I'm a new resident, just moved from PG county last year, and I am not as familiar with the candidates. Here are my current first impressions and please do correct/add context.

Elrich: most of the feedback on DCUM is very negative, but obviously there must be something good about the guy because he is consistently polling first? my impression is that he is a moderate liberal, but not progressive enough with development for many people. also, he gets a ton of flack for crime.
Blair: a businessman who is very pro-development. wants to add more to the police force and wants to bring up the tax base with business-friendly development
Reimer: no chance, but is also very pro-development

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Anonymous wrote:“Movement” of vanilla faux-progressive comfortable white people who spend too much time online.

Who? The Silver Spring Justice Coalition?

Whoever these people are. Every photo Riemer posts online seems like a cookie cutter of the last.

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I love that photo. It perfectly encapsulates the downcounty white liberal.

Living in a million dollar house, having yard signs about "progress", and not a single person of color invited to their event

All polls are showing Elrich winning the Black and Latino vote by a mile, though I wouldn’t be surprised if Blair won the Asian vote, especially the wealthier west county immigrant community. Hans wins the 35-45 white YIMBY vote.

Can you link the polls that break it down by race/ethnicity? I haven't seen those. Because all of my latino/a friends are voting for Blair. They are sick of the crime.

And curiously, most of my Asian friends are voting for Elrich. Well, maybe it's a 60/40 split.

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Anonymous wrote:“Movement” of vanilla faux-progressive comfortable white people who spend too much time online.

Who? The Silver Spring Justice Coalition?

Whoever these people are. Every photo Riemer posts online seems like a cookie cutter of the last.

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I love that photo. It perfectly encapsulates the downcounty white liberal.

Living in a million dollar house, having yard signs about "progress", and not a single person of color invited to their event

All polls are showing Elrich winning the Black and Latino vote by a mile, though I wouldn’t be surprised if Blair won the Asian vote, especially the wealthier west county immigrant community. Hans wins the 35-45 white YIMBY vote.

Vote Blair, make the kids safe(r) again. Have some fiscal responsibility. Grow business, which grows a tax base and provides jobs to the next generation of workers.

Fire the current clown car we have, please.

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Anonymous wrote:“Movement” of vanilla faux-progressive comfortable white people who spend too much time online.

Who? The Silver Spring Justice Coalition?

Whoever these people are. Every photo Riemer posts online seems like a cookie cutter of the last.

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I love that photo. It perfectly encapsulates the downcounty white liberal.

Living in a million dollar house, having yard signs about "progress", and not a single person of color invited to their event

Anonymous wrote:VOTE FOR RIEMER!!!

Our movement is gaining steam and that will propel him to within STRIKING DISTANCE and BEYOND of the AWFUL Marc Elrich!

Friends, he needs your energy! You can make a difference today by getting out the word about how Hans is the best thing for Montgomery County's future.

There is NO chance that I would vote for Hans in the primary or general.

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Anonymous wrote:“Movement” of vanilla faux-progressive comfortable white people who spend too much time online.

Who? The Silver Spring Justice Coalition?

Whoever these people are. Every photo Riemer posts online seems like a cookie cutter of the last.

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Anonymous wrote:“Movement” of vanilla faux-progressive comfortable white people who spend too much time online.

Who? The Silver Spring Justice Coalition?

Whoever these people are. Every photo Riemer posts online seems like a cookie cutter of the last.

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Anonymous wrote:“Movement” of vanilla faux-progressive comfortable white people who spend too much time online.

Who? The Silver Spring Justice Coalition?

“Movement” of vanilla faux-progressive comfortable white people who spend too much time online.

Anonymous wrote:VOTE FOR RIEMER!!!

Our movement is gaining steam and that will propel him to within STRIKING DISTANCE and BEYOND of the AWFUL Marc Elrich!

Friends, he needs your energy! You can make a difference today by getting out the word about how Hans is the best thing for Montgomery County's future.

Get off the internet, Hans, you’re drunk.

VOTE FOR RIEMER!!!

Our movement is gaining steam and that will propel him to within STRIKING DISTANCE and BEYOND of the AWFUL Marc Elrich!

Friends, he needs your energy! You can make a difference today by getting out the word about how Hans is the best thing for Montgomery County's future.

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Anonymous wrote:I won't be voting for Elrich, even though I think he's fine at the job. I called his office once -- got voice mail -- and asked someone to call me back about an important issue. No response. This is a COUNTY representative. Even a state congressman should be responsive to constituents. But on a county level -- nothing? Really?

I will not be giving him my vote. Hopefully someone else will feel they should be responsive to their constituents, at this low level of government.

Obviously you get to use your vote as you see fit. If I had a vitally important issue that I wanted to discuss, I probably would have sent an email and called again, particularly if the call was made during a pandemic. My goal would have been to successfully communicate regarding my issue. I can’t imagine deciding not to pursue it — and seething publicly— after leaving a random VM message, that may or may not have been accurately received.
I hope that whoever gets your vote is indeed as responsive as you would like them to be.

I didn't leave a random VM. I called and left a specific message and requested a call back. Are you saying his office may or may not be receiving messages from constituents, who knows? That's ridiculous.

And I am not seething publicly -- I'm posting on a thread about his chances of reelection. I explained why I won't be voting for him again.

I’m suggesting that not getting a call back ONE time from ONE VM is something that I, personally, would not use to make an important decision, in part, because I would be unable to verify that the message was actually correctly delivered. Those are my standards though, and I’ve grown even more flexible with the vagaries of relying on technology for communication. I would feel differently if I had actually spoken to a person, and then not received a call back.

DP. I don’t know if anyone who has ever been successful contacting Elrich’s office, do you? Reimer at least has him been in constituent services even if he’s a bit of a bloke.

Thank you. This is useful information, for me, at least. I’ve never tried to reach out for constituent services, so I’m learning from the comments of those of you who have.

Constituent services for the County Executive is to call 311.

If you have issues, just call 311 people. They will help you.

Ok now that’s funny.

~county employee

311 is useless

For issues directly related to services the county provides, 311 works really well. Sidewalk repair, animal control, bulk trash pickup, etc. If your issue instead is one of policy, then of course 311 cannot help because what do you expect them to do? They cannot do a traffic study to install a stop sign on your block.

Most of the time, and particularly if you work through your neighborhood association, you should be able to get responses from county agencies on policy issues. You may not like the response, but you will get one. And if you don’t like the response the natural next step is to talk to your district councilmember or an at-large councilmember that is responsive to your community. Unfortunately, not all at-large members feel like they represent everyone, which is a major problem and why they should have been abolished.

Agreed. Although I had seen Glass and Albornoz out and about, mid county and up county, before COVID. Nothing from Jawando or Riemer. Ever.

This is correct. Riemer and Jawando only do things to support people who they think are their core constituents who vote for them or on issues that they think can get themselves personal attention. No one else matters but themselves.

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Anonymous wrote:I won't be voting for Elrich, even though I think he's fine at the job. I called his office once -- got voice mail -- and asked someone to call me back about an important issue. No response. This is a COUNTY representative. Even a state congressman should be responsive to constituents. But on a county level -- nothing? Really?

I will not be giving him my vote. Hopefully someone else will feel they should be responsive to their constituents, at this low level of government.

Obviously you get to use your vote as you see fit. If I had a vitally important issue that I wanted to discuss, I probably would have sent an email and called again, particularly if the call was made during a pandemic. My goal would have been to successfully communicate regarding my issue. I can’t imagine deciding not to pursue it — and seething publicly— after leaving a random VM message, that may or may not have been accurately received.
I hope that whoever gets your vote is indeed as responsive as you would like them to be.

I didn't leave a random VM. I called and left a specific message and requested a call back. Are you saying his office may or may not be receiving messages from constituents, who knows? That's ridiculous.

And I am not seething publicly -- I'm posting on a thread about his chances of reelection. I explained why I won't be voting for him again.

I’m suggesting that not getting a call back ONE time from ONE VM is something that I, personally, would not use to make an important decision, in part, because I would be unable to verify that the message was actually correctly delivered. Those are my standards though, and I’ve grown even more flexible with the vagaries of relying on technology for communication. I would feel differently if I had actually spoken to a person, and then not received a call back.

DP. I don’t know if anyone who has ever been successful contacting Elrich’s office, do you? Reimer at least has him been in constituent services even if he’s a bit of a bloke.

Thank you. This is useful information, for me, at least. I’ve never tried to reach out for constituent services, so I’m learning from the comments of those of you who have.

Constituent services for the County Executive is to call 311.

If you have issues, just call 311 people. They will help you.

Ok now that’s funny.

~county employee

311 is useless

For issues directly related to services the county provides, 311 works really well. Sidewalk repair, animal control, bulk trash pickup, etc. If your issue instead is one of policy, then of course 311 cannot help because what do you expect them to do? They cannot do a traffic study to install a stop sign on your block.

Most of the time, and particularly if you work through your neighborhood association, you should be able to get responses from county agencies on policy issues. You may not like the response, but you will get one. And if you don’t like the response the natural next step is to talk to your district councilmember or an at-large councilmember that is responsive to your community. Unfortunately, not all at-large members feel like they represent everyone, which is a major problem and why they should have been abolished.

Agreed. Although I had seen Glass and Albornoz out and about, mid county and up county, before COVID. Nothing from Jawando or Riemer. Ever.

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Anonymous wrote:I won't be voting for Elrich, even though I think he's fine at the job. I called his office once -- got voice mail -- and asked someone to call me back about an important issue. No response. This is a COUNTY representative. Even a state congressman should be responsive to constituents. But on a county level -- nothing? Really?

I will not be giving him my vote. Hopefully someone else will feel they should be responsive to their constituents, at this low level of government.

Obviously you get to use your vote as you see fit. If I had a vitally important issue that I wanted to discuss, I probably would have sent an email and called again, particularly if the call was made during a pandemic. My goal would have been to successfully communicate regarding my issue. I can’t imagine deciding not to pursue it — and seething publicly— after leaving a random VM message, that may or may not have been accurately received.
I hope that whoever gets your vote is indeed as responsive as you would like them to be.

I didn't leave a random VM. I called and left a specific message and requested a call back. Are you saying his office may or may not be receiving messages from constituents, who knows? That's ridiculous.

And I am not seething publicly -- I'm posting on a thread about his chances of reelection. I explained why I won't be voting for him again.

I’m suggesting that not getting a call back ONE time from ONE VM is something that I, personally, would not use to make an important decision, in part, because I would be unable to verify that the message was actually correctly delivered. Those are my standards though, and I’ve grown even more flexible with the vagaries of relying on technology for communication. I would feel differently if I had actually spoken to a person, and then not received a call back.

DP. I don’t know if anyone who has ever been successful contacting Elrich’s office, do you? Reimer at least has him been in constituent services even if he’s a bit of a bloke.

Thank you. This is useful information, for me, at least. I’ve never tried to reach out for constituent services, so I’m learning from the comments of those of you who have.

Constituent services for the County Executive is to call 311.

If you have issues, just call 311 people. They will help you.

Ok now that’s funny.

~county employee

311 is useless

For issues directly related to services the county provides, 311 works really well. Sidewalk repair, animal control, bulk trash pickup, etc. If your issue instead is one of policy, then of course 311 cannot help because what do you expect them to do? They cannot do a traffic study to install a stop sign on your block.

Most of the time, and particularly if you work through your neighborhood association, you should be able to get responses from county agencies on policy issues. You may not like the response, but you will get one. And if you don’t like the response the natural next step is to talk to your district councilmember or an at-large councilmember that is responsive to your community. Unfortunately, not all at-large members feel like they represent everyone, which is a major problem and why they should have been abolished.