{"id":7861,"date":"2017-04-21T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=7861"},"modified":"2017-04-20T17:31:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T21:31:20","slug":"is-kamenetz-trying-to-rig-the-western-maryland-straw-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=7861","title":{"rendered":"Is Kamenetz Trying to Rig the Western Maryland Straw Poll?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Adam Pagnucco.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As we have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=7840\">previously written<\/a>, the Western Maryland Democratic PAC is holding a summit event in Flintstone at the end of this month.\u00a0 The event will include a straw poll held on Saturday the 29<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 And one prospective candidate is REALLY interested in making sure that event is well attended: Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz, who is running for Governor.<\/p>\n<p>The following email was sent out by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcyd.org\/\">Baltimore County Young Democrats<\/a> (BCYD) soliciting attendance for the summit.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7865\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Kamenetz-BaCo-Young-Dems-1-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"633\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Kamenetz-BaCo-Young-Dems-1-1.png 633w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Kamenetz-BaCo-Young-Dems-1-1-281x300.png 281w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 633px) 100vw, 633px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7863\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Kamenetz-BaCo-Young-Dems-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"633\" height=\"674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Kamenetz-BaCo-Young-Dems-2.png 633w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Kamenetz-BaCo-Young-Dems-2-282x300.png 282w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 633px) 100vw, 633px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The contact in the email is Henry Callegary, Secretary of BCYD.\u00a0 We asked for confirmation and comment from both the County Executive\u2019s office and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcyd.org\/exec\">three BCYD officers<\/a>.\u00a0 None of them responded before publication time, but if they do get back to us, we will print what they say.<\/p>\n<p>We\u00a0will be interested to see what the other campaigns make of this. \u00a0But in the meantime, if you are one of these straw voters,\u00a0go ahead and rent the best wet-bar and Jacuzzi mega-suites Western Maryland has to offer!\u00a0 It\u2019s not like you\u2019re paying for them, yeah?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adam Pagnucco. As we have previously written, the Western Maryland Democratic PAC is holding a summit event in Flintstone at the end of this month.\u00a0 The event will include a straw poll held on Saturday the 29th.\u00a0 And one prospective candidate is REALLY interested in making sure that event is well attended: Baltimore County &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=7861\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is Kamenetz Trying to Rig the Western Maryland Straw Poll?<\/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":[151,201],"tags":[1545,986,1562],"class_list":["post-7861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-pagnucco","category-western-maryland","tag-adam-pagnucco","tag-kevin-kamenetz","tag-western-maryland"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-22N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7861","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=7861"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7867,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7861\/revisions\/7867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}