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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Google the MCPS Metis report. You can read all about the history.[/quote]

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/info/choice/ChoiceStudyReport-Version2-20160307.pdf

The Metis report is the official MCPS version of events.  However, here is supplemental information.

Although officially unincorporated, in practice [Silver Spring] is an edge city[2] which had a population of 81,015 residents as of the 2020 census.[3] This makes it the fifth most populous place in Maryland, after Baltimore, Columbia, Waldorf and Germantown, and the second most populous in Montgomery County after Germantown.[4][5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Spring,_Maryland

Individual Campaign Contributions in Silver Spring, MD
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 88,342 contributions totaling $32,151,729 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $364 per contribution.

In the last 4 years, there were 3,901 contributions totaling $2,116,806 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $543 per contribution.

https://www.bestplaces.net/voting/city/maryland/silver_spring

Almost since its inception in 1985, Discovery was based in Montgomery County, originally on Wisconsin Avenue in Bethesda. In the 1990s, Montgomery County was trying to find a way to revitalize downtown Silver Spring, which had been struggling for decades due to white flight and disinvestment. The county had entertained multiple proposals to build a megamall on four city blocks bounded by Georgia Avenue, Wayne Avenue, and Colesville Road, including one from the developers of the Mall of America.

That plan fell through in 1996. Two years later, the county agreed to clear the land and give it to Discovery for a new headquarters, along with $10 million in tax subsidies. Montgomery County condemned several public streets and relocated many businesses, including the iconic Tastee Diner, which was put on the back of a truck and shifted a few blocks away. In 1998, Discovery began work on its new headquarters, a $165 million, 10-story tower.

In 2017, after buying Scripps, Discovery moved its workers out of the Kennett Street building, and received $1 million in tax incentives from Montgomery County and Maryland to renovate its headquarters. (Part of that was a loan that had not yet been disbursed, a spokesperson for the Maryland Department of Commerce told Washingtonian.)

https://ggwash.org/view/66162/discovery-is-leaving-silver-spring.-what-does-that-mean-for-the-city

"Most of the money went to Montgomery County Council members and to the county executive and gubernatorial candidate, Douglas M. Duncan (D). Both Duncan and the council have enormous influence over zoning and other land-use decisions.

"It's just another example of a development company contributing a significant amount of money to the campaign coffers of candidates who influence land-use policy," said Phil Andrews (D-Gaithersburg-Rockville), the only council member who does not accept contributions from developers or PACs.

In 1998, for example, the council rebuffed protests from residents and allowed denser development on a parcel of land near the Friendship Heights Metro station that is owned by the company. It is building a 112,000-square-foot office and retail project on the land.

The company is also a major proponent of the proposed inner route of the Purple Line of Metro. A potential stop sits directly across from property owned by the firm.

Besides Silverman, Council President Tom Perez (D-Silver Spring), members Howard A. Denis (R-Potomac-Bethesda), Nancy Floreen (D-At Large), Michael Knapp (D-Upcounty), George L. Leventhal (D-At Large) and Michael L. Subin (D-At Large) have received contributions from the company.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2005/11/05/developers-contributions-exceed-md-limits/51feb2dc-0f92-464b-b6ed-c19e4c105c1b/

Like the campaign finance statements of Elrich and Riemer, Hucker’s report includes multiple contributions from multiple regular Democratic donors who live inside the Capital Beltway in communities like Silver Spring and Takoma Park — the general area where the three men live.

Hucker’s report also shows several donations from labor unions, others from small and large businesses around the state, and perhaps two dozen from Annapolis lobbying firms. His biggest collection of donations — $18,000, plus $6,000 from a corporate account — came from members of the Day family, who own F.O. Day Co., an asphalt contractor in Rockville.

Hucker also reported donations of $5,000 or more from developers Barry Gudelsky and Gary Michael. Donors from the political world included Trone, Maryland House Environment and Transportation Committee Chair Kumar P. Barve (D-Montgomery) and former Del. Charles Barkley (D-Montgomery). Ben Ross, the transit activist, donated $1,375.

https://wtop.com/maryland/2022/01/heres-what-the-campaign-finance-reports-tell-us-about-county-exec-races/
https://ggwash.org/view/66162/discovery-is-leaving-silver-spring.-what-does-that-mean-for-the-city

Personal opinion only, this is also why it's a bad idea to permit voters from other school boundaries to vote on your local Board of Education District Representative.  Silver Spring (wiht Gaithersburg a close second?) is the most concentrated number of voters, so they can out-vote candidates in other parts of Montgomery County.
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