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Carroll County Maryland Democrats have reportedly attempted to use the Sheriff’s department to keep members of a local Tea Party activist group from attending a “meet and greet” with their congressional representative, Chris Van Hollen, on Monday June 24 at Caroll County Community College (CCCC).Michelle Jefferson of We The People (WTP) Carroll County had sent out an email to her group encouraging them to give Congressman Van Hollen a “WTP greeting” at the event.Jefferson says that upon returning from the Audit The IRS rally in Washington on Wednesday she spoke with Major Tom Long of the Carroll Count Sheriff’s Department....

Thanks to the efforts of investigative reporters for WBAL in Baltimore, which has just broken the story, the former third-ranked official for the Democrat Party in Maryland has been outed as the original source for sexual slanders against Baltimore’s Democrat Mayor, Martin O’Malley, who is currently running for Governor. The original stories in February in the Washington Post blamed the kerfuffel on Joseph Stefan, then an aide to Republican Governor Robert Ehrlich, Jr. The aide was terminated from his position as a result of his name (but not the Democrat’s name) coming out at the time. Source: www.wbal.com/shows/Smith/ Transcript should...

"Rumorgate" surfaced in Maryland last week, leaving everyone splattered with mud. SNIP Why were gloating supporters of the mayor quick to claim after O'Malley's "I am faithful" press conference that this episode had destroyed the governor's electability in 2006? Why did a former aide to the mayor -- who until recently worked for the state Democratic Party -- dispatch a highly suspicious e-mail to O'Malley backers urging them to make calls to right-wing radio talk-shows and denounce Ehrlich? "There will be a big story in the Post either tomorrow or Thursday that credits Gov. Ehrlich's staff for creating and spreading...