{"id":10548,"date":"2018-05-16T15:00:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T19:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=10548"},"modified":"2018-05-16T16:37:33","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T20:37:33","slug":"mcgee-files-for-matching-funds-and-then-there-is-ficker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=10548","title":{"rendered":"McGee Files for Matching Funds\u2026 And Then There is Ficker"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Update:<\/strong> Council District 5 candidate Kevin Harris has also filed for matching funds on May 15, claiming $12,400 in qualifying contributions from 176 in-county residents.<\/p>\n

Original Post:<\/strong> Council District 1 candidate Jim McGee filed for public matching funds on May 15.\u00a0 His filing claims 157 qualifying contributors and $36,580 in qualifying contributions, above the respective thresholds for a district race of 125 and $10,000.\u00a0 Two other District 1 candidates have qualified for matching funds, including Delegate Ana Sol Gutierrez and Reggie Oldak, who has already applied for the maximum amount ($125,000) available under the program<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Monday, we wrote<\/a> that county law stated that the qualifying period for matching funds ended 45 days before the primary, which this year fell on Saturday, May 12.\u00a0 That is true.\u00a0 But at the time, we did not know that the State Board of Elections had allowed candidates to file as late as May 15 with only qualifying contributions received by May 12 eligible for matching funds.\u00a0 A reader brought that to our attention and we updated the post.\u00a0 But we are gonna own this one: we screwed up.\u00a0 Your author apologizes to Jim McGee and Seventh State readers.<\/p>\n

Then there is Robin Ficker, who is running for Executive in the public financing program.\u00a0 Ficker registered his public account on 2\/8\/17 and so far has not qualified for matching funds.\u00a0 (The other Executive candidates in public financing \u2013 Marc Elrich, George Leventhal and Rose Krasnow \u2013 qualified some time ago.)\u00a0 Ficker told Bethesda Magazine that he was unaware that he was subject to the 45-day qualifying period because he has no primary opponent<\/a>.\u00a0 In order to qualify for matching funds, Executive candidates need 500 contributions from individuals living in the county totaling at least $40,000.\u00a0 Ficker then sent an application for matching funds on May 15 but it asked for\u2026 zero dollars.<\/p>\n

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Can anyone figure this out for us?\u00a0 Because we admit it \u2013 we can\u2019t!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Adam Pagnucco. Update: Council District 5 candidate Kevin Harris has also filed for matching funds on May 15, claiming $12,400 in qualifying contributions from 176 in-county residents. Original Post: Council District 1 candidate Jim McGee filed for public matching funds on May 15.\u00a0 His filing claims 157 qualifying contributors and $36,580 in qualifying contributions, … Continue reading McGee Files for Matching Funds\u2026 And Then There is Ficker<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[151,286],"tags":[1545,2165,1908,1596],"class_list":["post-10548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-pagnucco","category-robin-ficker","tag-adam-pagnucco","tag-jim-mcgee","tag-public-campaign-financing","tag-robin-ficker"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-2K8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10548","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=10548"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10564,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10548\/revisions\/10564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}