While there’s a lot of campaigning left to do, I decided to put together a panel of six people that are pretty involved in the happenings within our county so that we can figure out which candidates may be leading this race a few months before the primaries.
Our panel consists of the following people (top left to right in the photo, then bottom left to right):
This comes on the heels of over 1,000 MCPS students walking out of school this past Wednesday to attend a gun control rally on Capitol Hill.
The event is limited to high school students in Montgomery County and will take place at the Blair High School auditorium.
Ortman-Fouse has also endorsed the man that was running against her, John Robertson.
Here’s her Facebook post from earlier today:
Silver Chips, the school paper, tweeted the message above stating that students will walk out at 9:30am, march down Colesville Rd. to Silver Spring Metro Station, and take the metro to Union Station in protest of fun violence and in support of gun control.
I am told that a walkout off of school campus would pose too great of a security risk to be supported by MCPS. I’m also told that MCPS supports the desire of their students to express their opinions, but that they must ensure they do so in a manner that does not raise any safety or security concerns (e.g. establishing a length of time for the event and directing students towards a location within the school).
His proposal to let voters decide the fate of cannabis legalization would put the issue on the November 2018 ballot. If he fails to make it happen this session, the next opportunity would be the November 2020 ballot.
“Due to the ongoing debate about medical marijuana licensing in Maryland, I would say the odds of advancing a legalization referendum are under 50% right now.” Moon told me. He does, however, feel confident that voters would approve legalization if it was to make it on the ballot.
Alec Ross will be involved in the democratic primary this June along with Rushern Baker (Prince George’s County Executive), Ben Jealous (former NAACP President), Kevin Kamenetz (Baltimore County Executive), Richard Madaleno (State Senator D-Kensington), James Shea (Baltimore attorney), and Krishanti Vignarajah (former Michelle Obama aide).
Verratti, a MoCo native, has never been elected to public office. In the past, she has supported a bill that allows for the refinancing of student loans for Montgomery County residents. She would like to provide incentives for young workers to live in MoCo, as well as encourage businesses to start and grow here.
We polled almost 2,000 people in three locations in the county (Gaithersburg, Bethesda, and Wheaton) and were able to get these statistics through our research:
Approximately 5% of people could name a county executive candidate.
The images below, courtesy of MCDOT, show a glimpse of what’s to come in Wheaton.
Mrs. Kantartzis (pronounced Fawn-ee Kun-tar-dsis) is a MoCo native. She is a Churchill High School graduate and she received a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from the American College of Greece. In 2008, she received her Juris Doctor from the Creighton University School of Law in Omaha, Nebraska. Mrs. Kantartzis is licensed to practice in the State and Federal courts of Maryland and in the District of Columbia.
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Montgomery County Council Member, Roger Berliner, tweeted the following about prepaying property tax in MoCo: “The County issued an update on the property tax prepayment option & the IRS advisory on this matter: bit.ly/2E7UrZK. It is very disappointing. We did what we could. Do consult with your tax adviser before considering prepayments.”
Popular Silver Spring coffee shop, Bump ‘N Grind, is holding the grand opening of their kiosk at Ellsworth Place (formerly City Place Mall). Ellsworth Place is slowly but surely making the right moves.
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It has been everywhere the last few days, but let me break this down in a way that’s easy to understand for everyone.
The newly approved federal Republican tax-cut bill limits the SALT deduction (state and local taxes to include property tax and income tax) to $10,000.