On April 10th, The Ellicott City & Western Howard Democratic Club met and voted on endorsements for various races. Here is a listing of candidates that received enough votes to earn the club endorsement:

Federal

Senate

Ben Cardin

Congress

District 2

Dutch Ruppersberger

District 3

John Sarbanes

District 7             

Elijah Cummings

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State

Comptroller

Peter Franchot

Attorney General

Brian Frosh

MD District 9 Senate

Katie Hester

MD District 9A Delegate

Steven Bolen

Natalie Ziegler

MD District 9B Delegate

Courtney Watson

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Howard County

County Executive

Calvin Ball

County District 1

Jon Weinstein

Council District 2

Opel Jones

Council District 5

China Williams

State’s Attorney

Rich Gibson

Clerk of the Circuit Court

Wayne Robey

Register of Wills

Byron Macfarlane

Judge of the Orphans’ Court

Anne Dodd

Nicole Bormel Miller

Sheriff

Marcus Harris

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I was invited to the meeting to help count votes. I worked with Abby Hendrix on counting votes in the Governor race. No candidate won that endorsement (no one got enough votes to get 50% of the club support…with seven candidates…that is no big surprise). I will say that the candidates that received the most votes on the three ballots were: Krish Vignarajah, Rich Madaleno and Kevin Kamenetz….with Krish coming in first on all ballots…just not getting enough votes for the club endorsement.

I don’t know if the vote counts will be published at some point in the future…if they are…I will be sure to update this post with those numbers.

Update: Here are the vote counts for Governor:

Rushern Baker/ Elizabeth Embry 7
Ralph Jaffe/Freda Jaffe 0
Ben Jealous/Susan Turnbull 16
James Jones/Charles Waters 0
Kevin Kamenetz/ Valerie Ervin 25
Rich Madaleno/Luwanda Jenkins 38
Alec Ross/ Julie Verratti 10
Jim Shea/Brandon Scott 4
Krish Vignarajah/ Sharon Blake 49

Scott E