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Maryland Republican Campaign Funds Used To Defend Voter Suppression

2:58 pm EST January 24th, 2012 | Maryland | 1 Comment

Bob Ehrlich used his campaign money to pay for the defense of now-convicted vote-suppression activist.

A campaign account maintained by former governor Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R) was used to pay more than $100,000 last year to law firms involved in the criminal defense of his 2010 campaign manager, Paul E. Schurick, on charges related to voter suppression.

Schurick was convicted in December by a Baltimore jury of four counts stemming from an Election Night robocall that prosecutors said was intended to mislead black voters into staying home.

A campaign finance report filed this week by Ehrlich lists payments to at least two law firms known to have worked on Schurick’s defense.

I wonder if people donating to Ehrlich’s campaign thought the money they donated would go to this cause?

 

Martin O’Malley All In For Marriage Equality

1:41 pm EST January 24th, 2012 | Maryland | 43 Comments

Martin O’Malley just sent out the following e-mail, linking here to solicit money for Marylanders For Marriage Equality. He’s not being wishy-washy about this.

 

Maryland Republicans Found Guilty Of Attempting To Suppress Black Vote

11:44 am EST December 6th, 2011 | Maryland, Republicans | 22 Comments

Paul Schurick, a former aide to Republican governor Bob Ehrlich has been found guilty on all four charges that he attempted to suppress the black vote in Maryland in 2010. As WBAL reported, “Schurick was a loyal lieutenant to Ehrlich — working on all three Ehrlich campaigns for governor — and serving as communications director for the Ehrlich administration.”

Schurick sent out a voice mail targeted to black Democrats that said the election had already been decided and that they should stay at home.

This is what Republicans do all over the country. Luckily here in Maryland, they got caught in the act.

 

Martin O’Malley Blasts The GOP’s Dinosaur Wing

1:05 pm EST July 21st, 2011 | Democrats, Maryland | 17 Comments

Maryland’s governor continues to be a national leader for Democrats.

Over the course of a few days, O’Malley chided Republican governors for staying silent while “the dinosaur wing” of their party dominated debt talks in Washington.

He blasted “a new breed of tea-partying, FDR-hating” governors who have come to power, singling out Chris Christie of New Jersey for additional scorn. That “colorful character,” O’Malley said, lives in a “make-believe world, where down is up, up is down, candy is a vegetable, and vegetables are candy.”

Cough, 2016, cough.

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Maryland Republicans Indicted For Black Voter Suppression Scheme

9:59 am EST June 17th, 2011 | Maryland, Republicans | 2 Comments

The Republican party benefits when minorities don’t vote. Period. So there is an incentive for Republicans across the country to do everything they can to stop black people from voting. And that’s what the Maryland Republican party is in trouble for now.

A senior aide and a consultant hired by former Maryland governor Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R) were indicted Thursday in a case stemming from thousands of anonymous robocalls placed on election night last year that suggested voters could stay home even though the polls were still open.

Paul Schurick, 54, Ehrlich’s de facto campaign manager, and Julius Henson, 62, a consultant paid by the campaign, were both charged with three counts of conspiracy to violate election laws, one count of influencing votes through fraud and one count of failing to identify the sponsor of the calls. In addition, Schurick was charged on one count of obstruction of justice.

In a statement, the Office of the Maryland State Prosecutor, which obtained the indictments from a Baltimore grand jury, said its investigation is continuing. All but one of the charges handed down Thursday carry maximum prison sentences of five years.

The story goes on to note that Bob Ehrlich was deposed on this. Considering he was at the top of the ticket and the subject of this election (his second crushing defeat), I doubt his hands are clean.

 

Orgy Of Incompetence: MD Republicans Host Gingrich

4:14 pm EST May 25th, 2011 | Maryland, Republicans | 1 Comment

In case you didn’t think Maryland Republicans were useless enough, check them out hosting a fundraising dinner with Newt “Countdown To Campaign Withdrawl” Gingrich.

Two mediocre tastes that go horribly together.

 

Maryland Rep. Andy Harris (R) Thinks We Have Too Many Latinos

5:04 pm EST April 7th, 2011 | Conservative, Maryland, Republicans | 11 Comments

Even in a true blue state like Maryland, we’ve got these kinds of people in congress.

Citing data recently released from the Census Bureau, Harris also worried about the increase of the Hispanic population in Maryland, which he called “the sanctuary state of the Northeast.” The exchange came during a “Hold Their Feet to the Fire” event sponsored by the controversial anti-immigrant group FAIR.

Sometimes they make a mistake and tell us what they really believe.

Andy Harris just replaced “Democrat” Frank Kratovil (who voted against health care reform) and was most recently in the news complaining about not getting his government health care after promising to repeal Obamacare.

 

VIDEO: Maryland Rallies In Support Of Wisconsin Union Workers

11:43 am EST February 24th, 2011 | Maryland | 1 Comment

This is from Tuesday. Featured is Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, who’s the likely frontrunner to succeed Gov. O’Malley.

 

Martin O’Malley To Make First Speech As Head Of Democratic Governors

9:40 am EST February 18th, 2011 | Maryland | 1 Comment

Maryland’s own…

“The other side would have you believe we can somehow eat cake and lose weight. That we can somehow just cut our way to a better future – no need to invest in education or rebuild our infrastructure,” O’Malley will say, according to prepared remarks shared with POLITICO. “We all say we must cut … But you and I know that to make this new economy ours, we must be strategic in how we cut.”

“Creating jobs and expanding opportunity is not only about the spending we cut. It’s about the progress we protect,” he will say. “It’s not only about today’s budget math. It is about giving our children the opportunities they will need to win the future.”

That “cake” line is nothing new – it’s a staple of O’Malley’s campaign-trail rhetoric. But his speech this weekend represents a fresh foray onto the national stage for the Marylander, marking the beginning of his rollout as a messenger for his party.

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Maryland Is #1 In AP (Advanced Placement) Success For 3rd Year In A Row

1:44 pm EST February 9th, 2011 | Education, Maryland | Comments Off

Congrats to Maryland’s students. From the College Board:

The top 10 states with the greatest proportion of their seniors from the class of 2010 having at least one successful AP experience were: Maryland (26.4 percent), New York (24.6 percent), Virginia (23.7 percent), Connecticut (23.2 percent), Massachusetts (23.1 percent), California (22.3 percent), Florida (22.3 percent), Vermont (21.8 percent), Colorado (21.4 percent) and Utah (19.2 percent).

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