Wednesday, May 31, 2006
O'Malley takes on Duncan; Cap Guns a'blazin
Mayor O’Malley is moving into his former home turf of Montgomery County as the campaign for the Democratic nomination for Maryland governor continues its early tendency to be entertaining. O'Malley Takes Race To Duncan's Home Turf
“O'Malley plans to tour the Clarksburg development, where building irregularities made headlines for months last year, and then will hold a town meeting in Germantown on sprawl.”
But much later in the story the Post helpfully points out that:
“The irregularities at Clarksburg were largely blamed on the county's planning department, which reports to the County Council, not to Duncan. But the problems have become symbolic of concerns about the pace of growth in Montgomery.”
One aspect of the campaign that has received a lot of Post play is the Abramoff connection to Doug Duncan:
“After inquiries from The Washington Post, Duncan announced Thursday that he would return $20,000 in campaign contributions from companies based in Saipan and Guam linked to Abramoff. The contributions reached Duncan's campaign in the last week of July 1999, a month before he signed a lease-purchase agreement for a shuttered county school with the Yeshiva of Greater Washington, on whose board Abramoff served.”
This is Martin O’Malley’s strategy? To remind voters that apparently businesses are comfortable with Doug Duncan, who, by the way, received campaign contributions SEVEN years ago from a recently-disgraced lobbyist who had philanthropic ties to a Jewish organization that entered into a lease-purchase deal for a school Montgomery County had already closed? …..What’s next? – accusing Mr. Duncan of spending too much time and money on education?
One final note: this is the Post reporting Mike Miller’s assessment of the Abramoff tie-in:
"It'll affect Duncan's base in Montgomery County," said Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. (D-Calvert), who is neutral in the race.”
Neutral? He stood with Martin O’Malley when the Mayor made his candidacy announcement.
“O'Malley plans to tour the Clarksburg development, where building irregularities made headlines for months last year, and then will hold a town meeting in Germantown on sprawl.”
But much later in the story the Post helpfully points out that:
“The irregularities at Clarksburg were largely blamed on the county's planning department, which reports to the County Council, not to Duncan. But the problems have become symbolic of concerns about the pace of growth in Montgomery.”
One aspect of the campaign that has received a lot of Post play is the Abramoff connection to Doug Duncan:
“After inquiries from The Washington Post, Duncan announced Thursday that he would return $20,000 in campaign contributions from companies based in Saipan and Guam linked to Abramoff. The contributions reached Duncan's campaign in the last week of July 1999, a month before he signed a lease-purchase agreement for a shuttered county school with the Yeshiva of Greater Washington, on whose board Abramoff served.”
This is Martin O’Malley’s strategy? To remind voters that apparently businesses are comfortable with Doug Duncan, who, by the way, received campaign contributions SEVEN years ago from a recently-disgraced lobbyist who had philanthropic ties to a Jewish organization that entered into a lease-purchase deal for a school Montgomery County had already closed? …..What’s next? – accusing Mr. Duncan of spending too much time and money on education?
One final note: this is the Post reporting Mike Miller’s assessment of the Abramoff tie-in:
"It'll affect Duncan's base in Montgomery County," said Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. (D-Calvert), who is neutral in the race.”
Neutral? He stood with Martin O’Malley when the Mayor made his candidacy announcement.
