{"id":2952,"date":"2014-04-15T21:53:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T01:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=2952"},"modified":"2014-04-16T00:01:59","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T04:01:59","slug":"seiu-endorses-council-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=2952","title":{"rendered":"SEIU Endorses Council Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seiu500.org\/2014\/04\/seiu-local-500-endorses-candidates-for-the-democratic-primary-in-the-first-second-third-and-fourth-montgomery-county-council-districts\/\">SEIU Local 500 has released their endorsements<\/a> for Montgomery County Council Districts 1, 2, 3 and 4:<\/p>\n<p>1: Roger Berliner<br \/>\n2: Craig Rice<br \/>\n3: Ryan Spiegel<br \/>\n4: Nancy Navarro (unopposed)<\/p>\n<p>The most interesting endorsements are in Districts 1 and 3.<\/p>\n<p>In District 3 (Rockville-Gaithersburg), Ryan Spiegel now has the endorsement of two major school system unions: MCEA and SEIU. Two nice endorsements in a hotly contested race with several high-quality candidates for this open seat.<\/p>\n<p>In District 1, Roger Berliner has to be relieved to have received SEIU&#8217;s endorsement in his tough contest against Duchy Trachtenberg. So far, MCEA has not endorsed in that race.<\/p>\n<p>The District 1 race could be shaping up as a proxy fight between the school system and county government employee unions. The latter have been mighty unhappy with the current Council and believe that the former have done comparatively well.<\/p>\n<p>Roger Berliner looks among the more vulnerable Council incumbents. Duchy <a href=\"http:\/\/maryland-politics.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/why-duchy-trachtenberg-fell.html\">Trachtenberg is not labor&#8217;s ideal vehicle given her history<\/a> but she is the only option if the government employee unions want to take out Berliner and exercise some muscle. Recently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bethesdamagazine.com\/Blogs\/MoCo-Politics\/March-April-2014\/Long-Time-Union-Official-Signs-On-To-Manage-Trachtenbergs-Campaign\/\">Trachtenberg hired Robert Stewart<\/a>, the just retired executive director of MCGEO, as her campaign manager.<\/p>\n<p>High-income District 1&#8211;it includes Potomac, Bethesda and Chevy Chase&#8211;seems an unlikely locale for a labor proxy fight but stranger things have happened. Their divisions could also provide opportunities for other groups to have more influence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEIU Local 500 has released their endorsements for Montgomery County Council Districts 1, 2, 3 and 4: 1: Roger Berliner 2: Craig Rice 3: Ryan Spiegel 4: Nancy Navarro (unopposed) The most interesting endorsements are in Districts 1 and 3. In District 3 (Rockville-Gaithersburg), Ryan Spiegel now has the endorsement of two major school system &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=2952\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SEIU Endorses Council Candidates<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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":[626,35,22,15],"tags":[1585,1458,499,1476,1469,1463,1599,1480,1535],"class_list":["post-2952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-endorsements-2","category-mcea","category-mcgeo","category-montgomery-county-council","tag-craig-rice","tag-duchy-trachtenberg","tag-endorsements","tag-mcea","tag-mcgeo","tag-montgomery-county-council","tag-nancy-navarro","tag-roger-berliner","tag-ryan-spiegel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-LC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952","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=2952"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2963,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952\/revisions\/2963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}