{"id":9938,"date":"2018-03-20T07:00:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=9938"},"modified":"2018-03-19T17:55:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T21:55:30","slug":"democratic-central-committee-candidate-endorses-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=9938","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Central Committee Candidate Endorses Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Jordan Cooper, who is running for a seat on the Montgomery County Democratic Central Committee (MCDCC), has endorsed five Republican candidates for office.\u00a0 That\u2019s an interesting choice given that the entire job of MCDCC is to promote the Democratic Party\u2019s agenda and candidates.<\/p>\n

Cooper ran unsuccessfully for Delegate from District 16 in 2014.\u00a0 He is running for that seat again<\/a> while simultaneously running for a seat on MCDCC<\/a>.\u00a0 Cooper blasted the county Democratic Party as \u201ccorrupt\u201d<\/a> for passing a rule barring candidates from running for party office and government office at the same time.\u00a0 But as the links above plainly show, he is not covered by the rule since he had filed for the two offices before the rule was passed and it was not retroactive.<\/p>\n

Since then, Cooper sent out a questionnaire to other candidates<\/a> for the purpose of endorsing them.\u00a0 In defending his \u201cendorsement process,\u201d<\/a> Cooper said he intended to endorse Republicans.\u00a0 He spoke the truth.\u00a0 His Public Interest Podcast endorsed 88 candidates for office<\/a>, of whom five were Republicans.<\/p>\n

The endorsed Republicans include:<\/p>\n

Robert Drozd, State Senate, District 14<\/p>\n

George Hernandez, Delegate, District 17<\/p>\n

Joe Norman, Delegate, District 8<\/p>\n

Doug Rathell, Delegate, District 30A<\/p>\n

Anjali Reed Phukan, Comptroller<\/p>\n

Other endorsed candidates who are not Democrats include:<\/p>\n

Jon Cook, Delegate, District 18 (Green)<\/p>\n

Nathan Feldman, Delegate, District 11 (Green)<\/p>\n

David Jeang, State Senate, District 19 (Green)<\/p>\n

Ray Ranker, Delegate, District 21 (Unaffiliated)<\/p>\n

Ian Schlakman, Governor (Green)<\/p>\n

As a private citizen, Cooper can support anyone for office he wants.\u00a0 But he is running for a seat on the governing body of the county Democratic Party.\u00a0 Article II of MCDCC\u2019s by-laws state<\/a>, \u201cIt shall be the responsibility of this organization to promote, establish and conduct political campaigns in Montgomery County, Maryland for the nominees of the Democratic Party and to act as spokesman for the Democratic Party in this County on all questions of public policy.\u201d\u00a0 In other words, one of the prime reasons for MCDCC\u2019s existence is to elect Democrats in Montgomery County.<\/strong> \u00a0Of Cooper\u2019s endorsees, six \u2013 Republicans Drozd, Hernandez and Phukan and Green Party members Cook, Jeang and Schlakman \u2013 are running against Democrats for offices representing Montgomery County.<\/p>\n

Is it too much to ask someone who wants a seat on the county\u2019s Democratic Central Committee to support the party\u2019s candidates for office?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Adam Pagnucco. Jordan Cooper, who is running for a seat on the Montgomery County Democratic Central Committee (MCDCC), has endorsed five Republican candidates for office.\u00a0 That\u2019s an interesting choice given that the entire job of MCDCC is to promote the Democratic Party\u2019s agenda and candidates. Cooper ran unsuccessfully for Delegate from District 16 in … Continue reading Democratic Central Committee Candidate Endorses Republicans<\/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":[151,18],"tags":[1545,380,1466],"class_list":["post-9938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-pagnucco","category-mcdcc","tag-adam-pagnucco","tag-jordan-cooper","tag-mcdcc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-2Ai","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9938","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=9938"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9940,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9938\/revisions\/9940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}