Friday, November 30, 2012
The 2012 Republican candidate for U.S. Senate is considering a run for governor.
The Republican who took on Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin and lost this election season is eyeing Maryland's 2014 governor's race as his next political move. Dan Bongino split the conservative vote 28 to 17 percent with independent Rob Sobhani earlier this month. Bongino said he thinks he could fare better in another statewide campaign. "We probably have the largest [Republican] fundraising base in the state," Bongino said. "We kept data on every door we knocked on, on every phone call we made. That's data that's easily reusable in a statewide campaign and certainly something we are thinking about." Bongino admitted to being an unknown when he launched his bid for Maryland's Senate seat in May 2011. Now he's got more than 7,000 donors, 11,…
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Republicans say governor's tax proposals will hurt the working families he wants to help.
Gov. Martin O'Malley called for legislators to pass a sales tax on gasoline saying the decision would be unpopular but much needed. The governor made his comments during his sixth State of the State speech in which he focused on jobs, taxes and what he called tough choices. "Asking our fellow citizens to do more will not be popular," said O'Malley. "But without anger, fear or meanness, let’s ask one another: how much less education do we think would be good for our children’s future? How much less education do we want? How much less public safety? How many fewer jobs? There are costs, and there are values." Republicans in the House and Senate criticized O'Malley for policies they said will hurt the same middle class working families …
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Preliminary results show the Democratic governor with a wide lead over the former Republican governor. Associated Press calls the race for O'Malley.
UPDATED (12:30 a.m.)—Democratic Gov. Martin O'Malley bucked a national GOP resurgence and decisively defeated his Republican rival Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. in a bitter rematch between the standard-bearers of the state's political parties. As of 11:45 on Tuesday night O'Malley and his running mate, Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, held an 11 point lead over Ehrlich and Mary Kane. O'Malley garnered 54.4 percent of the vote to Ehrlich's 43.5 percent, according to state Board of Elections numbers. "Tonight we choose a better future for the children of Maryland," O'Malley told his supporters at the American Visionary Arts Museum near Baltimore's Inner Harbor. "I want to say to those that did not support us, thank you for voting. ... There will be public …
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3:16 pm on Saturday, February 4, 2012
There is little to defend of this Governor's latest attempt to increase his traditional "tax and spend ways," as well as promote his own social agenda items in lieu of his strong desire to secure the Democratic Presidential nomination in 2016. O'Malley and his supporters are on track to make former Governor Spendening look like a fiscal conservative and Moral Majority leader. more ›