Why does the County Executive have a huge new SUV with a driver----a vehicle that looks like the Pope-mobile. How much did it cost? $60,000+? Why not a compact that he drives himself? Why not a Prius. Why tinted windows? Does he think he is going to be assassinated? How many mph does it get?

This is the kind of waste of money that Mark Fennel would eliminate as a member of the county council. Mark is opposed to the biggest property tax increase in $20 years proposed by Leggett and his "yes" man candidate, Don Praisner. With gasoline going to $4 a gallon, and record foreclosures, we need at least one person who will look for waste, management and inefficiency first and tax increases last, not the other way around.

Mark Fennel for County Council and Property Tax Relief on May 13.

Over the past year and a half, we have carefully read over 100 comments from Free-Donny which said how much money we are wasting by building the ICC. Now we have a candidate in the May 13 special election for county council, Mark Fennel, who was opposed to the ICC when he ran in 2006 and now. But not a peep out of free-donny? Calling free-donny, calling free-donny! Where are you.

Mark Fennel and Don Praisner have both been interviewed by news channel 8 today. Their interviews will be shown late afternoon and early evening on News Channel 8. Watch it and you will become a Fennel Fan.

Donny is now waiting for this fennel guy to make the $3,100,000,000 ICC toll road a frontline issue for his campaign. Why? Because Ficker keeps bringing it up. I've just not heard fennel bring it up now that he has the spotlight.

Facing a 4 to 1 Dem to Repub disadvantage, fennel must indeed seize on some big issues to win over much of the other party. My objective advice for fennel. Thx.

Mark Fennel is so green you would think he had two Irish grandfathers, when he only had one. Fennel is the reason that the Sierra Club did not endorse the Democrat in the May 13 special election for County Council and Property Tax Relief.

Fennel, a life-time county resident who graduated from Walter Johnson Hgh School and Vassar College, is married to Estella, a bilingual legal immigrant from Central America. They have a 7 month old son, not-so-silent Cal.

Mark Fennel, a long-time employee of the national non-profit, Citizens Against Government Waste, is an expert on looking for waste, inefficiency and mismanagement.

Mark Fennel, 42, ran a friendly, race aganst Marilyn Praisner in 2006, where Fennel received 25% of the vote, not the 15% Don Praisner mentions in his campaign literature. At that time Fennel pointed out that the entire council had voted for three years, from FY03-FY05 to exceed the charter property tax limit when it was not necessary to do so.

Fennel's opponent is a 76 year old with serious health problems who s running as a Leggget, "yes" man.

Vote for Green Mark Fennel for County Council and Property Tax Relief on May 13.

Yes, Mark Fennel is green, but ufortunately the wrong type of green.

Mark Fennel may be an energetic idealist who makes his living identifying waste in government but he doesn't have any experience in changing or fixing it once it's been found. Furthermore, he has not put forward a full legislative agenda or action plan to get his ideas enacted. The best of intentions are just feel-good words unless they can be made into reality.

Mark Fennel has absolutely no experience dealing one-on-one with the Montgomery County Board of Education, the Police department, the Department of Fire and Rescue Services, Public Works, Parks, WSSC, HHS, etc. and has no relationships or influence with the leadershp of any of them.

Mark Fennel has not yet put any children through Montogmery County schools and cannot possibly relate to the real needs of the parents of school-age children or their teachers and aministrators.

Idealism and energy do not fix problems. Experience and a proven success record delivering solutions do. The Rockville establishment will neutralize him in his first week, which will leave the 4th District with effectively no advocacy until after the next election cycle.

By running for office, Mark Fennel is approaching us with his resume to hire him for the job of representing us in Rockville. I would not hire him based simply on the complete lack of the appropriate qualifications, experience, or management results on his resume. Why should we have a Councilmember learning on our time what another candidate is an expert on already?