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Celebrating 164 years of service! Vol. 164, No. 23 • 50¢ SINCE 1855 November 15 - November 21, 2018 TODAY’S GAS Protesters March PRICE Rockville residents gather to express concern over Trump’s firing of Jeff Sessions $2.71 per gallon into the 2016 presidential election. there are a lot of people who can’t Borsky also noted the fact that Last Week By Harry Lichtman $2.77 per gallon There have been nationwide make it that far that easily on a Whitaker has appeared on CNN @hslichtman protests in several parts of the coun- weekday night. We wanted to ex- making numerous statements that he A month ago ROCKVILLE – Hundreds of ty, including downtown Rockville, press our views up here.” has a strong opinion about the in- $2.91 per gallon local residents took to the street this as many gathered with pro-Mueller Borsky was “frustrated” to hear vestigation, calling it a “witch week in a peaceful public protest of and anti-Trump signs around 25 that Trump was still attempting to hunt.” A year ago President Donald Trump’s selection Courthouse Square at 5:30 p.m. stop the Mueller investigation. “He’s not a neutral party to be $2.58 per gallon of Matthew Whitaker as the interim Thursday night. “If there was nothing he had overseeing from the DOJ point of U.S. Attorney General. Cheri Borsky, a software devel- done that was illegal or immoral, he view,” Borsky said of Whitaker. AVERAGE PRICE PER GALLON OF UNLEADED REGULAR GAS IN The move came after the opment programmer, was the head would not have a problem with let- Throughout the event, protest- MARYLAND/D.C. METRO AREA organizer for the event, leading pro- ting Mueller finish his investiga- ers marched around downtown ACCORDING TO AAA midterm elections when Trump fired Jeff Sessions and appointed Whitak- testers around downtown Rockville. tion,” Borsky said. “He is just con- INSIDE er – who will also take charge of the “I knew a lot of people would stantly trying to close down and ha- See “Rockville,” Robert Mueller led investigation go down to D.C.,” said Borsky. “But rass that investigation.” page 8 Editor’s Notebook Federal by Brian J. Karem court forces district Ralph and Sam? changes How can we learn to get By Nickolai Sukharev along if we can’t get along? @Nickolaiss Time to go along. A federal court struck down a Page 4 portion of Maryland’s congression- al map, forcing the state to redraw one of its eight districts. Issued by a three-judge district court panel a day after the Nov. 6 election, the order gives state offi- cials until March 9, 2019, to submit a new redistricting plan for the 6th Congressional District. If the dead- line is not met, a special commis- sion appointed by the court will re- draw the district. Prep takes out The order follows a case filed in 2016 by O. John Bennesik, the PHOTO BY GEORGE SMITHZ Bullis plaintiff, alleging that the Maryland A Bald Eagle makes an appearance looking for food in an Olney field. State Board of Elections intention- The Li’l Hoyas destroy ally aimed to reduce the influence of Bullis to capture the IAC Republican voters in the district crown. Midterm election turnout tops 50 percent during the 2011 redistricting in the 2014 midterm election – one tion Project. process. By Neal Earley Soon to be represented by David of the highest in recent midterm Voters around the nation and Page 20 @neal_earley Trone (D), who will succeed incum- elections. the County said on Election Day bent Rep. John Delaney (D), the dis- Montgomery County voter The high voter turnout in the that the biggest issue driving them trict includes Potomac, Gaithers- participation in a midterm election County followed a national trend, to the ballot box was national poli- burg, Germantown and Poolesville, climbed above 50 percent for the which saw rising voter turnout in tics, particularly anger at the along with portions of Frederick first time in years last week. most jurisdictions. Nationally, vot- Trump administration. But local is- County and the entirety of Washing- In total, as ov Nov. 12, er turnout for a midterm election sues also drove voters to the polls. ton, Allegany, and Garrett counties. 388,480 people voted in the hit a 50-year high, with 47 percent “I think the national climate Midterm Election in 2018, which of voting-eligible populations had a lot to do with it,” said Will See “Federal,” accounted for a 59.3-percent voter turning out for the midterms, ac- page 8 turnout compared to 38.9 percent cording to the United States Elec- See “Midterm,” page 8 2THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY SENTINEL NOVEMBER 15, 2018 EFLECTIONS The Montgomery County Sentinel, published weekly by Berlyn Inc. Publish- R ing, is a community newspaper covering Montgomery County, Maryland. Our of- fices are located at 22 W. Jefferson Street, Suite 309, Rockville, MD 20850. February 7, 1963 Founded in 1855 by Matthew Fields. All mail to: P.O. Box 1272, Rockville, MD 20849-1272. Subscription Rates for The Montgomery County Sentinel – Weekly New Lincoln photos found in Rockville by mail: $40.00 per year & $26.50 for Se- nior Citizens. (USPS) 361-100. Each week the Sentinel visits a Owner of the rich collection that Leet started and ran for several years Leet— This original negative of Lin- memorable story from its archives. Bernard Kapiloff should add to Lincoln lore, is Harvey the Washington Souvenir Co. which coln was filed in the regular way. PUBLISHER E MERITUS T. Leet who is in charge of the he operated at 1333 Pennsylvania Should it be in a safe place?” There is Four hitherto unpublished pho- Lynn G. Kapiloff Rockville office of Leet-Melbrook, Ave., N.W., specializing in post cards no record of a reply from Mr. Leet to CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER/ tos of Abraham Lincoln came to light Inc, photographers, at 206 Com- and photographs of Presidential inau- the question. PUBLISHER in Rockville this week. merce Lane. gurations and the parades that fol- The older Mr. Leet died Oct. 21, [email protected] One, of remarkable clarity, Leet, a quiet, unassuming man lowed them as well as Washington 1945 at the age of 79. Harvey Leet, Mark Kapiloff shows the Civil War President seated of 50 with a great love for photogra- scenes and dignitaries. who has just completed three years’ ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER in calm repose beside a marble top phy, lives at 8919 Grant St., Bethes- How the older Leet came into of service during World War II, then [email protected] table, presumably in the White da. With his wife, Roselyn, and their possession of the Lincoln negatives is took over his father’s business. EDITORIAL House, with a newspaper in his left two children, Robert Townsend Leet, not known by Harvey Leet. He recalls having seen the face Brian J. Karem hand and his eyeglasses in the other. 18, a student at the University of “All I know is that they were in of Lincoln on the old glass plates EXECUTIVE EDITOR Another shows Lincoln, whose Maryland and Marilyn Virginia Leet, the files of my father’s company, I as- used by photographers of an earlier [email protected] birthday is Tuesday, with a fuller 15, who attends Walter Johnson High sume he acquired them from a Civil day, years before his father’s death. Brandy L. Simms beard, undoubtedly taken shortly be- School. War photographer or a firm with “one of the first jobs my father SPORTS EDITOR fore his assassination, and still anoth- Leet inherited the old glass plat- which he had some business deal- gave me when I went to work for him [email protected] er shows him beardless, taken several ed used by the Civil War photograph- ings.” after graduating from the University MARK ROBINSON years before his death. er from his father, Grant Leet, who Attached even today to the old of Maryland was going through old [email protected] A fourth was believed taken dur- founded Leet Bros., a photographic glass negative of Lincoln beside the glass plates and sorting out the ones CITY EDITOR ing his second inauguration on the firm in Washington in 1893. marble top table is a note to the senior that should be thrown away,” he re- BARBARA TRAININ BLANK East Portico of the Capitol. Before that, however, the senior Leet penned by an employee: “Mr. called yesterday. COPY EDITOR NEAL EARLEY [email protected] ASSIGNMENTS NEWS George Smith Write us PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR Gaithersburg considers parking policy The Montgomery County Sentinel TAZEEN AHMAD CALENDAR EDITOR our neighborhood and parking and said there was concern that the privi- [email protected] By Peter Rouleau welcomes letters. @PeterSRouleau leaving their cars for days on end. lege was being abused, and so it was CALL 301-838-0788 Now there’s signage up saying that discontinued. I thought that actually All letters must be original, FAX 301- 838 - 3458 GAITHERSBURG — At a you can’t park between 11 and 5, and worked very well.” NEWSROOM AND LEGAL ADVERTISING work session Tuesday night, Mayor signed by the author that’s solved that, but now we can’t “For the past two years, you ADVERTISING Jud Ashman and the City Council re- park on the street, so if we have cannot park on our street,” said ceived feedback from city staff and and must include the author’s daytime Lonnie Johnson overnight guests or anything like Becky Butler. “Commercial vehicles ADVERTISING ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE residents regarding the future of per- that, we’re parking in our yards.

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