{"id":11014,"date":"2018-06-13T07:00:19","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T11:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=11014"},"modified":"2018-06-12T17:23:50","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T21:23:50","slug":"labor-pumps-money-into-anti-blair-super-pac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=11014","title":{"rendered":"Labor Pumps Money Into Anti-Blair Super PAC"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Four labor unions and an immigrant advocacy organization have contributed a combined $90,000 to a Super PAC which opposes the election of David Blair as Montgomery County Executive.<\/p>\n

The Progressive Maryland Liberation Alliance PAC is a Super PAC affiliated with Progressive Maryland.\u00a0 The Super PAC\u2019s Chair, Larry Stafford<\/a>, is Progressive Maryland\u2019s Executive Director.\u00a0 The group has previously distributed anti-Blair flyers<\/a> but now has the money to do a lot more than that.<\/p>\n

The Super PAC\u2019s campaign finance filings indicate that it was organized for the purpose of supporting gubernatorial candidate Ben Jealous, State Senate candidates Jill Carter, Antonio Hayes and Mary Washington, State\u2019s Attorney candidate Victor Ramirez and Delegate candidate Melissa Wells and opposing State Senator Bobby Zirkin, State\u2019s Attorney candidate Ivan Bates and Blair.\u00a0 But the labor contributions to the Super PAC were explicitly designated to opposing Blair.\u00a0 Those contributions included $35,000 from MCGEO, $35,000 from the Laborers, $10,000 from UNITE HERE Local 25, $5,000 from SEIU Local 500 and $5,000 from immigrant advocacy group Casa in Action.\u00a0 All of these organizations except for UNITE HERE Local 25 have endorsed Marc Elrich for Executive<\/a>, as has Progressive Maryland.<\/p>\n

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Of these contributions, $10,000 has been spent on a video opposing Blair.\u00a0 We imagine MoCo voters will be seeing that video soon.<\/p>\n

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With $80,000 remaining, the Super PAC has enough money to finance mailers and more.\u00a0 What\u2019s unclear is how much more money it can raise with labor spending almost a million dollars to elect Ben Jealous as Governor<\/a> and more than $600,000 to elect Donna Edwards as Prince George\u2019s County Executive<\/a>.\u00a0 Still, they are playing in MoCo and we expect them to play hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Adam Pagnucco. Four labor unions and an immigrant advocacy organization have contributed a combined $90,000 to a Super PAC which opposes the election of David Blair as Montgomery County Executive. The Progressive Maryland Liberation Alliance PAC is a Super PAC affiliated with Progressive Maryland.\u00a0 The Super PAC\u2019s Chair, Larry Stafford, is Progressive Maryland\u2019s Executive … Continue reading Labor Pumps Money Into Anti-Blair Super PAC<\/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":[151,22,325,277,34],"tags":[1545,2094,1938,2133,1469,1601,1595,2162],"class_list":["post-11014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-pagnucco","category-mcgeo","category-progressive-maryland","category-seiu","category-seiu-local-500","tag-adam-pagnucco","tag-casa","tag-david-blair","tag-laborers-union","tag-mcgeo","tag-progressive-maryland","tag-seiu","tag-seiu-local-500"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-2RE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11014","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=11014"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11024,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11014\/revisions\/11024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}