Pat McDonough’s “Survey”
Here’s a copy of Delegate Pat McDonough’s (R-7) “survey” of General Assembly candidates intended to pressure them into supporting an Arizona-style state law on immigration that he plans to introduce…
Manno Alleges Push Poll by Lenett
Delegate Roger Manno (D-19), who is challenging Senator Mike Lenett, has sent out a mass email to his supporters alleging that Lenett is responsible for “an anonymous, offensive and highly…
Lierman Story Goes National
Tim Carney, a national political columnist who once worked with Bob Novak, has picked up our story on Kyle Lierman’s connection to Jim Moran. Carney confirms our account and writes:…
Follow the Money Some More, Part Three
In our ten-plus-year dataset of MoCo political contributions, business entities and PACs accounted for 25.9% of all receipts and labor PACs and political clubs accounted for 5.2%. Here are the…
Ali to Debate King on News Channel 8
Senator Nancy King (D-39) and challenger Saqib Ali will debate on News Channel 8 on Thursday morning. Following is a press release from Ali’s campaign.FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, August 3,…
The Montgomery County Business PAC has made its first round of endorsements in its priority races in the county. Their picks so far include:Council At-Large: Nancy Floreen, George Leventhal, Duchy…
The four County Council at-large incumbents – Marc Elrich, Nancy Floreen, George Leventhal and Duchy Trachtenberg – have struck a non-aggression pact for the remainder of the election season. While…
Congressman Chris Van Hollen is unquestionably the most popular politician in Montgomery County. Long-time political observers know it did not necessarily have to turn out that way, as the Republican…
Follow the Money Some More, Part Two
Time to get to work on our gigantic dataset of Montgomery County political contributions!Here is the distribution by category of all contributions and loans received by 107 MoCo politicians since…