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Anonymous wrote:Can someone please share why certain people love Elrich and certain people hate him? Moco politics hard for me to understand and I feel like I need to know this. TIA!

In addition to what was said above, there is a group of people that think he is a Marxist. I mean, those people are crazy, but they sure seem to be loud.

Normal county residents fall into one of two camps.

Like Elrich because he went out of his way to support your community in some way when other councilmembers ignored them. And appreciate that he’s straightforward, says what he means and does what he says.

Don’t like Elrich because he’s never met a tax he didn’t like and don’t like some of the things he says.

Then there are two radical fringe groups, DSA and GGW, battling it out.

Whichever Montgomery County you live in, it's not Montgomery County, Maryland.

I like that you are aggressively ignorant. Congratulations. I guess you don’t like your fringe groups, GGW, being equated with DSA. But to the average county resident you are both the same in your weird battle over whether Marc is good or evil.

The average county resident in Montgomery County, Maryland, has never heard of either group.

Ding, ding. That is exactly the point. The people with the strongest feelings about Elrich are hyper online people that the average county resident has never heard of nor cares about.

They don’t or care about the NIMBY insults. In fact, Riemer and GGW folks got a CA billionaire to drop millions in the last race on TV ads calling him an NIMBY and he was still elected. On the flip side, no one cares about DSA either nor whether he is a socialist or not.

Unfortunately both groups are over represented online.

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone please share why certain people love Elrich and certain people hate him? Moco politics hard for me to understand and I feel like I need to know this. TIA!

In addition to what was said above, there is a group of people that think he is a Marxist. I mean, those people are crazy, but they sure seem to be loud.

Normal county residents fall into one of two camps.

Like Elrich because he went out of his way to support your community in some way when other councilmembers ignored them. And appreciate that he’s straightforward, says what he means and does what he says.

Don’t like Elrich because he’s never met a tax he didn’t like and don’t like some of the things he says.

Then there are two radical fringe groups, DSA and GGW, battling it out.

Whichever Montgomery County you live in, it's not Montgomery County, Maryland.

I like that you are aggressively ignorant. Congratulations. I guess you don’t like your fringe groups, GGW, being equated with DSA. But to the average county resident you are both the same in your weird battle over whether Marc is good or evil.

The average county resident in Montgomery County, Maryland, has never heard of either group.

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone please share why certain people love Elrich and certain people hate him? Moco politics hard for me to understand and I feel like I need to know this. TIA!

In addition to what was said above, there is a group of people that think he is a Marxist. I mean, those people are crazy, but they sure seem to be loud.

Normal county residents fall into one of two camps.

Like Elrich because he went out of his way to support your community in some way when other councilmembers ignored them. And appreciate that he’s straightforward, says what he means and does what he says.

Don’t like Elrich because he’s never met a tax he didn’t like and don’t like some of the things he says.

Then there are two radical fringe groups, DSA and GGW, battling it out.

Whichever Montgomery County you live in, it's not Montgomery County, Maryland.

I like that you are aggressively ignorant. Congratulations. I guess you don’t like your fringe groups, GGW, being equated with DSA. But to the average county resident you are both the same in your weird battle over whether Marc is good or evil.

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone please share why certain people love Elrich and certain people hate him? Moco politics hard for me to understand and I feel like I need to know this. TIA!

In addition to what was said above, there is a group of people that think he is a Marxist. I mean, those people are crazy, but they sure seem to be loud.

Normal county residents fall into one of two camps.

Like Elrich because he went out of his way to support your community in some way when other councilmembers ignored them. And appreciate that he’s straightforward, says what he means and does what he says.

Don’t like Elrich because he’s never met a tax he didn’t like and don’t like some of the things he says.

Then there are two radical fringe groups, DSA and GGW, battling it out.

Whichever Montgomery County you live in, it's not Montgomery County, Maryland.

Anonymous wrote:Can someone please share why certain people love Elrich and certain people hate him? Moco politics hard for me to understand and I feel like I need to know this. TIA!

People love him because he's against things they're against, and people hate him because he's against things they're for.

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone please share why certain people love Elrich and certain people hate him? Moco politics hard for me to understand and I feel like I need to know this. TIA!

In addition to what was said above, there is a group of people that think he is a Marxist. I mean, those people are crazy, but they sure seem to be loud.

Normal county residents fall into one of two camps.

Like Elrich because he went out of his way to support your community in some way when other councilmembers ignored them. And appreciate that he’s straightforward, says what he means and does what he says.

Don’t like Elrich because he’s never met a tax he didn’t like and don’t like some of the things he says.

Then there are two radical fringe groups, DSA and GGW, battling it out.

Anonymous wrote:Can someone please share why certain people love Elrich and certain people hate him? Moco politics hard for me to understand and I feel like I need to know this. TIA!

In addition to what was said above, there is a group of people that think he is a Marxist. I mean, those people are crazy, but they sure seem to be loud.

Anonymous wrote:Can someone please share why certain people love Elrich and certain people hate him? Moco politics hard for me to understand and I feel like I need to know this. TIA!

The developers are well-funded and are behind most of the criticism of Elrich because he won't just blindly give them whatever they want. This article is helpful reading about their propaganda campaigns:

https://marylandmatters.org/2022/06/29/progressive-pac-in-montgomery-county-is-really-a-bunch-of-developers/

It wouldn't surprise me if many of the anti-Elrich comments on this board are from developers (or people acting on their behalf).

Can someone please share why certain people love Elrich and certain people hate him? Moco politics hard for me to understand and I feel like I need to know this. TIA!

Anonymous wrote:He is so horrible. But he can do far less damage at Council than he does as Executive. The budget is smoke and mirrors. Look at the grants debacle. With the State unable to meet its budgets over the next few years, and the threat of losing federal education funding, the curtain will be pulled back on just how poorly he's been budgeting for county expenses over the past two terms.

You must be from Greater Greater Washington.

Anonymous wrote:Love Elrich. He’s going to be absolute fire back on the Council.

What an upgrade to replace Jawando with Elrich. Incredible!

Amen.

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Anonymous wrote:Love Elrich. He’s going to be absolute fire back on the Council.

What an upgrade to replace Jawando with Elrich. Incredible!

No, he won't. He'll be the 1 in a lot of 10-1 votes.

You assume that the rest are getting reelected?

1. Yes, I do.
2. Even if none of them got re-elected, he would still be the 1 in a lot of 10-1 votes. It's what he does.

I guess that we will see. We have two years to make arrangements.

Anonymous wrote:Nobody can snow him. He'd be amazing on the Council.

As if he's never been there before. lol.

They will blackball him again.

The only one to never be Council President.

The only reason he was chair of public safety is because Leventhal wanted him off PHED.

Anonymous wrote:Love Elrich. He’s going to be absolute fire back on the Council.

What an upgrade to replace Jawando with Elrich. Incredible!

Well that's not saying much.

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Anonymous wrote:Love Elrich. He’s going to be absolute fire back on the Council.

What an upgrade to replace Jawando with Elrich. Incredible!

No, he won't. He'll be the 1 in a lot of 10-1 votes.

You assume that the rest are getting reelected?

1. Yes, I do.
2. Even if none of them got re-elected, he would still be the 1 in a lot of 10-1 votes. It's what he does.