{"id":8927,"date":"2017-11-07T23:36:31","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T04:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=8927"},"modified":"2017-11-07T23:38:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T04:38:44","slug":"democrats-thump-republicans-in-city-of-frederick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=8927","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Thump Republicans in City of Frederick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"View Frederick 2017 Unofficial Results on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/363816292\/Frederick-2017-Unofficial-Results#from_embed\">Frederick 2017 Unofficial Results<\/a> by <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"View David Lublin's profile on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/user\/302657257\/David-Lublin#from_embed\">David Lublin<\/a> on Scribd<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"doc_71664\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" title=\"Frederick 2017 Unofficial Results\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/363816292\/content?start_page=1&amp;view_mode=scroll&amp;access_key=key-q7bcsfeqGHoTDsIbRjab&amp;show_recommendations=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.7729220222793488\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Frederick voters came out to elect their mayor and city council today. Or at least 8,810, or 21%, of the 42,053 voters did. The Democratic sweep around the country extended into swingy Frederick, as Democrats trounced their Republican opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Alderman Michael O&#8217;Connor beat incumbent Republican Mayor Randy McClement by 22%. The previous Board of Alderman had four Democrats and one Republican. No more as Democrats take full control. Incumbents Kelly Russell and Donna Kuzamchak will be joined by newcomers Derek Shackelford, Roger Wilson and Ben McShane. The nearest Republican fell 2273 votes behind the last place Democrat &#8212; a 26% difference.<\/p>\n<p>Sens. Rich Madaleno and Roger Manno, candidates for governor and Congress, respectively, were both there to celebrate the big victory after working to get out the vote in Frederick earlier in the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frederick 2017 Unofficial Results by David Lublin on Scribd Frederick voters came out to elect their mayor and city council today. Or at least 8,810, or 21%, of the 42,053 voters did. The Democratic sweep around the country extended into swingy Frederick, as Democrats trounced their Republican opponents. Democratic Alderman Michael O&#8217;Connor beat incumbent Republican &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=8927\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Democrats Thump Republicans in City of Frederick<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[66],"tags":[2071,2072,2073],"class_list":["post-8927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frederick-county","tag-city-of-frederick","tag-michael-oconnor","tag-randy-mcclement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-2jZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8927","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=8927"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8930,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8927\/revisions\/8930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}