{"id":9315,"date":"2018-01-25T11:41:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T16:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=9315"},"modified":"2018-01-25T13:07:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T18:07:08","slug":"msea-makes-early-endorsements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=9315","title":{"rendered":"MSEA Makes Early Endorsements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Adam Pagnucco.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Maryland State Education Association (MSEA) has made early endorsements in state legislative races.\u00a0 The endorsement of MSEA and its local affiliate, the Montgomery County Education Association (MCEA), deploys the mighty Apple Ballot, one of the most powerful tools in MoCo politics.\u00a0 The endorsements below are just the first batch and more will follow later.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Apple-Ballot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9319\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Apple-Ballot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1575\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Apple-Ballot.jpg 1575w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Apple-Ballot-295x300.jpg 295w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Apple-Ballot-768x780.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Apple-Ballot-1008x1024.jpg 1008w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1575px) 100vw, 1575px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In MoCo, the teachers are now supporting:<\/p>\n<p>District 14: Senator Craig Zucker, Delegates Eric Luedtke, Pam Queen and Anne Kaiser<\/p>\n<p>District 15: Senator Brian Feldman, Delegates Kathleen Dumais and David Fraser-Hidalgo<\/p>\n<p>District 16: Senator Susan Lee, Delegates Marc Korman and Ariana Kelly and MCEA member Samir Paul<\/p>\n<p>District 18: Delegate Al Carr<\/p>\n<p>District 19: Delegate Bonnie Collision<\/p>\n<p>District 20: Senator Will Smith, Delegates David Moon and Jheanelle Wilkins<\/p>\n<p>District 39: Senator Nancy King, Delegates Kirill Reznik and Shane Robinson<\/p>\n<p>All of the above are incumbents except Samir Paul, who is an MCPS teacher and MCEA member running in District 16.\u00a0 None of them are surprises.\u00a0 The teachers&#8217; endorsement decisions on open seats and contested races will be very interesting.\u00a0 We are sure that every candidate is waiting with bated breath!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adam Pagnucco. The Maryland State Education Association (MSEA) has made early endorsements in state legislative races.\u00a0 The endorsement of MSEA and its local affiliate, the Montgomery County Education Association (MCEA), deploys the mighty Apple Ballot, one of the most powerful tools in MoCo politics.\u00a0 The endorsements below are just the first batch and more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=9315\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MSEA Makes Early Endorsements<\/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":[151,293,35],"tags":[1545,2116,1476],"class_list":["post-9315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-pagnucco","category-apple-ballot","category-mcea","tag-adam-pagnucco","tag-apple-ballot","tag-mcea"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-2qf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9315","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=9315"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9320,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9315\/revisions\/9320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}