For those of you that haven’t early voted. Here’s my link to resources for the election. Let me specifically recommend the non-partisan Vote411.org for candidate surveys and local news source Bethesda Beat Election Guide. I’m planning to do a County Council and General Assembly post, but one thing at a time.
Governor: I’m a Rushern Baker man, I think he got good results in Prince George’s, he’s been a great advocate for the Purple Line in office. I generally like Ben Jealous and most of the other candidates, but Baker got the GGW endorsement in part because he knows the issues well.
County Executive:
I’ve long had the opportunity to work with Councilmember George Leventhal, a founder of Purple Line Now along with my father. Like many of the candidates, he has an economic prosperity agenda. But I think of the candidates for executive, he’s the also most focused on affordable and abundant housing that addresses the problem that many people who want to live and work in our fair county can’t afford to do so. He takes this subject quite seriously and recently earned his PhD with a dissertation on evidence-based practices for reducing chronic homelessness. Endorsements by Greater Greater Washington, tied on Action Committee for Transit scorecard. Also his super heroics theme ad is in my opinion the best and funniest of this cycle.
Candidates I wish I could ranked vote for:
Roger Berliner is a long time friend of the Purple Line, and a skilled conciliator on the Council. He’s tied on the ACT scorecard and got the endorsement of the Sierra Club.
Rose Krasnow isn’t as strong on the issues I care about, but she does have a good practical governing background as mayor of Rockville and comes in on the ACT scorecard above the other candidates.
Judges: Judicial elections are generally a bad idea in my view. So I’d vote in support of all the incumbent judges.
Clerk of the Court:
I consider it silly that this is an elected office, but I wanted to put in a good word for neighbor Alan Bowser.
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