Anonymous
Post 05/14/2020 18:33     Subject: How Come BOE Candidate Stephen Austin Won’t Say What His Employment Is??
Anonymous wrote:My goodness can you leave the personal life of this man alone. He's running for BOE not president of the US.


Actually no.

He has ties to conversion therapy groups, groups against LGBTQ, and he's doesn't have qualifications.
Anonymous
Post 05/14/2020 18:30     Subject: How Come BOE Candidate Stephen Austin Won’t Say What His Employment Is??
No one has still been able to answer where he works. Hard to determine who you’re going to vote for when a candidate won’t give you his work experience or show you his resume. I don’t believe the phony advocacy for good government and transparency when you can’t do this. He could even redact the names of the places and or locations but give us something. What - did he *poof* just appear out of thin air as a middle aged man with no work experience? If so, should he be on the BOE? Seriously.
Anonymous
Post 05/14/2020 17:45     Subject: Re:How Come BOE Candidate Stephen Austin Won’t Say What His Employment Is??
Anonymous wrote:https://bethesdamagazine.com/2020-primary-voters-guide/montgomery-county-board-of-education-at-large/

Details on all candidates.


Thanks, PP - super helpful!
Anonymous
Post 05/14/2020 17:23     Subject: How Come BOE Candidate Stephen Austin Won’t Say What His Employment Is??
Anonymous wrote:My goodness can you leave the personal life of this man alone. He's running for BOE not president of the US.


When he says that he's qualified because of his background in finance, and he says that one of the things he wants to do is increase transparency, then it's reasonable to expect him to be transparent about his background in finance.
Anonymous
Post 05/14/2020 17:20     Subject: How Come BOE Candidate Stephen Austin Won’t Say What His Employment Is??
My goodness can you leave the personal life of this man alone. He's running for BOE not president of the US.
Anonymous
Post 05/14/2020 16:56     Subject: How Come BOE Candidate Stephen Austin Won’t Say What His Employment Is??
Anonymous wrote:There are a lot of candidates but at least the Teacher's Union helped me instantly eliminate one candidate by endorsing him - Sunil Dasgupta - #VoteAgainstTheAppleBallot2020

I too like Austin. The BOE needs an overhaul. We can't have another year of a BOE where the student rep is the smartest member of the board.


There are 7 adult members on the BoE, and the SMOB. Nobody is going to overhaul the BoE on a 1-7 vote.
Anonymous
Post 05/14/2020 16:00     Subject: How Come BOE Candidate Stephen Austin Won’t Say What His Employment Is??
There are a lot of candidates but at least the Teacher's Union helped me instantly eliminate one candidate by endorsing him - Sunil Dasgupta - #VoteAgainstTheAppleBallot2020

I too like Austin. The BOE needs an overhaul. We can't have another year of a BOE where the student rep is the smartest member of the board.
Anonymous
Post 05/14/2020 15:30     Subject: How Come BOE Candidate Stephen Austin Won’t Say What His Employment Is??
Anonymous wrote:A cornerstone of his campaign is his purported financial expertise. Portfolio manager at a big defense contractor? Geez, I’d be awfully surprised if a multi-billion-dollar enterprise like Lockheed Martin would be shaking in its boots because of a county board of education race, no matter hot heated. Austin has said he worked for a couple of hedge funds (unnamed and for an unspecified amount of time) and at Merrill Lynch, after the dot.com bust. That would put him smack in the middle of the timeframe when Merrill almost went belly up because of its enthusiastic dive into risky subprime mortgages and related investment schemes. So, yeah, i’d like to know more about his finance background before entrusting him with making decisions about taxpayer money.
Maybe he is a financial wizard! Who knows? He won’t say. Has he ever worked for a developer? If so, who? when? He talks the talk about transparency, and is highly critical of the lack of transparency from the current BOE, so to be consistent, he should walk the walk when it comes to his own campaign. Otherwise...he’ll just come across as another hypocritical, two-bit politician.


I'll vote for Austin because he said this:

7 – How well has Jack Smith done as superintendent? Give specific examples (100 words max)

I would give him a mixed review. He has overseen the communication and the process of the Boundary Analysis, and I think that has been very poorly executed. I like him as a person, and he has an impressive background. He did actually warn the Board of Education of unintended consequences when they voted to elevate diversity above all the other factors in a boundary change. All that said, I would not have voted to renew his contract.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2020-primary-voters-guide/montgomery-county-board-of-education-at-large/
Anonymous
Post 05/14/2020 15:10     Subject: How Come BOE Candidate Stephen Austin Won’t Say What His Employment Is??
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Anonymous wrote:At least he hasn’t been involved in deportation efforts! Or isn’t a crappy teacher at Shady Grove!
He’s said where he’s worked in the past. He’s been harassed. People like you are obsessed with him. I don’t blame him.


Maybe he has. We don't know, do we?

He's hardly unique, as a candidate for BoE, in having unflattering things said about him. He does seem to be unique in declining to say where he works, though.

I’m certain his opponents would have turned it up by now if he had been.
Meanwhile Lynne Harris has her name on court cases deporting people and *crickets*.


Please provide specifics that explain why this is relevant to the BoE race in 2020?

You can’t be serious?


PP you're responding to. I absolutely am serious. When did she do what you're saying she did, and in what capacity?


A cornerstone of his campaign is his purported financial expertise. Portfolio manager at a big defense contractor? Geez, I’d be awfully surprised if a multi-billion-dollar enterprise like Lockheed Martin would be shaking in its boots because of a county board of education race, no matter hot heated. Austin has said he worked for a couple of hedge funds (unnamed and for an unspecified amount of time) and at Merrill Lynch, after the dot.com bust. That would put him smack in the middle of the timeframe when Merrill almost went belly up because of its enthusiastic dive into risky subprime mortgages and related investment schemes. So, yeah, i’d like to know more about his finance background before entrusting him with making decisions about taxpayer money.
Maybe he is a financial wizard! Who knows? He won’t say. Has he ever worked for a developer? If so, who? when? He talks the talk about transparency, and is highly critical of the lack of transparency from the current BOE, so to be consistent, he should walk the walk when it comes to his own campaign. Otherwise...he’ll just come across as another hypocritical, two-bit politician.
Anonymous
Post 05/14/2020 15:04     Subject: Re:How Come BOE Candidate Stephen Austin Won’t Say What His Employment Is??
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Anonymous wrote:Poor guy. He really has had to put up with a ton of harassment from the club, hasn't he?

It’s really crazy to me. And the whole sign stealing thing from OneMontgomery. So two-faced.


The what?


Some lady took a steve Austin sign but she took
Some other people’s signs too like Sunil and Jay. Steve is very sensitive though and likes to make it seem like he’s being targeted. Too thin skinned.
Anonymous
Post 05/14/2020 15:01     Subject: How Come BOE Candidate Stephen Austin Won’t Say What His Employment Is??
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Anonymous wrote:So weird. It would be laughable if he weren’t trying to sit on a board that influences the future of children. Shouldn’t we know more about him? The b-ball’s really in his court on this one and its an easy one.

You don’t sound as if you really care ...is it really going to influence your decision or you just want to bitch and moan about it?


Umm, excuse me? What do you mean I don’t sound like I care. Of course I care if this guys going to be sitting in a room with others negotiating my child’s future. How can you run for office and not disclose your background?? That’s just ludicrous!
Anonymous
Post 05/14/2020 14:57     Subject: How Come BOE Candidate Stephen Austin Won’t Say What His Employment Is??
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Anonymous wrote:At least he hasn’t been involved in deportation efforts! Or isn’t a crappy teacher at Shady Grove!
He’s said where he’s worked in the past. He’s been harassed. People like you are obsessed with him. I don’t blame him.


Maybe he has. We don't know, do we?

He's hardly unique, as a candidate for BoE, in having unflattering things said about him. He does seem to be unique in declining to say where he works, though.

I’m certain his opponents would have turned it up by now if he had been.
Meanwhile Lynne Harris has her name on court cases deporting people and *crickets*.


Please provide specifics that explain why this is relevant to the BoE race in 2020?

You can’t be serious?


PP you're responding to. I absolutely am serious. When did she do what you're saying she did, and in what capacity?

2004. Her name is on cases denying people asylum. She issued a denial but it needs way more explanation and details.


While she was senior trial counsel in the US DOJ Office of Vaccine Litigation? Do they handle many asylum cases?
Anonymous
Post 05/14/2020 14:56     Subject: Re:How Come BOE Candidate Stephen Austin Won’t Say What His Employment Is??
Bionic Man?
Anonymous
Post 05/14/2020 14:55     Subject: How Come BOE Candidate Stephen Austin Won’t Say What His Employment Is??
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:At least he hasn’t been involved in deportation efforts! Or isn’t a crappy teacher at Shady Grove!
He’s said where he’s worked in the past. He’s been harassed. People like you are obsessed with him. I don’t blame him.


Maybe he has. We don't know, do we?

He's hardly unique, as a candidate for BoE, in having unflattering things said about him. He does seem to be unique in declining to say where he works, though.

I’m certain his opponents would have turned it up by now if he had been.
Meanwhile Lynne Harris has her name on court cases deporting people and *crickets*.


Please provide specifics that explain why this is relevant to the BoE race in 2020?

You can’t be serious?


PP you're responding to. I absolutely am serious. When did she do what you're saying she did, and in what capacity?

2004. Her name is on cases denying people asylum. She issued a denial but it needs way more explanation and details.
Anonymous
Post 05/14/2020 14:55     Subject: Re:How Come BOE Candidate Stephen Austin Won’t Say What His Employment Is??
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:https://bethesdamagazine.com/2020-primary-voters-guide/montgomery-county-board-of-education-at-large/

Details on all candidates.


For Steve Austin, for current occupation and employer, it says "Portfolio manager, Lockheed Martin Investment Management Co." So that's his current occupation and employer?


This link says he was there as recently as 3/21/2019. So a year ago.

https://www.zoominfo.com/p/stephen-austin/1604838808