The power of the press combined with the power of the truth is still potent, at least in our community.
Follow up to https://davidfishback.blogspot.com/2020/05/fomenting-fear-and-division-in.html, which contained the May 1 Maryland Matters guest commentary I coauthored with Karen Chenowith:
In the weeks after the publication, a number of elected office holders in Montgomery County took the unprecedented step of specifically urging their constituents to NOT vote for a particular candidate (Stephen Austin). See https://www.marylandmatters.org/2020/05/25/montgomery-co-elected-officials-warn-voters-about-school-board-candidate/
Stephen Austin only received 13% of the vote in the primary, coming in a distant third, so he was not on the general election ballot. My preferred candidate, Sunil Dasgupta, came in second -- and again came in second to the eventual winner, Lynne Harris (who I likely would have voted for in the primary had Sunil not been running.)
In January 2021, Maryland Matters listed our May 1 piece as its sixth-most read article of 2021, and the follow-up piece from the MoCo electeds as the eighth-most read. https://www.marylandmatters.org/2021/01/04/one-last-look-back-our-most-read-stories-of-2020/
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