Governor S Race

I have never voted anything but Democratic but now I will only vote for a candidate that is against illegal immigration.This governor's race I will vote for former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. Governor Martin O'Malley has declared Maryland a "sanctuary" state. He supports items such as in state tuition for illegals at the same time state workers are being furloughed and fired.State funds(and local) are going to subcontractors who use immigrants when our own people are desperate and losing their homes.

Anne Arundel County Executive John R. Leopold said Friday what has long been rumored in local political circles: He's considering a run for governor or comptroller in 2014. "I'm going to keep all those options open," said Leopold, a Republican who is term-limited. "The record that I've established of strong fiscal discipline, I think, would resonate not only in Anne Arundel County but elsewhere. " Leopold, 68, served 20 years in the House of Delegates before he was elected county executive in 2006.

Three months after announcing his candidacy for governor, former Republican Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. made it official Friday when he and newly chosen running mate Mary Kane filed paperwork with the Maryland State Board of Elections. "I feel really great about it," Ehrlich said afterward. He and Kane spent the morning as guests on Washington-area television and radio news programs. They have 10 parade appearances scheduled during the Fourth of July weekend, Ehrlich said.

It doesn't matter whether Bob Ehrlich's campaign was mismanaged or not. Gov. Martin O'Malley was re-elected because he is the best man for the job. Period. Matilda Weiner, Baltimore

Republican gubernatorial candidate Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. told listeners of his WBAL radio talk show Saturday that he will stay behind the microphone until July, when he officially files his candidacy with the state elections board. "BAL has asked, and we've agreed that I stay on this show ... until [I] become an official candidate," Ehrlich told listeners at the start of the two-hour "Bob and Kendel Ehrlich Show." "And that's when under the law, I guess, you become a formal candidate.

I can't help it. No matter how much I try to get excited over the governor's race, it ain't working. Nothing. Nada. Zip.Of course, this is what happens when the candidate of your choice loses in the primary. You get stuck with someone else's leftovers. And in this race it's come down to a choice between a couple of cliches, Mrs. Voodoo Economics versus Mr. TaxFanatic.Maybe it's just that after all these years of Gov. William Donald Schaefer, I've grown accustomed to a little heartburn in the morning when I read the paper.

LOS ANGELES -- As the up-for-grabs California governor's race goes down to the wire, Dianne Feinstein and Sen. Pete Wilson are pursuing an elusive target called change.The high-stakes election, regarded by both national parties as the most important of 1990, is largely about shifting the direction of this vast and increasingly troubled state.But politicians here differ, along with the candidates themselves, about how much change voters are prepared to accept and which candidate can better deliver it."

Standing before about 2,000 partisans at the Baltimore Convention Center Thursday night, Parris N. Glendening expressed his thanks to a crowd that had plunked down as much as $500 each to swell his already overflowing campaign coffers by an estimated half million dollars.On Friday night, the Democratic candidate for governor was at it again. This time the setting was more intimate: La Colline, a chic Washington restaurant favored by Capitol Hill lobbyists. Cocktails, dinner and face time with the candidate, $1,000 a person.

Two years before the 2002 election, Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend holds a commanding lead over her prospective Democratic and Republican rivals in the governor's race, according to a poll released yesterday. The survey of registered voters, conducted Aug. 23 through Monday by Gonzales/Arscott Research & Communications Inc., shows Townsend with a 52 percent to 29 percent lead over U.S. Rep. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., who is considered a possible Republican candidate. She was favored by 49 percent of Democrats, compared with 12 percent for Montgomery County Executive Douglas M. Duncan, 10 percent for Baltimore County's C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger and 8 percent for Prince George's County's Wayne K. Curry

Encouraged by Gov. William Donald Schaefer and his political brain trust, Orioles owner Peter G. Angelos has become intrigued by the prospect of running for governor and is giving the idea serious thought.The multimillionaire team owner, according to sources close to Mr. Schaefer and Mr. Angelos, would like to enter the crowded Democratic field, but must decide whether he is willing to give up or take time away from his current enterprises.What does not seem in dispute is that Mr. Angelos, a former Baltimore city councilman who ran unsuccessfully for council president and mayor in the 1960s, has a desire to re-enter the political arena.

Since launching his bid for governor, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. has told military veterans he would reduce their income taxes, county leaders he would return state road repair money to the counties, and state workers that he would end the three-year-old furlough program. The former Republican governor has aimed his most expensive promise at all Marylanders: A 20-percent rollback of the sales tax. At the same time, he says he won't raise other taxes or fees. All of which has prompted the question that has dogged Ehrlich on the campaign trail: How does he plan to play for the promises he is making?

After reading the Baltimore Sun article "Do you want that politician to go?" (Oct. 20), I think most of us agree that, yes, we do. If Chick Levitt of Chick & Ruth's deli would like to save a little money, he can have one sandwich for two politicians. The O'Malley/Ehrlich sandwich would feature half-baked ham and lots of baloney on very white bread with humongous side servings of sour grapes and lots of donated cabbage. Most people would probably find this specialty hard to swallow, that's why it's served with a generous portion of whine to help us get it down.

I've been studying clips from the first two televised Ehrlich-O'Malley debates, and there's something seriously nagging me about both candidates. Specifically, there's something nagging me about both candidates' seriousness. Like the rest of us, politicians can make two types of mistakes when it comes to seriousness. On one extreme, they can take themselves too seriously. This tends to be Gov. Martin O'Malley's problem. He's the smart, dynamic boy wonder who proved a white candidate could win the Baltimore mayoralty and still navigate its dangerous waters deftly enough to sail himself into a safer harbor few big-city mayors of this era are capable of reaching: the governorship.

Baltimore radio talk show host Larry Young announced on his program this morning that Gov. Martin O'Malley and former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. have agreed to a debate on WOLB. It will be broadcast live on the station from 8 to 9 a.m. Oct. 21. O'Malley spokesman Rick Abbruzzese confirmed O'Malley's participation, and Ehrlich spokesman Henry Fawell said Ehrlich also has agreed to the debate. Young, a Democratic former city senator friendly with both candidates, has worked for months to secure a debate for his Radio One station.

The Aug. 2 edition of The Baltimore Sun has another article ("Ehrlich, O'Malley budgeted similarly") where the facts present both candidates in a similar light as to raising taxes and creating deficits. If both have been lacking in financial abilities to get our state out of this tax-and-spend attitude, why don't their respective political parties recruit someone with better fiscal abilities? The answer is simple. Both Republicans and Democrats are more concerned with getting their respective party in the governor's mansion.

The court-ordered referendum on the billion-dollar Arundel Mills casino has landed the project right in the middle of the bitterly fought contest between Democratic Gov. Martin O'Malley and Republican former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. Both camps are looking to capitalize on the ruling last week by Maryland's highest court, which found in favor of plaintiffs seeking a referendum to let Anne Arundel voters decide whether a slots parlor will be...

ANNAPOLIS -- Maryland Right to Life officials endorsed William S. Shepard, the Republican candidate for governor, yesterday, saying he will do more than Gov. William Donald Schaefer "to save the unborn" and work against abortion."

I have never voted anything but Democratic but now I will only vote for a candidate that is against illegal immigration.This governor's race I will vote for former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. Governor Martin O'Malley has declared Maryland a "sanctuary" state. He supports items such as in state tuition for illegals at the same time state workers are being furloughed and fired.State funds(and local) are going to subcontractors who use immigrants when our own people are desperate and losing their homes.