{"id":11123,"date":"2018-06-18T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=11123"},"modified":"2018-06-18T11:53:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T15:53:30","slug":"the-wilhelm-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=11123","title":{"rendered":"The Wilhelm Ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Here is something we haven\u2019t seen before: a mid-term year Apple Ballot with one candidate occupying one side of it and a list of others on the other side.\u00a0 This Apple, still in wrapping, is customized in favor of Council At-Large candidate Chris Wilhelm.<\/p>\n

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Here is another one spotlighting District 16 House candidate Samir Paul.<\/p>\n

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The Apple we were given at the Wheaton early voting site was not like these.\u00a0 It had county candidates on one side and state candidates on the other, a typical format used in the past.<\/p>\n

Wilhelm and Paul are MCPS teachers.\u00a0 We totally get why MCEA would like to elect its own members to office, although that has not always been their top priority.\u00a0 For example, the union endorsed County Council District 5 incumbent Derick Berlage over MCPS teacher Marc Elrich in 1998.\u00a0 In Elrich\u2019s 2002 and 2006 races, he did appear on the Apple but we don\u2019t recall him getting an entire side of it to himself.<\/p>\n

The races involving Paul and Wilhelm are very different.\u00a0 In District 16, the two incumbent Delegates \u2013 Ariana Kelly and Marc Korman \u2013 are endorsed by MCEA and a lock for reelection.\u00a0 Paul is in a tight contest with fellow new candidate Sara Love for the open seat being vacated by Delegate Bill Frick.\u00a0 He needs every edge he can get.<\/p>\n

The Council At-Large race, on the other hand, is extremely competitive and unpredictable.\u00a0 MCEA has endorsed incumbent Hans Riemer, Brandy Brooks and Will Jawando in addition to Wilhelm.\u00a0 Riemer seems likely to be reelected but that\u2019s about all that can be safely predicted in this race.\u00a0 What will Riemer, Brooks and Jawando think of the Wilhelm Ballot?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Adam Pagnucco. Here is something we haven\u2019t seen before: a mid-term year Apple Ballot with one candidate occupying one side of it and a list of others on the other side.\u00a0 This Apple, still in wrapping, is customized in favor of Council At-Large candidate Chris Wilhelm. Here is another one spotlighting District 16 House … Continue reading The Wilhelm Ballot<\/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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[151,293,209,228,90,35],"tags":[1545,2116,2024,2015,1933,1572,1513,1476,2124,703],"class_list":["post-11123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-pagnucco","category-apple-ballot","category-council-at-large","category-district-16","category-hans-riemer","category-mcea","tag-adam-pagnucco","tag-apple-ballot","tag-brandy-brooks","tag-chris-wilhelm","tag-council-at-large","tag-district-16","tag-hans-riemer","tag-mcea","tag-samir-paul","tag-will-jawando"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-2Tp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11123","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=11123"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11146,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11123\/revisions\/11146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}