Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Montgomery County and Maryland state Democratic leaders joined together in Gaithersburg to support John Delaney and President Barack Obama in the November election.
Montgomery County and Maryland state Democratic leaders gathered in Gaithersburg Monday night to show unified support for the state’s Democratic ticket, particularly 6th Congressional District candidate John Delaney and President Barack Obama. A raucous crowd at the Casey Community Center welcomed County Executive Ike Leggett along with Gov. Martin O'Malley, Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown and Attorney General Doug Gansler, among others, to cheer on their Democratic Party representatives. After thanking the crowd for its tremendous support on a rainy evening, O’Malley quickly turned his attention to the 6th Congressional District. “I am 100 percent for John Delaney,” the governor said. “He’s going to be a great congressman not only for the 6th …
Monday, May 14, 2012
John Delaney, Maryland's Democratic candidate for the Congressional Sixth District, calls Kentlands 'very important' to his campaign while attending Kentlands Day.
John Delaney, Maryland's Democratic candidate for the Congressional Sixth District, stopped by Kentlands Day on Saturday, May 1, where he to told MyMCMedia the Gaithersburg development is "very important" to his campaign. According to Delaney: [The Kentlands is] very important, it's a wonderful community. It's an example of good planning. I remember I met the architect over 20 years ago who actually laid this out and I thought it was terrific insight he had into what really it takes to create a community using smart planning and I think this is a perfect example of it. It's a wonderful place, people love living here, and everything you want in community you can find here and it's very important to our campaign. Delaney and Sixth District …
Friday, May 11, 2012
Join us at 2 p.m. Friday for a live blog with David Moon, the blogger behind Maryland Juice.
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Join us at 2 p.m. Friday for a live blog with David Moon, the blogger behind Maryland Juice.
The special session. Ike Leggett's future. Doug Duncan's future. Presidential politics. Gubernatorial politics. It's an exciting time for Maryland. Join us at 2 p.m. Friday where Patch editors and Maryland Juice's David Moon discuss Free State politics. What topics should we cover? Let us know in the comments ...
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Focus for now is Delaney's congressional bid, former county executive says.
Douglas M. Duncan said Tuesday nothing has changed as he contemplates his political future. “I’m looking at all my options,” Duncan said in a telephone interview. His comments followed a NewsChannel 8 report that he is narrowing his focus on a run for state comptroller or a bid to return as Montgomery County Executive. “I’m not running for governor, not running for Congress,” Duncan, the county executive from 1995 through 2007, told Rockville Patch. Duncan said he’s not particularly focused on the crowded field of potential candidates for comptroller, but is “exploring things” to see “where I’d be the best fit.” He said he has not conducted any polling, nor does he have any immediate plans to do so. “I’m going to a lot of events, talking …
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
The former Rockville mayor could be part of a crowded field for comptroller.
Douglas M. Duncan is mulling a comeback. The former Rockville mayor, former Montgomery County Executive and one-time gubernatorial candidate told NewsChannel 8’s Bruce DePuyt that he is considering a bid for state Comptroller or for a return as county executive. Get daily and breaking news email updates from Rockville Patch by signing up for?newsletters here. Comptroller Peter V.R. Franchot is expected to run for governor in 2014, a prospect discussed in this piece in The Washington Times in September. County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) said last year that he would not seek re-election to the post that Duncan held for three terms. Maryland Juice reported rumors in January that Duncan was considering a run for comptroller. The blog noted …
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Would you pick the Republican incumbent or the Democratic challenger?
Redistricting has put Gaithersburg into the 6th Congressional District. The primary was only two weeks ago and the general election is seven months away. Still, we'd like to check in with our readers to see who has your favor now. The incumbent: Roscoe G. Bartlett Jr., a Republican. The challenger: John Delaney, a Democrat.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Participation in Tuesday's election was particularly low—even for a primary.
Did you vote on Tuesday? If not, why not? It was slow going at polls in the early hours at many polling locations. Patch reported low turnout at precincts in Bethesda, Gaithersburg, Germantown, Kensington, North Potomac, Potomac and Rockville. Voter turnout picked up at some polling places in the evening hours, but remained less than usual. Primary election turnout is traditionally much lower than that of general elections. But elections officials and campaigns alike pinned the especially low turnout in Montgomery County in Tuesday’s primary—14.79 percent of all registered voters vs. 20 percent for typical primary elections—on timing. Maryland’s 2008 presidential primary was held in February. Previous primaries were held in March. The …
In the Montgomery County Board of Education primary, Morris Panner took the No. 2 spot for the At-Large ballot; Fred Evans and Rebecca Smondrowski took the top spots for District 2.
Although the Republican presidential primary bolstered Maryland into national headlines Tuesday, locally Montgomery County voters also narrowed the field for the Board of Education’s general election in November. The unofficial results show that?Phil Kauffman and Morris Panner beat out the two other candidates on the ballot to advance to the general election for the at-large seat. Kauffman received 60.3 percent of the vote, and Panner received 17 percent of the vote. The next runner-up, Lou August, received 11.9 percent of the vote.? "I am really honored to have received the support I did," Panner, a resident of the Town of Somerset in Chevy Chase, told Chevy Chase Patch. "It is such an important time in our [c]ounty's history and a …
Republican Roscoe Bartlett seeks an 11th term in the 6th Congressional District, while Democrat John Delaney hopes to knock off the incumbent in his first political campaign.
U.S. Rep. Roscoe Bartlett,?a 20-year veteran of the?6th Congressional District, will return to November’s general election ballot seeking an 11th term. Bartlett, 85, claimed the Republican nomination with 43.8 percent of the vote, more than doubling Maryland State Sen. David Brinkley’s 19.8 percent. “I’m obviously humbled and honored by the vote of confidence people have given me,” Bartlett told Patch. “I’m going to continue to work, work, work and win in November.” Joining the incumbent on the November ballot is Potomac’s John Delaney. The 6th District's?Democratic nominee?won 54.3 percent of the vote after a contentious campaign against State?Sen. Rob Garagiola of Germantown. “We are extremely excited by tonight’s results but we’re going…
Rocky
8:54 pm on Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Thanks Jeff---not sure how we got along without the $15 trillion debt --our kids are going to being for these folks decisions forever. more ›