Anonymous
09/12/2022 22:22
Subject: How do we beat Elrich
I’d like to discourage people from writing in a random person as a protest vote. Just vote for no one for executive if you don’t like the candidates. Writing someone in means your ballot has to be counted by hand, causing more work and slowing down the vote counting. As we saw in July, the vote counting in MoCo is slow as it is.
Anonymous
09/12/2022 22:08
Subject: How do we beat Elrich
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Actually, I understand that Riemer is running an Independent campaign funded by developers, like Floreen did last time.
Nope, not allowed.
People should write in his name anyway as a protest vote. The only actual progressive candidate in the race. If it wasn’t for the former Republican Blair spending millions in a quixotic losing campaign Riemer would have certainly won.
Blair got about twice as many votes as Riemer. You might as well say that Riemer would have won if only no one ran against him.
Anonymous
09/12/2022 21:27
Subject: How do we beat Elrich
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I like Elrich. If people really wanted to beat him, they would have united behind one candidate.
You’re not alone. A lot of people like Elrich which is why he won the primary and will be re-elected in a landslide in November.
+1
DCUM is as representative of local political sentiments as it is of average household income. That is, it isn’t.
In DCUM-land, Elrich is an abomination and people clutch their pearls at anyone who earns less than $300K.
In the real world, the average Joe and Jane Montgomery feel neutral-to-ok about Elrich and make a combined $110K, drive a 10 year old Prius or a Honda Civic, have a condo in Wheaton and shop at Costco.
Just a reminder: Elrich's margin over Blair was way smaller than the last time.
So, "a lot of people" also don't like Elrich.
More people liked him than the other choices. He also faced an onslaught of negative campaigning that is historically unprecedented for the county and local elections in Maryland generally. It is really interesting that even in a partisan Democratic primary where only the most motivated vote, the outcome proved that Twitter is not real life.
Anonymous
09/12/2022 21:10
Subject: How do we beat Elrich
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I like Elrich. If people really wanted to beat him, they would have united behind one candidate.
You’re not alone. A lot of people like Elrich which is why he won the primary and will be re-elected in a landslide in November.
+1
DCUM is as representative of local political sentiments as it is of average household income. That is, it isn’t.
In DCUM-land, Elrich is an abomination and people clutch their pearls at anyone who earns less than $300K.
In the real world, the average Joe and Jane Montgomery feel neutral-to-ok about Elrich and make a combined $110K, drive a 10 year old Prius or a Honda Civic, have a condo in Wheaton and shop at Costco.
Just a reminder: Elrich's margin over Blair was way smaller than the last time.
So, "a lot of people" also don't like Elrich.
Anonymous
09/12/2022 21:04
Subject: How do we beat Elrich
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I like Elrich. If people really wanted to beat him, they would have united behind one candidate.
You’re not alone. A lot of people like Elrich which is why he won the primary and will be re-elected in a landslide in November.
+1
DCUM is as representative of local political sentiments as it is of average household income. That is, it isn’t.
In DCUM-land, Elrich is an abomination and people clutch their pearls at anyone who earns less than $300K.
In the real world, the average Joe and Jane Montgomery feel neutral-to-ok about Elrich and make a combined $110K, drive a 10 year old Prius or a Honda Civic, have a condo in Wheaton and shop at Costco.
Anonymous
09/12/2022 19:58
Subject: How do we beat Elrich
Anonymous wrote:I like Elrich. If people really wanted to beat him, they would have united behind one candidate.
You’re not alone. A lot of people like Elrich which is why he won the primary and will be re-elected in a landslide in November.
Anonymous
09/12/2022 17:49
Subject: How do we beat Elrich
I like Elrich. If people really wanted to beat him, they would have united behind one candidate.
Anonymous
09/12/2022 17:30
Subject: How do we beat Elrich
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Actually, I understand that Riemer is running an Independent campaign funded by developers, like Floreen did last time.
Nope, not allowed.
People should write in his name anyway as a protest vote. The only actual progressive candidate in the race. If it wasn’t for the former Republican Blair spending millions in a quixotic losing campaign Riemer would have certainly won.
Riemer’s also the only candidate who couldn’t manage to file a campaign finance report on time.
That “dude” is absolutely incompetent and often his incompetence seems to closely align with his personal interests. Can’t get away with that as a CE. MoCo voters thankfully could see through that guy and the county dodged a bullet.
Unfortunately not enough voters could see through it. When is it time for the Riemer crowd to own their outcomes?
Anonymous
09/11/2022 21:44
Subject: How do we beat Elrich
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Actually, I understand that Riemer is running an Independent campaign funded by developers, like Floreen did last time.
Nope, not allowed.
People should write in his name anyway as a protest vote. The only actual progressive candidate in the race. If it wasn’t for the former Republican Blair spending millions in a quixotic losing campaign Riemer would have certainly won.
Riemer’s also the only candidate who couldn’t manage to file a campaign finance report on time.
That “dude” is absolutely incompetent and often his incompetence seems to closely align with his personal interests. Can’t get away with that as a CE. MoCo voters thankfully could see through that guy and the county dodged a bullet.
Who is his campaign manager?
Maybe they weren’t good. Maybe they worked a miracle getting the vote share they did given what they had to work with. Hard to say either way.
Anonymous
09/11/2022 21:02
Subject: How do we beat Elrich
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Actually, I understand that Riemer is running an Independent campaign funded by developers, like Floreen did last time.
Nope, not allowed.
People should write in his name anyway as a protest vote. The only actual progressive candidate in the race. If it wasn’t for the former Republican Blair spending millions in a quixotic losing campaign Riemer would have certainly won.
Riemer’s also the only candidate who couldn’t manage to file a campaign finance report on time.
That “dude” is absolutely incompetent and often his incompetence seems to closely align with his personal interests. Can’t get away with that as a CE. MoCo voters thankfully could see through that guy and the county dodged a bullet.
Who is his campaign manager?
Anonymous
09/11/2022 18:52
Subject: How do we beat Elrich
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Actually, I understand that Riemer is running an Independent campaign funded by developers, like Floreen did last time.
Nope, not allowed.
People should write in his name anyway as a protest vote. The only actual progressive candidate in the race. If it wasn’t for the former Republican Blair spending millions in a quixotic losing campaign Riemer would have certainly won.
Riemer’s also the only candidate who couldn’t manage to file a campaign finance report on time.
That “dude” is absolutely incompetent and often his incompetence seems to closely align with his personal interests. Can’t get away with that as a CE. MoCo voters thankfully could see through that guy and the county dodged a bullet.
Anonymous
09/11/2022 18:13
Subject: Re:How do we beat Elrich
You don’t beat Elrich now. If you hated Elrich and voted for Riemer, this is your fault.
Anonymous
09/11/2022 12:48
Subject: Re:How do we beat Elrich
Anonymous wrote:The only "possible" way is to vote for Sully.
We are heading for a trainwreck with the new budget. The only two options are cutting services or increasing taxes. Since you also have a new progressive Council, they willl likely all want their pet projects funded. So get ready for a tax hike.
That’s why I’m supporting Sullivan. I usually wouldn’t vote Republican, but I like the balance he would provide. This council might financially destroy the county.
Anonymous
09/10/2022 21:13
Subject: How do we beat Elrich
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Actually, I understand that Riemer is running an Independent campaign funded by developers, like Floreen did last time.
Nope, not allowed.
People should write in his name anyway as a protest vote. The only actual progressive candidate in the race. If it wasn’t for the former Republican Blair spending millions in a quixotic losing campaign Riemer would have certainly won.
Riemer’s also the only candidate who couldn’t manage to file a campaign finance report on time.
Anonymous
09/10/2022 12:11
Subject: How do we beat Elrich
Ill write in Reagan like Hogan did