Bentley

On August 5, 2006 FRANCES E. BENTLEY (nee Huegelmeyer); beloved daughter of Catherine Alcarese and the late Eugene J. Huegelmeyer; loving sister of Diane J. Young, Mary Catherine Woodward and Thomas W. Huegelmeyer. She is also survived by four nephews, one niece, two great nephews and one great niece. Friends may call at the family owned Ruck Towson Funeral Home, Inc., 1050 York Road (beltway exit 26) on Tuesday and Wednesday 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M., where funeral services will be held Thursday 11 A.M. Interment Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens.

On July 23, 2003, WILLIAM ROYBENTLEY, 78, of Lutherville, beloved husband of Helen Delich Bentley, Lutherville, devoted brother of Rocella Cappuccio, Towson and MaryLouise Fink, Marlette, Michigan, loving uncle to 4 nieces, a nephew and their children. Friends may call at the family owned Peaceful Alternatives Funeral & Cremation Center, 2325 York Rd., Timonium, Friday 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 PM, with an American Legion Service at &;30 P.M. and a Masonic Service at 8PM. A Funeral Service will be held Saturday, at 12:30 P.M. at the Funeral Home.

Reports that Helen Delich Bentley has all but decided to run for governor in 1994 are supported by the brave assertions of GOP leaders that she is the party's best choice.National Committeeman Richard Taylor says the 2nd District representative is "absolutely" the best candidate his party has to offer. People, he says, "equate Helen with jobs." During the Reagan-Bush years, for example, she brought government refitting contracts to the Bethlehem Steel Shipyard.And she has been a tireless advocate for the port of Baltimore.

The state's senior Republican office-holder, Rep. Helen Delich Bentley, R-2nd, might take an option to run for the Senate in 1992. The prospect of a Bentley run against Barbara Mikulski, the only Democratic woman in the U.S. Senate, has political insiders excited.It would be the first well-matched Senate contest between political heavyweights in Maryland in memory. And such a contest would bring national attention because both women have a reputation as hard-charging, battling campaigners.

Not long after the start of last night's debate between 2nd District congressional candidates Helen Delich Bentley and Michael J. Hickey, moderator Jeff Salkin looked at the camera and said, "I'm starting to feel like Admiral Stockdale as a pingpong ball."Like Ross Perot's vice presidential candidate, Mr. Salkin was caught between two contentious contenders and had trouble getting a word in edgewise during a half-hour donnybrook broadcast last night on Maryland Public Television.Mrs. Bentley, the Republican incumbent, and Mr. Hickey, the Democratic challenger, hammered each other nearly from the start, destroying a format that was supposed to have each take turns answering a question from the League of Women Voters.

WASHINGTON -- Days before the Maryland primary, Republican Rep. Helen Delich Bentley and her campaign staff were calling contributors, searching for donations.But the money was not for her campaign. Or for another Republican's. The money was for a Democrat, Rep. Beverly B. xTC Byron of Frederick, a conservative seven-term incumbent locked in a tough primary fight she eventually lost to state Del. Thomas H. Hattery.Although lawmakers from both parties have something in common this year (a hostile electorate)

State Del. Ellen R. Sauerbrey fired another major salvo at U.S. Rep. Helen Delich Bentley yesterday, charging that the congresswoman's record of "flip-flops and misrepresentations" would cost the GOP the governor's race if she is the party's nominee.Mrs. Sauerbrey, the Maryland House minority leader from Baltimore County, predicted that Democrats would tear Mrs. Bentley apart in the November general election -- if the GOP front-runner wins the Republican primary election Sept. 13."The Democrats are lying in wait, hoping that Helen Bentley is the Republican nominee, because she provides them with so much ammunition," she said at a news conference outside Baltimore County Republican headquarters in Towson.

If Republican gubernatorial candidate Helen Delich Bentley has avoided the messy staff problems that have afflicted the campaign of a Democratic counterpart, Lt. Gov. Melvin A. Steinberg, one reason may be that until recently she barely had a campaign staff.Mrs. Bentley has finally hired a campaign manager, six months after she announced her candidacy for governor and just four months before the Sept. 13 primary election.Jacqueline L. Phillips, a veteran political operative but never before a campaign manager, has taken over the Bentley operation, run largely by Washington consultant Gordon Hensley since January.

In newsrooms everywhere, Helen Bentley brings shiny hope to the forlorn. At television stations, she's the sound bite waiting to happen. In newspaper offices, she's seen as William Donald Schaefer in pumps, the one candidate to succeed him who has the governor's . . . well, his eruptability.For one beautiful moment in College Park the other night, Bentley was everything reporters treasure in a politician, glaring into the camera televising this historic and wonderful gubernatorial debate in which all participants seemed on the verge of narcolepsy, when suddenly she warned all violent criminals watching the proceedings from their living rooms:"I will catch you, I will incarcerate you and, if need be, I will have you put to death."