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  • The Democratic BoE primaries: Part 1—the At-Large Voter Dilution

    The most popular piece I wrote on Clean Slate MoCo is MCPS Board of Education: MoCo’s most illegitimate governing body. That article explains how the BoE’s multi-member, at-large elections are a glaring civil rights violation, because a small demographic elects all of the winners. There aren’t a lot of these entitled and aggressive voters, but…

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  • MCEA and Laura Stewart Reveal Ideaology

    As early voting continues in MoCo the MCEA union representatives and their endorsed candidates are camping out at popular polling locations handing out the Apple Ballot, strong arming voters to pull the lever for them, and generally creating the perception that they are a consensus choice. At least one candidate has reported that he has…

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  • Montoya tries to play the anti-Semitism card—and fails

    Many of us received a mailer from the Rita Montoya campaign that conveys her concern about the anti-Semitism plaguing the county’s Jewish students and how she will address it. History is a powerful teacher. That’s why Rita Montoya will fight to implement mandatory Holocaust education in our schools, and use the power of knowledge to…

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  • Laura Stewart’s and Lynne Harris’ PTA

    It is time to dismantle the MCCPTA to school board pipeline! Corruption Stolen money and jail time. $30,000 in the treasurer’s pocket. https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/30k-has-disappeared-from-montgomery-county-pta-council-fund/12589/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/police-investigate-possible-fraud-in-maryland-pta-organization/2017/04/26/67dc9cb6-29fb-11e7-b605-33413c691853_story.html https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/woman-sentenced-embezzlement-pta-funds/ More corruption More misuse of funds. Inspector general investigating. Laura’s Free State PTA withholding $5,000 from Shriver elementary. https://moco360.media/2024/04/04/sargent-shriver-elementary-pta-violated-mcps-policy-with-grant-funds-county-inspector-general-says/ DEI committee that got rid of SROs School closures MCCPTA leadership…

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  • Removing a Council Member

    Some jurisdictions provide a remedy for removing an elected official that no longer serves his/her constituency. For Americans, arguably the most important removal procedure is against the president of the United States. Only the House of Representatives can impeach a president, and the Senate conducts the trial for removal. A two-thirds majority in the Senate…

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  • MCEA in Violation of Election Laws

    Today, via its Twitter account, MCEA teased the release of a social media toolkit to support the BOE candidates that it has endorsed. Join the #RedforED #MCEAAppleBallot Blitz tomorrow! A social media toolkit with shareable graphics, captions, and the candidates’ handles is available at https://t.co/lFPIuM297x pic.twitter.com/hgOkUJrTQq — Montgomery County Education Association (@mceanea) March 26, 2024…

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  • Released: Apple Ballot Questionnaire Answers

    Wellllll, since the Apple endorsed candidates will not be transparent and release the answers they provided to the Apple Ballot Questionnaire and since MCEA will not release the answers the candidates provided…..we will.  This of course does not cover any additional interviews the candidates took part in, what they might have been asked, and how…

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  • “Electing” a Council President

    The county’s Charter Review Commission is taking up a proposal that changes the way the County Council’s president is determined. Currently, the council members themselves elect the council president. (Interestingly, in his three terms as a council member, County Executive Marc Elrich was never vested with this office by his counterparts.  The council president’s term…

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  • Evan Glass Endorses Ranked-Choice Voting

    Going back to November 7, 2023, Council Member Evan Glass expressed his support for ranked-choice voting. It’s Election Day! Make sure to vote if there’s an election in your community. And let’s continue working to ensure that there’s ranked choice voting in more communities next year!#electionday #rankedchoicevoting #rcv #democracy pic.twitter.com/zvYS2O4NFN — Councilmember Evan Glass (@CMEvanGlass)…

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  • Networking at Conferences is Not a Critical Election Reform

    In State reform needed to make politics fairer, Council Member Evan Glass lauds the public campaign financing programs available in Maryland, and seeks to expand such programs to allow beneficiaries of the funding to purchase tickets to networking and community events. Such an amendment will further “level the playing field” for candidates running campaigns with…

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