{"id":15118,"date":"2021-12-15T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=15118"},"modified":"2021-12-14T22:17:45","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T03:17:45","slug":"ginsburg-hoped-to-reshape-district-she-looks-to-represent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=15118","title":{"rendered":"Ginsburg hoped to reshape district she looks to represent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bethesda Beat reports that Friends of White Flint Executive Director <a href=\"https:\/\/bethesdamagazine.com\/bethesda-beat\/politics\/friends-of-white-flint-head-amy-ginsburg-eyeing-new-county-council-seat\/\">Amy Ginsburg is looking at running for the Montgomery County Council<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=15074\">newly crafted District 4<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to announcing her interest in running for the Council, Ginsburg used her position at Friends of White Flint to advocate vocally for a very different version of District 4. Here is one email sent out by Friends of White Flint:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-14-at-8.56.20-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-14-at-8.56.20-PM-1024x975.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15119\" width=\"501\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-14-at-8.56.20-PM-1024x975.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-14-at-8.56.20-PM-300x286.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-14-at-8.56.20-PM-768x731.png 768w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-14-at-8.56.20-PM.png 1288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em>From an email sent by Friends of White Flint on November 18th.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The map configurations promoted by Ginsburg would  almost certainly have excluded Takoma Park, home to Mayor Kate Stewart&#8211;the other publicly interested candidate&#8211;and included more territory in closer proximity to White Flint (a.k.a. North Bethesda).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friends of White Flint is one of those \u201cneighborhood\u201d organizations that is put together by developers and business  to advocate for their interests. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whiteflint.org\/\">quick glance at the its leadership confirms<\/a> that business and developer representatives compose two-thirds of the board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Ginsburg says her background makes her a natural candidate for \u201cthe most progressive district in the county,\u201d Friends of White Flint has consistently argued in favor of business and development interests. Supporters of developer interests regularly repackage them in social justice language, but I suspect Ginsburg\u2019s record at other nonprofits, such as Neediest Kids and Manna Food Center, does more to burnish her progressive credentials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bethesda Beat reports that Friends of White Flint Executive Director Amy Ginsburg is looking at running for the Montgomery County Council from newly crafted District 4. Prior to announcing her interest in running for the Council, Ginsburg used her position at Friends of White Flint to advocate vocally for a very different version of District &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=15118\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ginsburg hoped to reshape district she looks to represent<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[369,15],"tags":[2437,2164],"class_list":["post-15118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-district-4","category-montgomery-county-council","tag-amy-ginsburg","tag-friends-of-white-flint"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-3VQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15118","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15118"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15126,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15118\/revisions\/15126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}