By Adam Pagnucco.
The Affordable Maryland PAC, a Super PAC financed by the real estate industry that has previously run a negative TV ad against Will Jawando, is now running a new ad targeting both Jawando and Evan Glass. The ad mostly criticizes them for supporting tax hikes. You can watch it embedded below.
Following is the press release announcing the new ad by the Affordable Maryland PAC.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 10, 2026
Contact: Jonathan Robinson, Chair, Affordable Maryland PAC
NEW AD TELLS MONTGOMERY COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY VOTERS: “IT’S OKAY TO SAY NO TO JAWANDO AND GLASS”
New spot asks Democratic primary voters to reject two County Executive candidates whose votes made it more expensive to buy, rent, and own a home in Montgomery County
ROCKVILLE, MD — Today, Affordable Maryland PAC began airing a new advertisement ahead of the June 23 Democratic primary for County Executive that tells voters: it is okay to say no to Will Jawando and Evan Glass.
Watch the ad here.
Affordable Maryland PAC, an independent expenditure PAC founded in 2022, is dedicated to making Montgomery County more affordable for current and future residents. Last month, we documented Will Jawando’s record on schools, taxes, and the cost of living. This ad puts Jawando and Evan Glass side by side, because on the votes that set the cost of a home and a rent check, they landed in the same place.
Jawando’s record of voting for tax hikes and against new housing is well known to most observers of county politics. What many voters don’t realize is that Glass, who has presented himself in this campaign as a steward of affordability, has been just as inconsistent. On the recordation tax, on property taxes, and on rent control, both men sided with the more expensive option each time. They have different styles, but the same record. Three votes tell the story.
They raised the cost of buying and selling a home. In May 2023, the Council voted 7–4 to increase the county’s recordation tax, the tax owed when a property is purchased or sold. Glass voted yes, and Jawando co-sponsored the increase. The Greater Capital Area Association of Realtors warned the change would add up to 30% at the settlement table on many transactions, thousands of dollars to the cost of a home.
They raised property taxes. In 2023, as Council President, Glass backed an FY2024 budget built on a 4.7% property tax increase, the same hike Jawando voted against because, in his view, it should have been even higher. This year, they did it together: on May 21, 2026, both Jawando and Glass voted for the final FY2027 budget that zeroed out the $692 Income Tax Offset Credit, a change hitting more than 200,000 households’ property tax bills. Glass voted against the increase in an earlier straw vote, then voted for the budget that enacted it. That sequence is not a defense; it is the pattern: opposition when it is cost-free, support when it counts.
They voted for rent control, and apartment construction collapsed. In July 2023, the Council enacted Bill 15-23, the county’s rent stabilization law. Jawando co-sponsored it, and Glass cast one of the seven votes to pass it. The county issued permits for roughly 2,093 multifamily units in the first eight months of 2024 and about 54 in the same window of 2025, a decline of nearly 97%, even as the rest of Maryland held flat. County planners called the drop a serious concern, and the planning department’s own survey of developers found the law had a chilling effect on construction. Fewer apartments built means higher rents for everyone still looking for one.
Our message to Montgomery County Democratic primary voters is simple: it’s okay to say no to Jawando and Glass.