Campaign Takes Turn for the Hideous...

Over at the comments page for "Nancy Navarro Opens Campaign Office: Video One", one commenter asks a reasonable question: "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?)"

Someone posting as "David" -- some commenters believe this is David Moon, Nancy Navarro's campaign manager -- says:


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.


What the heck? This is the sort of mental processes you expect from someone in the stages that come immediately before collapse in either an acute case of adult-onset paranoid schizophrenia, or maybe just chronic methedrine intoxication. To be fair, it could also be the result of a totally madness- or dope-free case of sleep deprivation, about a week's worth. He does talk about spending many a sleepless night.

But the topper comes from the anonymous blog "troll" known as "foolio":


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!


All I can say is, if these bloggers who so avidly support Nancy Navarro in any way truly and perfectly echo or reflect her mental processes, let the voters beware: They'd be voting for either a psychotic or a sociopath. If they don't truly and perfectly echo or reflect Ms Navarro's campaign, she needs to publicly disavow these people or be tarred with their clearly icky brush. Indeed, if I was a true enemy of Nancy Navarro -- which I am not, I am totally in favor of a clean and transparent process of Democracy -- I would be posting this kind of mad idiocy in order to discredit her by association.

I was up at Plaza del Mercado Shopping Center today to buy some tobacco, maybe a little after noon, one-ish or so. I've never seen so many people acting so weird up there as I did today, and that is saying quite a lot. As crazy as these online supposed supporters of Navarro seem to be, maybe they've gone over-the-cliff paranoid and have been passing around pictures of opposition candidates, which might explain the treatment I've got from that CVS in the last two days.

Folks, it's a Special Election for County Council, it's not the Cold War. Try to get a grip.