{"id":3646,"date":"2026-05-26T09:36:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T13:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/?p=3646"},"modified":"2026-05-26T09:36:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T13:36:44","slug":"pac-man-will-jawando-to-hold-anti-pac-press-conference-sponsored-by-pacs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/pac-man-will-jawando-to-hold-anti-pac-press-conference-sponsored-by-pacs\/","title":{"rendered":"PAC Man: Will Jawando To Hold Anti-PAC Press Conference Sponsored by PACs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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SILVER SPRING, MD – Montgomery County Executive candidate Will Jawando announced a press conference this Wednesday at noon condemning the corrupting influence of PAC money in local politics, while reportedly being joined and supported by several PACs currently spending enormous sums to help elect him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs we all know, there are good PACs and bad PACs,\u201d said Will Jawando, whose campaign is publicly-funded, and therefore, prohibited from accepting money from PACs, labor unions, or business entities. \u201cThe good PACs are the ones spending six figures supporting me.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event is being held in direct coordination with two PACs – CASA in Action and Progressive Maryland, which have collectively spent hundreds of thousands of dollars supporting Jawando\u2019s County Executive campaign while simultaneously denouncing outside spending from groups backing his opponents.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sources familiar with the event say Jawando plans to warn voters that special interests are trying to buy this election, calling their spending \u201can assault on democracy,\u201d while clarifying that PAC money supporting him represented \u201cthe authentic voice of the people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Political observers have already begun referring to Jawando as \u201cPAC Man,\u201d citing his unique ability to consume vast quantities of independent expenditures while publicly insisting PAC involvement in elections is dangerous. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s kind of inspiring,\u201d said one local resident. \u201cMost politicians just take PAC money quietly. Will Jawando somehow found a way to openly embrace PAC money while acting like he\u2019s bravely resisting it.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Critics also pointed to Jawando\u2019s failed U.S. Senate campaign, which transferred roughly $115,000 to the Working Families Party PAC shortly before receiving the PAC\u2019s endorsement last September in a joint event with Progressive Maryland PAC. Political experts described the move as either a “concerning ethical loophole\u201d or just a “coincidence” that happened to cost exactly $115,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jawando had previously launched his own federal political action committee, Will of the People Federal PAC, a move some residents described as \u201cvery brave for a man courageously fighting against PACs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the press conference, Jawando plans to unveil a $1.8 billion \u201cPlaying the Victim Fund\u201d to provide compensation for political candidates who believe they have been unfairly targeted by negative political campaign ads by their opponents. The fund is said to be paid for by increasing property taxes another 6.3%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SILVER SPRING, MD – Montgomery County Executive candidate Will Jawando announced a press conference this Wednesday at noon condemning the corrupting influence of PAC money in local politics, while reportedly being joined and supported by several PACs currently spending enormous sums to help elect him. \u201cAs we all know, there are good PACs and bad…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3647,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[2269,2273,1828,2272,24,970,979,2264,2265,2266,2268,2267,1288,317,640,129,135,1351,638,1558,130,706,2065,1755,445,1733,1724,2270,98,2271,93,111,136,4,2,104,164,406],"class_list":["post-3646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-affordable-maryland-pac","tag-baltimore-banner","tag-bethesda-today","tag-casa-in-action","tag-dc-satire","tag-dmv-news","tag-google-news","tag-jawando","tag-jawando-county-executive","tag-jawando-pac","tag-jawando-police","tag-jawando-press-conference","tag-kristin-mink","tag-marc-elrich","tag-maryland-satire","tag-mcps","tag-moco-boe","tag-moco-news","tag-moco-satire","tag-monifa-mcknight","tag-montgomery-county","tag-montgomery-county-council","tag-montgomery-county-firefighters","tag-montgomery-county-news","tag-montgomery-county-planning","tag-montgomery-county-satire","tag-montgomery-perspective","tag-pac","tag-political-satire","tag-progressive-md-pac","tag-satire","tag-satirical-news","tag-silver-spring","tag-takoma","tag-takoma-park","tag-takoma-torch","tag-takomatorch","tag-will-jawando","wpcat-17-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/takomatorch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/pacman.jpg?fit=1315%2C1196&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paPZSG-WO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3648,"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646\/revisions\/3648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}