Gov. Robert Ehrlich announced Thursday that Kristen Cox, the state disabilities secretary, will be his new lieutenant governor running mate. Cox said she agreed to join the ticket in part because the governor has stepped up for people with disabilities who, she said, "tend to be marginalized, overlooked, diminished." Cox praised Gov. Ehrlich for making Maryland the first state in the nation to have a cabinet-level Department of Disabilities. The state's department was created under Ehrlich in 2004. Before she joined the Ehrlich administration, she worked for the U.S. Department of Education and the National Federation of the Blind. She...