Rockville Patch: Former Mayoral Candidate Draws Boos at Peary Hearing

Powell rebuked for citing Yeshiva deal in testimony on proposed sale to Berman Hebrew Academy

The most contentious moment of Tuesday's County Council hearing in Rockville on the proposed sale of the former Robert E. Peary High School came in response to the testimony of Drew Powell.

Powell was a 2007 candidate for mayor of Rockville who served as executive director of the now-defunct political action committee Neighbors for a Better Montgomery.

Powell called the proposed $1.9 million sale of the Peary property to its current tenant, the Melvin J. Berman Hebrew Academy, a "bad deal" for three groups: Taxpayers who he said would see county land "given away." County schoolchildren who he said "may suffer in overcrowded classrooms." And citizens who he said "yearn for fair and honest government..."