Greg Visscher
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MoCo’s “Boost” UBI-Test Program, Pushed by CM Jawando, is Getting Scaled Back — And We Still Don’t Have a “First Draft” of the Urban Institute’s “Evaluation”
Read more: MoCo’s “Boost” UBI-Test Program, Pushed by CM Jawando, is Getting Scaled Back — And We Still Don’t Have a “First Draft” of the Urban Institute’s “Evaluation”Remember the no-strings “free cash” pilot program started in FY 2023 (calendar year 2022) by the Montgomery County Council? Funded in part by your tax dollars (over $3 million, although part was provided by a private grantor), the pilot program was another attempt by some on the County Council to “be like DC” and hand…
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Local “Defenders of Democracy” Promote Coronation for Nominee Within 24 Hours of President Joe Biden Announcement, Reject a Mini-Primary
Read more: Local “Defenders of Democracy” Promote Coronation for Nominee Within 24 Hours of President Joe Biden Announcement, Reject a Mini-PrimaryIt took roughly 24 hours, but Councilmembers on Montgomery County’s legislative body, sometimes called the “MoCo Council”, quickly and dutifully coalesced around Vice President Kamala Harris as the potential US Presidential Nominee for their political club/tribe in 2024. Their proclamations of loyalty and (seemingly) enthusiastic endorsement of Vice President Harris as the “blue tribe” nominee…
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The Many Times CE Marc Elrich “Gets Personal” When Discussing the Political or Mundane
Read more: The Many Times CE Marc Elrich “Gets Personal” When Discussing the Political or MundaneWhen does the political get “personal”? Increasingly, with MoCo County Exec Marc Elrich, it appears to occur whenever someone has a different policy idea or theory on governing than him. Take, for example, his recent personal jab on Reardon “Sully” Sullivan as reported by Adam Pagnucco (himself reporting on Fox 5’s Tom Fitzgerald’s interview with…
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MoCo Chief Exec Sweats Out the Heatwave, Demands All A/Cs Be Turned Off “In Solidarity” with Him, Mother Gaia
Read more: MoCo Chief Exec Sweats Out the Heatwave, Demands All A/Cs Be Turned Off “In Solidarity” with Him, Mother GaiaCE Marc Elrich (Democrat, 30+ years in office) has been without air conditioning at his Takoma Park home for about a month from June-July (per a radio report by WMAL Newstalk local), as he waits for an A/C unit part to be delivered. Yesterday, the sweaty and fed up Montgomery Chief Executive issued a strongly…
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Council Member Really Wants You to Know: He was Named ‘2024 Legislator of the Year’
Read more: Council Member Really Wants You to Know: He was Named ‘2024 Legislator of the Year’MoCo Councilmember “At Large” Gabe Albornoz (Democrat) really really wants you to know he was named “Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce Legislator of the Year”. So much so that he begins his e-mail to tax-paying constituents about his award… and then continues the whole communication to residents talking about… this award. Here is another excerpt…
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Council Member Appears to Still be Accepting Donations for Failed Congressional Bid, One Month After Finishing in 6th Place in the Democratic Primary
Read more: Council Member Appears to Still be Accepting Donations for Failed Congressional Bid, One Month After Finishing in 6th Place in the Democratic PrimaryAbout one month after the Maryland primary vote for the 6th Congressional District, Councilmember (At Large, Democrat) Laurie-Anne Sayles appears to have still left her campaign website up and a donations / credit card capture form still active. By the logic of (some) nanny-state members of the Montgomery County Council and state delegation to Annapolis,…
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The Takoma Park City Machine – How Takoma Park Uses Tax Dollars to Press Forward an Ideological Agenda to MoCo, Maryland and Beyond
Read more: The Takoma Park City Machine – How Takoma Park Uses Tax Dollars to Press Forward an Ideological Agenda to MoCo, Maryland and BeyondAlways follow the money and the influencers. Oh, and the 501c3s, c4s, etc. The City of Takoma Park’s influence on MoCo government policy has been covered here before but a quick review of the 501c3 non-profit Old Takoma Business Association’s (OTBA) website provides more visual examples of what this tiny town (population 17,500) does with…
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Marc Elrich Reacts to Ballot Petition Signature Submissions Being Dropped Off; County Charter (Potentially) Being Changed to Restrict County Exec to Two Terms
Read more: Marc Elrich Reacts to Ballot Petition Signature Submissions Being Dropped Off; County Charter (Potentially) Being Changed to Restrict County Exec to Two TermsFresh news from Rockville, MD as the Committee for Better Government delivered 12,139 signatures to the County Executive’s office so that a question can be placed on the November, 2024 ballot to limit the number of consecutive four-year terms that the Montgomery County Executive may hold. The group remarked that this is the first of…
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Tale as Old as Time – Once Government (Taxpayer) Largesse Dries Up, Another Rockville Business Moves On
Read more: Tale as Old as Time – Once Government (Taxpayer) Largesse Dries Up, Another Rockville Business Moves OnDawson’s Market, a higher-priced grocer (actually the only grocery store) in Rockville Town Square is departing, after threatening the same action about six years ago because of quote “declining sales” back in 2019. Per Sebastien Kraft with MoCo360 Media: This isn’t surprising in the least. In fact, it goes to the heart of why government,…
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Councilmember Sayles Talks Up Barriers Broken, Ceilings Shattered as an “At-Large” MoCo Politician to Local Girl Scout Troop
Read more: Councilmember Sayles Talks Up Barriers Broken, Ceilings Shattered as an “At-Large” MoCo Politician to Local Girl Scout TroopFresh off a disappointing 6th place loss in the Democrat primary for U.S. Congress, House District 6, Councilmember “At Large” Laurie-Anne Sayles is back at her day job representing the whole of MoCo and talking to the youth. Oh, and defending local democracy. Including that “democracy” that appoints a select insider to a state senate…