{"id":13555,"date":"2020-08-13T12:19:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T16:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=13555"},"modified":"2020-10-31T13:20:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T17:20:29","slug":"county-republican-leaders-helping-nine-districts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=13555","title":{"rendered":"County Republican Leaders Helping Nine Districts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

Seven members of the Montgomery County Republican Central Committee<\/a>, the governing body of the MoCo GOP, have given the Nine Districts for MoCo group money, in-kind contributions or both. So have other leaders of the county Republican Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Nine Districts campaign finance reports reveal the following transactions between GOP Central Committee Members and the organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

County GOP Central Committee Members Who Gave Money<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greg Decker (Legislative District 39) made two monetary contributions of $100 each on 6\/1\/20 and 7\/10\/20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul Foldi (Legislative District 16) contributed $100 on 2\/5\/20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorraine Jaffe (At-Large) contributed $100 on 2\/5\/20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reardon Sullivan (Legislative District 15) contributed $200 on 6\/6\/20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

County GOP Central Committee Members Who Gave In-Kind Contributions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Martha Schaerr (Legislative District 19) made three in-kind contributions totaling $132.77 for an outdoor banner and printing petitions on 8\/12\/19 and 8\/14\/19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gail Weiss (Legislative District 16) made a $120 in-kind contribution for hats and caps on 1\/15\/20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reardon Sullivan (Legislative District 15) made a $20 in-kind contribution on 2\/25\/20 for \u201cproportional use of PC video editing software.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ann Hingston (At-Large) made four in-kind contributions totaling $499.43 for office supplies, printed materials and U.S. Post Box rental.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hingston also wrote this piece<\/a> on the county Republicans\u2019 website advocating for Nine Districts and asking for financial contributions to the group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Other party leaders have helped Nine Districts. Sharon Bauer, president of the Montgomery County Federation of Republican Women, gave $50 to the group on 2\/13\/20. Ryan Gniadek, the contact for the Montgomery County Federation of Teenage Republicans, gave $15 to the group on 1\/23\/20. And Ed Amatetti, the Republican nominee for County Council District 2 in 2018, gave $25 to the group on 12\/26\/19. The checks are small but the dots to be connected are many.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nine Districts is not a solely Republican group. Developers are paying the vast majority of its costs<\/a>, county employee unions are providing thousands of dollars in in-kind support and lots of people beyond those groups support the concept<\/a>. But the presence of this many Republican party officials among its supporters as well as the use of the county GOP\u2019s website to raise money for Nine Districts is not a coincidence. Passing the 9 district charter amendment is a big priority for county Republicans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And soon, I\u2019ll explore exactly why that is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Adam Pagnucco. Seven members of the Montgomery County Republican Central Committee, the governing body of the MoCo GOP, have given the Nine Districts for MoCo group money, in-kind contributions or both. So have other leaders of the county Republican Party. The Nine Districts campaign finance reports reveal the following transactions between GOP Central Committee … Continue reading County Republican Leaders Helping Nine Districts<\/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":[151,36],"tags":[1545,1032,1864,2393,1477],"class_list":["post-13555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-pagnucco","category-republicans","tag-adam-pagnucco","tag-ballot-questions","tag-montgomery-county-republicans","tag-nine-districts-for-moco","tag-republicans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-3wD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13555","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=13555"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13599,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13555\/revisions\/13599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}