I think there's now a fig leaf over some of the corruption, ... Where there was naked influence peddling before, it's a little more hidden now.

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I think the issue of developers' influence is going to explode in the elections in Montgomery County next year, and our campaign finance laws have clearly failed to restrain their influence.

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Our core concern wasn't really answered, which is that the golf course becomes a substitute for the governor's office.

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They're having to scramble more to keep this influence peddling under the radar, ... Is that progress?

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The VAR will basically come in and tell the [small business], you should do these two things this year and these two the next. They're serving the roles of consultant, adviser and integrator. They're the folks that are actually deploying this and training the internal IT staff on how to manage it.

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