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District 18 Democratic General Assembly candidates who attended the forum Wednesday night included, from top left, state Senate candidates Dana Beyer and Michelle Carhart as well as the delegate candidates Al Carr, Emily Shetty, Helga Luest, Jared Solomon, Joel Rubin, Leslie Milano, Mila Johns and Ron Franks Meeting for the third time in recent months, the crowded field of candidates for legislative seats in District 18—who previously had been in accord on virtually all policy issues—Wednesday night found something about which to disagree: Montgomery County’s public liquor sales and distribution system.All eight Democratic candidates for the district’s three House of Delegates nominations in the June 26 primary, as well as two of the three contenders for the open District 18 Senate seat, appeared at a forum at Kensington’s town hall. They split almost evenly in responding to an audience question on whether the current control regimen should be retained or privatized.“I just want to start off by congratulating the person who wrote that question,” joked one of the delegate candidates, federal contractor Ron Franks of Wheaton. “I don’t know if you get a chicken dinner, but you definitely get a little bit of a difference between the candidates—which is something that will benefit everybody in this room.”But if the wide-open District 18 Democratic contest—where two delegate seats as well as the Senate slot have no incumbents running this year—has seen little disagreement on substantive policy issues, there has been no shortage of behind-the-scenes political tensions.Some of these spilled over into public view at the forum, as a couple of the delegate contenders—Mila Johns of Chevy Chase and Helga Luest of Rockville—complained about the process by which the endorsements of the county’s teachers union, the Montgomery County Education Association (MCEA), had been awarded in District 18.Luest,...

Candidates for county executive, county council and local judiciary offices are listed first, followed by the state legislature, Congress and statewide offices.The list includes over 200 candidates, including 38 just for the four at-large seats on the Montgomery County Council.Running mate Valerie Ervin, the former Montgomery County Councilmember, has taken Kevin Kamenetz’s place at the top of the ticket. She chose Marisol Johnson, a former Baltimore County Board of Education member, as her running mate.Because the State Board of Elections said it is too late to reprint ballots, as of May 30, Kamenetz’s name is slated to appear at the top of the ticket along with Ervin’s name below as the running mate. Ervin is suing the board to get the ballots redone. As we enter into an unprecedented election season where public campaign financing will be used for the first time in Montgomery County, 22 candidates have qualified to receive matching campaign finance funds, five candidates have been disqualified and two others are waiting to be qualified. The deadline to file for public financing certification was May 15.Since the last update, County Council candidates Jim McGee (D-District 1) and Kevin Harris (D-District 5) have qualified for public financing.On Friday, June 1, the Montgomery County Department of Finance will post updated financial information on approved public campaign financing candidates, but the remaining two candidates may not know by that time if they qualified.Click on the links below for previously published public financing stories. 20 Montgomery candidates approved for public financing system, four hang in balance – Dozens of council candidates apply for public financing; five already disqualified As it stands, $11 million in county funds have been allocated to finance the races for county executive and county council. We include total disbursement amounts for qualified candidates in their profile. (See the general list of approved candidates...

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