By Adam Pagnucco. Now that a reduction in county executive term limits from three to two is on the ballot, County Executive Marc Elrich is gearing up for a fight. …
Ballot Questions
By Adam Pagnucco. The Montgomery County Education Association (MCEA) has released a statement opposing the charter amendment reducing county executive term limits from three to two that will be on…
By Adam Pagnucco. Montgomery County’s charter was approved by voters in 1968. It is effectively the county’s constitution, and along with state law, sets the parameters by which the county…
By Adam Pagnucco. The Montgomery County Board of Elections has certified that a proposed charter amendment to reduce term limits for the county executive from three to two has attracted…
By Adam Pagnucco. Few county debates are more consequential than those concerning the charter, which is equivalent to the county’s constitution. And of such debates, the most weighty often pertain…
By Adam Pagnucco. Part One recounted the history of Montgomery County voters placing limits on the county’s ability to raise property taxes. Under current law passed by voters in 2020,…
By Adam Pagnucco. MoCo voters do not love property tax hikes and they have voted several times to limit them. Under a ballot measure passed by the 2020 general electorate,…
By Adam Pagnucco. A potential hurdle to the passage of reduced term limits for the Montgomery County executive may have been removed. This increases the odds that County Executive Marc…
By Adam Pagnucco. Reardon “Sully” Sullivan, organizer of a ballot question effort to reduce county executive term limits from three terms to two, dropped off a batch of nearly 8,000…
Elrich Gets Personal With Sully
By Adam Pagnucco. County Executive Marc Elrich dislikes term limits. And he dislikes the lead organizer for term limits, former GOP executive candidate Reardon “Sully” Sullivan, even more. Sully unsuccessfully…