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  • Long-shot Democrat Takes 20% of Votes Against Townsend

    09/11/2002 4:07:24 PM PDT · by HoosierFather · 10 replies · 178+ views
    Baltimore Sun ^ | September 11, 2002 | Tim Craig
    <p>A retired grocery clerk and his running mate - who until recently was homeless - received about a fifth of the vote in the Democratic primary for governor against a Kennedy who outspent him by 2,300-to-1.</p> <p>With 98 percent of the precincts reporting this morning, Robert R. Fustero, 51, from Rockville, had 20 percent of the vote in his long shot bid to defeat Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend.</p> <p>Fustero's running mate is Linda J. Atkins, a 43-year-old College Park woman who lived in a tent for most of the past decade.</p>