By Adam Pagnucco. Who are these registered MoCo Democrats who don’t vote? Let’s find out. The table below presents data on registered Montgomery County Democrats from the January 2015 voter…
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MoCo Dems Who Don’t Vote, Part One
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By Adam Pagnucco. General Assembly Democrats have decided to pursue automatic voter registration in this year’s session. There’s a good policy rationale for it and efforts to increase resident access…
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David Trone’s Historic Spending
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By Adam Pagnucco. CD8 residents are in the midst of an historic election, not merely because the congressional seat is opening up for the first time in fourteen years. What…
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Rules for Dealing with Reporters
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By Adam Pagnucco. One of the most critical tasks for politicians, operatives and staffers is dealing with press. If you do it right, you can make sure that your point…
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By Adam Pagnucco. In this year’s session of the General Assembly, Democrats will be introducing legislation providing for automatic registration of voters. While the details vary between proposals, the concept…
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By Adam Pagnucco. On February 4, representatives of Montgomery County’s Department of Liquor Control (DLC) headed to Annapolis to brief the county’s state legislators on their operations. The stakes were…
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Three Strategies for Winning CD8
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By Adam Pagnucco. With roughly ten weeks until early voting begins in the 2016 primary, candidates for Congress in District 8 are entering the home stretch. Three candidates are leading…
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Outside the Statehouse, Franchot is King
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By Adam Pagnucco. Senate President Mike Miller and Comptroller Peter Franchot have renewed their decade-long feud, to the delight of journalists, bloggers and pundits alike. Whether it’s about slots, tax…
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All Politics is Local . . . Right?
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By Adam Pagnucco. “All politics is local” according to the famous quote by former U.S. House Speaker Tip O’Neill. Moreover, any occasional viewer of Hardball, the MSNBC politics show featuring…
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MoCo’s Stunted Restaurant Industry
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By Adam Pagnucco. One of the dimensions to the current debate about Montgomery County’s Department of Liquor Control (DLC) that has not been empirically explored is its impact on the…