{"id":2187,"date":"2021-11-21T13:01:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T18:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/21\/david-blair-unveils-his-economic-plan-asking-montgomery-countys-daddy-for-money\/"},"modified":"2021-11-22T00:03:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T05:03:31","slug":"david-blair-unveils-his-economic-plan-asking-montgomery-countys-daddy-for-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/21\/david-blair-unveils-his-economic-plan-asking-montgomery-countys-daddy-for-money\/","title":{"rendered":"David Blair Unveils His Economic Plan of Asking Montgomery County&#8217;s Daddy for Money"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"456\" height=\"292\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/takomatorch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20211121_1257393988837811049587144.jpg?resize=456%2C292&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/takomatorch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20211121_1257393988837811049587144.jpg?w=456&amp;ssl=1 456w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/takomatorch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20211121_1257393988837811049587144.jpg?resize=300%2C192&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/takomatorch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20211121_1257393988837811049587144.jpg?resize=360%2C231&amp;ssl=1 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>POTOMAC, MD &#8211;&nbsp; Using the same strategy that once helped him become a successful businessman, County Executive candidate David Blair recently unveiled his 1-point economic plan for Montgomery County: asking its wealthy father for money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Through hard work and determination, my dad made me the CEO of his million dollar company in my late-20s,&#8221; said Blair, 52, on the campaign trail. &#8220;With enough effort, we too can use nepotism to grow Montgomery County&#8217;s economy and create jobs.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blair, running for a second time after a narrow loss in 2018, is hoping to convince voters that he is both a good Democrat and \u201cgood at business&#8221; despite the facts that he never voted in a Democratic primary before deciding to run for office in 2016 and no record exists of him holding a job independent of his father since graduating from college.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;To get us back on track, Montgomery County needs effective leadership and a new vision,&#8221; said Blair. &#8220;We don\u2019t need to look far for ideas. We have incredibly talented community leaders all around us with deep-pocketed fathers that can make sure we are set for life.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blair\u2019s own father continues to play a paternal role in his son\u2019s campaign. Just yesterday at the Thanksgiving Parade in Silver Spring\u2014a vibrant and diverse community that Blair recently described as a crime-ridden hellscape in desperate need of a more heavily armed police presence\u2014Blair\u2019s father was spotted holding his son\u2019s hand and ensuring he didn\u2019t get lost in the scary crowd of poors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POTOMAC, MD &#8211;&nbsp; Using the same strategy that once helped him become a successful businessman, County Executive candidate David Blair recently unveiled his 1-point economic plan for Montgomery County: asking its wealthy father for money. &#8220;Through hard work and determination, my dad made me the CEO of his million dollar company in my late-20s,&#8221; said&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2186,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[711,114,184,904,905,183,516,95,707,482,551,24,874,373,319,384,370,140,318,489,371,368,383,340,141,490,317,189,640,512,309,768,135,705,710,668,667,840,405,441,638,787,130,706,445,339,116,805,94,98,162,542,137,93,111,136,2,718,716,717,104,164,599,773,38,615,313,406,369],"class_list":["post-2187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-local-news","tag-2022-county-executive-race","tag-amazon","tag-bethesda","tag-blair-for-moco","tag-blair-for-montgomery-county","tag-chevy-chase","tag-cnn","tag-comedy","tag-david-blair","tag-dc","tag-dc-politics","tag-dc-satire","tag-east-silver-spring","tag-ebay","tag-elrich","tag-evan-glass","tag-facebook","tag-fake-news","tag-ficker","tag-funny","tag-gmail","tag-google","tag-hans-riemer","tag-hulu","tag-humor","tag-jokes","tag-marc-elrich","tag-maryland","tag-maryland-satire","tag-md-politics","tag-moco","tag-moco-bid","tag-moco-boe","tag-moco-council","tag-moco-executive","tag-moco-planning-board","tag-moco-planning-commission","tag-moco-police","tag-moco-politics","tag-moco-restaurants","tag-moco-satire","tag-moco-schools","tag-montgomery-county","tag-montgomery-county-council","tag-montgomery-county-planning","tag-netflix","tag-nimby","tag-olney","tag-parody","tag-political-satire","tag-politics","tag-reddit","tag-rockville","tag-satire","tag-satirical-news","tag-silver-spring","tag-takoma-park","tag-takoma-park-satire","tag-takoma-satire","tag-takoma-satirical-news","tag-takoma-torch","tag-takomatorch","tag-the-onion","tag-thrive-2050","tag-twitter","tag-washington-dc","tag-wheaton","tag-will-jawando","tag-youtube","wpcat-9-id","wpcat-17-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/takomatorch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20211121_1257393988837811049587144.jpg?fit=456%2C292&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paPZSG-zh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2188,"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions\/2188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}