{"id":9476,"date":"2018-02-15T14:00:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T19:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=9476"},"modified":"2018-02-16T19:49:03","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T00:49:03","slug":"moco-endorsements-february-15-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=9476","title":{"rendered":"MoCo Endorsements: February 15, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Below, we present a preliminary list of institutional endorsements for MoCo candidates in contested races.\u00a0 These lists are incomplete for two reasons: first, several influential players (like MCGEO, the Washington Post, the Volunteer Fire Fighters and the Realtors) have not concluded their endorsement processes and second, many of those who have endorsed have decided on some races but not yet others.\u00a0 That is particularly true of MCEA, holder of the mighty Apple Ballot, which has issued one round of endorsements and will be issuing another round shortly.<\/p>\n

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A few notes.<\/p>\n

First, incumbents are cleaning up as usual.\u00a0 Challengers, we know you think you can do a better job than them.\u00a0 But the incumbents have cast real live votes and have relationships you don\u2019t have.\u00a0 Deal with it!<\/p>\n

Second, a handful of non-incumbents are starting to rack up progressive endorsements.\u00a0 In MoCo, the two who stand out are Council Member Marc Elrich, who is running for Executive, and District 3 County Council candidate Ben Shnider, who is challenging incumbent Sidney Katz.\u00a0 If Shnider\u2019s endorsements keep snowballing can he pull off the unthinkable?\u00a0 Delegate Jeff Waldstreicher, who is running for Senate, has now claimed five major institutional endorsements against one claimed by his opponent, Dana Beyer.<\/p>\n

And third, there are so many big endorsements that have not yet come down.\u00a0 It\u2019s still early so don\u2019t carve anyone\u2019s tombstone yet.\u00a0 That is particularly true of the Council At-Large race, where only incumbent Hans Riemer is building a big stack of them.\u00a0 The coming endorsements could act as a critical differentiator in a historically huge field.<\/p>\n

We will be updating this list periodically.\u00a0 We will not be including individual endorsements from elected officials or other prominent muckety-mucks.\u00a0 (OK, maybe if Barack Obama gets involved, we will make an exception.)\u00a0 And we will not be listing endorsements from tiny, piddly-squit groups that have never shown any game here.\u00a0 That means if the Wheaton Beer-Drinking Bass Guitarists Political Club issues an endorsement list, tough beans! \u2013 we will not be running it.<\/p>\n

To be continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Adam Pagnucco. Below, we present a preliminary list of institutional endorsements for MoCo candidates in contested races.\u00a0 These lists are incomplete for two reasons: first, several influential players (like MCGEO, the Washington Post, the Volunteer Fire Fighters and the Realtors) have not concluded their endorsement processes and second, many of those who have endorsed … Continue reading MoCo Endorsements: February 15, 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":[151,626],"tags":[1545,499],"class_list":["post-9476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-pagnucco","category-endorsements-2","tag-adam-pagnucco","tag-endorsements"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-2sQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9476","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=9476"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9509,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9476\/revisions\/9509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}