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Baltimore Sun columnist Michael Olesker, a reliable booster of Democrats, contrasted the backgrounds of Ehrlich and Townsend in a March 24 column. The Congressman, who grew up in working-class Arbutus, won scholarships to Gilman-Baltimore's most prestigious prep school-and then Princeton, where he captained the football team and held down a construction job as well.

Olesker wrote: "[W]e hear the name Kennedy, and it also evokes summers on a sailboat off the coast of Hyannis Port or pony rides across Virginia's Hickory Hill countryside, and not stickball games in the middle of Dolores Avenue in Arbutus... With a different maiden name, [Townsend] might still be a midlevel attorney for some government bureaucracy-and not Parris Glendening's former runningmate and campaign financier-and therefore not Ehrlich's possible opponent for governor of Maryland."

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Maybe O'Malley took to styling himself in the Kennedy mold a little too literally.

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1340936/posts
Web has changed the shape of 'reporting' (Balt Sun Lurking; FR and NCPAC mentioned)