In an internal communication that was probably never intended for public scrutiny, staffers on Rushern Baker’s County Executive campaign discussed how to respond to MPW’s series on his campaign finances…
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Buried in the new contribution reports are little nuggets. Some may be gold, some may be zirconium and some may be scrap metal. Read the following and you can decide.County…
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Rushern Baker on the Spot, Part Six
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Prince George’s County Executive candidate Rushern Baker has taken tens of thousands of dollars from a GOP candidate for U.S. Senate who is a birther, even more money from an…
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Rushern Baker on the Spot, Part Five
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Powerful people usually have powerful enemies. Southern Management Corporation (SMC) boss David Hillman and Prince George’s County Executive Jack Johnson proved that axiom true with a bitter feud that eventually…
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Rushern Baker on the Spot, Part Four
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Meet David H. Hillman. He’s a 67-year-old, self-made white billionaire. He once lived in Bethesda, but now lives in an 11,809-square-foot, $6.3 million mansion in McLean. He is one of…
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Meet Bradford L. Seamon. He is the President, CEO and founder of B.L. Seamon Corporation, a minority business enterprise (MBE) government contractor based in Greenbelt with offices in Atlanta and…
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Rushern Baker on the Spot, Part Two
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Meet Eric S. Wargotz. He is a doctor from Queenstown, a passionate conservative and an elected Republican office holder in Queen Anne’s County. And if a group called “Republicans for…
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Rushern Baker on the Spot, Part One
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The Washington Post has put a deserved spotlight on Prince George’s County Executive candidate Rushern Baker’s fundraising practices. The object of the Post’s inquiry is a $206,000 contribution to Baker…
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Sun Updates MPW Steele Story
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Sun reporter Paul West, who claims that blogs have “a very low bar of respectability,” has updated a story we ran almost a month ago on questionable payments from Michael…
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By Marc Korman. Back in October I wrote about campaign finance reports for the US House of Representatives candidates. Unlike state campaign finance reports, federal reports are released quarterly. Reports…