Panner, Kauffman Advance to General Election for Board of Education

In the Montgomery County Board of Education primary, Phil Kauffman and Morris Panner took the No. 1 and No. 2 spots respectively for the At-Large ballot; Fred Evans and Rebecca Smondrowski took the top spots for District 2.

Although the Republican presidential primary bolstered Maryland into national headlines Tuesday, locally, Montgomery County voters also narrowed the field for the Board of Education’s general election in November. The unofficial results show that Phil Kauffman and Morris Panner beat out the two other candidates on the ballot to advance to the general election for the at-large seat. Kauffman received 60.3 percent of the vote, and Panner received 17 percent of the vote. The next runner-up, Lou August, received 11.9 percent of the vote.  "I am really honored to have received the support I did," Panner, a resident of the Town of Somerset in Chevy Chase, told Chevy Chase Patch. "It is such an important time in our [c]ounty's history and a …

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