Maryland GOP - Week In Review

From The Maryland GOP Newsletter:

In this issue:

• POTUS visit



• Martin’s buddy at city school system fired



• Early voting petition drive overcomes first hurdle put up by AG/O’Malley father-in-law



• Is the Baltimore Sun stealing copies of the Baltimore Examiner?  



• Thank Martin O’Malley for 72% increase on BG&E bill July 1

 

POTUS visit

President Bush came to Anne Arundel County this week to raise money for the Maryland Republican Party.  The visit raised more than $1 million for the party.  The money will help fund and elect more Republicans throughout the state who will break the veto-proof majority held by Democrats in Annapolis.   The much needed financial support from attendees will drive our successful efforts leading up to November.   Read the Associated Press article about the event by clicking:  MDGOP raises record at Bush event, but cash going to the bottom

 

The Washington Post and the Baltimore Sun chose to cover the story in another way, to the liking of the Maryland Democratic Party.  Both papers chose to cover Lt. Governor Steele’s absence instead of the purpose of the event:  to help the MDGOP.   Both papers wrote long articles full of innuendo and hearsay and very little substance rather than the reality for the LG’s absence.  The Baltimore Examiner got it right:    “Lt. Gov. Michael Steele did not attend the Bush event because he had has own previously scheduled fundraiser in Las Vegas. [MDGOP Spokesperson Audra] Miller said the Bush event ‘really hasn’t been on the books as far ahead as some other events in the past.’”  Bush helps Md. GOP raise $1 million - Examiner.com

There you go, folks…The LG had a long-standing scheduled fundraiser out of state and the Bush event came together quite rapidly.  But who cares about facts when you work for the Sun or Post?   It’s about furthering an AGENDA! 

 

Martin O’Malley’s buddy at city school system fired

Martin O’Malley’s friend and appointee to the Baltimore City School System as Chief Operating Officer was fired this week.   Apparently the COO felt that using public school money for a boat trip on the Bay and drinking beers in his office was a fine example to set for the struggling school system.   Unfortunately the only reason the information came out was by an anonymous letter to the system, media and calls into talk radio.   Martin O’Malley’s cronyism once again hurts the people of Baltimore.  Official of city schools is fired - baltimoresun.com

 

Early voting petition drive overcomes first hurdle put up by AG/O’Malley father-in-law

Marylanders for Fair Elections have collected the necessary signatures for the May 31^st deadline set by the Attorney General’s Office for a referendum.   The group is collecting signatures to put the early voting legislation passed by greedy Democrats during the last legislative session on the November ballot for voters to decide.   The group collected 20,000 signatures for each of the two petitions, 3,000 more than necessary for each petition.   In a news release to the public about the effort, the chairman made these comments:  “Ensuring a safe and fair elections system is the bedrock of American democracy,” said Tom Roskelly, chairman of Marylanders for Fair Elections.  “This effort is a clear indication that Marylanders not only deserve, but are willing to fight for a clean and fair election.”

 

Republicans, Democrats and Independents are signing the petition in droves because of the transparent efforts by some Democrats to create an uneven playing field and commit fraud in our upcoming elections.  

 

But the effort still has a way to go.  We still need 30,000 signatures at least by June 30^th to effectively stop early voting’s implementation and let the people decide the issue themselves.   If you have not signed the petition yet, or would like to provide it to someone you know, please respond to this email with your name, address and phone number.   We will make sure that someone delivers a petition to you.   Make your vote count!  And make sure votes are only counted once!   Sign the petition for a fair election.   Get your friends, family, co-workers and neighbors to sign the petition too.   We need everyone who wants a clean, fair election to stand up and fight the disgustingly partisan attempts by Democrats in Annapolis to fix our electoral process before one vote is even cast.   Email the MDGOP at political@mdgop.org for more information.

 

Is the Baltimore Sun stealing copies of the Baltimore Examiner?

Interesting commentary on a possible turf war between two of Baltimore’s daily papers, the Sun and the new Examiner.   Taken from the Baltimore City Paper:  “Perhaps the most intriguing thread running so far through Phelps’ column has been his insinuation that The Sun may be involved in an ‘urban legend’ that ‘there are . . . Examiner snatchers following our carriers’ and making off with the newspapers. ‘The Calvert Street Gang is way too grown up and sophisticated to be considered suspect,’ Phelps wrote May 1, employing the rather grown-up rhetorical device of apophasis, where something is asserted under the guise of denying it will be asserted.

On May 22, Phelps returned to the topic, this time publishing a message from an unnamed “reader” making more explicit insinuations against The Sun. ‘I think you ought to start checking on your red boxes in Baltimore,’ the reader reportedly wrote. ‘I live in Fells Point and notice the delivery guy at one of my local boxes on Broadway every morning during my run. Three times now, the box has been cleaned out of newspapers in the span of five minutes. Two of those times, I noticed the Sun’s delivery guy lurking around the box.’

Phelps suggested in reply that perhaps the street boxes naturally emptied out quickly in the morning, but also added that he would “counsel lurkers to look for video cameras before going beyond the casual lurk.”  The Internet:  Get in on it

 

Hmmm…the Sun would never sink that low, now would they?   Another day in Bmore.

 

Thank Martin O’Malley for 72% increase on BG&E bill July 1

Now onto the impending BGE rate hike and Martin O’Malley’s political grandstanding…The Baltimore Examiner published an editorial this week that puts the deregulation debacle in Maryland into more perspective.   In the editorial, it states:   “If electricity prices at Baltimore Gas and Electric had risen 3.5 percent per year since 1993 — the pace that would lead to a 72 percent hike July 1, we doubt any of the furor over the rate hike would exist. We start with 1993 because when legislators voted to ‘deregulate’ electric utilities in 1999, they capped prices at 6.5 percent below 1993 levels.”   Read the whole editorial at Editorial: Price gouging? - Examiner.com

 

Also, members of Martin’s own party are calling him on his political posturing.   In a report in the Washington Times, Del. Jill Carter rightly states that "The celebration is premature and the claim of victory is overblown.   At this point, the 72 percent [increase] is still on the table."  Court order will not stop BGE, lawmakers say - Metropolitan - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper

 

In fact, if rate payers in the BG&E area see 72% increases this year, they can thank Martin O’Malley!   Instead of putting forth any credible plan to deal with his party’s deregulation debacle, he does what he does best:  whines and sues.   O’Malley can’t talk about his failed record on schools, murders, crime, drug abuse, homelessness or almost any other leadership opportunity he has had, so he’s pulling the old bait-and-switch.   Only problem is that the people in the BG&E area will be paying for his politics.  

 

That’s it for this week.   Have a great weekend!

I guess there is really nothing new (at least with the liberals) under the "Sun". :)

PS. here's another liberal who reads the Sun and has never heard the term "prior committment". LOL!

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