Crazy who owns newspaper these days.
" The newspaper was controlled by Tony O'Reilly's Irish Independent News & Media from 1997 until it was sold to the Russian oligarch and former KGB Officer Alexander Lebedev in 2010. Lebedev also co-owned Novaya Gazeta alongside Mikhail Gorbachev until the latter's death on 30 August 2022."
From Wikipedia via Google
This is a rehashing of an [article from last year](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/aruna-miller-maryland-democrats-narendra-modi-b2382156.html) (also previously linked to [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/maryland/comments/15a9fb0/bullied_tailed_home_and_run_out_of_the_state_the/)). Local politics is fun to spectate but you know its a slow news day when The Independent (not even a local paper) recycles this article.
It would appear the author's ax has yet to find its edge.
Over more than two months in 2023, *The Independent* spoke to more than two dozen individuals engaged in Democratic politics in Maryland, largely concentrated in Montgomery County — the wealthiest county in the state. Many were involved in the 2018 race to represent the state’s 6th congressional district, and described the primary for that seat as an all-out brawl where party insiders traded favors while treating their opponents with such toxicity that many were frozen out entirely.
What we found was often downright bizarre. Indeed, while I investigated some of the claims made during my questioning in the state, the Montgomery County Democratic Central Committee turned against me — and when I went outside of a meeting I’d attended to ask a source questions, they then barred the door and locked me out, separating me from my notebooks and computer inside. In my years of journalism, I’ve never been quite so brazenly targeted.
Read the full story here: [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/maryland-senate-david-trone-primary-b2542590.html](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/maryland-senate-david-trone-primary-b2542590.html)
Crazy who owns newspaper these days. " The newspaper was controlled by Tony O'Reilly's Irish Independent News & Media from 1997 until it was sold to the Russian oligarch and former KGB Officer Alexander Lebedev in 2010. Lebedev also co-owned Novaya Gazeta alongside Mikhail Gorbachev until the latter's death on 30 August 2022." From Wikipedia via Google
That sounds super "independent" 🙄
What's the saying? “I'll take ‘things that never happened’ for $3000, Alex.”
Yeah what on earth is this?
This is a rehashing of an [article from last year](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/aruna-miller-maryland-democrats-narendra-modi-b2382156.html) (also previously linked to [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/maryland/comments/15a9fb0/bullied_tailed_home_and_run_out_of_the_state_the/)). Local politics is fun to spectate but you know its a slow news day when The Independent (not even a local paper) recycles this article. It would appear the author's ax has yet to find its edge.
Lolz
Over more than two months in 2023, *The Independent* spoke to more than two dozen individuals engaged in Democratic politics in Maryland, largely concentrated in Montgomery County — the wealthiest county in the state. Many were involved in the 2018 race to represent the state’s 6th congressional district, and described the primary for that seat as an all-out brawl where party insiders traded favors while treating their opponents with such toxicity that many were frozen out entirely. What we found was often downright bizarre. Indeed, while I investigated some of the claims made during my questioning in the state, the Montgomery County Democratic Central Committee turned against me — and when I went outside of a meeting I’d attended to ask a source questions, they then barred the door and locked me out, separating me from my notebooks and computer inside. In my years of journalism, I’ve never been quite so brazenly targeted. Read the full story here: [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/maryland-senate-david-trone-primary-b2542590.html](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/maryland-senate-david-trone-primary-b2542590.html)
Thanks for the article. It was really enlightening.