MoCo Government

Current Councilmember Nancy Floreen announced her decision to potentially run for County Executive as an independent last week. Rumors swirled about her moving forward if Marc Elrich was to win the democratic nomination– and now it looks like there isn’t much stopping her.

Floreen must change her party registration to “unaffiliated” by August 6th and gather 7,000 signatures in order to appear on the ballot.

After days of counting ballots, Marc Elrich has won the Democratic Primary for Montgomery County Executive over David Blair by 80 votes, according to a tweet from Bethany Rodgers of […]

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ROCKVILLE MD – This afternoon, the Blair Campaign filed a formal petition with the Board of Elections for a recount of the June 2018 Primary Election results.

Over the last several weeks, the Blair campaign has closely reviewed the results of the 2018 Primary Election. “We have analyzed the election results by precinct, reviewed the treatment of thousands of provisional ballots, and spoken with hundreds of individual voters who experienced difficulties registering to vote or casting their ballots,” said David Blair, “and while it is certainly unclear whether a recount will affect the outcome, we believe the narrow margin coupled with the numerous issues impacting the election make a recount appropriate.”

The Board of Education will consist of current Vice President Shebra Evans of District 4, Jeannette Dixon (At-Large), Rebecca Smondrowski (District 2), and Student member of the Board Ananya Tadikonda.

Next week minimum wage increases to $12.25 for large employers, and $12 for mid-sized and small employers.

Elrich leads Blair by about 400 votes, but the county issued nearly 15,000 absentee ballots according to the Washington Post. I’m told approximately half of the absentee ballots have been returned.

There was also a glitch/error that could have caused up to 80,000 voters in the state of Maryland to cast provisional ballots. Those will be counted next week, so it may take some time before we find out who the Democratic nominee for County Executive will be.

​Montgomery County health officials, in collaboration with the Maryland Department of Health and the Virginia Department of Health, are investigating a confirmed case of measles and advising individuals who may have been exposed to monitor for any potential symptoms. While most individuals in the United States are vaccinated against measles, exposure poses potential risk to those who have not been vaccinated.


The individual contracted measles outside of the United States; developed symptoms here; received a confirmed diagnosis May 23; and is currently under medical care. Listed below are the dates, times and locations of the potential exposures associated with the individual diagnosed with measles:

With almost 1,200 total votes, the four winners of our poll were Gabe Albornoz (top left in our photo, 127 votes), Steve Solomon (top right in our photo, 96 votes), Danielle Meitiv (bottom left in our photo, 93 votes), and Shruti Bhatnagar (bottom right in our photo, 91 votes). Other top-vote getters included Will Jawando (89 votes), Jill Ortman-Fouse (74 votes), Marilyn Balcombe (68 votes), Evan Glass (62 votes), Hoan Dang (61 votes), and incumbent Hans Riemer (57 votes). Full mock election results can be found here: www.mocoshow.com/blog/moco-mock-election-county-council-at-large

This was not a scientific poll, as the poll was available to any person of any age (in order to vote in Montgomery County elections you must be a resident of the county and at least 18 years of age).

The 33 Democrats will be running in the primary on June 26th to narrow it down to four candidates from each party.

In this poll you will have to opportunity to vote for the four candidates you would like to see elected. The Poll will run from 11:30am on Thursday, 4/26/18 until 11:30AM on Monday, 4/30/18.