LISTEN: Montgomery County Councilmember GEORGE LEVENTHAL Slams Term-Limits Amendment, Calls Robin Ficker ‘A Perennial Loser’

INTERVIEW – Montgomery County Council member GEORGE LEVENTHAL  (D-At Large)
•    George Leventhal is currently serving his fourth term as an At-large member of the Montgomery County Council.
•    With a month to go, Montgomery County term-limits contest heats up. (Washington Post) — The campaign to defeat a term-limits amendment in Montgomery County doesn’t have to report its contributors until Oct. 14.  But four of the County Council’s nine members say they have given money to the effort, and a fifth says he plans to do so. Council members Roger Berliner (D-Potomac-Bethesda), Sidney Katz (D-Rockville-Gaithersburg) and Nancy Navarro (D-Mid County) each say they have transferred $1,000 from their campaign funds to the “No on B” committee. Council member George L. Leventhal (D-At Large) said he contributed $1,500, and council member Marc Elrich (D-At Large) said he intends to contribute $1,000. If Question B is approved by voters, council members and the county executive would be barred from serving more than three terms.  That means Berliner, Elrich, Leventhal and Council President Nancy Floreen (D-At Large) would not be able to seek reelection in 2018. All four county lawmakers are likely to exit anyway — either by running for county executive or leaving the council of their own volition. Katz, a first-term lawmaker, would not be immediately affected. The amendment, which defines a “term” as both a full four years or any portion of that time, may also apply to Navarro, who was first elected to the council in 2009.