Politics
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Seeds of Stagnation & Decline (Part 2): Marc Elrich’s Early Years in Takoma Park City Government
Read more: Seeds of Stagnation & Decline (Part 2): Marc Elrich’s Early Years in Takoma Park City GovernmentIn Part 1 of this series, we went through some past Takoma Park City Council meeting notes and discovered that current Montgomery County, Maryland Executive Marc Elrich has always had a general distaste for how people and “developers” (aka entrepreneurs or homeowners seeking better and more profitable use of scarce land) use their private property. …
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Book Banning is Alive and Well at Montgomery County Public Libraries
Read more: Book Banning is Alive and Well at Montgomery County Public LibrariesLocal author, and general thorn in the side of Montgomery County COVID lockdown fanatics, co-authored a book that was published in 2023 titled, “Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation”. If you haven’t purchased a copy yet, you can do so via Amazon, here. The book summary on Amazon: The kids…
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Seeds of Stagnation & Decline: County Executive Marc Elrich’s Early Years in Government
Read more: Seeds of Stagnation & Decline: County Executive Marc Elrich’s Early Years in GovernmentMontgomery County Executive Marc Elrich has been in public office, in either Takoma Park, MD city government or Montgomery County government, a staggering 35-plus years. That’s thirty-five, all in a row. In 2006, Elrich began his ascent in local politics, finally winning a seat on the Montgomery County Council after three previous attempts had come…
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Will Jawando Doubles Down on Conflating His Family History with Black Foundational American History
Read more: Will Jawando Doubles Down on Conflating His Family History with Black Foundational American HistoryCouncilmember Will Jawando (Democrat, At-Large) continues to use misleading language in his proclamations about America’s Black History month. As Clean Slate MoCo documented last month, the Councilmember made an obvious error in February 2022 in stating that “our ancestors” were brought “here in bondage” through the middle passage. As we noted then: His [Jawando’s] mother is…
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CM Kristin Mink’s “Masks 4 America” Nonprofit Likely Contributed to Staggering Litter Problem with “COVID Trash”
Read more: CM Kristin Mink’s “Masks 4 America” Nonprofit Likely Contributed to Staggering Litter Problem with “COVID Trash”Montgomery County Councilmember Kristin Mink (Democrat, District 5) gained local and national notoriety as an “activist” and self-described “outspoken advocate for climate, immigration rights, and social justice.” In March 2020, CM Mink wrote on her blog that she “while still teaching middle school (virtually), I co-founded Masks For America, a volunteer-run nonprofit that crowdfunded, sourced,…
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CM Mink’s Senior Legislative Aid and Lead for the HHS Committee Appears to Still Be Involved with County Supported Non Profit
Read more: CM Mink’s Senior Legislative Aid and Lead for the HHS Committee Appears to Still Be Involved with County Supported Non ProfitCouncilmember Kristin Mink’s noted ‘Senior Legislative Aid’ (and lead for the HHS Committee on the County Council) along with her top aid for ‘residential tenant issues & housing code enforcement’ (per CM Mink’s own contact page) appears to still be involved with something called the ‘Montgomery County Racial Network’ (MORE), itself a “coalition of local…
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Part 4: Evan Glass’s Twitter Violates Your Rights
Read more: Part 4: Evan Glass’s Twitter Violates Your RightsThe following is Part 4 in a multi-part series on the Twitter accounts of the Montgomery County Council. It has been written and submitted by an anonymous author. Part 1 on Marc Elrich can be found here. Part 2 on Will Jawando can be found here. Part 3 on other Council Members can be found…
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CM Evan Glass Proposes “Anti-Hate” Task Force, But Then What is MoCo’s Committee on “Hate / Violence” Really Doing?
Read more: CM Evan Glass Proposes “Anti-Hate” Task Force, But Then What is MoCo’s Committee on “Hate / Violence” Really Doing?…..and what went down at the Annual Montgomery County “Friendship Picnic”? Montgomery County Council President Evan Glass (Democrat, At-Large) made some local headlines this week by proposing [via a letter to Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich] a “task force” to “tackle the incidents that he described as “disturbing and frightening.” Per the letter: Council President…
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MoCo CM Will Jawando’s Interesting Church and Democrat Party / Think Tank “Elite” Connections
Read more: MoCo CM Will Jawando’s Interesting Church and Democrat Party / Think Tank “Elite” ConnectionsThis is part three of a series of investigations into the nexus of money, corridors of power, special interests and mega-churches that surround CM Will Jawando. You can read Part 1 here and Part 2 here. In part one of our series, we looked into why nearly $500,000 in taxpayer money during FY23 was ‘granted’…
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Kingmaker Elrich Selects Craig Rice for Cushy New Job
Read more: Kingmaker Elrich Selects Craig Rice for Cushy New JobFormer Montgomery County CM Craig Rice’s “Appointment” to a “Special Projects Manager” position is the latest in a recent history of revolving door politics and “Friend to Me” favoritism. Great work by Adam Pagnucco at MontgomeryPerspective.com for exposing Council Bill 4-23E, which has yet to be voted on. In a nutshell, The County Executive wants…