{"id":13733,"date":"2020-09-10T21:57:27","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T01:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=13733"},"modified":"2020-10-31T13:18:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T17:18:24","slug":"anti-ficker-9-districts-charter-amendments-group-to-speak-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=13733","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Ficker, 9 Districts Charter Amendments Group to Speak on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>By Adam Pagnucco.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new group formed by former County Executive Ike Leggett, former Congresswoman Connie Morella, businessman and former county executive candidate David Blair and business owner Carmen Ortiz Larsen is holding a press event on Monday to discuss their plans to oppose charter amendments by Robin Ficker and Nine Districts for MoCo.  Maryland Matters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marylandmatters.org\/2020\/09\/10\/coalition-of-heavyweight-insiders-launches-opposition-to-montgomery-county-ballot-measures\/\">discussed the group in broad terms<\/a> today but did not name its leaders.  The group&#8217;s news advisory (listing Leggett&#8217;s former public information officer Patrick Lacefield as contact) appears below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*****<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>COUNTY LEADERS LEGGETT, MORELLA, BLAIR, LARSEN TO ANNOUNCE LAUNCH OF \u201cNO ON QUESTIONS B &amp; D COMMITTEE\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former County Executive Isiah Leggett, former Congresswoman Connie Morella, non-profit leader David Blair, and Latina tech business owner Carmen Ortiz Larsen will speak out against November Montgomery County ballot questions B and D and urge a \u201cNO\u201d vote on both. Question B would put an inflexible cap on County property taxes, on top of already existing limitations on increases, severely hampering the County from responding to crises such as COVID-19 and sustaining critical services such as education and public safety. Question D would eliminate the County\u2019s four at-large Council seats and replace it with nine individual districts. The impact would reduce the number of Councilmembers each voter can vote for from five to one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WHEN: Monday, September 14 at 10:15 AM<br>WHERE: Outside of the Dennis Avenue Health Center, 2000 Dennis Avenue in Silver Spring<br>CONTACT: Patrick Lacefield<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adam Pagnucco. A new group formed by former County Executive Ike Leggett, former Congresswoman Connie Morella, businessman and former county executive candidate David Blair and business owner Carmen Ortiz Larsen is holding a press event on Monday to discuss their plans to oppose charter amendments by Robin Ficker and Nine Districts for MoCo. Maryland &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=13733\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Anti-Ficker, 9 Districts Charter Amendments Group to Speak on Monday<\/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_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":[161,167,15],"tags":[1032,1860,1938,1549,1463,2393],"class_list":["post-13733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connie-morella","category-ike-leggett","category-montgomery-county-council","tag-ballot-questions","tag-connie-morella","tag-david-blair","tag-ike-leggett","tag-montgomery-county-council","tag-nine-districts-for-moco"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-3zv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13733","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=13733"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13735,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13733\/revisions\/13735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}