Anonymous
Post 03/03/2021 16:21     Subject: Marc Elrich running for reelection...why?
In 2016, I switched from D to R to vote against Trump in the primary.

Now, I just switched from R to D to vote for Blair (hopefully) or whoever has the best shot against Elrich
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2021 15:50     Subject: Marc Elrich running for reelection...why?
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Anonymous wrote:What's the end goal here of this? He's over 70 years old and doesn't seem like he enjoys the job. Any chance we can knock him off in the primary or convince Nancy Floreen to run in the General election again.


He's just like Trump. Except on the left. He listens to his little coterie of uber liberal friends and the unions, who kiss up to him. And nobody else. And he feels he has more to accomplish.

He has been an utter disaster with managing County funds during COVID. A complete disaster. Stuff most of the public is not aware of.

Blair is the best to beat him, and I'm not even a Blair fan.


I wish Elrich was as far left as people say he is. He loves NIMBYs and cops. Just because someone smoked a lot of weed in the 60s and protested Vietnam does not mean he’s a leftist. What a joke. He’s a hack like all the rest of them. I might vote Elrich only to piss people like you off but I’ll probably just not vote.


I don't know who you think Elrich is but he hates the police. Actively he hates them. Always has. Even before it was a popular thing to do.



Then why did he
a) get endorsed by the FOP
b) Brag about the endorsement
c) Give Marcus Jones an award for the Human Rights Hall of Fame?
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Elrich is anti Police pro Union. FOP is a Union. Marcus Jones does whatever Elrich wants and was his third (possibly fourth) choice for Chief.
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2021 10:03     Subject: Marc Elrich running for reelection...why?
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What's the end goal here of this? He's over 70 years old and doesn't seem like he enjoys the job. Any chance we can knock him off in the primary or convince Nancy Floreen to run in the General election again.


He's just like Trump. Except on the left. He listens to his little coterie of uber liberal friends and the unions, who kiss up to him. And nobody else. And he feels he has more to accomplish.

He has been an utter disaster with managing County funds during COVID. A complete disaster. Stuff most of the public is not aware of.

Blair is the best to beat him, and I'm not even a Blair fan.


I wish Elrich was as far left as people say he is. He loves NIMBYs and cops. Just because someone smoked a lot of weed in the 60s and protested Vietnam does not mean he’s a leftist. What a joke. He’s a hack like all the rest of them. I might vote Elrich only to piss people like you off but I’ll probably just not vote.


I don't know who you think Elrich is but he hates the police. Actively he hates them. Always has. Even before it was a popular thing to do.


Then why did he
a) get endorsed by the FOP
b) Brag about the endorsement
c) Give Marcus Jones an award for the Human Rights Hall of Fame?
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2021 09:50     Subject: Marc Elrich running for reelection...why?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What's the end goal here of this? He's over 70 years old and doesn't seem like he enjoys the job. Any chance we can knock him off in the primary or convince Nancy Floreen to run in the General election again.


He's just like Trump. Except on the left. He listens to his little coterie of uber liberal friends and the unions, who kiss up to him. And nobody else. And he feels he has more to accomplish.

He has been an utter disaster with managing County funds during COVID. A complete disaster. Stuff most of the public is not aware of.

Blair is the best to beat him, and I'm not even a Blair fan.


I wish Elrich was as far left as people say he is. He loves NIMBYs and cops. Just because someone smoked a lot of weed in the 60s and protested Vietnam does not mean he’s a leftist. What a joke. He’s a hack like all the rest of them. I might vote Elrich only to piss people like you off but I’ll probably just not vote.


I don't know who you think Elrich is but he hates the police. Actively he hates them. Always has. Even before it was a popular thing to do.
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2021 09:12     Subject: Marc Elrich running for reelection...why?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What's the end goal here of this? He's over 70 years old and doesn't seem like he enjoys the job. Any chance we can knock him off in the primary or convince Nancy Floreen to run in the General election again.


He's just like Trump. Except on the left. He listens to his little coterie of uber liberal friends and the unions, who kiss up to him. And nobody else. And he feels he has more to accomplish.

He has been an utter disaster with managing County funds during COVID. A complete disaster. Stuff most of the public is not aware of.

Blair is the best to beat him, and I'm not even a Blair fan.


I wish Elrich was as far left as people say he is. He loves NIMBYs and cops. Just because someone smoked a lot of weed in the 60s and protested Vietnam does not mean he’s a leftist. What a joke. He’s a hack like all the rest of them. I might vote Elrich only to piss people like you off but I’ll probably just not vote.


He doesn't like cops. He has been anti-police forever. Look at some of his comments when he was on the council.

What he DOES like is the adulation he gets from the unions. Including the FOP. Because he sees himself as a pro-union, anti-establishment guy.
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2021 07:52     Subject: Re:Marc Elrich running for reelection...why?
Everyone should know that it is very easy to change your party registration ONLINE. You can do this each year if you want depending on the upcoming primary and where you want your voice to be heard. Obviously party registration makes no difference in general election. Therefore in a year when there is an important MOCO race to be decided, make sure to change your registration from independent or republican to democrat in time for the primary. You can change it back whenever you want, as often as you want, and all perfectly legal.

If 77 more people had done this the last time around, Blair would have navigated us through this Covid mess instead of Elrich making it worse.
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2021 06:09     Subject: Marc Elrich running for reelection...why?
Anonymous wrote:I am an independent voter- but will switch to D so I can vote for someone else in the primaries. He does not deserve a second term.


+1. I know many people are doing this Elrich didn’t win by much in the primary with way too many candidates.
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2021 02:33     Subject: Marc Elrich running for reelection...why?
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:What's the end goal here of this? He's over 70 years old and doesn't seem like he enjoys the job. Any chance we can knock him off in the primary or convince Nancy Floreen to run in the General election again.


He's just like Trump. Except on the left. He listens to his little coterie of uber liberal friends and the unions, who kiss up to him. And nobody else. And he feels he has more to accomplish.

He has been an utter disaster with managing County funds during COVID. A complete disaster. Stuff most of the public is not aware of.

Blair is the best to beat him, and I'm not even a Blair fan.


I wish Elrich was as far left as people say he is. He loves NIMBYs and cops. Just because someone smoked a lot of weed in the 60s and protested Vietnam does not mean he’s a leftist. What a joke. He’s a hack like all the rest of them. I might vote Elrich only to piss people like you off but I’ll probably just not vote.

+1 He’s not progressive on housing at all.
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2021 02:30     Subject: Re:Marc Elrich running for reelection...why?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:To be fair, would anyone ENJOY the job of being county executive during a pandemic?


Leggett would have done a much better job, he would have been more visible and had the right people leading the way.

This is why term limits can be bad,
Anonymous
Post 03/02/2021 22:48     Subject: Marc Elrich running for reelection...why?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What's the end goal here of this? He's over 70 years old and doesn't seem like he enjoys the job. Any chance we can knock him off in the primary or convince Nancy Floreen to run in the General election again.


He's just like Trump. Except on the left. He listens to his little coterie of uber liberal friends and the unions, who kiss up to him. And nobody else. And he feels he has more to accomplish.

He has been an utter disaster with managing County funds during COVID. A complete disaster. Stuff most of the public is not aware of.

Blair is the best to beat him, and I'm not even a Blair fan.


I wish Elrich was as far left as people say he is. He loves NIMBYs and cops. Just because someone smoked a lot of weed in the 60s and protested Vietnam does not mean he’s a leftist. What a joke. He’s a hack like all the rest of them. I might vote Elrich only to piss people like you off but I’ll probably just not vote.
Anonymous
Post 03/02/2021 22:04     Subject: Marc Elrich running for reelection...why?
Anonymous wrote:What's the end goal here of this? He's over 70 years old and doesn't seem like he enjoys the job. Any chance we can knock him off in the primary or convince Nancy Floreen to run in the General election again.


He's just like Trump. Except on the left. He listens to his little coterie of uber liberal friends and the unions, who kiss up to him. And nobody else. And he feels he has more to accomplish.

He has been an utter disaster with managing County funds during COVID. A complete disaster. Stuff most of the public is not aware of.

Blair is the best to beat him, and I'm not even a Blair fan.
Anonymous
Post 03/02/2021 19:05     Subject: Marc Elrich running for reelection...why?
I hope Blair runs again. Reimer would be only a very slight improvement over Elrich.
Anonymous
Post 03/02/2021 18:58     Subject: Re:Marc Elrich running for reelection...why?
I wanted Rose Krasnow to win. She had so much experience and was a moderate.
Anonymous
Post 03/02/2021 18:28     Subject: Re:Marc Elrich running for reelection...why?
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Anonymous wrote:Actually, now that I think about it, I will probably vote for Elrich.

I'm not so much pro-Elrich as I am anti-anti-Elrich. The people who whine about him so much as if he is the second coming of Josef Stalin crack me up.

Again I don't love Elrich - he's just an old curmudgeon in a Che Guevara shirt yelling at the sky. Fine by me, he does nothing. He was elected by a ragtag group of hippies and leftists and union people who are completely harmless because all they ever due is argue in the basement about Marxist theory and tree canopies. But I like to see rich people whine. Especially the nouveau-riche who recently moved into multimillion dollar houses and then complain about having to pay taxes. Serves you right. What none of you realize is whoever is at the helm will have very little impact of what actually happens here. What people don't know is that the county can't operate at a deficit, so everyone will have to make budget cuts and nobody will be happy and everyone is going wrap what they do in social justice language. It's all the same. Nothing at all will change. So I'm going to vote for the guy who makes you all mad just because he doesn't fit your image of wealth and prestige or whatever and makes you whine. I like seeing rich people get all bothered and outraged over things. It makes me laugh.


You sound like a strange version of the stick-it-to-the-liberals Trumpers, but suit yourself.


Not a Trumper. I would never vote for an actual fascist just to own the libs, but I will definitely vote for Old Man Yells At Cloud (Elrich) to own the libs. Sometimes the liberals just need some owning, and MoCo is the literal capital of Shitlibistan.
By the way, leftists hate liberals just a s much as conservatives.

NP. I’m sort of with you. I like the defiant cut of his jib and to me (maybe you, too), it’s the faux progressives that I like to stick it to, those that have mastered the art of virtue signaling and nothing more; they show themselves as NIMBYs and such when it comes to implementing true progressivism. That Elrich makes them squirm and uncomfortable makes me love him even more.
Anonymous
Post 03/02/2021 17:32     Subject: Marc Elrich running for reelection...why?
Elrich, Blair, Reimer, Rice, just to name a few. I don't like any of them, but think Blair would be the least bad.

I don't think that the Takoma Park/Silver Spring Mafia can save Elrich this time around.