Candidate, Christopher S. Reed

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Today, I issued a public statement after the Montgomery County Council voted to reallocate money which was intended to fund critical MCPS school infrastructure needs. The decision comes as Montgomery County continues to face very serious school facility challenges, including aging HVAC systems, roof replacement needs, deteriorating classrooms, and delayed modernization projects across the school system. Montgomery County cannot keep claiming to prioritize public education while cutting the very funds needed to fix the buildings where our students learn and our educators work. This is exactly the kind of short-term budgeting that helped create the school infrastructure crisis facing Wootton, Magruder, Twinbrook, and schools across the county. In fact, the decision to close Wootton High School was the consequence of decisions like the one which occurred today: years of underinvestment and years of political decisions that treated Wootton's infrastructure budget as negotiable. When capital needs are delayed long enough, the public is eventually told there are no good choices left. Prioritizing school infrastructure means prioritizing safety, health, students, teachers, principals, and staff. We cannot keep passing the buck. We need to fix the schools. My full statement is linked here: vangrackstatementbudget.tiiny.site

Detectives from the Montgomery County Department of Police – Special Victims Investigations Division are asking for the public’s assistance in locating Emma Norman, a missing 15-year-old. montgomerycountymd.gov/news/concern-m… #MCPNews #MCPD #MissingTeen

I remain shocked that this happens so much. All of us have experienced the “oh man” of being behind a school bus when in a hurry but it is so flagrantly irresponsible to pass a bus with flashing red lights. Don’t.

@EricGDorsey I agree. I believe it is something each state should handle.

@Reed4Delegate This is not the business of the federal government. At all

Providing free lunch to students is a no-brainer. It’s an investment into the next generation.

@LPMaryland As a kid who went through @MCPS, and whose parents both worked for the school system, yet didn’t earn a lot of money. I was fortunate to receive free and reduced lunch. No child should have to go hungry.

@Reed4Delegate “Free school lunch”

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@JustinReady Parents are not doing enough to set their children up for success in school. They need to actually parent.

It’s been a growing problem - now it’s going to be treated like it’s part of the educational service? It’s outrageous and the unions should fight it as should any common sense person.

This is wonderful to see! Next step is taking the Red Line further along 270!

Utilities need to become fully public services again. Public service with a fiduciary responsibility to the people, not shareholders chasing which customers are most profitable

I’m proud to commit to establishing term limits!

Momentum is building! Huge thanks to @Reed4Delegate for committing to #termlimits. Let’s keep pushing for a more responsive Congress! termlimits.com/wp-content/upl…

Congrats to @AFAUnitedMEC on their new contract! Nearly 30,000 flight attendants will see an average pay increase of 31%, and receive $740 million in back pay. This is why we need unions! They’re the biggest check on systems that punish hardworking Americans!

Build bridges, not data centers.

Not standing up to data centers will be one of the last mistakes we make.

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🦔A data center in Fayetteville, Georgia, drained approximately 30 million gallons of water through two industrial-scale hookups that the local utility did not know existed. One connection had been installed without the utility's knowledge, and the other was not linked to any account and therefore was not being billed. The discovery only came after residents complained about low water pressure. The campus is still under construction with completion projected three to five years out. A separate incident in Tucson last week saw Project Blue's contractor caught trucking municipal water out of a city that had explicitly voted against the project, with Tucson revoking the temporary meter and demanding two acre-feet of water credits to make the city whole. My Take Two unrelated data center water incidents in two weeks across two different states is a pattern, not a coincidence. The Georgia facility was running off an unmetered industrial hookup nobody at the utility had on file, which means either a contractor installed it without authorization or the utility lost track of a connection serving a major customer, and neither of those explanations should make anyone comfortable. The construction phase alone consumed 30 million gallons before operations even began, which gives you a sense of the water demand profile these facilities have once they go live. The bigger issue is that hyperscale data centers are being permitted under regulatory frameworks built for industrial users a fraction of their size, and the utilities responsible for tracking water use are not staffed for facilities this scale. A 30 million gallon discrepancy slipping through billing is not a clerical error, it is a sign that the infrastructure for monitoring these projects is being outpaced by the speed at which they are being built. Tucson caught their problem because a citizen made a phone call to a council staffer, and Fayetteville caught theirs because neighbors noticed their taps had lost pressure. Neither of those is a functioning compliance system, and the next community in this situation will probably not catch it at all. Hedgie🤗

Data centers are a drain on our natural resources. There is literally zero upside to data centers for the average American.