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…
Maryland Politics Watch Archive
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…
Forehand vs. Kagan on Taxes and Budget
From the District 17 Senate forum on July 19.
Neeta Datt’s Welcome Video
From her House District 14 campaign website. Neeta Datt – Website Welcome from Andrew Mills on Vimeo.
Ginger Ramsey’s Divisive Actions
By Rocky Lopes. “D-19 Reporter” Ginger Ramsey (“unmasked” here as Senator Lenett’s disgruntled ex-employee) is continuing her smear attacks on Senator Mike Lenett (D-19). Her latest mudslinging was to blast…
Big Daddy’s Hand Revealed in District 39
Recently released emails show the role of Senate President Mike “Big Daddy” Miller in trying to negotiate a peace settlement between Senator Nancy King (D-39) and Delegate Saqib Ali, who…
Follow the Money Some More, Part One
Last fall, we ran a series called “Follow the Money” in which we examined the sources of campaign contributions for MoCo politicians. As ambitious as that series was, it had…
From the MPW Vault
Dear readers: At the time of my retirement, I had several pre-written MPW series in my cache and ready to go. In the small chance that any of you may…
