By Adam Pagnucco. Let’s start looking at the Council At-Large candidates who have qualified for public matching funds. Hans Riemer Riemer, who is finishing his second term, is the only…
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Public Financing Geography, Part Two
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By Adam Pagnucco. As we stated in Part One, we have examined nearly 9,000 records of contributions to thirteen countywide candidates in the public financing system who have qualified for…
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Public Financing Geography, Part One
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By Adam Pagnucco. This year’s election cycle is the first one in which public financing is being used in MoCo’s county-level races. That is one of many reasons why this…
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Public Financing Update: January 2, 2018
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By Adam Pagnucco. Happy New Year, folks! After a relatively quiet period in the fall, December saw a number of applications for public matching funds from county candidates participating in…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Former Council Member Phil Andrews’s public financing system is in use for the first time during this election cycle. It has already changed MoCo’s political landscape, with…
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Candidates, Hug Your Treasurer
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By Adam Pagnucco. Political campaigns have all kinds of characters in them. There are the campaign managers, the best of whom are data nerds, bartenders, therapists and trouble shooters all…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Delegate Ana Sol Gutierrez, who has served District 18 since 2002, has created a public financing account for a run in Council District 1. While Ana is…
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Bill Conway to Qualify for Public Funding
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By Adam Pagnucco. Bill Conway, who is running for Council At-Large, has announced that he has raised enough small individual contributions in the county’s public financing system to qualify for…
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By Adam Pagnucco. In Part Two, we explored some reasons why a candidate may want to enter public financing. Today we will look at some factors that would argue for…
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By Adam Pagnucco. There are a number of factors that argue either for entering the county’s public financing system or staying out. Let’s list the things that might cause candidates…