UFCW 1994 Calls for Investigation After Judge Says Leggett Broke Election Law
Friday, March 28, 2014
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
UFCW Local 1994
MCGEO this week called for criminal
investigations by the Maryland State
Prosecutor and the Montgomery County Inspector
General after Maryland County
Circuit Court Judge Ronald Rubin found that
Montgomery County Executive Ike
Leggett (right) violated
Maryland election law when he engaged in
electioneering and conducted a
political campaign to influence county voters
on how they should vote regarding
a political referendum on police bargaining
rights in 2012. Local 1994
also called on Leggett to repay the more than
$100,000 in public funds Rubin
says Leggett spent in the 2012 political
referendum. “The citizens of
Montgomery County should be outraged at such
behavior and demand full
accountability from their highest elected
County administrative official,”
Local 1994 said in a news release, noting that
Leggett has continued to
maintain that he did nothing wrong and has
attempted to sweep the decision
under the rug, ̶”Despite
the fact that Judge Rubin found that Leggett
engaged in a ‘bold
presumption of power’ and that the question
of his legal wrongdoing ‘was
not even a close call.’”