Maryland: Republican

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 [...]

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

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.

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.