During the entire 1998-2002 term, freshman Council Member Blair Ewing battled County Executive Doug Duncan on the ICC, development policy, living wage and other issues. In the spring of 2002,…
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MoCo Demographics and Voting, Part Three
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Conventional wisdom holds that voters of color do not turn out at the same rate as white voters. How true is that in Montgomery County?As we detailed in Part One,…
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MoCo Demographics and Voting, Part Two
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As we saw in Part One, MoCo’s major demographic groups are not distributed evenly across the county. Here are the percentages of Hispanics, white non-Hispanics, black non-Hispanics and Asian non-Hispanics…
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MoCo Demographics and Voting, Part One
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Like many of you, we are eagerly entering the precinct-level counts from the recent primary. (OK, we know that not all of you are on the edges of your seats…
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Pat Baptiste for Council At-Large, 1998
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If we made a list of the heaviest hitters in MoCo politics who have never been elected to federal, state or county office, it would have to include Pat Baptiste….
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Duchy Trachtenberg: Thank You
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Council Member Duchy Trachtenberg sent out the following email to her supporters this morning. Thank You “Think where (wo) man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was…
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By Paul M. Bessel. If you compare the statistics on voting in Leisure World with voting in the county and district 19, there are some interesting comparisons.According to the Montgomery…
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George Leventhal: Thank You
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Council Member George Leventhal, who has won the Democratic primary for a third term, has sent the following email to his supporters. Leventhal is a canny political observer, having chaired…
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Why Duchy Trachtenberg Fell
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Council Member Duchy Trachtenberg is claiming to be a victim of the unions, blaming them for her defeat in the primary. But for all her many enemies, one person in…
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Becky Wagner: Thank You
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Council at-large candidate Becky Wagner sent the following message to her supporters today.Thank You Dear Friends, The primary election may be over, but from my view, your 30,000+ votes mark…