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April 20, 2021
John B. King Jr. (D), the former U.S. secretary of Education under President Obama, announced his 2022 gubernatorial bid Tuesday.
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Education will be one of King s foremost talking points on the campaign trail, and he touted his lengthy resume as an educator in his announcement.
King started his career as a teacher and school administrator, and later became New York State s commissioner of education before joining the Obama administration.
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His 2 1/2-minute announcement video features audio of President Obama introducing him at a previous event – though not for his campaign for governor. The video also features a still photograph of King with the former president.
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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.