{"id":9809,"date":"2018-03-07T12:59:04","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T17:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=9809"},"modified":"2018-03-07T13:46:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T18:46:31","slug":"progressive-maryland-endorses-for-county-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=9809","title":{"rendered":"Progressive Maryland Endorses for County Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Adam Pagnucco.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Progressive Maryland, an umbrella organization containing several influential progressive groups, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.progressivemaryland.org\/endorsements\">announced it is endorsing the following candidates for County Council<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At-Large: Brandy Brooks, Will Jawando, Danielle Meitiv and Chris Wilhelm<\/p>\n<p>District 1: Ana Sol Gutierrez<\/p>\n<p>District 3: Ben Shnider<\/p>\n<p>District 4: Nancy Navarro<\/p>\n<p>District 5: Tom Hucker<\/p>\n<p>Progressive Maryland has previously endorsed Marc Elrich for County Executive and Ben Jealous for Governor.\u00a0 Brooks is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.progressivemaryland.org\/theteam\">employee of the organization<\/a>.\u00a0 Hucker founded the group&#8217;s predecessor, Progressive Montgomery.<\/p>\n<p>Two things strike us as interesting here.\u00a0 First, this is the first major institutional endorsement not received by at-large incumbent Hans Riemer.\u00a0 (SEIU Local 500 has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=9575\">endorsed three non-incumbents in the at-large race<\/a> but left a spot open for Riemer contingent on further events in Rockville.)\u00a0 Second, Progressive Maryland&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.progressivemaryland.org\/affiliates\">affiliates<\/a> include MCGEO, UFCW Local 400 (grocery store workers), the SEIU Maryland\/D.C. council, NOW and ATU Local 689 (WMATA), all of whom play in MoCo elections.\u00a0 Does Progressive Maryland&#8217;s decision provide insight on which candidates may be endorsed by these other groups?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adam Pagnucco. Progressive Maryland, an umbrella organization containing several influential progressive groups, has announced it is endorsing the following candidates for County Council. At-Large: Brandy Brooks, Will Jawando, Danielle Meitiv and Chris Wilhelm District 1: Ana Sol Gutierrez District 3: Ben Shnider District 4: Nancy Navarro District 5: Tom Hucker Progressive Maryland has previously &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=9809\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Progressive Maryland Endorses for County Council<\/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":[151,325],"tags":[1545,1490,2019,2024,2015,2014,1599,1601,781,703],"class_list":["post-9809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-pagnucco","category-progressive-maryland","tag-adam-pagnucco","tag-ana-sol-gutierrez","tag-ben-shnider","tag-brandy-brooks","tag-chris-wilhelm","tag-danielle-meitiv","tag-nancy-navarro","tag-progressive-maryland","tag-tom-hucker","tag-will-jawando"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-2yd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9809","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=9809"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9811,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9809\/revisions\/9811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}