Maryland: Michael Busch

Del. Nic Kipke (R-Pasadena) announced Monday that if Gov. Martin O'Malley's (D-Baltimore) proposed furlough program is implemented, he'll voluntarily participate.
 
Last week, multiple news outlets reported a furlough proposal had begun circulating among labor union leaders. The proposal is just one of many steps O'Malley and state officials have taken to combat a grim economic outlook.
 

House and Senate Republicans are opposing November's constitutional amendment that would authorize early voting in Maryland, claiming it's ripe for fraud, an unfunded mandate and unnecessary since the state already has an absentee ballot program.

But House and Senate Democrats are calling the argument ridiculous.

Voters will decide on November's ballot if the state constitution should be amended to authorize the General Assembly to allow qualified citizens to vote at polling places outside of their districts or up to two weeks before an election.

[img_assist|nid=3211|title=Speaker Michael Busch (D-Annnapolis)|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=180|height=252]DENVER – It is the third day of the Democratic National Committee Convention, but the plane carrying state House Speaker Michael E. Busch (D-Annapolis) only touched down this afternoon.

“I’m excited about being on the floor tonight,” he told PolitickerMD.com, shortly after arriving.

Though Busch has been tuned into the convention via television, and said he was impressed by U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy’s Monday address.

ANNAPOLIS - Gov. Martin O’Malley announced Thursday the appointment of former U.S. Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti to chair the Maryland Commission on Capital Punishment. O’Malley and Civiletti were joined by Lt. Gov Anthony Brown (D) and state House Speaker Michael E. Busch (D-Annapolis).

According to O’Malley, Civliletti “rose to national prominence during the Carter administration.”