By Reardon "Sully" Sullivan

The Empty Politics of Platitudes

It’s election season and if you’re like me, you are getting bombarded with overused platitudes offered as new ideas, wisdom or comfort, but that come across as insincere drivel often gas-lighting voters.

Platitudes sound wise but mean nothing — they’re how politicians avoid hard truths.

I am tired of trite phrases such as: “Hardworking families deserve better.” “We need to come together,” “The system is broken,” “ We need to fix a broken system.” Democrat candidates like Marc Elrich (who has been in local government for 20 years), and Will Jawando and his slate that have been in office for several terms continue to gas light voters with a blow torch. Look in the mirror guys… you created the issues and have no idea how to fix them.

1. Take Wes Moore’s recent announcement that his administration will be laying off over 500+ workers while recently saying that they will be hiring separated federal workers. Does this guy know what he is doing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm7A8x1aBmo

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By Lori Jaffe

It’s been 6 months since our last MoCo Hall of Shame Awards. We figured it was time to look back and honor those in local government service who have risen to the top of the shame ladder. Here are our picks…

Mid MoCo Muster 

Greg Decker and the Mid MoCo Muster are on winter break, we'll resume our monthly meeting at La Mex in the Spring. Have a great Holiday Season!

By Dennis Brent Melby

Sherwood High School and racial hatred?

There is simply not racism around every corner. Although many MoCo political leaders find skin color a great way to divide people and garner votes most people know better.

Coverage of the Senior Class T Shirts at Sherwood High School in Sandy Spring is a great example. The black teachers and advisors and student leaders designed T-shirts for the senior class to wear as a memento. They used the word SENIORS and changed some letters to numbers to add ’26 - making it catchy. The kids loved them!

Yet some administrators and students decided they saw the N-word in the T-shirts and called racism against everyone involved!  Let’s be clear, two or three black leaders did NOT design a shirt modeled after the N-word for all the students to wear to remember their time together. They would not do that. Neither would white, native or Asian students. For the few folks who love division let me be clear, in Montgomery County there is not racism around EVERY corner- even if you’re desperate to find it. We’re better than that. MoCo is a good place.

Rich Collins, Vice President of the Maryland Republican Party, spoke to members of the Montgomery County Republican Party's Executive Committee at its October meeting Tuesday in Rockville. He stressed it's time to help great Republicans all over the region get elected - and even help out in other states and local off-year elections.

Yes, the MoCo Republicans still back the blue.