By Adam Pagnucco. Council at-large candidate Scott Goldberg, who is using public campaign financing, has claimed to qualify for public matching funds. Let’s explain how this works. Candidates in the…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Council Member Will Jawando, who is running for county executive, now claims that he has enough contributions from in-county residents to qualify for public matching funds in…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Council at-large candidate Jeremiah Pope has claimed that he has qualified for public matching funds. If he’s right, it’s a mark of strength for his campaign. Let’s…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Council Member Evan Glass, who is running for county executive, has announced that he has qualified for matching funds in the county’s public financing system. It’s an…
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Landmarks of MoCo: Very Important Events
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By Adam Pagnucco. In Part One, I summarized how I asked my sources to help me construct a list of important events in county history since the 1960s. Part Two…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Part Four illustrated the significant flows of political contributions from downcounty to candidates in public financing. Today, we shall see which communities lagged behind. Gaithersburg Gaithersburg combines…
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By Adam Pagnucco. There were huge differences in public financing participation by geography in 2018. In some areas, residents donated significant amounts of money to publicly-financed candidates which were enhanced…
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By Adam Pagnucco. In Part Two, we learned that downcounty accounts for less than one-quarter of the county’s population but comprised 52% of individual contributions eligible for matching funds to…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Downcounty exerts a disproportionate impact in voting for countywide offices. It also exerts disproportionate influence in public financing. Let’s begin analyzing why that is. The table below…
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By Adam Pagnucco. When Montgomery County passed public financing more than six years ago, many predictions were made. Public financing was supposed to empower small donors. (It did.) It was…