I’m rather happy with my choices this year. Maryland, my present home of Howard County, and my birthplace of Montgomery County have all been well governed for the past few years. There’s been a exception or two, mostly notably the health care website, but it seems like that’s under control now.
So, if you have any races you still need information on, allow me to recommend Vote411.org. That has the candidates answers to pertinent questions for races at all levels of the ballot. That’s not just MD, check it out for any U.S. election (though obviously many elections have already happened or may not be tomorrow).
So, speaking strictly for myself, and not for my organizations or employer, and certainly not for the League which doesn’t do endorsements, here’s the Action Committee for Transit scorecard for Montgomery County and various statewide races (scroll to the second page for state government stuff). One of the candidates did object to the scoring, here’s a discussion by David Alpert of GGW on what goes into that sort of thing.
If you favor building the Purple Line, now, then please allow me to point you towards two County-Council-At-Large candidates in particular: George Leventhal and Hans Riemer. Both have been with us from the start and push for the line even when inconvenient. As the ACT scorecard shows, the Purple Line has many friends in Montgomery and I’m grateful to all of them. However, I wanted to emphasize those two as I hear the at-large race is pretty competitive this year and I want to be sure they stick around.
Hope your election day experience is or was a good one and that turnout is high for an off-year.
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