Politics
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Looking Into Congressman Jamie Raskin’s Big-Money Individual Donors Based in Montgomery County this Cycle
Read more: Looking Into Congressman Jamie Raskin’s Big-Money Individual Donors Based in Montgomery County this CycleCongressman Jamie Raskin (Democrat) lives in Takoma Park, MD and has now represented congressional district MD-08 (most of MoCo) for several years. The congressman graduated from Harvard Law and still holds a law professor title at his former (main) employer, American University in tony NW, Washington DC. The average household income in American U’s neighborhood? …
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10,000 Reasons to Term Limit Marc Elrich (and Future County Executives)
Read more: 10,000 Reasons to Term Limit Marc Elrich (and Future County Executives)Since term limits for the Montgomery County Executive will be on the ballot in November (yay, real democracy!), let us now look at the many reasons to further term limit the County Exec (eight years is plenty of time), and send Marc Elrich home to his Takoma Park abode. Marc Elrich is a career politician…
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Local “Defenders of Democracy” Promote Coronation for Nominee Within 24 Hours of President Joe Biden Announcement, Reject a Mini-Primary
Read more: Local “Defenders of Democracy” Promote Coronation for Nominee Within 24 Hours of President Joe Biden Announcement, Reject a Mini-PrimaryIt took roughly 24 hours, but Councilmembers on Montgomery County’s legislative body, sometimes called the “MoCo Council”, quickly and dutifully coalesced around Vice President Kamala Harris as the potential US Presidential Nominee for their political club/tribe in 2024. Their proclamations of loyalty and (seemingly) enthusiastic endorsement of Vice President Harris as the “blue tribe” nominee…
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The Many Times CE Marc Elrich “Gets Personal” When Discussing the Political or Mundane
Read more: The Many Times CE Marc Elrich “Gets Personal” When Discussing the Political or MundaneWhen does the political get “personal”? Increasingly, with MoCo County Exec Marc Elrich, it appears to occur whenever someone has a different policy idea or theory on governing than him. Take, for example, his recent personal jab on Reardon “Sully” Sullivan as reported by Adam Pagnucco (himself reporting on Fox 5’s Tom Fitzgerald’s interview with…
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Council Member Appears to Still be Accepting Donations for Failed Congressional Bid, One Month After Finishing in 6th Place in the Democratic Primary
Read more: Council Member Appears to Still be Accepting Donations for Failed Congressional Bid, One Month After Finishing in 6th Place in the Democratic PrimaryAbout one month after the Maryland primary vote for the 6th Congressional District, Councilmember (At Large, Democrat) Laurie-Anne Sayles appears to have still left her campaign website up and a donations / credit card capture form still active. By the logic of (some) nanny-state members of the Montgomery County Council and state delegation to Annapolis,…
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Even ChatGPT is confused by MoCo Elections
Read more: Even ChatGPT is confused by MoCo ElectionsOn June 13th Delegate Sarah Love officially became Sen. Sarah Love. The MoCo elected elite took to X to share their congratulations and gush how she was the “right pick”. It’s official! Congratulations to District 16’s new State Senator, @SaraLove4MD pic.twitter.com/TB5xys9He0 — Marc Korman (@mkorman) June 13, 2024 The strange thing (well strange to anyone…
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Councilmember Sayles Talks Up Barriers Broken, Ceilings Shattered as an “At-Large” MoCo Politician to Local Girl Scout Troop
Read more: Councilmember Sayles Talks Up Barriers Broken, Ceilings Shattered as an “At-Large” MoCo Politician to Local Girl Scout TroopFresh off a disappointing 6th place loss in the Democrat primary for U.S. Congress, House District 6, Councilmember “At Large” Laurie-Anne Sayles is back at her day job representing the whole of MoCo and talking to the youth. Oh, and defending local democracy. Including that “democracy” that appoints a select insider to a state senate…
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CleanSlate MoCo Spotlight: Local Opponents of Prosperity & Individual Choice – (New) State Senator Sara Love (District 16)
Read more: CleanSlate MoCo Spotlight: Local Opponents of Prosperity & Individual Choice – (New) State Senator Sara Love (District 16)Occupation: A newly crowned (by an “electorate” of 25 or so political club insiders) Maryland State Senator, representing MoCo’s 16th District Affiliations: Maryland Democratic Party. Member, serving on the Environment & Transportation Committee and two of its subcommittees, the Motor Vehicle & Transportation Subcommittee, which Love also chairs, and the Environment Subcommittee. In May of 2022, ahead of the U.S.…
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The Democratic BoE primaries: Part 2—Ranked Choice Voting
Read more: The Democratic BoE primaries: Part 2—Ranked Choice VotingThe outcome of the 2024 Democratic BoE primaries gives us a real-world view into how things could have been different under ranked choice voting (RCV). The rules of these BoE elections are extremely manipulative. The two top vote getters in each “district” face off in the general elections. That is nonsense, because everyone votes for…
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Which is a worse way to fund a campaign: self-financing or no-financing?
Read more: Which is a worse way to fund a campaign: self-financing or no-financing?Some political activists criticize David Trone and his recent Senate primary campaign because he attempted to buy his victory with his own money. That’s a fair complaint. Michael Bloomberg, Vivek Ramaswamy, Tom Steyer, Steve Forbes, and H. Ross Perot are also on the list of wealthy candidates financing their own sometimes successful but more often…