Rockville resident is first to file for 2022 race
April 28, 2021 | 5:22 pm
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Montgomery County State’s Attorney John McCarthy on Wednesday filed for a fifth four-year term.
McCarthy, a 69-year-old Democrat, was first elected in 2006 and was re-elected in 2010, 2014, and 2018. He is the first person to file for the position for the 2022 election.
McCarthy could not immediately be reached for comment on Wednesday afternoon.
Prior to his election as state’s attorney, McCarthy was a deputy state’s attorney for a decade.
He has maintained his post largely through uncontested races.
McCarthy was re-elected without primary or general election opposition in 2010. In 2014, he again won the Democratic primary unopposed, and defeated a Republican challenger by a nearly 70 to 30 percent margin in November. He ran unopposed in 2018.