NEWS
By William F. Zorzi Jr. and William F. Zorzi Jr.,Sun Staff Writer | October 19, 1994
This election year, Lisa Garrison Renshaw keeps turning up like, well. . . ."A bad penny?" she asks.Not exactly.The Baltimore area's parking czarina has been dabbling in politics again -- first by heading an attempt to put the question of term limits before city voters, then as chair of an independent fund-raising group backing Republican Ellen R. Sauerbrey for governor.Earlier in the year, Ms. Renshaw threw in with a group to form Join RSVP (Republicans to Secure Victory in Public Office)
NEWS
By Paul Shread and Paul Shread,Staff writer | August 29, 1991
Lisa Renshaw really knows how to hurt a guy.Renshaw, a Republican from Severn, began her run for Congress yesterday, assailing U.S. Representative Tom McMillen, D-4th, as a "Dukakis Democrat." Renshaw didn't spare the L-word, either, in her assault on McMillen."Tom McMillen may have been a center on the basketball court, butin Congress, he has been playing far left of center for too long," Renshaw said. "Tom McMillen, the basketball player turned congressman,is so liberal he's out of bounds."
NEWS
By William Thompson and William Thompson,Eastern Shore Bureau of The Sun | January 29, 1992
EASTON -- If Rep. Wayne T. Gilchrest, R-1st, felt a shudder of deja vu yesterday, it's understandable.When the Republican upstart was trying to unseat the district's incumbent congressman in 1990, he signed a pledge opposing any increase in taxes and challenged his opponent to do the same.Mr. Gilchrest went on to win a heated contest against former Rep. Roy P. Dyson, a Democrat from Southern Maryland who dismissed the no-new-tax pledge as an underdog publicity stunt.In a near re-creation of the rumpus, Mr. Gilchrest yesterday found himself holding a new, but almost identical, anti-tax pledge.
NEWS
By John A. Morris and John A. Morris,Staff writer | February 27, 1992
The 1992 congressional campaign is not yet over, and already it's onhome video.As the March 3 primary approaches, Republican voters in the 1st Congressional District are being wooed at home via a six-minute video, the first of its kind in Maryland.Lisa Renshaw of Severn, who wants to unseat Eastern Shore incumbent Wayne T. Gilchrest, delivered a video appeal to 15,000 Anne Arundel households last week. Media consultants and party officials say they expect other candidates to follow."Video mail is the hot thing of the day. You are going to see it pushed to the max," said Jay Smith, president of Smith & Harroff, an Alexandria, Va.-based media consultant that pioneered political video mail in a New Jersey gubernatorial race three years ago.The Renshaw video, produced at a cost of $2 each, outlines the Severn resident's background and contrasts her views with Gilchrest.
FEATURES
By Mary Corey | August 11, 1991
Lisa Renshaw never has to ask herself what she'd sacrifice for success.At age 21, she found out.She had no money, no free time and no idea how to run the failing parking garage she'd just taken over. But worse than that, she had no one to work the night shift.So for three long years, she spent her evenings holed up in a closet of a room just north of Penn Station, shooing rats away from the carpet remnant that doubled as her bed.On a good day, the garage made $200.On a bad one, she was held up at knifepoint.
BUSINESS
By Timothy J. Mullaney and Timothy J. Mullaney,Sun Staff Writer | February 26, 1994
Linthicum entrepreneur Lisa Renshaw's Penn Parking Inc. has been awarded a $4.3 million contract to run parking facilities at 37 Washington-area Metrorail stations.The three-year contract, which took effect last month but was not announced until yesterday, covers more than 32,000 parking spaces in the District of Columbia, Montgomery and Prince George's counties in Maryland, and Fairfax and Arlington counties in Virginia."I wanted something in Washington so I could expand the company," said Ms. Renshaw, who beat out about a dozen other bidders for the job, after initially losing the contract.