DUCHY TRACHTENBERG ENDORSED BY HOWARD DEAN PAC IN DISTRICT 1 COUNCIL RACE

Montgomery County Council District 1 candidate Duchy Trachtenberg has been endorsed by Democracy for America, a progressive political action committee founded by former Vermont governor Howard Dean. Dean's PAC said it will be "Duchy's volunteer boots on the ground" in the primary campaign, which ends when Democratic voters go to the polls on June 24.

"Duchy Trachtenberg has the progressive vision and long-standing commitment to the grassroots that it's going to take to bring change to the Montgomery County Council," DFA's chairman Jim Dean said in a written statement yesterday. Trachtenberg was a supporter of Howard Dean's 2004 run for the White House. She described the DFA endorsement as "the gold standard of progressive politics" in a press release Thursday.

Trachtenberg is challenging incumbent Roger Berliner for the Democratic nomination in District 1, which includes Bethesda.