{"id":15547,"date":"2022-04-15T22:39:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T02:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=15547"},"modified":"2022-04-15T22:46:46","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T02:46:46","slug":"hucker-withdraws-from-exec-race-files-for-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=15547","title":{"rendered":"Hucker Withdraws from Exec Race, Files for Council"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Councilmember Tom Hucker (D-5) has <a href=\"https:\/\/elections.maryland.gov\/elections\/2022\/primary_candidates\/gen_cand_lists_2022_1_by_county_16.html\">withdrawn from the county executive race<\/a>. It\u2019s a sensible decision as it would\u2019ve almost certainly been a losing battle. He\u2019s filed for the county council. But not for his old seat. Instead, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=15539\">as I speculated this morning<\/a>, he has filed for an at-large seat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The next question is whether or how soon MCEA, the influential teachers\u2019 union, will flip its endorsement from Brandy Brooks\u2019s flailing campaign to Hucker\u2014or possibly to Council President Gabe Albornoz, who seems a lock for reelection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Councilmember Tom Hucker (D-5) has withdrawn from the county executive race. It\u2019s a sensible decision as it would\u2019ve almost certainly been a losing battle. He\u2019s filed for the county council. But not for his old seat. Instead, as I speculated this morning, he has filed for an at-large seat. The next question is whether or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=15547\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hucker Withdraws from Exec Race, Files for Council<\/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_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2498,2306],"tags":[2024,422,1463,781],"class_list":["post-15547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2022-democratic-primary","category-tom-hucker","tag-brandy-brooks","tag-gabe-albornoz","tag-montgomery-county-council","tag-tom-hucker"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-42L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15547","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=15547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15549,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15547\/revisions\/15549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}