{"id":9328,"date":"2018-01-29T07:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=9328"},"modified":"2018-01-28T20:50:46","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T01:50:46","slug":"campaign-finance-reports-districts-14-and-15-january-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=9328","title":{"rendered":"Campaign Finance Reports: Districts 14 and 15, January 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Adam Pagnucco.<\/em><\/p>\n

Today kicks off a series of reports on fundraising in MoCo\u2019s state legislative districts.\u00a0 Incumbents are marked in red.<\/p>\n

District 14<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This is by far the easiest MoCo state legislative race to figure out.\u00a0 All four incumbents \u2013 Senator Craig Zucker and Delegates Anne Kaiser, Eric Luedtke and Pam Queen \u2013 are going to be reelected.\u00a0 The end.<\/p>\n

District 15<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Senator Brian Feldman has achieved every politician\u2019s dream: a complete deterrence of credible competition.\u00a0 Since he first won a House seat in 2002, he has never been at risk of losing an election.\u00a0 Meanwhile, four of his MoCo Senate colleagues (Cheryl Kagan, Rich Madaleno, Roger Manno and Nancy King) have endured tough races in recent years to gain or hold their seats.\u00a0 Will any serious candidate ever run against him?\u00a0 Of course, your author would be the first to sing Feldman\u2019s praises as a public official and any challenger stupid enough to run would lose, but \u2013 dang it \u2013 Feldman is not doing his part to keep political bloggers busy!<\/p>\n

Incumbent Delegates Kathleen Dumais and David Fraser-Hidalgo will be reelected despite their somewhat anemic fundraising.\u00a0 Of the candidates seeking to succeed Delegate Aruna Miller, who is running for Congress, Montgomery County Assistant Chief Administrative Officer Lily Qi looks like the strongest contender.\u00a0 Your author worked with Qi during his time in county government and found her to be smart, competent and forward-thinking.\u00a0 She was one of the uncommon people who could deal with the day-to-day tribulations of working for the county while also possessing the capacity to assume a perspective from 30,000 feet.\u00a0 Qi has done well at raising money, and with her standing in the local Chinese-American community, her admirers in the business community and the support of her boss, County Executive Ike Leggett, she has had a good start.<\/p>\n

Kevin Mack, who is Congressman John Delaney\u2019s constituent service lead, is well regarded by those who have interacted with him and is the principal alternative to Qi.\u00a0 But it\u2019s not helpful that he trailed political consultant Andy VanWye in fundraising.\u00a0 Hamza Khan, who switched from the District 39 House race, has not yet filed his campaign finance report and is being fined by the Board of Elections.\u00a0 Republicans were once competitive in this district and held a Delegate seat here as recently as 2006, but they will not win any seats in the age of Trump.<\/p>\n

The Big Question: will the incumbents slate with Qi as they slated with Miller, then a new candidate, in 2010?\u00a0 If they do, this race will probably be over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Adam Pagnucco. Today kicks off a series of reports on fundraising in MoCo\u2019s state legislative districts.\u00a0 Incumbents are marked in red. District 14 This is by far the easiest MoCo state legislative race to figure out.\u00a0 All four incumbents \u2013 Senator Craig Zucker and Delegates Anne Kaiser, Eric Luedtke and Pam Queen \u2013 are … Continue reading Campaign Finance Reports: Districts 14 and 15, January 2018<\/span> →<\/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":[151,54,137,234,235,170,236,55],"tags":[1545,1486,1540,1575,610,1576,1996,1577,1487,2119,2118,1796],"class_list":["post-9328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-pagnucco","category-anne-kaiser","category-brian-feldman","category-craig-zucker","category-district-14","category-district-15","category-eric-luedtke","category-kathleen-dumais","tag-adam-pagnucco","tag-anne-kaiser","tag-brian-feldman","tag-craig-zucker","tag-david-fraser-hidalgo","tag-district-14","tag-district-15","tag-eric-luedtke","tag-kathleen-dumais","tag-kevin-mack","tag-lily-qi","tag-pam-queen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-2qs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9328","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=9328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9331,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9328\/revisions\/9331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}