Anonymous wrote:Bye Erlich. What a worthless person. Open schools!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Ehrlich

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Elrich

Bye Erlich. What a worthless person. Open schools!!

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Anonymous wrote:This is what you get when the alternate choice was Ficker... do better next time and you won't get a nutter running the county.

I voted for Nancy Floreen in the general. But in practice, we all know whoever has the D after their name will win.

Which is why more dem-leaning independents need to register and vote in the primary already. That’s where the contest is, and too many choose not to participate in the process, so we end up with whoever the most left-leaning activists choose.

That and the moderate vote was split between way too many candidates. They all had too big of an ego to step down.

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Anonymous wrote:This is what you get when the alternate choice was Ficker... do better next time and you won't get a nutter running the county.

I voted for Nancy Floreen in the general. But in practice, we all know whoever has the D after their name will win.

Which is why more dem-leaning independents need to register and vote in the primary already. That’s where the contest is, and too many choose not to participate in the process, so we end up with whoever the most left-leaning activists choose.

Anonymous wrote:This is what you get when the alternate choice was Ficker... do better next time and you won't get a nutter running the county.

I voted for Nancy Floreen in the general. But in practice, we all know whoever has the D after their name will win.

Anonymous wrote:Elrich and the CC suck. MoCo is dying economically, and has been getting its lunch eaten by NoVa for going on 20 years now.

The answer for MoCo is to keep raising taxes to cover the deteriorating tax revenue base. Keep electing far leftist shitshow clown morons like Elrich and the CC MoCo voters. Don't be surprised as taxes continue to go up as the county digs itself deeper and deeper into the abyss.

Instead of going on a tirade, how about backing up what you are screeching about with actual facts, figures and data?

I would actually like to see a 20 year comparison of D.C., MD burbs and NoVa burbs and see what the data tells us.

Does such a website or database exist?

This is what you get when the alternate choice was Ficker... do better next time and you won't get a nutter running the county.

The email he sent - with the teaser "Reopening Montgomery County"; spoiler alert it's about the county remaining closed - blew my mind. So we're rolling out a new public bus system where people ride in close quarters, but no progress on schools reopening?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm pretty happy with the way that Montgomery County has handled the pandemic. A long long time ago, a wise person told me that when you criticize, you should have alternatives to what you're criticizing if you want to be taken seriously. So just know that not everyone agrees with the anonymous rage-venting. Perhaps instead of "talking about recalling" and name calling, the OP could make some well-thought out suggestions that could then be acted upon, or at least seriously considered and possibly even implemented. Not as much fun, perhaps, as speculating how well people who weren't called upon to handle an unprecedented situation might have handled it -- but it could, potentially, offer something useful.

NP. The county has been needlessly slow to reopen some activities, while rushing to reopen others. Namely, children and families have had to put up with the most sustained restrictions. Things like playgrounds remained closed long after contact transmissions were known not to be a significant source of spread. Yet, it took weeks for the county to update the executive order, and even longer to coordinate with Montgomery Parks before they could actually reopen.

Similarly, child care policies have been a mess, with the county at times lying to parents and providers about what is legally allowed. (Such as right now, where county officials are claiming daycares still can't fully reopen, which is inconsistent with state and county policies and orders which say they can.)

And, perhaps most ridiculous of all, Elrich's decision to prioritize indoor dining, late-night drinking, and concerts over reopening schools.

+1. None of it makes any sense to me.

+1. Its interesting to see Dr Stoddard on this as he spent the summer chasing after soccer rules. Literally they were shutting down practices at soccerplex after changing rules and the hours spent until they determined they would follow the experts. Similar with private schools with the endless dramas and this week he reports there really are no outbreaks - the few cases from the outside. But it made for good political theater with Elrich, Dr Gayles and Dr Stoddard pushing narratives for their 15 minutes of spotlight. Meanwhile the public schools struggle to bring even high risk kids back while they are full of daycare providers charging families $1300 a month to have their kids in their local public school doing DL

But concerts and late night bars are the priorities which doesn’t match we follow the science and we are being super conservative Concerts were such a priority Elrich wrote Hogan - this was the ONLY thing he asked the state to expedite ahead of schedule. And after Hogan moved to phase 3 - he said Moco would not. Whether or not you believe we should move to phase 3, how does that make sense?

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Anonymous wrote:OMG the pay differential will cost $72 million.

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/council/Resources/Files/agenda/col/2020/20201013/20201013_9.pdf

They deserve every bit of the additional pay and comp time that they received for putting their health (and the health of their families) at risk. This is not a typical time for them. Normally, a first responder can’t take a gunshot wound, burn, or vehicle accident home and infect their families with those threats to health and safety.

On the other hand, Fairfax gave its first responders (police, fire, sheriffs) absolutely nothing The county executive never declared a state of emergency in the county.

No comp or additional pay. Needed those dollars to pay other county employees to sit at home while first responders did their job with the weight of the pandemic on them. Well done Fairfax!

Employees who are at risk of severe complications or who have family members at home at risk of severe complications get to either take a temporary assignment that's not front line, or they get to stay home on paid administrative leave.

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Anonymous wrote:OMG the pay differential will cost $72 million.

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/council/Resources/Files/agenda/col/2020/20201013/20201013_9.pdf

They deserve every bit of the additional pay and comp time that they received for putting their health (and the health of their families) at risk. This is not a typical time for them. Normally, a first responder can’t take a gunshot wound, burn, or vehicle accident home and infect their families with those threats to health and safety.

On the other hand, Fairfax gave its first responders (police, fire, sheriffs) absolutely nothing The county executive never declared a state of emergency in the county.

No comp or additional pay. Needed those dollars to pay other county employees to sit at home while first responders did their job with the weight of the pandemic on them. Well done Fairfax!

There is a middle ground between an extra $400 per week in addition to full salary and overtime, and nothing. We cannot afford what we are doing now. The county does not have endless money and we cannot borrow the difference.

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Anonymous wrote:Dream on, nutter. He’s already got his second term sewed up.

Does Elrich have to do another primary or does he just automatically get put forth as the D candidate (read exec winner)? David Blair would do better this time around because more people might turnout to support him given how slim the margin was last time, assuming Blair wants to.

Surely someone can challenge him in a primary, right? If so potential candidates need to put the good of the county/party above their individual ambitions and put forward one alternative to run against Elrich. It wasn’t like he won with a large portion of the vote in 2018, it was that the support for other candidates was so fractured. Blair somehow became the anti-Elrich choice, which was risky IMO.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm pretty happy with the way that Montgomery County has handled the pandemic. A long long time ago, a wise person told me that when you criticize, you should have alternatives to what you're criticizing if you want to be taken seriously. So just know that not everyone agrees with the anonymous rage-venting. Perhaps instead of "talking about recalling" and name calling, the OP could make some well-thought out suggestions that could then be acted upon, or at least seriously considered and possibly even implemented. Not as much fun, perhaps, as speculating how well people who weren't called upon to handle an unprecedented situation might have handled it -- but it could, potentially, offer something useful.

NP. The county has been needlessly slow to reopen some activities, while rushing to reopen others. Namely, children and families have had to put up with the most sustained restrictions. Things like playgrounds remained closed long after contact transmissions were known not to be a significant source of spread. Yet, it took weeks for the county to update the executive order, and even longer to coordinate with Montgomery Parks before they could actually reopen.

Similarly, child care policies have been a mess, with the county at times lying to parents and providers about what is legally allowed. (Such as right now, where county officials are claiming daycares still can't fully reopen, which is inconsistent with state and county policies and orders which say they can.)

And, perhaps most ridiculous of all, Elrich's decision to prioritize indoor dining, late-night drinking, and concerts over reopening schools.

+1. None of it makes any sense to me.

Elrich and the CC suck. MoCo is dying economically, and has been getting its lunch eaten by NoVa for going on 20 years now.

The answer for MoCo is to keep raising taxes to cover the deteriorating tax revenue base. Keep electing far leftist shitshow clown morons like Elrich and the CC MoCo voters. Don't be surprised as taxes continue to go up as the county digs itself deeper and deeper into the abyss.

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Anonymous wrote:OMG the pay differential will cost $72 million.

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/council/Resources/Files/agenda/col/2020/20201013/20201013_9.pdf

They deserve every bit of the additional pay and comp time that they received for putting their health (and the health of their families) at risk. This is not a typical time for them. Normally, a first responder can’t take a gunshot wound, burn, or vehicle accident home and infect their families with those threats to health and safety.

On the other hand, Fairfax gave its first responders (police, fire, sheriffs) absolutely nothing The county executive never declared a state of emergency in the county.

No comp or additional pay. Needed those dollars to pay other county employees to sit at home while first responders did their job with the weight of the pandemic on them. Well done Fairfax!

Considering I almost never see MoCo police wearing masks when they pull people over, it doesn't seem like they're overly worried.