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Article: Money Allegedly Offered to Crenca; Probe Asked After Official Says Her Vote Sought on Silver Spring
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- The Washington Post
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- December 10, 1987
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Montgomery County Attorney Clyde H. Sorrell asked the state's
attorney yesterday to consider investigating allegations by County
Council member Rose Crenca that she was offered money by a civic
leader if she voted to limit development in Silver Spring.
Crenca, who was president of the council when it voted last month
to open up Silver Spring to major development, said that Joan Ennis,
president of the Allied Civic Group and an opponent of large-scale
redevelopment, made the offer during a Sept. 22 lunch.
Crenca said that Ennis first warned her of the political
consequences of her vote, then offered to pay off Crenca's remaining
campaign debt from last year's council election, a sum that ...