Anonymous
Post 08/06/2021 14:53     Subject: OMG watching the entire Montgomery County Council meeting is torture.
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Really? These people are in charge of our fate?!?! And they are sitting as the county health council, passing mandates and amendments BUT the county health officials are no longer in attendance at the meeting!
This is the three stooges X 3.

They clearly have no grasp of the data or the statistics.
It doesn't even matter which side you are on for any issue, mask mandates or whatever.
They are incompetent!

VOTE THEM OUT


Run and get elected and do a better job.


OP probably already did and lost. Robin Ficker, we know it’s you, Go Away.


It’s not Ficker. It’s FED UP on Bethesda Beat. Don’t know who that is, but they are two different people..Ficker posts under his own name and would identify here too.
Anonymous
Post 08/06/2021 14:45     Subject: Re:OMG watching the entire Montgomery County Council meeting is torture.
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Anonymous wrote:The only competent member is Friedson.

1/3 of MoCo registered voters are independents, so we get no voice in the primaries. We need open primaries.


Have you considered switching your party registration so that you can have a voice in the primaries?


That’s not an acceptable solution, in my opinion.

I used to think more highly of Friedson, but then he got on the Casey Anderson/Hans Riemer developer subsidy/trickle-down economics bandwagon.


Why don't you accept that as a solution?

Friedson ran on being pro-business. What did you think that meant?


Pro-business is fine. He's just a liar. He will campaigned relentlessly for new developments, and when residence complain that there's no infrastructure in place for parking for example, he will deny being for that new development.
Anonymous
Post 08/06/2021 14:39     Subject: Re:OMG watching the entire Montgomery County Council meeting is torture.
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This won’t be a popular opinion in Montgomery County, but I think government should represent everyone and political parties should always seek to broaden participation, even among people who aren’t affiliated with them. This is even more important when one major party has consolidated power to the point that the other party is unable to field viable candidates or even run contested primaries. A lot of people don’t feel represented at all and are not willing to affiliate with a party.


All you have to do is register with a party, vote in the primary, and then change your registration back to independent. If your unwillingness to affiliate with a party in order to be able to vote in the primary, outweighs your desire to vote in the primary, that's on you.

Just as the Republican Party's inability to field viable candidates and run contested primaries is on them.
Anonymous
Post 08/06/2021 14:33     Subject: Re:OMG watching the entire Montgomery County Council meeting is torture.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The only competent member is Friedson.

1/3 of MoCo registered voters are independents, so we get no voice in the primaries. We need open primaries.


Have you considered switching your party registration so that you can have a voice in the primaries?


That’s not an acceptable solution, in my opinion.

I used to think more highly of Friedson, but then he got on the Casey Anderson/Hans Riemer developer subsidy/trickle-down economics bandwagon.


Why is it not acceptable?


This won’t be a popular opinion in Montgomery County, but I think government should represent everyone and political parties should always seek to broaden participation, even among people who aren’t affiliated with them. This is even more important when one major party has consolidated power to the point that the other party is unable to field viable candidates or even run contested primaries. A lot of people don’t feel represented at all and are not willing to affiliate with a party.
Anonymous
Post 08/06/2021 07:20     Subject: Re:OMG watching the entire Montgomery County Council meeting is torture.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The only competent member is Friedson.

1/3 of MoCo registered voters are independents, so we get no voice in the primaries. We need open primaries.


Have you considered switching your party registration so that you can have a voice in the primaries?


That’s not an acceptable solution, in my opinion.

I used to think more highly of Friedson, but then he got on the Casey Anderson/Hans Riemer developer subsidy/trickle-down economics bandwagon.


Why is it not acceptable?
Anonymous
Post 08/06/2021 07:19     Subject: Re:OMG watching the entire Montgomery County Council meeting is torture.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The only competent member is Friedson.

1/3 of MoCo registered voters are independents, so we get no voice in the primaries. We need open primaries.


Have you considered switching your party registration so that you can have a voice in the primaries?


This.
100%. So easy to do online and completely meaningless except for giving you a voice in the primary process
Anonymous
Post 08/06/2021 07:17     Subject: Re:OMG watching the entire Montgomery County Council meeting is torture.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The only competent member is Friedson.

1/3 of MoCo registered voters are independents, so we get no voice in the primaries. We need open primaries.


Have you considered switching your party registration so that you can have a voice in the primaries?


That’s not an acceptable solution, in my opinion.

I used to think more highly of Friedson, but then he got on the Casey Anderson/Hans Riemer developer subsidy/trickle-down economics bandwagon.


Why don't you accept that as a solution?

Friedson ran on being pro-business. What did you think that meant?
Anonymous
Post 08/06/2021 07:17     Subject: Re:OMG watching the entire Montgomery County Council meeting is torture.
Anonymous wrote:The only competent member is Friedson.

1/3 of MoCo registered voters are independents, so we get no voice in the primaries. We need open primaries.


I agree. But the other idiots make him look good.
Anonymous
Post 08/06/2021 07:12     Subject: OMG watching the entire Montgomery County Council meeting is torture.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Really? These people are in charge of our fate?!?! And they are sitting as the county health council, passing mandates and amendments BUT the county health officials are no longer in attendance at the meeting!
This is the three stooges X 3.

They clearly have no grasp of the data or the statistics.
It doesn't even matter which side you are on for any issue, mask mandates or whatever.
They are incompetent!

VOTE THEM OUT


Run and get elected and do a better job.


NP here.
Easier said than done. Take a look at the broken primary system in this county. Very few Democrats even show up to vote in the county primary elections. As a result, the primaries tend to be dominated by the narrow band of the “Takoma Park mafia”
Hopefully this will change in 2022 but more people need to be registered to vote as Democrats and show up.
Maryland is a closed party state and Moco is a one party county. If you don’t register as a Democrat in time for the primary you have no voice. The primary effectively is our general election.







Then vote for better people or find someone upcounty who will win enough votes. Don’t change the rules of the game just because you’re not very good at it.



That's rich, considering democrats constantly whine about the electoral college every time they lose.
Anonymous
Post 08/06/2021 05:18     Subject: Re:OMG watching the entire Montgomery County Council meeting is torture.
Anonymous wrote:I used to think more highly of Friedson, but then he got on the Casey Anderson/Hans Riemer developer subsidy/trickle-down economics bandwagon.


This. So much this.
Anonymous
Post 08/06/2021 05:03     Subject: Re:OMG watching the entire Montgomery County Council meeting is torture.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The only competent member is Friedson.

1/3 of MoCo registered voters are independents, so we get no voice in the primaries. We need open primaries.


Have you considered switching your party registration so that you can have a voice in the primaries?


That’s not an acceptable solution, in my opinion.

I used to think more highly of Friedson, but then he got on the Casey Anderson/Hans Riemer developer subsidy/trickle-down economics bandwagon.
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2021 23:27     Subject: Re:OMG watching the entire Montgomery County Council meeting is torture.
Anonymous wrote:The only competent member is Friedson.

1/3 of MoCo registered voters are independents, so we get no voice in the primaries. We need open primaries.


Have you considered switching your party registration so that you can have a voice in the primaries?
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2021 23:22     Subject: Re:OMG watching the entire Montgomery County Council meeting is torture.
The only competent member is Friedson.

1/3 of MoCo registered voters are independents, so we get no voice in the primaries. We need open primaries.
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2021 23:17     Subject: OMG watching the entire Montgomery County Council meeting is torture.
Anonymous wrote:
Hmm. The silent majority disagrees with you.


Hmmm. We’ll see next June.
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2021 23:16     Subject: OMG watching the entire Montgomery County Council meeting is torture.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Really? These people are in charge of our fate?!?! And they are sitting as the county health council, passing mandates and amendments BUT the county health officials are no longer in attendance at the meeting!
This is the three stooges X 3.

They clearly have no grasp of the data or the statistics.
It doesn't even matter which side you are on for any issue, mask mandates or whatever.
They are incompetent!

VOTE THEM OUT


It’s a race to the bottom of the idiocy pool with this group of people. Can’t imagine them in a real world situation having to make a biz decision. Such incompetence by the MOCO Council.


Agreed. They are worse than terrible. Why the focus on cases and not on hospitalizations and deaths?


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