{"id":3560,"date":"2014-05-22T17:27:02","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T21:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=3560"},"modified":"2014-05-22T17:27:02","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T21:27:02","slug":"mcea-final-moco-endorsements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=3560","title":{"rendered":"MCEA Final MoCo Endorsements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/md-politics\/moco-teachers-endorse-five-council-incumbents-but-drop-leventhal\/2014\/05\/21\/d14b5098-e133-11e3-8dcc-d6b7fede081a_story.html?wprss=rss_maryland\">Washington Post<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The union representing Montgomery County\u2019s 12,000 teachers rounded out its list of <a href=\"http:\/\/mceanea.org\/news\/mcea-announces-final-recommendations-for-county-council-districts-1-2-4-and-at-large-seats\/\" data-xslt=\"_http\">County Council endorsements<\/a> Wednesday for the June 24 Democratic primary, retaining its 2010 recommendations of Roger Berliner (D-Potomac-Bethesda), Craig Rice (D-Upcounty), Nancy Navarro (D-Midcounty), Marc Elrich (D-At Large) and Hans Riemer (D-At-Large) but dropping George Leventhal (D-At-Large).<\/p>\n<p>The endorsement by the Montgomery County Education Association (MCEA) is one of the most coveted because it comes with a spot on the Apple Ballot, which is mailed to Democratic voters and distributed at the polls.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement follows earlier endorsements of candidates for open council seats: Ryan Spiegel in District 3 (Rockville-Gaithersburg) and Board of Education member Christopher Barclay in District 5 (Silver Spring-East County). The union has also endorsed County Executive Isiah Leggett for a third term.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ryan Spiegel and Marc Elrich seem to be sweeping up the labor endorsements. This is a nice one for Roger Berliner as the government employee unions are lining up behind Duchy Trachtenberg. Hans Riemer must also be pleased after losing support from other county unions.<\/p>\n<p>Nancy Floreen has never been the labor candidate so probably isn&#8217;t too perturbed or worried about it. But being dropped from the Apple is new for George Leventhal who has also been frozen out by MCGEO, FOP, and the AFL-CIO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Washington Post: The union representing Montgomery County\u2019s 12,000 teachers rounded out its list of County Council endorsements Wednesday for the June 24 Democratic primary, retaining its 2010 recommendations of Roger Berliner (D-Potomac-Bethesda), Craig Rice (D-Upcounty), Nancy Navarro (D-Midcounty), Marc Elrich (D-At Large) and Hans Riemer (D-At-Large) but dropping George Leventhal (D-At-Large). The endorsement &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=3560\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MCEA Final MoCo Endorsements<\/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":[35,15],"tags":[1464,1513,1508,1476,1480],"class_list":["post-3560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mcea","category-montgomery-county-council","tag-george-leventhal","tag-hans-riemer","tag-marc-elrich","tag-mcea","tag-roger-berliner"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-Vq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560","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=3560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3561,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560\/revisions\/3561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}