UFCW 1994 Calls for Investigation After Judge Says Leggett Broke Election Law

(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.’”