{"id":11153,"date":"2018-06-20T07:00:52","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T11:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=11153"},"modified":"2018-06-19T17:52:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T21:52:59","slug":"campaign-finance-reports-council-at-large-june-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=11153","title":{"rendered":"Campaign Finance Reports: Council At-Large, June 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Let\u2019s look at the June campaign finance reports for the Council At-Large candidates, the last ones available prior to the primary.\u00a0 A note on methodology.\u00a0 First, we calculate total raised and total spent across the entire cycle and not just over the course of one report period.\u00a0 Second, we separate self-funding from funds raised from others.\u00a0 Self-funding includes money from spouses.\u00a0 Third, for publicly financed candidates, we include public matching fund distributions that have been requested but not deposited in raised money and in the column entitled \u201cCash Balance With Requested Public Contributions.\u201d\u00a0 That gives you a better idea of the true financial position of publicly financed campaigns.<\/p>\n

Below is our fundraising summary for the Council At-Large candidates.\u00a0 We are including only those who have qualified for matching funds in the public financing system<\/a> or have raised at least $100,000 in traditional financing.\u00a0 With a field this deep and talented, candidates who have not met either of these thresholds will struggle to compete.<\/p>\n

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Four candidates are bunched at the top: incumbent Hans Riemer and Will Jawando, Evan Glass and Bill Conway.\u00a0 Two more \u2013 Hoan Dang and Gabe Albornoz \u2013 have raised enough money to compare with past candidates who have won<\/a>.\u00a0 Then there is MCPS teacher Chris Wilhelm, who is working as hard as anyone and has an entire side of the Apple Ballot to himself<\/a>.\u00a0 That has to be worth the equivalent of an extra mailer or two.\u00a0 Finally, school board member Jill Ortman-Fouse is not a money leader, having entered the race very late, but she does have a base of loyalists who could be very useful in working the polls on Election Day.\u00a0 Overall, our view is that Riemer will be reelected, Jawando and Glass are in good positions and one \u2013 maybe two \u2013 of the others named above will likely also be elected.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a question for the readers: why are the female candidates not raising more money?\u00a0 Danielle Meitiv (who ranks 10th<\/sup> on the chart above), Marilyn Balcombe (11th<\/sup>), Brandy Brooks (12th<\/sup>) and Ortman-Fouse (14th<\/sup>) are all good candidates running in an electorate that is 60% female<\/a>.\u00a0 Not only do their totals lag the above men \u2013 they also lag the amounts raised<\/a> by Beth Daly (2014), Becky Wagner (2010), Duchy Trachtenberg (2006 and 2010) and of course four-term incumbent Nancy Floreen.\u00a0 Public financing was supposed to equalize the influence of small contributors, including women, with corporate interests that are overwhelmingly male dominated.\u00a0 And yet the nine top fundraisers are men.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s remember that the best-financed candidates don\u2019t always win.\u00a0 Exhibit A is the chronically underfunded Marc Elrich, who finished first in the last two at-large races and could be the next County Executive.\u00a0 The at-large race also has produced surprises in the past, including the defeats of incumbents Blair Ewing (2002), Mike Subin (2006) and Trachtenberg (2010).\u00a0 As soon as your author thinks he has the at-large race figured out \u2013 BAM! \u2013 something different happens!<\/p>\n

This is probably the best at-large field in MoCo history.\u00a0 It\u2019s sad that only four of them will win.\u00a0 But so it is.\u00a0 On to Election Night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Adam Pagnucco. Let\u2019s look at the June campaign finance reports for the Council At-Large candidates, the last ones available prior to the primary.\u00a0 A note on methodology.\u00a0 First, we calculate total raised and total spent across the entire cycle and not just over the course of one report period.\u00a0 Second, we separate self-funding from … Continue reading Campaign Finance Reports: Council At-Large, June 2018<\/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":[151,138,209,90],"tags":[1545,1987,1541,2015,1933,469,1513,1587,607,703],"class_list":["post-11153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-pagnucco","category-campaign-finance","category-council-at-large","category-hans-riemer","tag-adam-pagnucco","tag-bill-conway","tag-campaign-finance","tag-chris-wilhelm","tag-council-at-large","tag-evan-glass","tag-hans-riemer","tag-hoan-dang","tag-jill-ortman-fouse","tag-will-jawando"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-2TT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11153","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=11153"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11156,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11153\/revisions\/11156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}