{"id":10479,"date":"2018-05-11T19:17:04","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T23:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=10479"},"modified":"2018-05-11T19:17:04","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T23:17:04","slug":"realtors-endorse-frick-council-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=10479","title":{"rendered":"Realtors Endorse Frick, Council Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Adam Pagnucco.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Greater Capital Area Association of Realtors (GCAAR) has endorsed the following candidates in MoCo races:<\/p>\n

Bill Frick \u2013 County Executive<\/p>\n

Gabe Albornoz, Marilyn Balcombe, Hoan Dang, Evan Glass \u2013 Council At-Large<\/p>\n

Craig Rice \u2013 Council District 2<\/p>\n

Sidney Katz \u2013 Council District 3<\/p>\n

Nancy Navarro \u2013 Council District 4<\/p>\n

Tom Hucker \u2013 Council District 5<\/p>\n

No endorsement was made in Council District 1.<\/p>\n

The Realtors are the most influential endorsing organization in MoCo\u2019s business community because of their volume of activity at election time.\u00a0 In 2014, they spent well into six figures on independent mail and PAC contributions.\u00a0 Despite every one of their county-level candidates winning except District 5\u2019s Evan Glass (who came close), their reward was a recordation tax hike that they bitterly opposed two years later.\u00a0 Rarely has a group done so much and gotten so little in MoCo politics!<\/p>\n

This time around, when they had a chance to oppose an incumbent who voted for the recordation tax hike, they did.\u00a0 Council Members Roger Berliner, Marc Elrich, George Leventhal and Hans Riemer, all of whom are in contested races, were left off their list.\u00a0 Rice, Navarro and Hucker have nominal opposition and are sure to be reelected.\u00a0 Sidney Katz\u2019s opponent, Ben Shnider, is running to his left and was probably not a realistic option.\u00a0 The selection of Delegate Bill Frick for Executive, who is running scorching Facebook ads<\/a> against the County Council, sends a message of discontent.<\/p>\n

The big question now is how much the Realtors will do to support their candidates.\u00a0 We are a little more than a month away from early voting.\u00a0 Albornoz, Dang, Glass, Katz and Navarro are in public financing and cannot accept PAC checks.\u00a0 After getting burned last time, will the Realtors sink six figures into mail again?\u00a0 We will find out.\u00a0 Meanwhile, the Washington Post endorsement looms<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We reprint the Realtors\u2019 email below.<\/p>\n

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By Adam Pagnucco. The Greater Capital Area Association of Realtors (GCAAR) has endorsed the following candidates in MoCo races: Bill Frick \u2013 County Executive Gabe Albornoz, Marilyn Balcombe, Hoan Dang, Evan Glass \u2013 Council At-Large Craig Rice \u2013 Council District 2 Sidney Katz \u2013 Council District 3 Nancy Navarro \u2013 Council District 4 Tom Hucker … Continue reading Realtors Endorse Frick, Council Candidates<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[151],"tags":[1545,2044],"class_list":["post-10479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-pagnucco","tag-adam-pagnucco","tag-realtors"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-2J1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10481,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10479\/revisions\/10481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}