Nancy Navarro's campaign claims more than 60 people showed up for the opening of her campaign office. If the other campaigns have photos and/or videos of their events, we will post them.
Sunday, March 01, 2009
Nancy Navarro Opens Campaign Office: Video One
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I have lived in Moco all of my life and D-4 since council districts were established. I do not recall any local council district candidate at any time opening a campaign office. Is this rented space, or in-kind donation from the owner of Plaza Del Mercado (Federal Realty Trust?)
Why the necessity to operate a "campaign office" and pay for its operation? What, people dropping by Nancy's house are unacceptable? I just don't get it.
No discussion of any issue in this video or on Maryland Politics Watch by Nancy Navarro. She mentions Marilyn Praisner, but not Don Praisner, who said in a forum in the 2008 camapaign that his wife Marilyn considered Navarro to be, "dangerous."
I think we've reached a new nadir in MoCo politics when the existence of a campaign office is now the basis for criticism. "These new-fangled campaign whozamawhatsits just ain't right. Whatever happened to good, old-fashioned Maryland payola?"
The misplaced traditionalism here is amusing. Maybe Navarro should send out press releases by telegraph? Or ride around the district on a whistle-stop train tour?
It is strange that Nancy Navarro's supporters think a call for transparency is a, "new nadir."
Navarro reached a new nadir herself in the 2008 campaign, when she reported only $12,196 in contributions brefore the primary and then then after the primary reported $62,225 in contributions, most of it coming right after the pre-primary reporting deadline from developoers and unions. Navarro needs to rebut the presumption that she is not transparent. The first impression, that she is opaque, that she herself gave those of us who vote in District 4 was important.
Rocky, I find your insinuations to be over the top. Number one, I don't think we need to provide any explanation for you or anyone else's baseless conspiracy theories.
But, number two, that being said, I am really not in the mood to deal with the same demonizing, witchhunt accusations that were played against us last time, this time. We have a campaign to run, and last time we took over Nancy's house to stuff envelopes, launch canvasses, and the like. I'm sure Nancy Navarro wasn't terribly thrilled at having members of the campaign team (including myself) sleeping on her floor at 4:00 am some nights trying to undo the nasty propaganda campaign that was being waged against her (by ???).
So having said that, we have a ton of volunteers, not much time, and a lot of voters to contact. If you find that suspicious or unusual, so be it. This is nothing different than when we ran Raskin's campaign, but somehow anytime it involves Nancy, there's always a conspiracy to be found somewhere. I suggest new hobbies would be in order.
Oh, and ps, we're paying fair market. At least some of the developers seem to be standing with you know who, as it seems are some of your "slow-growth" friends. You should do a forum comment about THAT conspiracy.
I've met Jaime Raskin, and I can assure you David, Nancy Navarro is no Jaime Raskin---not by a hundred miles!
David, just ignore these people -- they have their own agenda. Rocky and "district 4 voter" -- I am loving your fake transparency issue.
How is this for transparency: I would like to know where Ike Leggett, Marc Elrich, Phil Andrews and Duchy Trachtenburg stand on early voting and why there are rumors out there that they have been working behind the scenes to kill it.
I would also like to know whether Ben Kramer and "finger in the wind" Leggett had anything to do with Paladino getting out of the race. That doesn't seem very transparent now, does it?
And Rocky, you were tight with Praisner, right? At least the photos would indicate you were -- so I'm sure you could just pick up the phone to Ben Kramer's campaign manager (who apparently was also Don's manager) and find out for us whether these rumors are true? Both about who was opposing early voting and about which of the anti-growth councilmembers are supporting the pro-Pay and Go, developer, Ben Kramer (heir to Kramer Enterprises, owner of much of Montgomery County's commercial real estate)?
Since you care so much about transparency, I would prefer that if Marc, Duchy and Ike are going to support a developer, that they do so publicly. Why hide from your friends?
You seem to have a lot of spare time to post forum comments, so maybe you could help us get to the bottom of all of this. The progressives of Montgomery who care about being backstabbed through candidate endorsements are dying to know.
We're already used to this from Ike "finger in the wind" Leggett's endorsements of Al Wynn, Ida Rubin, and perhaps Kramer -- but the rumblings about it coming from the self-declared "transparent" and "progressive" gang is shocking.
This is all MUCH more important than the invented and delusional transparency issues the rest of you are putting out there. Who is District 4 Voter -- Cary Lamari? Is that actually, a District 4 Candidate? Speak now!
My, my, my, what a nerve was touched. So sorry, David (who I believe is David Moon, Nancy Navarro's Campaign Manager).
I stated an observation and a question -- that to my knowledge, a local council district campaign had not opened a campaign office before, and I was wondering how it was being funded and why, which was explained. Thanks for that.
While you may think I have a conspiracy theory in mind, I really don't. And I never did. But you have to take my word for it.
We can learn from this -- simply asking "why a local district office" gets such a snarky, snarling remark in a public forum -- it says quite a bit about a lot of things. But the readers of this blog are smart and can make their own interpretations of this interchange.
District 4 Voter, I know Jamie (Note: not "Jaime") and Nancy well. Yes they're different candidates, but I can guarantee you they've got more in common than the other candidates in this primary. This is even more true in a head-to-head matchup, and anyone that tries to convince you otherwise has been smoking something they borrowed from Michael Phelps' footlocker. That's besides the point though.
Campaigns big and small open offices all the time. I didn't realize that this was suddenly a sinister and unusual thing. The propaganda/smear campaign must be working overtime to be coming up with "issues" like that, in a time when we have pressing services and budgetary problems to deal with. Or maybe you guys really believe these distortions. If so, I encourage you to come out to a campaign event soon and see what we're all about. You might find that reality differs from what members of the elite chattering class have been saying.
David, why doesn't Nancy Navarro make her own comments here? Why does she need a mouthpiece? Senator Raskin spoke for himself during his campaign. Is Nancy afraid she will make a mistake?
Seriously?! Rocky - you said that you simply "stated an observation and question." and go on to say: "We can learn from this -- simply asking "why a local district office" gets such a snarky, snarling remark in a public forum -- it says quite a bit about a lot of things."
It actually says quite a bit about you...I'm pretty sure you did more than "state an observation and ask a question" because the second paragraph of your original post is simply your snarky comments about Nancy having a campaign office..."What, people dropping by Nancy's house are unacceptable?" That's not stating a question, that's you projecting your opinions about the need for a campaign office.
If you're going to make comments, at least admit that you're also stating your opinion and not just asking a "simple question."
And just to comment on the topic of having a campaign office - I've worked on many campaigns over the decades and almost all of them worked out of a campaign office - it's what GOOD campaigns do!
Wow! This is very weird!
I drove up to Plaza del Mercado today to get some tobacco -- I've been shopping there for maybe 6 years now, heck, I shopped there when I was in highschool and it was brand-new -- and when I came out and was having car troubles, about ten undercover cops came out of the woodwork and totally gave the the once-over.
And now I come here and find out that this is where Nancy Navarro has her offices.
Much becomes more clear...
Lessons learned today: (1) Nancy Navarro should run her campaign out of her house, (2) police officers outside Navarro's campaign office are hassling Thomas Hardman, presumably at the behest of Nancy Navarro, and (3) Nancy Navarro has unfairly appropriated all of Mr. Hardman's many community activities as her own.
Oooookay. I'm going to very quietly step away from the computer now. Y'all are freakin' me out.
I will agree with Mr. Hardman that "much becomes clear," but I'm sure we part company on just what that is.
Let's leave it there for now. Based on some of the comments thus far, this campaign is going to be surreal.
Lefty, if there's any actual lesson to be learned here, it might be that people seem to not read too clearly, and other people don't write too clearly.
"Giving someone once-over" is not the same as "hassling" someone; actually one of them was kind enough to help me with some auto mechanical trouble I was having. Got me going again for which I have to thank him. Plus it gave him a chance to suss me out as to whether or not I was part of the disturbing new weirdness at Plaza del Mercado. Weird, you say? How could it be weird? Businesses and professionals are mostly moving out of Plaza del Mercado, not in to Plaza del Mercado. It has something to do with the high crime rate that centers right around that area. If you're so involved in the campaign and campaign issues, you should know that. So should Ms Navarro.
In fact, I'd like to know what Ms Navarro proposes to do about the high crime rate in Aspen Hill's sector of the so-called "Mid County Crime Corridor". What programs or policies does she propose? I suppose I could save you lots of time and trouble doing research and tell you what's been going on and how I've been involved but I want you folks to earn your pay. I could tell you what has worked and what has not worked, but again, I would rather make the campaign researchers earn their pay, rather than give every last detail of my own lessons learned through nearly a decade of hands-on participation in the issues and area. But let's just say, most of the beat officers in the area might or might not like my particular spin on the policies they are asked to adhere to, but they mostly know me, unless they just came into the area straight from the academy on an undercover rotation. Whether they like me or not, personally, is one thing. Whether they know that my concern for the area is real and that my activism is of long standing, that's another thing.
What does Nancy Navarro know about Aspen Hill and Layhill? What does she care, other than that she could get office-space for a song because the vacancy rate at that place is high due to all of the crime and violence there?
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