Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Maryland Politics: Some Comments
Although the results are not final, the Maryland party of opportunity and inclusion has apparently favored Ben Cardin over Kweisi Mfume; Doug Gansler over Stuart Simms; and Peter Franchot over Janet Owens. It will now focus a significant amount of its resources and energy to defeat Michael Steele and Anne McCarthy. After that, perhaps a statewide party to “celebrate diversity”?
A show of hands, please: who here thinks that if recent political history instead showed the road to the White House went through the U.S. Senate (vice a Governor’s mansion), Martin O’Malley would still be running to be our next governor?
A few years ago, Baltimore City, in an impressive move to make itself even more irrelevant statewide, elected Lisa Gladden over long-time State Senator Barbara Hoffman thus ridding itself of one of Baltimore’s most forceful and powerful voices in Annapolis. The slide toward political impotence continues as the DC suburbs wrest most of the key statewide Democratic nominations. Even the one notable exception, Martin O’Malley, is Dc-area raised and educated (Gonzaga High School and Catholic University) and his running mate is from PG County.
Apparently the three political jurisdictions with the most problems in yesterday’s election were Montgomery County, Baltimore City and Prince George’s County. Election Board Workers' Error Hinders Voting Maybe we’ll just have to ship in election officials from the Eastern Shore or Garrett County to properly train their mistake-prone counterparts before the November elections.
A show of hands, please: who here thinks that if recent political history instead showed the road to the White House went through the U.S. Senate (vice a Governor’s mansion), Martin O’Malley would still be running to be our next governor?
A few years ago, Baltimore City, in an impressive move to make itself even more irrelevant statewide, elected Lisa Gladden over long-time State Senator Barbara Hoffman thus ridding itself of one of Baltimore’s most forceful and powerful voices in Annapolis. The slide toward political impotence continues as the DC suburbs wrest most of the key statewide Democratic nominations. Even the one notable exception, Martin O’Malley, is Dc-area raised and educated (Gonzaga High School and Catholic University) and his running mate is from PG County.
Apparently the three political jurisdictions with the most problems in yesterday’s election were Montgomery County, Baltimore City and Prince George’s County. Election Board Workers' Error Hinders Voting Maybe we’ll just have to ship in election officials from the Eastern Shore or Garrett County to properly train their mistake-prone counterparts before the November elections.
