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Anonymous wrote:Anyone who thinks the majority of the Council is "super progressive" is definitely a conservative.

Who on the council besides Friedsen, Bascombe, and Luetdke are not "super progressive"? I'm serious

Are you referring to Friedson, Balcombe, and Luedtke?

Anonymous wrote:Anyone who thinks the majority of the Council is "super progressive" is definitely a conservative.

Who on the council besides Friedsen, Bascombe, and Luetdke are not "super progressive"? I'm serious

Anyone who thinks the majority of the Council is "super progressive" is definitely a conservative.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hi Jason.

It's pretty funny that you think it was me posting. To clear up a few things...

1) I'm far from the only person who feels this way about a very clear issue.
2) I don't post on here anonymously, so if you don't see the name it's not me.
3) My full name is on the about section of my website.

- Moderately MOCO (Jason)

Hi Jason. You can call yourself whatever you want, but you're not moderate, and you don't represent Montgomery County.

i beg to differ. I’m liberal and think he is spot on. he seems conservative to super progressives. and many people here are super progressive. those folks think anyone who doesn’t agree with them is a Trump supporter. It isn’t true and it’s not fair that the progressives completely shut out regular liberals. policy made in an echo chamber is almost always bad policy. and that is why MoCo is in decline. not because progressive policies are bad, but because they aren’t pragmatic. tempering them a bit with regular liberal (or gasp, moderate) input would make things much more successful.

Who is shutting you out, specifically, and how are they doing it?

I do not obsess about Jason, but from what I've seen, most of the candidates Jason supports lose. That, if nothing else, will tell you that he doesn't represent Montgomery County. Not to mention the hubris of setting yourself up to represent Montgomery County in the first place.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hi Jason.

It's pretty funny that you think it was me posting. To clear up a few things...

1) I'm far from the only person who feels this way about a very clear issue.
2) I don't post on here anonymously, so if you don't see the name it's not me.
3) My full name is on the about section of my website.

- Moderately MOCO (Jason)

Hi Jason. You can call yourself whatever you want, but you're not moderate, and you don't represent Montgomery County.

i beg to differ. I’m liberal and think he is spot on. he seems conservative to super progressives. and many people here are super progressive. those folks think anyone who doesn’t agree with them is a Trump supporter. It isn’t true and it’s not fair that the progressives completely shut out regular liberals. policy made in an echo chamber is almost always bad policy. and that is why MoCo is in decline. not because progressive policies are bad, but because they aren’t pragmatic. tempering them a bit with regular liberal (or gasp, moderate) input would make things much more successful.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hi Jason.

It's pretty funny that you think it was me posting. To clear up a few things...

1) I'm far from the only person who feels this way about a very clear issue.
2) I don't post on here anonymously, so if you don't see the name it's not me.
3) My full name is on the about section of my website.

- Moderately MOCO (Jason)

Hi Jason. You can call yourself whatever you want, but you're not moderate, and you don't represent Montgomery County.

was this job advertised anywhere? was anyone else able to apply? or was it truly created and just given to Rice?

I didn’t think government can do that. is there an exception to those appointments who directly report to Elrich like the chief administrative officer? and that’s why Elrich created a position?

I don’t think Rice ever finished a college degree. (which doesn’t bother me. he is obviously super smart. but this is government). So I don’t think he would make it through the typical hiring process for higher level governmental positions. county government HR sucks and he’d likely get screened out by the automated application system.

Anonymous wrote:Hi Jason.

It's pretty funny that you think it was me posting. To clear up a few things...

1) I'm far from the only person who feels this way about a very clear issue.
2) I don't post on here anonymously, so if you don't see the name it's not me.
3) My full name is on the about section of my website.

- Moderately MOCO (Jason)

Not only are we "not voting for the same people", we overwhelmingly approved term limits.

Only for Elrich and the council to create this nonsense job for 200k, that never existed previously.

God forbid Rice have to get a real job.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I dont know how "buying his vote" makes any sense. What vote?

More likely its just a handout, no-show job to a friend of the machine politics who was term limited, and didnt want to get a real job.

It doesn't make any sense.

Just like "the machine politics" also doesn't make any sense.

The Council votes on a lot of things that impact people. One example is appointing or reappointing people to positions. The rumor is that the Council was going to not reappoint someone to a position, and this individual had connections and promised Rice this job, in exchange for him voting to reappoint the person. I don't know if it is true, but the people who told me (both separately) work for the Council and were pretty upset about it.

Disgusting. If we keep voting for the same people, we don't deserve nice things. The same people getting recycled over and over again. Just gross.

We don't keep voting for the same people. For example, Craig Rice was not on the ballot, and County Council District 2 has a new representative on the County Council.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I dont know how "buying his vote" makes any sense. What vote?

More likely its just a handout, no-show job to a friend of the machine politics who was term limited, and didnt want to get a real job.

It doesn't make any sense.

Just like "the machine politics" also doesn't make any sense.

The Council votes on a lot of things that impact people. One example is appointing or reappointing people to positions. The rumor is that the Council was going to not reappoint someone to a position, and this individual had connections and promised Rice this job, in exchange for him voting to reappoint the person. I don't know if it is true, but the people who told me (both separately) work for the Council and were pretty upset about it.

Disgusting. If we keep voting for the same people, we don't deserve nice things. The same people getting recycled over and over again. Just gross.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I dont know how "buying his vote" makes any sense. What vote?

More likely its just a handout, no-show job to a friend of the machine politics who was term limited, and didnt want to get a real job.

It doesn't make any sense.

Just like "the machine politics" also doesn't make any sense.

The Council votes on a lot of things that impact people. One example is appointing or reappointing people to positions. The rumor is that the Council was going to not reappoint someone to a position, and this individual had connections and promised Rice this job, in exchange for him voting to reappoint the person. I don't know if it is true, but the people who told me (both separately) work for the Council and were pretty upset about it.

Anonymous wrote:I dont know how "buying his vote" makes any sense. What vote?

More likely its just a handout, no-show job to a friend of the machine politics who was term limited, and didnt want to get a real job.

It doesn't make any sense.

Just like "the machine politics" also doesn't make any sense.

I dont know how "buying his vote" makes any sense. What vote?

More likely its just a handout, no-show job to a friend of the machine politics who was term limited, and didnt want to get a real job.

I liked Rice, sort of. Am female, not Jason, and think this appointment stinks - definitely shady!