Who is financed by Maryland residents and who is backed by out-of-state money? We know the answers and now so do you.Total Receipts from Maryland Contributors (Excludes Self and Family)…
Adam Pagnucco
County Employees at Risk
The awful condition of the state budget has attracted a lot of attention in recent months. But the county budgets are not doing much better. And one constituency is going…
Follow the Money, Part Four
It’s time to look at self-financing. Which MoCo candidates depend on themselves the most? Let’s find out.Total Receipts from Self (Includes Loans) 1. Ben Kramer, Delegate/County Council Challenger: $220,4502. Mike…
Worst Picture Ever of a Council Member?
So a picture is worth a thousand words, right? Wait until you see this!Last week, the Examiner excoriated the Montgomery County Executive and the County Council for not taking transit…
State of Maryland Blogdom: October 2009
Blog readers of Maryland, it is time to review the condition of our realm. And as the Keepers of the Great Database of Blog Statistics, we pronounce that the State…
Follow the Money, Part Three
In our ten-year dataset of MoCo political contributions, business entities and PACs accounted for 27.1% of all receipts and labor PACs and political clubs accounted for 4.9%. Here are the…
More on Marylandreporter.com
In the wake of our revelations concerning the affiliations of Marylandreporter.com, publisher Len Lazarick has not responded to our story. But our investigation continues.On November 2, the same day we…
Follow the Money, Part Two
Let’s start crunching our colossal dataset of Montgomery County political contributions!Here is the distribution by category of all contributions and loans received by every MoCo county and state incumbent, along…
Follow the Money, Part One
Now it can be told. For months, we have been quietly gathering tens of thousands of records of political contributions to county and state candidates in Montgomery County. After countless…
I-270 Issue Far From Over
The Montgomery County Council has signaled a consensus in favor of Council President Phil Andrews’ proposal to add two reversible lanes on I-270. But this issue is nowhere close to…
