{"id":7748,"date":"2017-03-27T07:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T11:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=7748"},"modified":"2017-03-26T23:30:46","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T03:30:46","slug":"leventhal-trolls-trone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=7748","title":{"rendered":"Leventhal Trolls Trone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Adam Pagnucco.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Council Member George Leventhal, who is running for County Executive, is running the ad below on Facebook.\u00a0 While ostensibly directed at President Donald Trump, it\u2019s an obvious shot at a possible campaign opponent, Total Wine co-owner David Trone.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7745\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Leventhal-Trolls-Trone.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Leventhal-Trolls-Trone.png 540w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Leventhal-Trolls-Trone-169x300.png 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Leventhal has gone after Trone before, blasting him for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bethesdamagazine.com\/Bethesda-Beat\/Web-2016\/Placement-of-David-Trone-Campaign-Signs-Irks-County-Council-Members\/\">illegal campaign signs<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bethesdamagazine.com\/Bethesda-Beat\/2017\/Trone-Fires-Back-After-Leventhal-Accuses-Businessman-of-Pay-For-Play-Politics\/\">corporate contributions<\/a>.\u00a0 The latter charge is ironic considering Leventhal\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=7588\">taking of more than $300,000 in corporate contributions over the last three cycles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Negative campaigning has a <a href=\"http:\/\/maryland-politics.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Negative%20Campaigning\">long, LONG history in Montgomery County<\/a>.\u00a0 But it\u2019s a bit unusual to target a person who is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bethesdamagazine.com\/Bethesda-Beat\/2017\/David-Trone-Focused-Very-Heavily-on-Exploring-Run-for-County-Executive\/\">not yet officially running<\/a>.\u00a0 In any event, it is now crystal clear that if David Trone does run for Executive, George Leventhal will be ready.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adam Pagnucco. Council Member George Leventhal, who is running for County Executive, is running the ad below on Facebook.\u00a0 While ostensibly directed at President Donald Trump, it\u2019s an obvious shot at a possible campaign opponent, Total Wine co-owner David Trone. Leventhal has gone after Trone before, blasting him for illegal campaign signs and corporate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=7748\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Leventhal Trolls Trone<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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":[151,16,160],"tags":[1545,1778,1464,1918],"class_list":["post-7748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-pagnucco","category-george-leventhal","category-negative-campaigning","tag-adam-pagnucco","tag-david-trone","tag-george-leventhal","tag-negative-campaigning"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-20Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7748","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=7748"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7750,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7748\/revisions\/7750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}