News and Views
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Montoya tries to play the anti-Semitism card—and fails
Read more: Montoya tries to play the anti-Semitism card—and failsMany of us received a mailer from the Rita Montoya campaign that conveys her concern about the anti-Semitism plaguing the county’s Jewish students and how she will address it. History is a powerful teacher. That’s why Rita Montoya will fight to implement mandatory Holocaust education in our schools, and use the power of knowledge to…
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MOVE Away From This Type of Legislation
Read more: MOVE Away From This Type of LegislationAccording to my count, Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations spans 360,586 words, or about 1,088 pages in a 12-point font. I read the entire work, comprehended about 324,527 (90%) of those words, and came to an important conclusion: the conservatives who praise Smith as a champion of unfettered economic freedom are as mistaken as the…
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Press Release: Bethany Mandel for BOE
Read more: Press Release: Bethany Mandel for BOEBethany Mandel’s campaign for Board of Education has filed a new press release. Attached below.
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Laura Stewart’s and Lynne Harris’ PTA
Read more: Laura Stewart’s and Lynne Harris’ PTAIt is time to dismantle the MCCPTA to school board pipeline! Corruption Stolen money and jail time. $30,000 in the treasurer’s pocket. https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/30k-has-disappeared-from-montgomery-county-pta-council-fund/12589/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/police-investigate-possible-fraud-in-maryland-pta-organization/2017/04/26/67dc9cb6-29fb-11e7-b605-33413c691853_story.html https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/woman-sentenced-embezzlement-pta-funds/ More corruption More misuse of funds. Inspector general investigating. Laura’s Free State PTA withholding $5,000 from Shriver elementary. https://moco360.media/2024/04/04/sargent-shriver-elementary-pta-violated-mcps-policy-with-grant-funds-county-inspector-general-says/ DEI committee that got rid of SROs School closures MCCPTA leadership…
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CleanSlate MoCo Spotlight: Local Opponents of Prosperity & Individual Choice – State Delegate David Moon (District 20)
Read more: CleanSlate MoCo Spotlight: Local Opponents of Prosperity & Individual Choice – State Delegate David Moon (District 20)Occupation: Maryland State Delegate, representing MoCo’s 20th District Affiliations: Maryland Democratic Party. Former Interim Chief of Staff and senior legislative aide to term-limited CM Nancy Navarro, District 4, Montgomery County Council, 2009-10. Background: A state delegate since 2015, Mr. Moon somehow became statehouse majority leader in 2023. Born in Takoma Park, MD and has seemingly never left…
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How the Teacher Union FAILED Its Members
Read more: How the Teacher Union FAILED Its MembersIt starts at the top. The national NEA union lost sight of its job to protect its workers, ie, dues paying members. Its interest is world politics and promoting socialist/communist ideology disguised in cutesy terms like equity, reimagining, dismantling, decolonizing, and social justice. The ideology cascaded down to the state MSEA and local MCEA. Then…
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Misleading News Alert: CM Andrew Friedson’s “The Friedson Flyer” Only Tells One Side of the Fiscal Story
Read more: Misleading News Alert: CM Andrew Friedson’s “The Friedson Flyer” Only Tells One Side of the Fiscal StoryWe are back, a few days after exposing CM Evan Glass’s outright fibs in his “Glass Gazette” constituent newsletter, we now can turn our attention, briefly, to CM (and current Council President) Andrew Friedson, a Democrat representing MoCo’s most affluent zip codes. In his latest constituent e-mail, under the banner of “The Friedson Flyer” (these…
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CleanSlate MoCo Spotlight: Local Opponents of Prosperity & Individual Choice – State Senator Ben Kramer (District 19)
Read more: CleanSlate MoCo Spotlight: Local Opponents of Prosperity & Individual Choice – State Senator Ben Kramer (District 19)Name: Ben Kramer Occupation: Maryland State Senator, representing MoCo’s 19th District Affiliations: Maryland Democratic Party. Member, Liquor Control Task Force, Montgomery County. Past member, Police Department Citizens Advisory Board, Montgomery County. Background: A one-time state delegate who became a state senator in MD from MoCo back in late 2018, when anti-Donald Trump fervor seemed to sweep the insider political…
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To avoid ostracism, opt-in may be a better policy
Read more: To avoid ostracism, opt-in may be a better policyWe’ve run several stories on the opt-out movement (example), and to be honest I’m not entirely supportive of the opt-out objective. Standing up to the county’s progressives, whose sense of tolerance and respect declines with every passing day, is admirable where appropriate. Nevertheless, for the students’ welfare, I wonder if pursuing opt-in would be better…
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Fake News Alert: CM Evan Glass’s “Glass Gazette” Promotes Untruths About EVs, MoCo’s Role in “Fighting Climate Change”
Read more: Fake News Alert: CM Evan Glass’s “Glass Gazette” Promotes Untruths About EVs, MoCo’s Role in “Fighting Climate Change”Councilmember Evan Glass is out with his “Earth Day Edition” of the “Glass Gazette” — his e-newsletter to MoCo residents (those who subscribe). In it, the Councilmember, re-elected “At Large” for MoCo in 2022 (and who kept his “At-Large” designation by adding a spoiler ballot question in 2020 to defend against a sensible ballot initiative…