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