From the Bartenfelder piece:

Joe is Joe, they say — what you see is what you get. What you see is a tall, broad-shouldered man with a genial manner who seems to move easily between dark business suits and dusty work pants, who says he means to sustain small bits of this long-running juggling act even if he wins the job of Baltimore County executive, running the multibillion-dollar operation that is the county government.

From the Kamenetz piece:

By all accounts the 52-year-old lawyer from Owings Mills overachieves in his command of policy, but over the years has received guidance to work on his patience, humility and listening.

In the heat of a race, Kamenetz won't exactly acknowledge a need for improvement. He'll go this far: "I demand a lot of myself. I want others to have the same level of competence."

From the Harvey piece:

With about three weeks to go until the primary, Harvey, 63, a Nottingham resident in the race with two four-term members of the County Council, has no campaign staff, no website or campaign literature — though he says those are in the works — and no inclination to show up at candidate forums. What he does have is a cause, and what he calls an "insider's view of county government" that he says would serve him well as a reform-minded county CEO.