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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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Elrich Gets Personal With Sully
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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…
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Term Limits Close to the Ballot (Updated)
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By Adam Pagnucco. Last month, we reported that the Committee for Better Government, a group organized by former Republican county executive candidate Reardon Sullivan, had submitted signatures to the Board…
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Term Limits Money Revealed
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By Adam Pagnucco. Last January, the Committee for Better Government – which is pushing for a charter amendment reducing county executive term limits from three to two – filed a…