By Adam Pagnucco. Much has been said about the Maryland Republican Party sending out racist mailers targeting Congressional District 6 candidate Aruna Miller. The standard interpretation of this seems to…
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We Get Phone Calls
By Adam Pagnucco. Sometimes your author gets phone calls like this. ***** Politician X: Hey Pagnucco! How’s the kid? How’s business? Me: Well, I – Politician X: Great to hear…
Female Candidates Accuse Leggett of Sexism
By Adam Pagnucco. County Executive Ike Leggett’s decision to endorse four men in the Council At-Large race – incumbent Hans Riemer, Gabe Albornoz, Hoan Dang and Will Jawando – has…
By Adam Pagnucco. Board of Education member Jill Ortman-Fouse, who is running for Council At-Large, has filed for matching funds from the county’s public financing system. Ortman-Fouse took 49 days…
By Adam Pagnucco. Delegate Kirill Reznik (D-39) has written to the Board of Public Works asking them to reject an engineering and management contract awarded by the Maryland Department of…
Council At-Large Undervoting, Part Two
By Adam Pagnucco. In Part One, we learned that even though voters can vote for up to four Council At-Large candidates, they vote for only three on average. Today we…
Council At-Large Undervoting, Part One
By Adam Pagnucco. In the Montgomery County Council At-Large race, voters can vote for up to four candidates and the leading four vote-getters win. That gives candidates a lot of…
MoCo Endorsements: April 10, 2018
By Adam Pagnucco. Below is our latest institutional endorsement matrix in MoCo races. Note that many of these institutions have not completed their processes yet and one of the county’s…
By Adam Pagnucco. SEIU Local 500 launched its anti-Mike Miller campaign on Lawyers Mall in Annapolis today. Attending the rally in addition to SEIU members were former Delegate Jill Carter,…
By Adam Pagnucco. Maryland is a majority Democratic state. So one would expect that in financial competition between the two state parties, the Democrats would blow the Republicans away. That…