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Bob Ehrlich Robocalls Broke The Law

5:59 pm EST November 12th, 2010 | Maryland, Republicans | 10 Comments

Another election, another attempt at dirty tricks by Bob Ehrlich and Maryland Republicans. Sure, this campaign was an even bigger failure than the last, but they’re just up to no good.

Maryland’s Attorney General filed a complaint in federal court this week alleging that the company and two individuals behind election day robocalls that told mostly Democratic voters to “relax” and not bother voting violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA).

The court filing by Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler also revealed that the phone calls, which began two hours before polls closed, went out to more than 100,000 Maryland residents, more than double the number originally reported.

Controversial Democratic operative Julius Henson has admitted that Rhonda Russell, an employee of his company Universal Elections, placed the order for the phone calls. Hensen was working for the campaign of the Republican nominee for governor, Bob Ehrlich.

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Another Poll Shows 14 Point Lead For Martin O’Malley

8:41 am EST October 25th, 2010 | Maryland | 1 Comment

The second in as many days. The poll shows Ehrlich getting crushed with black voters, Democratic voters, and independents. In areas like Montgomery County that Ehrlich would need to be a viable candidate, he is getting destroyed.

It may be one of the few states doing so, but Maryland is likely going to avoid the GOP wave (except in MD-01 where Frank Kratovil’s opposition to health care reform has done nothing to appease the right, could have told you that).

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Martin O’Malley Up 14 Over Bob Ehrlich In New Baltimore Sun Poll

9:20 am EST October 24th, 2010 | Maryland | 2 Comments

martin omalleyOn Friday’s edition of Special Report on Fox News, Bret Baier and Charles Krauthammer both agreed that the gubernatorial race in Maryland was getting closer. This was not true. In fact, the last poll to show Ehrlich with a lead was as far back as something like July and based on practically every poll since this race began, it looks more and more like that poll was a statistical blip. It’s just an example of how Fox distorts the facts in order to help the Republican party.

Today’s poll is just more evidence:

Gov. Martin O’Malley has opened a 14-point lead over former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. in their gubernatorial rematch, solidifying his Democratic base and winning over independents while his rival struggles to capitalize on the voter anger that is propelling Republicans in other parts of the country, according to a Baltimore Sun poll.

Democrats who had been undecided during the summer are lining up behind O’Malley, who enjoys wide margins in the vote-rich Washington suburbs of Montgomery and Prince George’s counties and has a narrow edge in the Baltimore suburbs — regions where Ehrlich had hoped to make inroads.

No doubt Jerry Brown’s double-digit lead in California will also be seen by Fox as a race that’s getting close.

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Who Is Astroturfing For Bob Ehrlich?

9:43 am EST October 20th, 2010 | Maryland | 6 Comments

bob ehrlichToday on my blog I got a comment on an entry I had written about Bob Ehrlich:

MD Voter:
This is silly. Voters are looking to Ehrlich to get MD moving again. That’s what matters. He’s got a proven record and folks know that.

Needless to say, this comment didn’t sound like standard English and the commenter had never written a comment on my site before. So, I looked up the IP address and turned up this:

MarkMonitor?

MarkMonitor is the only company offering comprehensive, end-to-end solutions that enable an enterprise to both establish and defend their brands against multiple online risks. As the leading global provider of brand protection for the enterprise, MarkMonitor offers solutions that safeguard brands, reputations and revenues from ever-evolving online risks. The company’s exclusive access to data, combined with its real-time prevention, detection and response capabilities, enables a more secure Internet for enterprises as well as their customers.

So, this doesn’t seem to be an actual person but rather a paid shill posting comments in favor of the Ehrlich campaign. Did Ehrlich hire him? Or is some outside money involved?

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Ehrlich Circling The Drain: Republican Governors Assoc. Reportedly Pulling Out Of MD

9:08 am EST October 19th, 2010 | Maryland | Comments Off

toilet flushing

The Republican Governors Association (a beneficiary of Fox News/News Corp. money) is rumored to have begun taking money out of the O’Malley-Ehrlich race here in Maryland. That’s the sort of thing you hear when practically every poll shows O’Malley pulling away from Ehrlich (who never had much of a chance to begin with).

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How Can Bob Ehrlich “Fix” The Budget If He Can’t Spell His Own Name?

5:59 pm EST October 18th, 2010 | Maryland | 4 Comments

This is from a mailer currently being sent out by the Ehrlich campaign. That’s E-h-r-l-i-c-h.

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Barbara Mikulski Cuts Ad For Martin O’Malley

10:42 am EST October 18th, 2010 | Maryland | Comments Off

According to the MD Dems, the ad is running in the Baltimore market, which makes sense especially when you hear Sen. Mikulski’s “Ballmer” accent.

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Martin O’Malley Campaign Not Taking Election For Granted

11:33 am EST October 12th, 2010 | Maryland | 1 Comment

This is good to see. It avoids you being Coakley’d.

Thirdly, after reading and reviewing hundreds of e-mails from both campaigns in the last six months, there was another difference that continued to stand out on Monday. The O’Malley e-mail buzzed in on my BlackBerry at 11:20; the Ehrlich one 29 minutes later at 11:49.

The half-hour gap is emblematic of a stark difference in the level of organization, planning, media outreach and messaging that has existed between the two candidates’ campaigns for months.

On Monday, scores of lime-green O’Malley signs lined the roadway to the debate, a mob of dozens of green-clad campaign staffers and supporters crowded the front entrance of the television studio, and the O’Malley’s campaign brought in Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski and an A-list of Maryland Democrats to sit in the audience and praise the governor’s performance afterward for on-air interviews. At another appearance on Monday for the two candidates, at the Maryland Disabilities Forum, the O’Malley campaign arrived with more than $500 worth of campaign materials — complete with large-type and Braille editions for the blind.

The 11:20 a.m. e-mail also fit with O’Malley’s at times aggressive campaign mode in recent months. It arrived almost before the candidates had stood up from their seats in the television studio.

By contrast, Ehrlich’s e-mail arrived later, after reporters had staked out the rear, service entrance to the studio to catch the former governor before he was whisked away — out of sight of the gathering out front of O’Malley supporters.

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Wasting Fox’s Money: Republican Governors Get Maryland Geography Wrong

2:28 am EST October 6th, 2010 | Maryland, Republicans | 4 Comments

So, according to an ad from the Fox News-financed Republican Governors Association attacking Martin O’Malley (for the Bush-Ehrlich economy, by the way) this is what Maryland looks like:

Except those of us who paid attention during geography or who actually live here know, this is what the Old Line State looks like:

Maryland

As TBD notes, the RGA has added a blob of Virginia to their map of Maryland. Considering the polls now show anywhere for an 8-11 point lead for O’Malley anyway (only 2 GOP polls have shown Ehrlich leads and that was statistical noise from 3 months ago at best), I don’t expect the RGA will be spending much more time here with their geography fails.

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Education Bumbler Chris Christie Endorses Bob Ehrlich (Education Bumbler)

3:55 pm EST October 5th, 2010 | Education, Maryland | Comments Off

Chris Christie

Recently Bob Ehrlich has been stumbling all over himself on the education issue, a high priority for Maryland voters. In addition to the college tuition raises during his tenure as governor (O’Malley froze them), Ehrlich recently said he would cut education funding. How does he top that?

New Jersey governor Chris Christie is coming to Maryland to endorse and fundraise for Ehrlich. It’s a good fit, as I noted a few weeks ago, Christie made a fool of himself with his staff screwup and blame game around New Jersey’s Race to the Top application.

Oh by the way, Maryland was a successful race to the top applicant. Under Governor O’Malley.

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