{"id":10868,"date":"2018-06-05T14:00:59","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T18:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=10868"},"modified":"2018-06-05T10:36:13","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T14:36:13","slug":"balcombes-pitch-to-upcounty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=10868","title":{"rendered":"Balcombe&#8217;s Pitch to Upcounty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Adam Pagnucco.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Whether they are right or wrong, MANY residents of Upcounty who communicate with your author feel that they are not treated as well by county government as their neighbors to the south.\u00a0 Council At-Large candidate Marilyn Balcombe, who lives in Germantown and is the CEO of the Gaithersburg-Germantown Chamber of Commerce, is tapping into that sentiment with this mailer sent to Upcounty residents.\u00a0 We think this is a smart move.\u00a0 With so many at-large candidates concentrating heavily on Downcounty&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=9789\">Democratic Crescent<\/a>\u00a0and splitting the votes there, if Balcombe has Upcounty mostly to herself, she just might be able to fly under the radar to victory.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Balcombe-Upcounty-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10869\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Balcombe-Upcounty-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"760\" height=\"985\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Balcombe-Upcounty-1.png 760w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Balcombe-Upcounty-1-231x300.png 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Balcombe-Upcounty-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10870\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Balcombe-Upcounty-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"823\" height=\"1071\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Balcombe-Upcounty-2.png 823w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Balcombe-Upcounty-2-231x300.png 231w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Balcombe-Upcounty-2-768x999.png 768w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Balcombe-Upcounty-2-787x1024.png 787w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 823px) 100vw, 823px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adam Pagnucco. Whether they are right or wrong, MANY residents of Upcounty who communicate with your author feel that they are not treated as well by county government as their neighbors to the south.\u00a0 Council At-Large candidate Marilyn Balcombe, who lives in Germantown and is the CEO of the Gaithersburg-Germantown Chamber of Commerce, is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=10868\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Balcombe&#8217;s Pitch to Upcounty<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[151,209],"tags":[1545,1933,2013],"class_list":["post-10868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-pagnucco","category-council-at-large","tag-adam-pagnucco","tag-council-at-large","tag-marilyn-balcombe"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-2Pi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10868","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=10868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10872,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10868\/revisions\/10872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}