Konka identifies himself on his Facebook page as a professor at the University of Maryland Global Campus. He came in second last year in a six-way race to represent District 3 on Baltimore County’s school board. In a candidate survey for that race he said he was a retired Navy captain who had been a substitute teacher in Baltimore County for four years and an adjunct professor at what then was the University of Maryland University College, teaching business finance and personal finance.
Joel McCord is a trumpet player who learned early in life that that’s no way to make a living.