A PAC Rides into Town

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2022-07-29

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Dasgupta, Sunil. "A PAC Rides into Town" Interview with Adam Jentleson. I Hate Politics Podcast. Jul 29, 2022. https://ihppod.libsyn.com/a-pac-rides-into-town.

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Abstract

The 2022 Maryland primary elections are over and the state is waiting for results. Sunil Dasgupta talks with Adam Jentleson, a former staffer for Senator Harry Reid, who together with like-minded friends created a PAC that spent close to a million dollars on television ads attacking incumbent Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich’s housing record. Whether they succeed or not, the entry of PAC-spending in local elections has been a big bone of contention and brings to the suburbs a hardball national political style on behalf of pro-housing policies. Music by Rockville-based rock and roll band, The Treading Lemmings.