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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a new resident, just moved from PG county last year, and I am not as familiar with the candidates. Here are my current first impressions and please do correct/add context.

Elrich: most of the feedback on DCUM is very negative, but obviously there must be something good about the guy because he is consistently polling first? my impression is that [b]he is a moderate liberal[/b], but not progressive enough with development for many people. also, he gets a ton of flack for crime.
Blair: a businessman who is very pro-development. wants to add more to the police force and wants to bring up the tax base with business-friendly development
Reimer: no chance, but is also very pro-development[/quote]

Elrich is super progressive.   A Democratic Socialist.    He did steer us through COVID well, IMO, as far as getting people tested and vaccinated.   But he can't manage money to save his life.   He relied too heavily on federal reimbursement, which he didn't always get.   He paid outrageously high covid differentials to employees (and promised federal reimbursement, which he didn't get), far greater pay than surrounding jurisdictions, for far longer.  He built this year's budget on one-time federal funding that won't sustain this new level of spending moving into the next fiscal year.  I can almost guarantee we will have to cut the budget moving into FY24, and that will cut services.  He increased capital budget project costs by about 10% to make everything net zero.   He demands all electric fleet but doesn't raise that fleet budget, so departments have to buy fewer, more expensive vehicles, that don't always meet their service requirements.   He hires a bunch of flakes like Andrew Kleine and Carmen Facciolo, and loses other good department heads like police chief Manger, the corrections guy, and the Environmental Protection guy.

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Manger was super competent and ran a solid police force, but his problem was that he was getting a little Trumpy in his public statements. The head of the Department of Environment was a huge loss because that guy was very, very good.[/quote]

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