Patricia M. Murret (with help from Meghan Tierney) write in the Gazette, Drzyzgula, Ashman and Spiegel claim seats:
The unprecedented efforts of a regional coalition to influence the outcome of the Gaithersburg City Council election appeared to fall short Tuesday as only a single One Gaithersburg candidate won office.
Cathy Drzyzgula, Jud Ashman and Ryan Spiegel claimed decisive victories in the election, which drew an historic voter turnout for a city race. With 3,562 ballots cast, a record 14.6 percent of the city’s registered voters made their way to the polls.
Rosalind S. Helderman and Ann E. Marimow write in the Post, At the Polls, a Mostly Smooth Day:
…voters in Gaithersburg rejected two of three city council candidates who were backed by a coalition including labor union groups and the liberal advocacy organization Progressive Maryland, as well as Montgomery’s county executive.
Instead, voters selected two candidates who were endorsed by the city’s longtime mayor and had a history of activism: Jud Ashman, a schools advocate, and Cathy C. Drzyzgula, who had served on the city’s day-laborer task force. Attorney Ryan Spiegel, who was endorsed by the mayor and the coalition, was also elected.