District 1 County Council candidate Ilaya Hopkins condemned the Leggett administration’s $4 million subsidy for Costco at Westfield Wheaton today, a deal that includes a zoning text amendment expediting Costco’s…
Council District 1
Hopkins Releases First Lit Piece
Caught! Berliner Campaign Outs Hopkins Spy
It should surprise no one among MPW’s jaded readership that rival campaigns often spy on each other. Sometimes the spies are caught and sometimes they are not. But this time,…
Berliner to Hopkins: See You in Chevy Chase
Last week, Council District 1 challenger Ilaya Hopkins proposed a series of debates with incumbent Roger Berliner and he has agreed to at least one of them. On June 1…
Council District 1 candidate Ilaya Hopkins is challenging incumbent Roger Berliner to a series of candidate forums. Hopkins wants to do local forums in Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Friendship Heights, Garrett…
Hopkins Hits Berliner in Announcement Speech
District 1 County Council challenger Ilaya Hopkins took a few swings at incumbent Roger Berliner in her kickoff speech last weekend. Let the bulls be released and the china be…
Hopkins Candidacy Announcement
East Bethesda resident Ilaya Hopkins sent out the following press release announcing her candidacy for the Council District 1 seat. The district includes Bethesda, Chevy Chase and Potomac. The incumbent,…
Berliner Hiring Campaign Staff
One of our spies intercepted the following message from a Google group. ———- Forwarded message ———-From: HMILLS3 [email withheld]Date: Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:12 AMSubject: [jobsthatareLEFT] Campaign Staff &…
Ilaya Hopkins, who announced her exploratory committee for the Council District 1 seat currently occupied by Roger Berliner last month, is now formally launching her campaign. We reproduce her kickoff…
We have written extensively about the At-Large County Council race. But what about the District County Council elections? Sadly for us but happily for the incumbents, there’s not very much…