Who is financed by Maryland residents and who is backed by out-of-state money? Let’s pull back that curtain, shall we?Total Receipts from Maryland Contributors (Excludes Self and Family) 1. Steve…
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Follow the Money Some More, Part Four
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Today, we look at self-financing. Which MoCo candidates give themselves the most money? Let’s find out.Total Receipts from Self (Includes Loans) 1. Mike Lenett, Senator (D-19): $364,3522. Ben Kramer, Delegate/County…
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Follow the Money Some More, Part Three
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In our ten-plus-year dataset of MoCo political contributions, business entities and PACs accounted for 25.9% of all receipts and labor PACs and political clubs accounted for 5.2%. Here are the…
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Follow the Money Some More, Part Two
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Time to get to work on our gigantic dataset of Montgomery County political contributions!Here is the distribution by category of all contributions and loans received by 107 MoCo politicians since…
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Follow the Money Some More, Part One
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Last fall, we ran a series called “Follow the Money” in which we examined the sources of campaign contributions for MoCo politicians. As ambitious as that series was, it had…
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From the MPW Vault
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Dear readers: At the time of my retirement, I had several pre-written MPW series in my cache and ready to go. In the small chance that any of you may…
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At a forum in Leisure World last week, District 19 Delegate candidate Sam Arora vowed not to take contributions from Maryland PACs or Maryland-registered lobbyists. But if Arora thought this…
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By Marc Korman. In Part One, I reviewed District 14 Delegate candidate Eric Luedtke’s thesis about the need for campaign finance reform in Maryland and one idea for reform. Today…
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By Marc Korman. Recently District 14 Delegate candidate Eric Luedtke wrote about the need for campaign finance reform in Maryland. If the polls are to be believed, people from across…
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It’s Time to Save Democracy in Maryland
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By Eric Luedtke. When I made the decision to run for office, I spent the first few weeks of the campaign meeting with community advocates and progressive organizations seeking their…