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With his wife, Karen, by his side, County Council President Roger Berliner officially filed his paperwork on Monday morning to run for the office of County Executive in 2018. “I am pretty excited,” Berliner said. “What happens next is that we go forth and we campaign for this office to lead our county into the […]

Talk about timing. A candidate for county executive in 2018, Montgomery County Council President Roger Berliner was filing his election paperwork at the Board of Elections offices Monday morning when County Councilmember George Leventhal walked thru the door to do the same. “Unbelievable,” said Leventhal, as the two Democrats, who are now competitors in the […]

State Board of Elections Administrator Linda Lamone has rejected a request for Maryland’s voter data by a Trump administration commission. Here is the link to our response to the Presidential Advisory Commission. https://t.co/kFFi267y9e — Maryland Elections (@md_sbe) July 3, 2017 Here’s her statement: In an earlier statement, Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh said he found […]

A 30-year-old Democrat from Chevy Chase said he wants to engage more young people as he vies for an at-large position on the Montgomery County Council. In the 2014 elections, Democratic candidate Chris Wilhelm said, only 4,000 Democrats under the age of 30 voted. “There are tens of thousands of people who are disengaged from […]

It’s official. Montgomery County Councilmember Nancy Navarro is running for re-election to her District 4 Council seat. Navarro, a Democrat, filed her paperwork Thursday at the Board of Elections offices in Gaithersburg. She is the first candidate to file for the District 4 seat. It was a bittersweet and exciting moment for Navarro. “I am definitely […]

The impending birth of a son prompted Bobby Bartlett to run for office, he said Wednesday. The birth “forced me to take a hard look the kind of society my son would be coming into,” Bartlett said. “It wasn’t a pretty picture.” Compounding his concerns was that the boy’s due date was Jan. 20, 2017, […]

Montgomery County Councilmember Marc Elrich, a Democrat, filed his paperwork Wednesday, at the Board of Elections office, to run for the position of county executive in the 2018 Gubernatorial Primary Election. Elrich is using the campaign finance fund. “I am happy to say that our campaign exceeded the requirement for 500 individuals contributing more than […]

A 30-year community organizer from Wheaton has filed to run for one of four at-large positions on the Montgomery County Council. “I feel that with my experience and the skill set I have, I can help solve some of the long-standing issues in the county,” Hoan Dang said. He said he wanted to focus on […]

Montgomery County Councilman George Leventhal kicked off his campaign for county executive Saturday drawing about 100 supporters at Wheaton Regional Park. Much of his address to his supporters focused less on policy initiatives and more on how he would make county government work. “As your next County Executive, I will lead a cost-effective government that […]

Gabriel Acevero, a 27-year-old field organizer for the union that represents Montgomery County employees, kicked off a campaign Saturday to become a Democratic candidate for District 39 representative in Maryland’s House of Delegates. Acevero, who said he has spent more than five years living in the district, held his kickoff at a park in Montgomery […]