Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich (D) has released a year-end video promoting his top ten accomplishments of 2023. Among the ten are the passage of a rent stabilization bill, economic development wins orchestrated by his office that include the creation of an Institute for Health Computing in North Bethesda, record low unemployment, combating climate change, and free access to County-operated fitness centers. Elrich's office also compiled a statistical list of the executive's activities over the past 12 months. They calculated that Elrich attended over 300 community related events and gatherings throughout Montgomery County; over 100 legislative meetings, hearings, and events with federal, state, and County Council officials; and over 150 business visits and meetings related to Montgomery County economic development efforts.
“By many measures, 2023 was a very good year for Montgomery County,” Elrich said in a statement Friday. “We saw several major economic wins while recording a historically low unemployment rate. Our County government retained its 'Triple-A' rating from all three credit rating agencies and increased our reserves of revenues upward to 17%, well beyond the 10% target. We also had historic levels of investment in education and affordable housing. However, this year was not without its challenges. Public safety concerns, juvenile crime and drug overdoses, as well a dramatic increase of hate incidents and fear in wake of war in the Middle East remain issues that we will have to continue to address in 2024.”
Elrich recently told WAMU-FM that he intends to run for a third term in 2026. Term limits passed in 2016 restrict the executive and County Councilmembers to three consecutive terms. A petition effort to place a ballot question limiting the executive to only two consecutive terms is currently in progress, led by Elrich's 2022 Republican opponent, Reardon Sullivan.
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Our peripatetic career politician
Touts his deeds as a statistician
Preparing a novel foreshadowing
Another four-years as a logician
After an arduous vote recounting.
I'm not going to comment here because I'll only get in trouble.. or worse.
The guy has destroyed montgomery county
Do you feel your quality of life has improved, stayed the same, or deteriorated? Numbers anymore mean nothin'. Especially when the corrupt and Marxist government is putting them out to lie even more
Concentrating on guns & pronouns instead of criminals is why we are where we are. Not to mention keeping uneducated public school "graduates" on the welfare plantation.
Imagine if Trump were in office and we had a semblance of a bipartisan government in MD but with todays economy and border. The WP, CNN etal would be on a countdown to disaster instead of blowing wind up the skirts of uninformed moonbats who vote for the same liberals over and over again expecting different results.
Can't help compare Elrich to the "Commanders" I'm watching get waxed again, right now. Lots of jumping and dancing after a small gain, just don't look at the scoreboard.
What do you expect from an incumbent that got 'reelected' by about 11 votes?
Elrich is counting on ignorance and apathy much like all liberal "journalists" and "economists":
https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1712494317024026761
Inflation is over, (just exclude food, shelter, fuel & used cars). Unemployment is historically low, (just don't count those on entitlements or ones who are no longer looking). Liberals would make me laugh if they weren't in charge.
His policies have sent wealthy Montgomery county residents to favorable tax states, losing major tax payers. And turned moco
into a sanctuary county sucking money from everyone. Good job
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