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When the dust settled from the wild 2018 election one that saw dozens of Democrats compete for County Council seats Montgomery County wound up with just one woman on the nine-member council, Nancy Navarro (D).
Montgomery now has a record low number of female councilmembers, a trend at odds with the county’s reputation as one of the state’s most liberal bastions.
But that’s about to change, according to political professionals, activists and women who plan to run for the council in the 2022 elections including some who came within striking distance in the 2018 elections.
Last week, during a virtual public hearing about Maryland s rollout of COVID-19 vaccines for Latino and Black communities, two people made fun of Montgomery County Councilmember Nancy Navarro while she was speaking. The two people, a council employee and a contractor from the nonprofit Montgomery Community Media, were overheard on the Zoom call discussing Navarro s speech. I love how her accent comes out and pronounces words like she thinks they re pronounced. Like, she says represents and hologram, the woman said, according to WZDC. I heard hologram and thought that was kind of interesting, a man said while laughing. So cute, the woman responded.
The future of policing in Montgomery Co. schools could keep SROs on staff, but not directly inside schools
Montgomery County Councilmember Nancy Navarro proposed an alternative SRO plan that would remove SROs and replace them with an exterior cluster team. Author: Kolbie Satterfield (WUSA 9) Published: 11:26 PM EST March 7, 2021 Updated: 11:54 PM EST March 7, 2021
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. The battle over the future of school resource officers in Montgomery County continues, but with a twist; an alternative plan introduced by Councilmember Nancy Navarro that would keep school resource officers (SROs), but not physically inside the schools.
Navarro’s amendment to a pre-existing bill to keep SROs would keep the officers out of school facilities and instead place the officer in a cluster team made up of SROs, mental health professionals, and positive youth development staff.
| Credit: Cheryl Diaz Meyer for The Washington Post via Getty Startling and symbolic. That s how Montgomery County Councilmember Nancy Navarro describes a virtual meeting held earlier this week when while she was discussing racial disparities in the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine two of those participating in the call mocked her accent.
As Navarro spoke personally about the bizarre disconnect she s experienced in her years of public service and how the COVID-19 pandemic has specifically impacted the Latino and Black communities, two participants in the Tuesday Zoom call could be heard laughing and joking about her accent. Get push notifications with news, features and more.