THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY SENTINEL NOVEMBER 8, 2018 EFLECTIONS the Montgomery County Sentinel, Published Weekly by Berlyn Inc
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Celebrating 164 years of service! Vol. 164, No. 22 • 50¢ SINCE 1855 November 8 - November 14, 2018 TODAY’S GAS Elrich Wins In A Landslide PRICE Despite massive developer support Floreen finishes a distant second while Ficker fades $2.77 per gallon 64.3 percent of the vote. Behind El- County Public Schools, and invest- the County — she probably did. She Last Week By Neal Earley $2.82 per gallon @neal_earley rich, Floreen won 67,402 votes, ing more in mass transit to curb the unified the County behind me,” El- which accounted for 19.2 percent of County’s growing traffic congestion. rich said. A month ago SILVER SPRING — Three- the vote, just ahead of Ficker who In his victory speech at the Sil- In his speech, Elrich, who is re- $2.93 per gallon term Montgomery County Council won a total of 57,489 votes, which ver Spring Civic Building, Elrich placing outgoing County Executive member Democrat Marc Elrich won accounted for 16.4 percent of the talked about overcoming a general Ike Leggett, promised to support A year ago the race for Montgomery County vote total. election challenge from fellow working people, to fund universal $2.55 per gallon Executive, besting fellow at-large Elrich, a former elementary County Council member Nancy Flo- pre-K education, to build a bus rapid transit system, to reduce the Coun- AVERAGE PRICE PER GALLON OF Council member Nancy Floreen (I) school teacher from Takoma Park, reen, who switched her party affilia- UNLEADED REGULAR GAS IN and Republican candidate Robin ran a campaign on making develop- tion from Democrat to independent ty’s carbon footprint, and to find a MARYLAND/D.C. METRO AREA way to do it without raising taxes. ACCORDING TO AAA Ficker. ers pay more for infrastructure and to run against him in the general With 255 of the 255 precincts in schools, universal early-childhood election. INSIDE Montgomery County reporting, El- education, closing the racial “My opponent [Floreen] See “Elrich,” rich won 225,900 votes, which is achievement gap in Montgomery claimed that she was going to unify page 8 Editor’s Democrats Notebook by Brian J. Karem again sweep County Where do we Council go from here? Which is the way that’s By Abby Cruz clear? A look beyond the @ReporterCruz midterm election. Democrats will retain all nine Page 4 seats on the County Council with Will Jawando, Hans Riemer, Evan Glass and Gabe Albornoz sweeping the at-large Council seats. The 2018 election was a new op- portunity for voters, with four open Council seats on the ballot. Glass led the at-large votes with 229,339 votes; Albornoz won 224,366 votes; Jawan- do won 222,040 votes and Riemer won 217,384 votes. The newly elected at-large coun- Paint Branch cil members, along with Riemer who PHOTO BY ABBY CRUZ won reelection Tuesday night trav- Will Jawando, Evan Glass, Hans Riemer and Gabe Albornoz pose for a selfie after winning Tuesday night. impresses eled to All Set Restaurant & Bar in downtown Silver Spring. Paint Branch notches an- “I expect here in Montgomery other victory on the belt before County that we elect a great, strong Five students charged with 2nd degree rape heading into the playoffs. Democratic team that will guarantee opportunities for all the people who The two suspects arrested Fri- each with two counts of second-de- By Kathleen Stubbs live here,” said Democratic candidate day, like the previous three, are under gree rape and two counts of attempt- Page 20 @kathleenstubbs3 Will Jawando as he greeted voters. 18. One suspect received three ed second-degree rape. “And I expect nationally that were Montgomery County Police charges of second-degree rape while “This event involves allegations going to take back the House of Rep- wrote in a news release Friday that the other suspect received one charge – involves serious criminal allega- resentatives and be competitive in the they arrested and charged two more of attempted second-degree rape. tions; that’s what our investigators Senate.” male Damascus High School stu- According to Montgomery are looking at,” Starks said. Jawando explained that since he dents as suspects, in connection with County Police spokesperson Capt. Police said in a press release that lived in Montgomery County his en- an alleged sexual assault incident at Paul Starks, police arrested three the alleged incident occurred the school, making the total number male Damascus High School stu- See “Council” of suspects charged thus far five in dents Thursday night and charged page 8 all. See “Five,” page 8 2THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY SENTINEL NOVEMBER 8, 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. January 16, 1941 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 Five Million reduction in state taxes in next two years by mail: $40.00 per year & $26.50 for Se- nior Citizens. (USPS) 361-100. Each week the Sentinel visits a to the people of Maryland. the State Government is now able $779,943 for 1942, necessary ap- memorable story from its archives. Bernard Kapiloff The Governor's address was to reduce the taxes for the support propriations PUBLISHER E MERITUS delivered in person to a joint meet- of its various operations." to public schools, State owned In his budget message to the Lynn G. Kapiloff ing of the two houses of the Gener- In announcing an increase of and State-aided hospitals and insti- CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER/ Legislature Governor Herbert R. al Assembly, and broadcast to the $779,943.00 in the General Funds tutions total $604,515, which PUBLISHER O'Conor furnished a pleasant sur- people of the State. Budget for 1942, the Governor amount is equivalent to approxi- [email protected] prise to the taxpayers of the State in In addition, to the reduction in pointed out that requested appropri- mately 77% of the increase. The Mark Kapiloff the form of a reduction in the State taxes, Governor O'Conor.noted ations for this year had been cut Governor further pointed out that ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER Tax on real estate of 534 % in 1942, with deep satisfaction that “as a re- $1,886,829.89. Likewise, the re- approximately $1 out of every $3 of [email protected] and of 10% in 1943, for a total dol- sult of the fiscal policies now in ef- quests for 1943 from General General Funds collected is provid- EDITORIAL lar saving for the two years of fect, the State's public debt will be Funds were cut $1,915,102.69, ed for public schools. Brian J. Karem $936,100,000. reduced by the end of this adminis- making a total of requests refused An all-time high in roads con- EXECUTIVE EDITOR Coupled with his expected an- tration from an initial total of of $3,801,932.58. struction seems indicated. Heading [email protected] nouncement regarding proposed re- $48,157,000.00 to $33,865,000.00, "Due to the uncertainty of the list of appropriations from Spe- Brandy L. Simms ductions in the Income Tax Levy, representing a reduction of 30%.” world conditions," the Governor cial Funds is the allocation to the SPORTS EDITOR ranging up to 20% in some classifi- Noting the probable additional declared, “the future at the moment State Roads Commission of [email protected] cations, and (because it will apply burdens to be laid upon the people is not clear, and I feel the only safe | $16,085,947.16 for 1942 and MARK ROBINSON to the calendar year 1940 as well). of the State in connection with Na- course to follow with respect to $16,535,048.08 for 1943, a total [email protected] Totaling $4,500,000 savings for the tional Defense preparedness, the State revenues should be on the for the two years of CITY EDITOR three fiscal years, the lowering of Chief Executive pointed out that| conservative side.” $32,620,995.24, dedicated to the BARBARA TRAININ BLANK the State real estate tax will mean a the State's burden of this taxation It was pointed out that of the construction and maintenance of COPY EDITOR combined saving of $5,436,100.00 “will be relieved to the extent that General Funds increase of the State highways. NEAL EARLEY [email protected] ASSIGNMENTS NEWS George Smith Write us PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR MoCo gets its first all-female school board TAZEEN AHMAD The Montgomery County Sentinel CALENDAR EDITOR the first time in history an all-female support led to [good] voter turnout.” [email protected] By Kathleen Stubbs welcomes letters. @kathleenstubbs3 board.” Silvestre will succeed Board CALL 301-838-0788 District 1 incumbent Judy Doc- member Jill Ortman-Fouse, who ran All letters must be original, FAX 301- 838 - 3458 County voters chose to bring ca won her race against Maria for County Council in the primary NEWSROOM AND LEGAL ADVERTISING back two incumbents for another signed by the author Blaeuer with a 1.6-percent lead out election but lost. Silvestre said she ADVERTISING term and elected new members for of a total of 123,514 votes, or 50.4 plans to attend or to watch all school two vacant seats for the Montgomery and must include the author’s daytime Lonnie Johnson percent of the vote. Blaeuer received board meetings up until she is sworn ADVERTISING ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE County Public Schools Board of Ed- 119,411 votes.