Money in MoCo's District 4 Primary Race
Montgomery County's special election to pick Marilyn Praisner's successor on the County Council is next Tuesday, but campaign finance reports released this week reveal behind-the-scenes loyalties from last month's primary.
In the Democratic contest, Praisner's widower, Don, defeated School Board President Nancy Navarro with 44 percent of the vote. But the reports filed with the state Board of Elections show that Navarro raised more than three times as much money as Praisner. She collected $104,221 compared with Praisner's $27,145.
Praisner was backed by County Executive Isiah Leggett and four council members - Phil Andrews, Roger Berliner, Marc Elrich and Duchy Trachtenberg. The only other council member to pubicly take sides was Valerie Ervin, who had served on the school board with Navarro. But the reports show that Navarro also received donations from Council members George Leventhal and Nancy Floreen.
Praisner refused to accept contributions from development interests. Among Navarro's donors were developers Nanci Porten of Porten Homes, Norman Dreyfuss of IDI Management Inc. and several members of the Lerner family, in addition to local land use attorneys, such as Stephen Elmendorf, Stephen Orens and William Kominers.
By Ann Marimow |
May 7, 2008; 6:23 AM ET
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Posted by: Full facts... | May 7, 2008 11:14 AM
Why doesn't the Post write about the Election on May 13 and Praisner's refusal to debate or to campaign or to show up at any citizen meeting since the primary for that matter.
We have just received the largest tax increase in state history. Now Leggett and his yet man Praisner want to give us the largest property tax increase in 20 years on top of that. Leggett also wants to increase gasoline tax, a move which Praisner will also approve.
Mark Fennel, a long time employee of the natiuonal nonprofit Citizens Against Gov ernment
Waste, on the other hand, is pledged to property tax relief and to sticking to the charter property tax limit, a limit that APraisner has said he will not obey.
SAVE OUR HOMES! Mark Fennel for County Council and Prfoperty Tax Relief!
Posted by: Robin Ficker Broker Robin Realty | May 7, 2008 12:57 PM
Wow! Nancy Navarro raised over 3X what the winner raised and still lost. $100K+ for a midterm special council election sure is a lot of money. She must have promised the moon to her benefactors. So refreshing that she lost in the first heat of this race. She would have been a "yes-woman" shilling for the unions and developers who paid her way in.
Kind of repulsive and insulting to run based on her ethnicity too. Race and ethnicity do not matter. Knowledge, ability, and effectiveness matter.
Posted by: Navarro is a high-dollar failure | May 7, 2008 2:33 PM
Navarro is supporting Fennel.
Posted by: Watch out | May 7, 2008 6:23 PM
Now I know who Nancy Navarro was talking to when she wasn't returning phone calls from her constituents about school related issues...she was talking to the developers and unions about donations. She is a complete disgrace and I encourage all credible candidates to step up and run against her. Nancy is uniformly disrespected for her represenation of District 4 residents on the school board. Any credible candidate will beat Navarro.
Posted by: Step Forward | May 8, 2008 2:11 PM
Robin Ficker should support Nancy Navarro in the next election. That would assure her defeat forever and save our homes.
Posted by: How to assure a Navarro defeat in '10 | May 9, 2008 10:45 AM
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Don't forget that Don Praisner broke his pledge and took money from developers and their attorneys, too. Notably, land use attorney Gregory Eisenstadt, and privacy world developer Nicholas Miller (who has a lot of interest in matters that will come before the County).
This is all after Praisner made developer money (not development issues) his SOLE issue.