The MoCo Board of Education controls more than half the taxes we all pay to our county, about $2.3 billion, and no one can tell them how to spend it. Shouldn't we want to know who are the people who are controlling all this money we have paid?
Everyone in MoCo can vote in November for one of the two candidates running (a) at large, (b) district 1, (c) distict 3, and (e) district 4. The candidates are:
At Large: Jill Ortman-Fouse vs. Shebra Evans
District 1: Judy Docca vs. Kristin Trible
District 3: Patricia O'Neill vs. Laurie Halverson
District 5: Michael Durso vs. Larry Edmonds
There are several forums scheduled where you can hear the candidates and ask them tough questions:
September 29 (will be videotaped and aired
on MCPS TV)
League of Women Voters & MCCPTA
CESC (Auditorium)
6:30 pm
September 30
Taxpayers League
Rockville Library, 21 Maryland Avenue
7 pm
October 5
Start School Later
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Location TBD
October 8, 2014
Aspen Hill Civic Association
Aspen Hill Library, 4407 Aspen Hill Road.
7:30 pm
October 11
NAACP
CESC
8:30 am
October 15 (will be videotaped and
circulated)
Whitman Cluster
River Falls Clubhouse, 7915 Horseshoe Lane,
Potomac, MD.
7 pm
October 21
Safe Silver Spring w/ MCCPTA
Long Branch Community Center
7:30 pm
You can ask the candidates such questions as:
Do you support the MOE (maintenance of effort)
law, which prohibits lowering the amount schools
receive in a recession, even it it means
police and others have to be laid off?
If you are elected will you support the Board of
Education having closed meetings, as the Board
has done so many times in the past?
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