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Removing a Council Member
Read more: Removing a Council MemberSome jurisdictions provide a remedy for removing an elected official that no longer serves his/her constituency. For Americans, arguably the most important removal procedure is against the president of the United States. Only the House of Representatives can impeach a president, and the Senate conducts the trial for removal. A two-thirds majority in the Senate…
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MCEA in Violation of Election Laws
Read more: MCEA in Violation of Election LawsToday, via its Twitter account, MCEA teased the release of a social media toolkit to support the BOE candidates that it has endorsed. Join the #RedforED #MCEAAppleBallot Blitz tomorrow! A social media toolkit with shareable graphics, captions, and the candidates’ handles is available at https://t.co/lFPIuM297x pic.twitter.com/hgOkUJrTQq — Montgomery County Education Association (@mceanea) March 26, 2024…
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Released: Apple Ballot Questionnaire Answers
Read more: Released: Apple Ballot Questionnaire AnswersWellllll, since the Apple endorsed candidates will not be transparent and release the answers they provided to the Apple Ballot Questionnaire and since MCEA will not release the answers the candidates provided…..we will. This of course does not cover any additional interviews the candidates took part in, what they might have been asked, and how…
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“Electing” a Council President
Read more: “Electing” a Council PresidentThe county’s Charter Review Commission is taking up a proposal that changes the way the County Council’s president is determined. Currently, the council members themselves elect the council president. (Interestingly, in his three terms as a council member, County Executive Marc Elrich was never vested with this office by his counterparts. The council president’s term…
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Evan Glass Endorses Ranked-Choice Voting
Read more: Evan Glass Endorses Ranked-Choice VotingGoing back to November 7, 2023, Council Member Evan Glass expressed his support for ranked-choice voting. It’s Election Day! Make sure to vote if there’s an election in your community. And let’s continue working to ensure that there’s ranked choice voting in more communities next year!#electionday #rankedchoicevoting #rcv #democracy pic.twitter.com/zvYS2O4NFN — Councilmember Evan Glass (@CMEvanGlass)…
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Networking at Conferences is Not a Critical Election Reform
Read more: Networking at Conferences is Not a Critical Election ReformIn State reform needed to make politics fairer, Council Member Evan Glass lauds the public campaign financing programs available in Maryland, and seeks to expand such programs to allow beneficiaries of the funding to purchase tickets to networking and community events. Such an amendment will further “level the playing field” for candidates running campaigns with…
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Jamie Raskin, Local County Council Acolytes, Strangely Silent on Democracy-Smashing Fraud Found in Bridgeport, CT Democratic Primary Election
Read more: Jamie Raskin, Local County Council Acolytes, Strangely Silent on Democracy-Smashing Fraud Found in Bridgeport, CT Democratic Primary ElectionWhere are CM Evan Glass and Congressman Raskin and all the democracy acolytes on the County Council on the recent election fraud revelations that shook the Connecticut political world this past week?
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How To Win in MoCo…Maybe
Read more: How To Win in MoCo…MaybeLast week we provided a counter to Adam Pagnucco’s article “A War for MCPS? Part Three” where he laid out his recommendations for how a non-establishment candidate could win a seat on the MCPS Board of Education (or County Council). This week we want to provide an alternate strategy. Now to be fair, our political expertise…
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36-Year Career Politician Marc Elrich Doesn’t “Believe in Term Limits” Anywhere — But 80% of Democrats Do
Read more: 36-Year Career Politician Marc Elrich Doesn’t “Believe in Term Limits” Anywhere — But 80% of Democrats DoA new article on MoCo360.media covers the burgeoning “2 Terms” movement to restrict the Montgomery County Executive to two consecutive terms – mirroring neighboring counties like Frederick County, MD and Prince George’s. The article by Ginny Bixby quotes Marc Elrich as saying he is against political office term limits in all its forms and places.…
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MD Voter Integrity Group Condemns “New Rule” of MD Board of Elections
Read more: MD Voter Integrity Group Condemns “New Rule” of MD Board of ElectionsThe following press release is being published with permission by the Maryland Voter Integrity Group Maryland Voter Integrity Group Condemns the “new rule” put in by the Maryland Board of Elections that “criminalizes” Citizen Engagement POTOMAC, MD – August 29, 2023 – The Maryland State Board of Elections quietly changed a statewide regulation to prohibit the…