Posted on 03/06/2015 6:57:23 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
It totally pissed me off at the time too.
It was pathetic, like he worked for O Malley.
And that poorly run campaign could be a potential argument made against him running in 2016 for the Senate. MD doesn’t exactly have a huge farm team of GOP candidates. Ehrlich (lost two last elections statewide), can’t run Larry Hogan, Jr., Andy Harris (for reasons I cited in a prior post), Dan Bongino (two losses for Senate & House). Michael Steele is unpopular. Dr. Carson probably couldn’t pull it off, either. That leaves Lt Gov. Boyd Rutherford, but he has zero electoral experience and could be viewed as a lightweight or even a cypher (I know little about him, despite the fact he is a Black Republican).
No doubt!
The state is probably too full of FedGov employees for that to matter.
Donna Edwards is a communist in her views. She has stated that she is a “Progressive” more than a “Democrat” in her speeches. In her 2nd election, there were several Dems that ran against her, all of them attacking her as being too far to the left.
It is amazing that any RATs would say a sister RAT is too far left.
Yes. and I was amazed when I saw it.
We should encourage Johnny to run, though. Convince him that he’s entitled to it — after all, his daddy was senator. Cause a food fight amongst the Dhimmicraps and open up as many of the House seats as we can.
Of course. She wanted prior incumbent, Al Wynn, out of the way because he was only 90% leftist. We always hear the ultraleft media harping about Republicans and “purity” but never that the Dems go about replacing ultraleftists with even more radical moonbats.
Opening up those seats would matter little. MD has a solid gerrymander in place to elect a 7D-1R delegation. Curiously, what would change it is simple: demand the Dems add another Black majority district. Blacks make up either a plurality or majority of the MD Democrat party, but they aren’t represented as such. Of the 7 Democrats in the House, only 2 are Black Democrats with 5 Whites (which well overrepresents White Dems in the state - MD is NOT Massachusetts).
Adding a 3rd Black district would endanger 3 of the White Dem districts, and could adjust the GOP representation to what it was not long ago, either a 5D-3R or a 4-4 tie. A “fair” redistricting plan would allow for the fact that the Eastern Shore has a GOP member (as it does now), that the Baltimore suburbs has one (the former Ehrlich district), and Western MD (which is heavily Republican, but gerrymandered enough at present to take in ultraliberal White DC suburb areas).
Christie wasn’t going to do squat to get one of the NJ Senate seats into GOP hands. He practically anointed Dem Cory Booker for the seat. If Menendez is convicted and removed, he may end up doing the same thing for another Democrat. Useless fat tub of guts.
As the Fannie Lou Hamer PAC (a black group) proposed -- along with the Maryland GOP. Their alternate plan made much more sense, but it was rejected by the overwhelmingly Dhimmicrap General Assembly.
http://www.somdnews.com/storyimage/PN/20110930/NEWS/709309923/AR/0/AR-709309923.jpg
Yup. If I were a Black Dem in MD, I would be quite angry that despite being the base of the party, I get a paltry 2 out of 7 Congressional seats (and neither Senate seat).
Sure, if Republicans controlled redistricting in MD they could draw a 4R-4D map with 3 black-majority CDs (and a 70%-white/10% black, overwhelmingly Dem CD in Montco), But if Democrats were to be forced to draw a third black-majority CD, they would draw 4 white-majority Dem CDs and a single GOP CD hugging the Mason-Dixon Line (and dipping down only to pick up overwhelmingly GOP areas). Most of the Eastern Shore (all but some of the northern areas) would form part of the third black-majority CD drawn by Democrats, combined with parts of PG County and/or eastern Baltimore City. But, yes, at least one of Hoyer, Ruppersberger and Sarbanes would lose his district (and the other two would be inconvenienced), so MD Democrats won’t do it, and black Democrats say “yes, Massa” and permit the black-majority MD-04 based in PG take on heavily GOP parts of Ann Arundel County (foregoing black PG precincts to Steny Hoyer) and the black-majority MD-07 based in Baltimore go into heavily GOP areas in Carrol County (while black precincts in Baltimore are given to Sarbanes and Ruppersberger).
foregoing = forgoing
Republicans were working with a black Democrat group (the Fannie Lou Hamer PAC) to draw a fair redistricting plan.
We need to put this on the ballot.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
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