{"id":7200,"date":"2016-10-15T16:55:59","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T20:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=7200"},"modified":"2016-10-15T16:55:59","modified_gmt":"2016-10-15T20:55:59","slug":"council-members-circle-the-wagons-on-term-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=7200","title":{"rendered":"Council Members Circle the Wagons on Term Limits"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Adam Pagnucco.<\/em><\/p>\n

The No on B Committee, the ballot question committee opposing Montgomery County term limits, has filed its first campaign finance report with the State Board of Elections.\u00a0 There are no surprises here: most of the contributions it has raised have come from incumbent members of the Montgomery County Council.<\/p>\n

The committee reported raising $9,125 through October 9.\u00a0 Of that amount, $6,000 (66%) has come from the campaign accounts of Council Members.\u00a0 George Leventhal\u00a0 was the lead contributor, donating $1,500.\u00a0 Roger Berliner, Sidney Katz, Nancy Navarro and Hans Riemer contributed $1,000 each while Marc Elrich contributed $500.\u00a0 Other contributions of note came from George Leventhal\u2019s father, Carl ($500), Marc Elrich\u2019s Chief of Staff, Dale Tibbitts ($500) and Casa de Maryland ($1,000).\u00a0 In total, contributions from Council Members and their staff accounted for 72% of money raised by the committee.<\/p>\n

After paying attorney Jonathan Shurberg $5,000 for his work on the unsuccessful court case to get term limits thrown off the ballot, and paying other minor expenses, the committee reported a final balance of $4,024.49.<\/p>\n

Another committee formed to support term limits, Voters for Montgomery County Term Limits, reported raising $2,890 and finishing with $2,683.27 in the bank.\u00a0 Developer Charles K. Nulsen III<\/a> contributed $1,000.\u00a0 There have been rumors of developer support for term limits, which would be interesting considering that the anti-development Montgomery County Civic Federation also supports term limits<\/a>.\u00a0 But Nulsen\u2019s lone contribution signals that so far the real estate community is not fully engaged.<\/p>\n

In 2012, 460,885 MoCo residents<\/a> voted in the general election.\u00a0 A similar number could be voting this year.\u00a0 What\u2019s clear is that neither committee has the resources to get its message out to the electorate.\u00a0 Since many underlying factors favor the passage of term limits<\/a>, the failure of both sides to raise money is a net benefit for supporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Adam Pagnucco. The No on B Committee, the ballot question committee opposing Montgomery County term limits, has filed its first campaign finance report with the State Board of Elections.\u00a0 There are no surprises here: most of the contributions it has raised have come from incumbent members of the Montgomery County Council. The committee reported … Continue reading Council Members Circle the Wagons on Term Limits<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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":[151,583,15,287],"tags":[1545,1642,1463,1869],"class_list":["post-7200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-pagnucco","category-jonathan-shurberg","category-montgomery-county-council","category-term-limits","tag-adam-pagnucco","tag-jonathan-shurberg","tag-montgomery-county-council","tag-term-limits"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-1S8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7200","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=7200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7201,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7200\/revisions\/7201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}