By Adam Pagnucco. With an appointment for the District 20 Senate seat approaching, the time is right to revisit the issue of whether to have special elections for General Assembly…
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Meet the New Liquor Monopoly
By Adam Pagnucco. Meet the New Liquor Monopoly. It’s the same as the Old Liquor Monopoly, except with less accountability. OK, now that the applause is dying down, let’s look…
MoCo Revolts
By Adam Pagnucco. In a thundering rebuke to Montgomery County’s governing establishment, voters have passed term limits by a 38 point margin with early votes and election day votes counted. …
By Adam Pagnucco. The Montgomery County Government has issued a solicitation seeking bids on a propaganda video defending the county’s liquor monopoly. The solicitation comes after the County Executive’s task…
MoCo’s Two Electorates, Part Three
By Adam Pagnucco. Part Two presented a host of demographic data comparing Democrats who voted in all three of the 2006, 2010 and 2014 primaries (“Super Dems”) to voters from…
MoCo’s Two Electorates, Part Two
By Adam Pagnucco. In Part One, we began contrasting MoCo’s Two Electorates: namely, the Democratic primary voters who pick our elected officials, and the general election voters who decide charter…
MoCo’s Two Electorates, Part One
By Adam Pagnucco. Montgomery County voters are some of the most progressive people in the nation. They elect only Democrats, and almost all very liberal ones. They celebrate diversity and…
A Critical Error in Early Voting
By Adam Pagnucco. On Saturday, I was given a ballot by election officials at the Wheaton early voting site that would have allowed me to vote for John Sarbanes for…
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cle4eUuf0AQ] By Adam Pagnucco. On the evening of October 20, a representative of Clark Enterprises (Bob Eisenberg) appeared before the Montgomery County Council to testify on the Downtown Bethesda…
Term Limits Opposition in Shambles
By Adam Pagnucco. With the challenge to Robin Ficker’s petition signatures having failed in court, the opposition to term limits has hit a new low. Opponents have less than three…