Council Member Mink associated middle schoolers with white supremacists and bigots. That was very hurtful. After all, not all supremacists are white. Bigots and white supremacists routinely use, albeit with declining efficacy, voting rights violations to block out people not like them from winning elections. As noted in a previous post, the entire Board of…
No, Council Member Mink didn’t say these Moslem children are “just like bigots.” Nevertheless, would you want to send your children to a school where one of the top administrators says they are on the same side as bigots? I’m not part of the thought police crowd, and to me it’s a reasonable proposition to…
Interesting times afoot in Montgomery County, Maryland – which now finds itself back in the national news as controversy rages over parental rights, religious freedom and the ability of families to opt-out of certain MCPS (public school system) curriculums and readings to children as young as five. The tension mirrors what went on across the…
The social-justice crowd claims that rent control is the only way to protect defenseless tenants against their oversized landlords. (The previous four posts in this series have shown that the only actor with oversized power in the county’s housing market, and the only actor to blame for the shortage of affordable housing is the county…
During the Obama and Trump administrations, the federal government inflated the currency, but you blame the landlords for rent increases. Prices of food are going up, but you put price controls only on the landlords. Prices of insurance are going up, but you put price controls only on the landlords. Prices of fuel are going…
Councilmember Kristin Mink’s 2021 Anti-SRO Hearing Testimony to Board of Ed Included Reference to Questionable Study (and Appears to Conflate Correlation with Causation) In March 2021, activist and now-current Montgomery County Councilmember Kristin Mink supplied written testimony to the MoCo Board of Education in which she urged an end to the Student Resource Officer (SRO)…
Montgomery County Councilmember Kristin Mink (Democrat, District 5) gained local and national notoriety as an “activist” and self-described “outspoken advocate for climate, immigration rights, and social justice.” In March 2020, CM Mink wrote on her blog that she “while still teaching middle school (virtually), I co-founded Masks For America, a volunteer-run nonprofit that crowdfunded, sourced,…
Councilmember Kristin Mink’s noted ‘Senior Legislative Aid’ (and lead for the HHS Committee on the County Council) along with her top aid for ‘residential tenant issues & housing code enforcement’ (per CM Mink’s own contact page) appears to still be involved with something called the ‘Montgomery County Racial Network’ (MORE), itself a “coalition of local…
The Montgomery Perspective published an article on 2/24/23 on a new bill being sponsored by CM Will Jawando and CM Kristin Mink to limit police traffic stops. Bill 12-23 would prohibit the following: a stop for certain traffic offenses by a police officer prohibit consent searches of a vehicle by a police officer require the…