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Posted on 10/01/2003 8:34:31 PM PDT by ForOurFuture
The top two Republicans in the Maryland State Senate are asking Sen. E.J. Pipkin, R-36-Upper Shore, to take on incumbent Democrat Barbara Mikulski in next year's U.S. Senate election.
"We believe that success you have had in the past will translate into success in a U.S. Senate run in 2004," wrote Sens. J. Lowell Stoltzfus, the Senate Minority Leader, and Andrew P. Harris, the Senate Minority Whip, in a letter to Pipkin. "We hope you will consider seriously our encouragement and look forward to your future candidacy for U.S. Senate."
In July, Maryland Republican Party Chairman John Kane also urged Pipkin to toss his hat into the senate race.
"I'm flattered with their letter. It's a tremendous vote of confidence," Pipkin said. "I'm coming to a close in evaluating this. I've talked to a lot of people, and have gotten a lot of feedback."
But, as he did at the time Kane urged him to run, Pipkin was quick to say of the state senate that "I absolutely love this job. To serve in the U.S. Senate would be an honor and a privilege, but Annapolis has been extremely exciting."
Pipkin, a Stevensville resident, was elected to his first term in the state senate last year, defeating longtime incumbent Walter Baker. "In that race, it took the right combination of message and hard work to defeat the powerful incumbent, it will take that same combination in 2004," Stoltzfus and Harris wrote.
Stoltzfus represents Somerset, Wicomico and Worcester counties, and Harris represents Baltimore and Harford counties.
"There's not a better campaigner out there. I knew him during the Site 104 debate; he's a quick study and very knowledgeable," said Harris in an interview. "He's motivated and he works well and hard."
Pipkin first came to prominence several years ago in the successful effort to block state plans to deposit dredged spoil in the Bay at Site 104 off Kent Island.
Harris believes that Mikulski, who was first elected to the senate in 1986, can be beaten in 2004. "Career politicians tend to be vulnerable. People view them with a jaded eye. They are out of touch with the average person," he said. "The contrast is stark; a career politician versus a non-career politician."
Harris said Pipkin, a former Wall Street investment banking executive, would bring fiscal expertise to the U.S. Senate. He currently sits on the Senate Finance Committee in Annapolis.
The Maryland primary election, in which the nominees for each party's senate race would be chosen, is scheduled for March 2004.
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The Democratic judiciary wouldn't try to steal two elections from her, would they?
He is, and he would be the ideal candidate. It is understandable, though disapointing, that he has resisted all entreats to run. His career is yet young.
By the way "Thug" Duncan in Montgomery Co. just got the county council to accept "matricula consular" as valid identification.
Regards,
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