The Board of Elections made a determination that Question A is 302 signatures short of the 10,000 required. We are evaluating our possible next steps.
Should Question A not appear on the ballot, what is next for MoCo?
Socialism for the rich, a term that Martin Luther King incorporated into several of his speeches and sermons.
For me, this campaign was not only about that $692 tax credit eviscerated by the County Council. It was not only about the 44% increase in taxes over the past 10 years. It was also about socialism for the rich.
We’ve known for quite some time that 900 black and brown MCPS students are looking for a charter school experience. They can get it in PG County, DC, Denver County, New York City, Los Angeles County, but they can’t get it in MoCo. For at least a decade, a majority of the vote-diluting princesses on the Board of Education, along with the superintendents, have refused to grant them this wish.
That’s bad enough. What’s worse is that these families, who cannot afford pricey admission to Bullis, Georgetown Prep, or Holton-Arms, are forced to pay increasing property taxes and then forced to go to a school they don’t want to attend! Every year’s increase in property taxes makes their modest dream harder to achieve.
This is the worst example of MoCo’s socialism for the rich; there are many, many other examples. With county executives and county council members that are ever more hostile to the underserved, we will be seeing what always happens in other progressive jurisdictions: more poverty, more income disparity, more struggling households, more public debt, more taxes, and more population decline—and a Purple Line that just might be built. Let’s check back in four years to see how wrong I am.
My thank-you goes to the volunteers, contributors, supporters, the Board of Elections for scouring our petitions, and mostly to the thousands of signatories on our petition. We heard your concerns when nobody else did.
