Montgomery County Executive Doug Duncan

• Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington Salutes Tenure of Montgomery County, Md., Executive Doug Duncan

ROCKVILLE, Md., June 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Ronald Halber, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington, today issued the following statement: It is with deep sadness that we learn of Montgomery County Executive Doug Duncan's decision to withdraw from the race for Maryland Governor citing his suffering from clinical depression. At this difficult time, our heartfelt prayers are with Doug, Barbara and his entire family.

• U.S. Newswire
• June 22, 2006

• The Clean Energy Partnership -CEP- Celebrates 1 Year Anniversary with Call to Action; Montgomery County Executive Doug Duncan to Be Keynote Speaker to Local Business Leaders and Politicians at CEP Happy Hour.

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- The Clean Energy Partnership (CEP), the Washington, D.C., area's leading business-member-driven clean energy organization, announced...

• Business Wire
• June 15, 2005

• Brain Disorder Hits 19 Million Americans

Depression, an illness usually only whispered about behind closed doors, is getting attention thanks in part to two prominent Maryland men. A diagnosis of clinical depression prompted Montgomery County Executive Doug Duncan to pull out of the state gubernatorial race on June 22. The disease probably led Capital-Gazette Publisher Philip Merrill to take his own life during a solo sailboat trip across the Chesapeake Bay on Monday.

• Maryland Gazette
• July 05, 2006

• Political Notes

Duncan's money comes from Montgomery More than half the money Montgomery County Executive Doug Duncan has raised for his gubernatorial campaign has come from his home county, raising questions about whether he can compete statewide with Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. and Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley.

• Maryland Gazette
• February 06, 2006

• Ehrlich Vs. O'malley

With Montgomery County Executive Doug Duncan's departure from the Maryland gubernatorial race, the stage is set for a showdown between Gov. Robert Ehrlich and the all-but-certain Democratic nominee, Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley. Both men are charismatic, ambitious politicians, and it's no secret that both dislike one another strongly. That's where the similarity ends. Mr. O'Malley is a liberal ideologue with a disconcerting tendency to whine and look for Republicans to blame (usually Mr. Ehrlich or President Bush) when he thinksinsufficient largess is being funnelled into his city. The defining issue of Mr. Ehrlich's governorship, by contrast, has been his underappreciated effort to prevent a General Assembly dominated by liberal Democratsfromenacting higher taxes and new regulations...

• The Washington Times
• July 03, 2006

• Hughes, Duncan Lead Maryland's Comptroller-Elect Franchot Transition

Former Gov. Harry Hughes and Montgomery County Executive Doug Duncan will lead a 47-member transition team to advise Comptroller- elect Peter Franchot as he prepares to take office in January. The team, announced yesterday, is a geographically diverse group that represents both political parties as well as a variety of interests, including business, the environment and labor.

• The Daily Record (Baltimore)
• November 22, 2006

• Suburban Md. Taps El Salvador for Business

Hoping to broaden a policy of reaching out to international businesses, Montgomery County Executive Doug Duncan will lead a delegation of business leaders and officials today to El Salvador. Part of a wider trend that has local or county-level jurisdictions reaching across borders to access economic opportunities, the trip is intended to establish relationships that could attract new businesses to the county as well as open up opportunities for existing companies.

• The Daily Record (Baltimore)
• August 10, 2005

• Two Md Governor Hopefuls Tout Business Achievements

Venturing into what Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. considers his own turf, the two Democrats hoping to take his job in November yesterday touted their accomplishments in economic development to a room full of business people. The Maryland Chamber of Commerce and the Tech Council of Maryland held a forum yesterday featuring primary opponents Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley and Montgomery County Executive Doug Duncan. The candidates appeared separately, as opposed to in a debate format.

• The Daily Record (Baltimore)
• June 29, 2006

• Doug Duncan's End?

In announcing his bid for governor of Maryland on Thursday, Montgomery County Executive Doug Duncan urged voters to "think bigger." Clearly Mr. Duncan doesn't take his own advice, because he immediately went on a small-minded attack to paint his highly popular opponent as a dreamy idler. Mr. Duncan didn't mention him by name, but Democratic frontrunner Martin O'Malley was the clear target of his speech in Rockville. You have to do more than believe things will turn out okay," Mr. Duncan said, a reference to Mr. O'Malley's "Believe" campaign. "Everyone wants an end to the political gamesmanship, partisanship and uncontrolled egos we're suffered through over the past few years. They want their leaders to think bigger for Maryland.

• The Washington Times
• October 25, 2005

• Wage Disparity Panel in Maryland Seated Amid Acrimony

More than two months after being accused of dragging his feet, Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. has appointed nine members to a commission to study pay disparities between men and women and minorities and non-minorities. Earlier this year, the General Assembly overrode Ehrlich's veto of legislation passed in 2004 creating the Equal Pay Commission. In August, Montgomery County Executive Doug Duncan, a Democratic contender for Republican Ehrlich's seat in 2006, criticized Ehrlich for failing to appoint any members to the commission. The commission, which will study the extent of gender- and race-based wage disparities in the public and private sectors, had yet to be created when the deadline for a preliminary report passed in September.

• The Daily Record (Baltimore)
• November 23, 2005