SO WHICH CANDIDATES KEPT THEIR HEAD ABOVE THE SCANDAL?

Montco Commissioner Candidates Neil Makhija & Noah Marlier come out clean

For Montgomery County Commissioner, there’s been a huge pay-to-play scandal among the candidates endorsed by the Democratic Party uncovered by the Inquirer. See my previous post.

Candidate Neil Makhija, an election law professor at the University of Pennsylvania who is a newcomer to Democratic races looks even better now. So does Noah Marlier, the current Prothonotary, who refused to hire the tainted Rudolph Clarke law firm as counsel for the Office of the Prothonotary, despite pressure from the Montgomery County Democrats to do so.

You can vote twice for Marlier in the Primary on May 16th, once for Commissioner, and once as Prothonotary. If he wins both, Marlier will appoint a new Prothonotary.

Other row office candidates who stayed above the fray are Hilary Fuelleborn for Register of Wills. I don’t have much information about the other row offices, and we are only being given one choice by the Party for those offices anyway.

None of these 3 great candidates were endorsed by the Montgomery County Democratic Party. The nominating convention in February was a s*** show of the Montgomery County Democratic Party putting its thumb on the scales, with Danielle Duckett, the candidate who was offered the endorsement as interim Commissioner, but was then rescinded after she didn’t hire Clarke’s firm, screaming her head off.

Committee people such as myself yelled and rebelled, and tried to assert ourselves, but the Party tried to ignore what we were saying. The best we could do was to vote for an open Primary for the second seat for Montgomery County Commissioner - which means no one candidate gets the Party’s money or endorsement for that one seat. I was trying to say that in a nice way in my other post, but after the Inquirer article I can say it plainly.

Please email Inquirer writer, Andrew Seidman, at aseidman@inquirer.com for his fantastic investigative work. And also thank Lower Gwynedd Supervisor Danielle Duckett at https://www.facebook.com/DanielleADuckettLGTS/ for being a kamikaze on her career with the Democratic Party in order to warn people about the pay-to-play issues within the Party.