Open MD-06 Discussion

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Would him retiring from the House make MD-06 competitive in anyway? It voted within 10% last year and has a PVI of D+2

If republicans can nominate a sane candidate it would be.

So no

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As for the Democrats, Joe Vogel announced he'd consider a candidacy. Vogel, a Jewish Uruguayan immigrant, is one of two Zoomers elected to office in Maryland.

He’s also openly gay.

He would be Maryland’s first Latino member of Congress.

And he’s only four years older than me…

damnit he was in student gov nvm

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I'm surprised there hasn't been more discussion of this primary.

It appears that the race is down to April McClain Delaney (John Delaney's wife), Joe Vogel (27-year old state Delegate from MontCo, who I went to college with but don't know personally), and Lesley Lopez (another state Delegate).

There are quite a few other candidates, including the Mayor of Hagerstown, but it seems those three are the only ones who have a chance to win.

However with 5 days left in the race, I get the sense that Vogel might actually eke out the win.

Really hope Vogel doesn’t win. Every person who I’ve know in College Student Gov has been the most insufferable, duplicitous, and self serving people, whether it was in SC or CO. I hope Lopez can beat him, she seems like an actually decent person.

[Born to Slay. Forced to Work.]

I'm surprised there hasn't been more discussion of this primary.

It appears that the race is down to April McClain Delaney (John Delaney's wife), Joe Vogel (27-year old state Delegate from MontCo, who I went to college with but don't know personally), and Lesley Lopez (another state Delegate).

There are quite a few other candidates, including the Mayor of Hagerstown, but it seems those three are the only ones who have a chance to win.

However with 5 days left in the race, I get the sense that Vogel might actually eke out the win.

Really hope Vogel doesn’t win. Every person who I’ve know in College Student Gov has been the most insufferable, duplicitous, and self serving people, whether it was in SC or CO. I hope Lopez can beat him, she seems like an actually decent person.

GW Student government is a comic opera - it's full of kids absolutely convinced they'll be major politicians (or major political operatives) who take this too seriously. Vogel was one of them.

If you're looking for fun reads, I recommend reading the GW Hatchet (school paper)'s stories about student government/student election scandals over the years:

https://gwhatchet.com/?s=election+scandal

I’ll do you one better, when I was a freshman at UofSC I got involved with the RHA wing of student gov and we had to go to conferences in NC cause South Carolina’s RHA had been dissolved the year before because of embezzlement.

I also saw someone in UofSC’s student gov meeting grill a woman till she was in tears cause she wasn’t in dress code

I think there was atleast one impeachment attempt a year

[Born to Slay. Forced to Work.]

I'm surprised there hasn't been more discussion of this primary.

It appears that the race is down to April McClain Delaney (John Delaney's wife), Joe Vogel (27-year old state Delegate from MontCo, who I went to college with but don't know personally), and Lesley Lopez (another state Delegate).

There are quite a few other candidates, including the Mayor of Hagerstown, but it seems those three are the only ones who have a chance to win.

However with 5 days left in the race, I get the sense that Vogel might actually eke out the win.

Really hope Vogel doesn’t win. Every person who I’ve know in College Student Gov has been the most insufferable, duplicitous, and self serving people, whether it was in SC or CO. I hope Lopez can beat him, she seems like an actually decent person.

GW Student government is a comic opera - it's full of kids absolutely convinced they'll be major politicians (or major political operatives) who take this too seriously. Vogel was one of them.

If you're looking for fun reads, I recommend reading the GW Hatchet (school paper)'s stories about student government/student election scandals over the years:

https://gwhatchet.com/?s=election+scandal

You’ll find that in any student government. Everyone thinks they’re gonna be the next House of Cards or Scandal real-life persona. It’s insufferable. Then theyare shocked when they realize that being in student government won’t overcome their 2.7 GPA and 154 LSAT to get into Yale or Harvard Law.

My pet psychoanalysis of student government is that, because in most cases it’s entirely powerless, it only attracts people who want power for power’s sake. Like having some fancy position makes them somehow better. Since it only lasts at most five years and because absolutely nothing is at stake you can be a ruthless cutthroat bastard with little to no repercussions besides temporary social stigma that is gone once you graduate.

It doesn’t attract many people who want to actually do better cause they realize you can’t do anything in SG.

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Vogel lost, all is well