Can't believe a Democrat would vote for Reardon Sullivan. The only place I see all his "democrats for Sullivan" signs are on the same lawns next to a Cox for governor sign.

Anonymous wrote:I am passing this election.

I hope you are a troll.

Anonymous wrote:I was progressive. After watching a bunch of sloppy progressive policies get implemented, where the politicians cared more about headlines and credit than about actual impacts and results, I've moved more center. According to this Pew Political Typology quiz, I'm an establishment liberal.

https://www.pewresearch.org/topic/politics-policy/political-parties-polarization/political-typology/

So, as liberal as you can get without identifying as progressive. I want change, but I don't want to blow up systems (and therefore hurt people) in the process.

I voted all Democrat at the federal level.


Here, I voted:

Governor: Wes Moore
Comptroller: Barry Glassman (R)
AG: Anthony Brown (reluctantly)

County Executive: Reardon Sullivan (R) (wanted Blair because Elrich is awful. Will vote R to get rid of Elrich)

At Large Council: Albornoz (D)
Glass (D)
Sayles (D)
Patel (R) protest vote against Jawando, but it won't do any good.

My District Councilmember: Voted for the D, who is liberal but not crazy. If I were in 4 or 5, I would have voted for the R.

Board of Education:

Julie Yang
Valerie Coll
Esther Wells (for some balance and accountability)
Karla Silvestre

Thanks for the link to the poll, it identifies me as “Outsider Left”, mainly because I rate both parties badly.

I agree with a lot of your votes. Here is how I’m voting.

Governor: Moore (Cox is an embarrassment)
Comptroller: Glassman (R) (I would have been fine voting Lierman until I found out that she is trying to block the bridge expansion)
AG: Brown (agree with reluctantly voting Brown. R candidate is an insane embarrassment, like Cox, but Brown is incompetent)

County Executive: Reardon (don’t mind Elrich too much, but the economy will not improve with him. Thrive is bad and we need expansion of bridges and roads. Reardon shares that position. Elrich wants nothing to change.)

District Council: Blank (I hate my CM)

At Large Council: Sayles, Patel, Blank, Blank (More upcounty representation and protest against incompetent incumbents. Was pro-Albornoz until mishandling of Thrive/Planning Board fiasco).

Board of Education: Erickson, Yang, Wells, Coll (Anti-incumbent. MCPS is at a precipice and McKnight is not good. Need more accountability and back to basics.)

Question 1: For (who cares, it is basically an ego thing for judges)

Question 2: For (no brainer, Heather Mizeur should not be allowed to pretend that she lives in both Takoma Park and District 2)

Question 3: For (more cost efficient for tax payers)

Question 4: Against (decriminalization is fine, but legal recreational sale is bad for Maryland and will hurt POC communities the most)

Question 5: For (if we are doing anything where the only other people doing it is the state of Alabama then we should stop doing it)

Question A: Against (it is a CE appointment, the Council should not get a say and they have proven very incompetent at oversight so why make County Attorney more political)

Question B: For (Damascus is the only dry jurisdiction left in MoCo)

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was progressive. After watching a bunch of sloppy progressive policies get implemented, where the politicians cared more about headlines and credit than about actual impacts and results, I've moved more center. According to this Pew Political Typology quiz, I'm an establishment liberal.

https://www.pewresearch.org/topic/politics-policy/political-parties-polarization/political-typology/

So, as liberal as you can get without identifying as progressive. I want change, but I don't want to blow up systems (and therefore hurt people) in the process.

I voted all Democrat at the federal level.


Here, I voted:

Governor: Wes Moore
Comptroller: Barry Glassman (R)
AG: Anthony Brown (reluctantly)

County Executive: Reardon Sullivan (R) (wanted Blair because Elrich is awful. Will vote R to get rid of Elrich)

At Large Council: Albornoz (D)
Glass (D)
Sayles (D)
Patel (R) protest vote against Jawando, but it won't do any good.

My District Councilmember: Voted for the D, who is liberal but not crazy. If I were in 4 or 5, I would have voted for the R.

Board of Education:

Julie Yang
Valerie Coll
Esther Wells (for some balance and accountability)
Karla Silvestre

Thanks! How did you vote for the referendums?

Yes for everything but legalizing cannabis. They are rushing it through to get tax revenues and not considering (and working to mitigate harms). If they had delayed the effective date until 7/1/24, I would have voted yes.

I voted Republican for every county office.

The entire council and executive D candidates are nothing short of incompetent, slogan spewing nimrods.

Of course, they'll be elected because that's what Takoma Park wants, but I figured that I'd give at least a modicum of push back to their domination.

I don't know what it will take to wake residents up to their incompetence (like say, half of MCPS teachers resigning, perhaps?), but apparently things have to reach rock bottom before it sinks in.

Anonymous wrote:I was progressive. After watching a bunch of sloppy progressive policies get implemented, where the politicians cared more about headlines and credit than about actual impacts and results, I've moved more center. According to this Pew Political Typology quiz, I'm an establishment liberal.

https://www.pewresearch.org/topic/politics-policy/political-parties-polarization/political-typology/

So, as liberal as you can get without identifying as progressive. I want change, but I don't want to blow up systems (and therefore hurt people) in the process.

I voted all Democrat at the federal level.


Here, I voted:

Governor: Wes Moore
Comptroller: Barry Glassman (R)
AG: Anthony Brown (reluctantly)

County Executive: Reardon Sullivan (R) (wanted Blair because Elrich is awful. Will vote R to get rid of Elrich)

At Large Council: Albornoz (D)
Glass (D)
Sayles (D)
Patel (R) protest vote against Jawando, but it won't do any good.

My District Councilmember: Voted for the D, who is liberal but not crazy. If I were in 4 or 5, I would have voted for the R.

Board of Education:

Julie Yang
Valerie Coll
Esther Wells (for some balance and accountability)
Karla Silvestre

Thanks! How did you vote for the referendums?

I was progressive. After watching a bunch of sloppy progressive policies get implemented, where the politicians cared more about headlines and credit than about actual impacts and results, I've moved more center. According to this Pew Political Typology quiz, I'm an establishment liberal.

https://www.pewresearch.org/topic/politics-policy/political-parties-polarization/political-typology/

So, as liberal as you can get without identifying as progressive. I want change, but I don't want to blow up systems (and therefore hurt people) in the process.

I voted all Democrat at the federal level.


Here, I voted:

Governor: Wes Moore
Comptroller: Barry Glassman (R)
AG: Anthony Brown (reluctantly)

County Executive: Reardon Sullivan (R) (wanted Blair because Elrich is awful. Will vote R to get rid of Elrich)

At Large Council: Albornoz (D)
Glass (D)
Sayles (D)
Patel (R) protest vote against Jawando, but it won't do any good.

My District Councilmember: Voted for the D, who is liberal but not crazy. If I were in 4 or 5, I would have voted for the R.

Board of Education:

Julie Yang
Valerie Coll
Esther Wells (for some balance and accountability)
Karla Silvestre

I am passing this election.

Anonymous wrote:You’ll want to vote for Dems over Rs in the statewide races and for Silvestre over Erickson and Rivera Owen over Wells for school board and after that there isn’t much difference to worry about.

False. Silvestre has not received MCEA endorsement.

Rivera-Oven has received endorsements from all “progressive” groups and is way left wing, not “center left”.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You’ll want to vote for Dems over Rs in the statewide races and for Silvestre over Erickson and Rivera Owen over Wells for school board and after that there isn’t much difference to worry about.

I’m a center left Democrat and this is what I did. Also Joftus (although Yang seems fine, too) and Coll for school board. I left Elrich/Sullivan blank.

It’s irresponsible to leave Elrich/Sullivan blank if you are a center left democrat and think Elrich would do a better job. And if you think Sullivan would do a better job then I’m not sure what to say.

Democrats. The time to chose was in the primaries.

Anonymous wrote:You’ll want to vote for Dems over Rs in the statewide races and for Silvestre over Erickson and Rivera Owen over Wells for school board and after that there isn’t much difference to worry about.

I’m a center left Democrat and this is what I did. Also Joftus (although Yang seems fine, too) and Coll for school board. I left Elrich/Sullivan blank.

*sorry I should have said in the partisan races.

Even if Elrich wasn’t your first choice in the primary I can’t see someone who identifies as left not voting for them (altho I expect plenty of people who will claim to be lifelong Dems will show up in this thread and say exactly that)

You’ll want to vote for Dems over Rs in the statewide races and for Silvestre over Erickson and Rivera Owen over Wells for school board and after that there isn’t much difference to worry about.

I don’t know that much about MD/MoCo politics, but am center-left and would like to vote for candidates who are left but not far left. I don’t even recognize half the names on the ballot aside from the big races. What candidates fit this profile?