{"id":9071,"date":"2017-12-04T13:45:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T18:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=9071"},"modified":"2017-12-04T13:45:41","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T18:45:41","slug":"frick-attacks-opponents-for-budget-shortfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=9071","title":{"rendered":"Frick Attacks Opponents for Budget Shortfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Montgomery County is facing a budget shortfall and across-the-board operating budget cuts of 2%&#8211;and warning that&#8217;s just a start. Del. Bill Frick is highlighting the cuts to go after his three opponents in the Democratic primary for county executive who have served for many years on the County Council:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is time for new leadership in Rockville.\u00a0 Our councilmembers ignored warnings from County Executive Leggett to restrain spending.\u00a0 Despite an increase in the recordation tax, and a nearly 9% increase in property taxes, we find ourselves without sufficient revenues to pay for these councilmembers\u00a0 pet projects, and, as a result, public services are being cut.\u00a0 Our county deserves better.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The full press release and supporting documents are posted below.<\/p>\n<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 Frick Press Release on MoCo Budget Shortfall on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/366297256\/Frick-Press-Release-on-MoCo-Budget-Shortfall#from_embed\">Frick Press Release on MoCo Budget Shortfall<\/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_3580\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" title=\"Frick Press Release on MoCo Budget Shortfall\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/366297256\/content?start_page=1&amp;view_mode=scroll&amp;access_key=key-kYSsif5oH8WzitUYI5X5&amp;show_recommendations=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.7729220222793488\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montgomery County is facing a budget shortfall and across-the-board operating budget cuts of 2%&#8211;and warning that&#8217;s just a start. Del. Bill Frick is highlighting the cuts to go after his three opponents in the Democratic primary for county executive who have served for many years on the County Council: It is time for new leadership &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=9071\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Frick Attacks Opponents for Budget Shortfall<\/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":[2062],"tags":[441],"class_list":["post-9071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-montgomery-county-executive-race","tag-bill-frick-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-2mj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9071","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=9071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9072,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9071\/revisions\/9072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}