Following is a post by Volunteer Fire Fighters Executive Director Eric Bernard on the volunteers’ listserv at 11:15 on Friday night. The Volunteer Fire Fighters have endorsed Ben Kramer. You…
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Spies Cry Foul on Navarro Mailers
Nancy Navarro’s negative mailers are creating a buzz throughout Montgomery County’s political community. So we consulted the best-connected people we know – our patented spy network – to ask their…
Action Committee for Transit (ACT) has issued their scorecard for the District 4 candidates. ACT co-sponsored a debate along with the Sierra Club in Wheaton and collected questionnaires from the…
Washington Post Steps Up Anti-Union Campaign
The Washington Post Company, long an opponent of unions in both its editorials and its business operations, is accelerating its campaign against labor. In the last few months, it has…
At the District 4 Debate in Wheaton sponsored by Action Committee for Transit, Ben Kramer and Cary Lamari had a testy exchange about one of the key transportation issues in…
District 4 Debate Shorts: The Candidates
Yesterday, we explored the candidates’ positions on the issues. Today we’ll assess each candidate individually.Delegate Ben Kramer (D-19) Kramer was impressive in both debates he attended (ACT/Sierra Club and Young…
District 4 Debate Shorts: The Issues
I attended all three District 4 candidate debates last week (much to the consternation of the missus). We summarize these events in two posts, one covering the issues and another…
A new decision by Montgomery County Labor Relations Administrator Andrew M. Strongin that the County Executive does not need to abide by collective bargaining agreements threatens significant damage to public…
District 4 Mail Scandal Goes National
Postalnews.com, a national aggregator of stories about the U.S. Postal Service, has picked up our story on District 4 mail shenanigans. At the moment, 30-40% of our site visits are…
The campaigns of both Ben Kramer and Nancy Navarro have been mailing out prefilled absentee ballot applications to District 4 voters. Each application already contains the name, address, date of…
