Parris N. Glendening, the apparent governor-elect, is continuing his record-setting fund raising even while he plans his move to the State House.
Mr. Glendening hopes to raise as much as $100,000 in the next few weeks to retire a campaign debt and to pay for post-election activities, including an around-the-state victory tour, campaign officials said.
The funds to be raised come on top of nearly $6 million Mr. Glendening collected during the campaign, by far the largest amount spent in a race for governor of Maryland.
Yesterday in Annapolis, Mr. Glendening named about 30 people to leadership posts in his transition team, including former Gov. Harry R. Hughes.
Mr. Glendening's opponent in the election that never seems to end, Republican Ellen R. Sauerbrey, has refused to concede and is herself doing fund-raising to pay for a challenge to an election she says may be tainted by voting irregularities.
The Glendening campaign is still trying to figure out just how much was raised and how large its debt will be, officials said. Campaign finance reports are due at the election board next week.
Mr. Glendening, who expects to be sworn into office Jan. 18, needs the money to keep his campaign office with a staff of 10 running through the end of the year, said Emily Smith, Mr. Glendening's campaign manager.
"We have tens of thousands of thank-you notes to send," Ms. Smith said. "Some political scheduling, a statewide tour in December. And there'll be some parties because election night wasn't very fun."
Mr. Glendening, the three-term Prince George's County executive, has said that he resigned himself to losing as the discouraging results came in election night. But after midnight, returns from his strongholds gave him a narrow victory.
Mrs. Sauerbrey, a delegate from Baltimore County, has since drafted dozens of supporters to investigate reports of voting improprieties, particularly in Baltimore, in hopes of overturning the election.
Mrs. Sauerbrey has formed a political committee and is actively soliciting contributions, something she did not have to do in the general election because she accepted public campaign financing.
Few details of Mr. Glendening's fund raising were available yesterday, but Ms. Smith said one party was to have as host Stephen A. Geppi, the owner of a Baltimore comics distribution company and a minority owner of the Orioles.
The campaign has planned a handful of small events, she said.
"Parris does not have a lot of time at this point," Ms. Smith said.
Mr. Glendening yesterday named several people from government and business to his transition team.
Named to a leadership role in the budget policy group was former Gov. Hughes, who was left out of state government by his successor, William Donald Schaefer.
"We were looking for the best public servants in the most noble use of that term," Mr. Glendening said. He said the policy groups would look at long-range plans for the administration, focusing generally on jobs, education and public safety.
Mr. Hughes' budget group, for example, will be looking at broad revenue and spending issues rather than the nitty-gritty of the annual budget, Mr. Glendening said.
Each policy group is expected to submit a report by early January.
Lt. Gov.-elect Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, who was noticeably omitted from the transition steering committee named last week, was named a co-chairwoman of the public safety policy group yesterday, along with Darryl Jones Sr., president of the state Fraternal Order of Police; and Katherine M. Jones, a manager with the state Division of Parole and Probation.
A key committee overseeing personnel decisions will be led by Major F. Riddick Jr., the chief administrative officer in Prince George's County.
Among the six other members are Mr. Glendening's wife, Frances Hughes Glendening, who has taken on a key role in the transition, and Baltimore City Solicitor Neal M. Janey, a close ally of Mr. Glendening's most prominent backer, Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke.
TRANSITION APPOINTMENTS
Here are the people named by Parris N. Glendening, the apparent governor-elect, to transition committees. Members of the executive group were appointed last week. Others were named yesterday. Some serve in more than one post.
TRANSITION PERSONNEL GROUP
Major F. Riddick Jr., chief administrative officer of Prince George's County.
John N. Bambacus, Republican mayor of Frostburg, former state senator and a political science professor at Frostburg State University.
Lance W. Billingsley, partner with a Prince George's County law firm and the first chairman of the Prince George's County Economic Development Corp.
Brian E. Frosh, newly elected state senator who had represented Montgomery County in the House of Delegates since 1987.
Frances Hughes Glendening, chief legal and policy adviser to one of the commissioners at the Federal Election Commission in Washington and Mr. Glendening's wife.
