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Tuesday, April 09, 2019
Demolition begins on Moorland Lane in Bethesda
Demolition is now underway on the future site of the ZOM Bethesda apartments, at the corner of Moorland Lane and Arlington Road. The project will take down several single-family homes that were primarily used for business purposes in recent decades.
All those poor clueless souls that will move in to 229 apartments in the ZOM, and 160 more in the Edgemor II. Don't they know that Bethesda and MoCo are doomed? Too bad they don't read this blog and just move to NoVa...
9:09: If it's like the other new rental buildings in town, a large number of the tenants will be either staying a night or two like a hotel or the beneficiaries of contract housing paid for or subsidized by their employer. They'll therefore be unaffected by MoCo's moribund economy.
They will, however, be severely affected by the destruction of Bethesda's nighttime economy by Hans Riemer's Nighttime Economy initiative. Wasn't Evan Glass on that task force too? Ouch. Not a good look.
" a large number of the tenants will be either staying a night or two like a hotel or the beneficiaries of contract housing paid for or subsidized by their employer."
Maybe some of those folks that live in those 489 new apartments will find that they can not get and keep jobs because of the moribund economy. Perhaps some of these folks (without jobs) will start a blog to warn others of the moribund economy, and even put their hats in the ring and offer to becom elected officials and promise to fix the moribund economy. Maybe some of these folks have never really worked in a business environment, but pretend to know what it is like, and offer all kinds of advice to others. I know this all sounds crazy, but it might happen.
If employers are eager to subsidize their employees living in luxury housing in Bethesda, then the economic situation in our County must be pretty good!
8:51: Employers in DC and Virginia subsidizing corporate housing in Bethesda says absolutely nothing about the MoCo economy. If anything, it shows that there's a lack of demand for luxury apartments at the market rate, because developers have had to airbnb the units out of desperation.
Humiliating!
5:00: Thank you for reading! These were private sales.
9:19: Source is the actual people who stayed in those new buildings overnight as a hotel, as I found during my undercover investigation. I've blown the lid off of the fantasies of "great demand" for luxury apartments and affordable housing. In fact, landlords who have quantities of either can't fill them.
"Source is the actual people who stayed in those new buildings overnight as a hotel, as I found during my undercover investigation. I've blown the lid off of the fantasies..."
LOL, sure, you fruitcake.
Why haven't you reported "voter fraud" to the FBI yet?
9:42: Confirming that many new apartments are vacant and are being filled secretly as airbnb-type hotel uses hardly makes me a "fruitcake," moron. It's called great journalism. The last undercover investigation by a local MoCo media outlet other than one of mine was....uh....never.
First the boards of elections need to examine the evidence I will present, and based on their response and explanation, I will forward my data to the FBI if justified.
5:00: As soon as I've finished compiling the precinct data. There are hundreds of precincts. There are a number of questionable data points in each, in some cases. All of the questionable precincts do have anomalous voting results in common, such as 20 people voting for a candidate who never left their home in 2018, while NOT voting for a more recognizable name like mine. Not possible beyond a candidate's home precinct, yet the pattern is seen in dozens of precincts.
In a jurisdiction with a free press, reporters would already have noticed, investigated and compiled the data. In corrupt MoCo, it's up to a candidate like me to type all of this up myself. It's ridiculous, and I'm a very busy man, so it's taken a while to finish.
6:06: You're talking about two different phenomenons. The candidates who didn't leave home were Republicans who never showed up for a single public campaign event, parade, primary forum, etc.
I was at every such event, by contrast.
Yes, I absolutely have better name recognition than Albornoz, Glass and Jawando. They have their professional networks and very localized neighborhood/political activist supporters. None of them were engaged on any of the major issues countywide of this past decade. None were at the many public events, rallies, protests, etc. associated with those events. None testified at the various sector plan hearings ranging from Westbard to Glenmont to Damascus, etc., etc.
None had a web presence at all prior to whatever paid promotion they did in the actual 2018 election year. None have a YouTube channel with 11000+ subscribers. I have multiple daily news websites, and am familiar to activists countywide. There's no question I was better known.
The term "affordable" units usually refers to Moderately Priced Dwelling Units (MPDUs). For a family of two buying in a high-rise building, the income limits are $30,000 - $65,500 per year. Typical rents for one bedroom MPDUs in Bethesda are running around $1300-1400 per month.
"The candidates who didn't leave home were Republicans who never showed up for a single public campaign event, parade, primary forum, etc."
So now you're complaining that your Republican running-mates got votes? They got votes for the same reason you did - from idiots who automatically vote for fellow idiots with an "R" next to their names on the ballot.
7:44: Poor dodge, Astro Turf man. First, I got over 6000 more votes than those Republican running mates (and that's even after the voter fraud and voting results tampering). Second, the issue isn't them getting votes - it's ones who didn't even campaign mysteriously getting 20+ more votes than me at random precincts around the county. Those are the anomalous results the BOE and FBI will have to examine.
Your name was 1st on the ballot, einee-meenie-miney-mo between the Republican candidates might land on your name, you have a four-letter last name, all three are factors in your favor. There have been several state studies done, Texas is one, where being listed 1st assured a 15-20% vote gain.
4:19: Wrong on every count. Not only does the first name not always win (I should know, having beat several people above me for the Central Committee race in 2006), but this is the first election of four in which I had such a wide lead over my fellow Republicans. Stop lying, and start thinking.
Second, the issue is the near-impossibility of 20+ people in dozens of random precincts around the county all agreeing to vote for Republicans who never left their houses in 2018, and simultaneously agreeing to not vote for me, also a Republican. It's clear there was vote tampering.
I'll go with the studies done in Texas, California, Michigan, NPR over your opinion on one race in one county in one state in this country. Use your Google machine and look it up.
Maybe you should stop trying to find fault in everything that didn't go your way. Maybe you are thinking too much. Maybe you have an axe to grind.
Secondly, people randomly picking a name can easily account for those votes. Especially for the opposing party in a right-leaning or left-leaning state. You know, I did research on this once after discussing with clients how they tend to "randomly pick names" on local elections. I admit, I did the same for many years. The best one I heard was from an elderly Silver spring woman who said she "voted for Democrats, but she'd vote for a Republican on one thing so they wouldn't feel left out."
Was is an honest person so completely foreign to you?
5:09: That's great, but random pickers don't come 20+ to a precinct and all "randomly" pick the exact same Republican names. That's where the MoCo cartel has been caught red-handed.
Reminder: Robert Dyer traitorously instructed voters not to vote for the three other Republicans running for the County Council At-Large seats in the 2018 election.
6:44: Nope, even after voter fraud and apparent vote result tampering, I still had over 6000 Democratic crossover votes beyond the other GOP candidates. Now imagine if I had received [any] coverage in the Washington Post, there had been the usual debates, and a free and fair election.
7:24: Because a majority of voters, absent an accurate narrative showing an alternative choice via a free press, were inclined to vote Democrat if they knew nothing about the actual candidates.
All those poor clueless souls that will move in to 229 apartments in the ZOM, and 160 more in the Edgemor II. Don't they know that Bethesda and MoCo are doomed? Too bad they don't read this blog and just move to NoVa...
ReplyDeleteThe ZOM apartments has been officially named "Maizon Bethesda"
ReplyDeletezombethesda.com
9:09: If it's like the other new rental buildings in town, a large number of the tenants will be either staying a night or two like a hotel or the beneficiaries of contract housing paid for or subsidized by their employer. They'll therefore be unaffected by MoCo's moribund economy.
ReplyDeleteThey will, however, be severely affected by the destruction of Bethesda's nighttime economy by Hans Riemer's Nighttime Economy initiative. Wasn't Evan Glass on that task force too? Ouch. Not a good look.
" a large number of the tenants will be either staying a night or two like a hotel or the beneficiaries of contract housing paid for or subsidized by their employer."
ReplyDeleteSource?
Mooribundland Lane
ReplyDeleteMaybe some of those folks that live in those 489 new apartments will find that they can not get and keep jobs because of the moribund economy. Perhaps some of these folks (without jobs) will start a blog to warn others of the moribund economy, and even put their hats in the ring and offer to becom elected officials and promise to fix the moribund economy. Maybe some of these folks have never really worked in a business environment, but pretend to know what it is like, and offer all kinds of advice to others. I know this all sounds crazy, but it might happen.
ReplyDelete2:13 PM Apparently MoCo is so moribund, folks had to run their self proclaimed Bethesda blogs from Arlington.
ReplyDelete"I can see Bethesda from my front porch in Arlington"
Seeing old Bethesda torn down is very depressing.
ReplyDeleteRobert, do you know if this was an eminent domain purchase by the state or a private sale?
I hope these land owners made out well on this deal to leave town?
Thank you for all the excellent community articles you write!
If employers are eager to subsidize their employees living in luxury housing in Bethesda, then the economic situation in our County must be pretty good!
ReplyDelete#Vivibund
8:51: Employers in DC and Virginia subsidizing corporate housing in Bethesda says absolutely nothing about the MoCo economy. If anything, it shows that there's a lack of demand for luxury apartments at the market rate, because developers have had to airbnb the units out of desperation.
ReplyDeleteHumiliating!
5:00: Thank you for reading! These were private sales.
9:19: Source is the actual people who stayed in those new buildings overnight as a hotel, as I found during my undercover investigation. I've blown the lid off of the fantasies of "great demand" for luxury apartments and affordable housing. In fact, landlords who have quantities of either can't fill them.
"Source is the actual people who stayed in those new buildings overnight as a hotel, as I found during my undercover investigation. I've blown the lid off of the fantasies..."
ReplyDeleteLOL, sure, you fruitcake.
Why haven't you reported "voter fraud" to the FBI yet?
9:42: Confirming that many new apartments are vacant and are being filled secretly as airbnb-type hotel uses hardly makes me a "fruitcake," moron. It's called great journalism. The last undercover investigation by a local MoCo media outlet other than one of mine was....uh....never.
ReplyDeleteFirst the boards of elections need to examine the evidence I will present, and based on their response and explanation, I will forward my data to the FBI if justified.
So 15% will be "affordable". What does that exactly amount to, and how does one qualify? That will be 35 Airbnb units with the best margins.
ReplyDelete"First the boards of elections need to examine the evidence"
ReplyDeleteSo, when is that happening? Have you turned your report over to them? When?
5:00: As soon as I've finished compiling the precinct data. There are hundreds of precincts. There are a number of questionable data points in each, in some cases. All of the questionable precincts do have anomalous voting results in common, such as 20 people voting for a candidate who never left their home in 2018, while NOT voting for a more recognizable name like mine. Not possible beyond a candidate's home precinct, yet the pattern is seen in dozens of precincts.
ReplyDeleteIn a jurisdiction with a free press, reporters would already have noticed, investigated and compiled the data. In corrupt MoCo, it's up to a candidate like me to type all of this up myself. It's ridiculous, and I'm a very busy man, so it's taken a while to finish.
"20 people voting for a candidate who never left their home in 2018"
ReplyDeleteWhich candidates "never left their home in 2018"? Or did you mean the voters? And how do you know this?
More importantly, why do believe that you had "better name recognition" than Albornoz, Glass, Jawando or Reimer?
6:06: You're talking about two different phenomenons. The candidates who didn't leave home were Republicans who never showed up for a single public campaign event, parade, primary forum, etc.
ReplyDeleteI was at every such event, by contrast.
Yes, I absolutely have better name recognition than Albornoz, Glass and Jawando. They have their professional networks and very localized neighborhood/political activist supporters. None of them were engaged on any of the major issues countywide of this past decade. None were at the many public events, rallies, protests, etc. associated with those events. None testified at the various sector plan hearings ranging from Westbard to Glenmont to Damascus, etc., etc.
None had a web presence at all prior to whatever paid promotion they did in the actual 2018 election year. None have a YouTube channel with 11000+ subscribers. I have multiple daily news websites, and am familiar to activists countywide. There's no question I was better known.
The term "affordable" units usually refers to Moderately Priced Dwelling Units (MPDUs). For a family of two buying in a high-rise building, the income limits are $30,000 - $65,500 per year. Typical rents for one bedroom MPDUs in Bethesda are running around $1300-1400 per month.
ReplyDelete"The candidates who didn't leave home were Republicans who never showed up for a single public campaign event, parade, primary forum, etc."
ReplyDeleteSo now you're complaining that your Republican running-mates got votes? They got votes for the same reason you did - from idiots who automatically vote for fellow idiots with an "R" next to their names on the ballot.
7:44: Poor dodge, Astro Turf man. First, I got over 6000 more votes than those Republican running mates (and that's even after the voter fraud and voting results tampering). Second, the issue isn't them getting votes - it's ones who didn't even campaign mysteriously getting 20+ more votes than me at random precincts around the county. Those are the anomalous results the BOE and FBI will have to examine.
ReplyDeleteGood time to remind folks that Stacey Abrams lost by thousands of votes in Georgia and still hasn't conceded.
ReplyDeleteYour name was 1st on the ballot, einee-meenie-miney-mo between the Republican candidates might land on your name, you have a four-letter last name, all three are factors in your favor.
ReplyDeleteThere have been several state studies done, Texas is one, where being listed 1st assured a 15-20% vote gain.
4:19: Wrong on every count. Not only does the first name not always win (I should know, having beat several people above me for the Central Committee race in 2006), but this is the first election of four in which I had such a wide lead over my fellow Republicans. Stop lying, and start thinking.
ReplyDeleteSecond, the issue is the near-impossibility of 20+ people in dozens of random precincts around the county all agreeing to vote for Republicans who never left their houses in 2018, and simultaneously agreeing to not vote for me, also a Republican. It's clear there was vote tampering.
I'll go with the studies done in Texas, California, Michigan, NPR over your opinion on one race in one county in one state in this country. Use your Google machine and look it up.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you should stop trying to find fault in everything that didn't go your way. Maybe you are thinking too much. Maybe you have an axe to grind.
Secondly, people randomly picking a name can easily account for those votes. Especially for the opposing party in a right-leaning or left-leaning state. You know, I did research on this once after discussing with clients how they tend to "randomly pick names" on local elections. I admit, I did the same for many years. The best one I heard was from an elderly Silver spring woman who said she "voted for Democrats, but she'd vote for a Republican on one thing so they wouldn't feel left out."
Was is an honest person so completely foreign to you?
5:09: That's great, but random pickers don't come 20+ to a precinct and all "randomly" pick the exact same Republican names. That's where the MoCo cartel has been caught red-handed.
ReplyDeleteReminder: Robert Dyer traitorously instructed voters not to vote for the three other Republicans running for the County Council At-Large seats in the 2018 election.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_EtPtHNiiI
6:05: I was the only one who had enough of a base across party lines to win. Very smart.
ReplyDeleteVery delusional.
ReplyDelete6:44: Nope, even after voter fraud and apparent vote result tampering, I still had over 6000 Democratic crossover votes beyond the other GOP candidates. Now imagine if I had received [any] coverage in the Washington Post, there had been the usual debates, and a free and fair election.
ReplyDeleteSo if The Washington Post didn't report on the general election for the County Council, then how did any of the Democratic candidates benefit?
ReplyDelete7:24: Because a majority of voters, absent an accurate narrative showing an alternative choice via a free press, were inclined to vote Democrat if they knew nothing about the actual candidates.
ReplyDelete