Maryland: Republican

October 22, 2009 - 12:54 pm
NEWS FEED: Baltimore Sun

Kratovil widens money edge over Harris

Endangered Democratic Rep. Frank Kratovil increased his campaign funding advantage over state Sen. Andy Harris, his potential Republican opponent, during the last three months. Kratovil's fund-raising performance for the first nine months of the year is in line with other...

October 9, 2009 - 12:12 am
NEWS FEED: Baltimore Reporter

Obama under fire over falling dollar

The falling US dollar is giving ammunition to the critics of the Obama administration and fuelling broader concerns about the potential erosion of America’s reserve currency status.
Sarah Palin, the former vice-presidential Republican candidate, on Wednesday sought to link the dollar decline to rising US indebtedness and dependence on foreign oil. “We can see the effect [...]

October 8, 2009 - 11:54 pm
NEWS FEED: Baltimore Reporter

Obama under fire over falling dollar

The falling US dollar is giving ammunition to the critics of the Obama administration and fuelling broader concerns about the potential erosion of America’s reserve currency status.
Sarah Palin, the former vice-presidential Republican candidate, on Wednesday sought to link the dollar decline to rising US indebtedness and dependence on foreign oil. “We can see the effect [...]

October 8, 2009 - 02:27 pm

News Analysis: Cordle/McFall Announcement Bodes Well for Ending Partisan Politics and Elections

In a surprise move to all but political insiders, Republican mayoral candidate David Cordle today announced that he reversed himself and will support creating a council-manager form of government and he picked up the endorsement of Democrat Trudy McFall who amassed close to 1000 votes in the September 15th primary. McFall also endorsed Republican aldermanic candidates Greg Stiverson and Scott

September 18, 2009 - 12:37 am

OhNine OnLine for September 18

If you are out and about this morning you may see Josh Cohen and Zina Pierre waving in West Annapolis....

Don't forget tomorrow night's fund-raiser for the Annapolis Republican candidates. Donation of $25 is requested. Contact your favorite Republican candidate for details....Greg Stiverson, Rock Toews, Dave Cordle, Jennifer Monteith, Fred Paone, Scott Bowling or James Conley.

Judd Legum is

September 14, 2009 - 06:49 pm
NEWS FEED: Baltimore Sun

Larry Hogan testing the gubernatorial waters

Add Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. to the list of those who feel they can't wait for Bob Ehrlich to decide if he's running for governor again. Hogan, a Republican whose most recent public position was as appointments secretary in the...

August 25, 2009 - 01:37 am

OhNine OnLine for August 25

Jennifer Monteith supports the tax cap and the city manager proposals and is a Republican running for Ward 7, which means she is up against Ian Pfeiffer. Monteith now has a web-site up at jennifermonteith.com/index.html . She will be our guest at the September 24th Sip N' Blog, possibly with another aldermanic candidate. We have already hosted Pfeiffer.

The scene. The bakery of the local grocery store. CP is pushing his cart around thinking about what's for dinner. Lo and behold, longtime Republican activist and all-around good guy Randy Landis is also doing his shopping. So we start talking all the political thing, dontcha know and who should come up to us but Alderwoman Classie Hoyle, a Democrat of course.

August 16, 2009 - 11:52 pm
NEWS FEED: Baltimore Reporter

Obama May Drop Public Option From His Health Care Plans

Crossposted from Flopping Aces

Pretty big headline eh? And it’s a testament to all those who would not be silenced. Those who were told to sit down and shut up but didn’t.
Bowing to Republican pressure, President Barack Obama’s administration signaled on Sunday it is ready to abandon the idea of giving Americans the option [...]

July 31, 2009 - 02:36 am

OhNine OnLine for July 31 Latest Campaign Ratings

Campaign Ratings have been April 15, May 1, May 15 and June 1, June 24 and today, July 31.
A
means candidate is ready to be mayor
B means candidate really wants to be mayor
C means candidate wants to be mayor but we'd like to see more conviction
D means if you want a decisive person in office, you'll probably have to find someone else.

When I began this, in order to get an A, the candidate had to have filed with the city clerk, made a public announcement, have an active campaign and active web-site. It has become gradually harder to maintain high ratings as the campaigns progressed and I consider overall activity, public presence, visibility, involvement with issues and how they are communicating about the issues to the public and media.

July 30, 2009 - 08:40 am

"P-THomann" Poisoning and The Evolution of a News Story from Capital Punishment to The National Stage

You all remember the story a few weeks back about what local Republican activist and leader Joyce Thomann wrote comparing Obama and Hitler on the Republican Women of AA County's web-site? The story made national news and one astute reader said the story was broken here--in fact, he was the one who turned me on to the story after other media were ignoring it. But first, from Today's Capital which reports that Thomann will give a private talk titled "Setting the Record Straight" next month to her club on Aug. 12. Got that? A private talk. It's not open to the public.