Early voting for Maryland’s primary begins t0day (Thursday), and Republicans and Democrats across the state will be able to select their candidates for the general election. Over 600,000 independent or ‘unaffiliated’ voters in the state, however, will be left out of this process.
MarylandReporter.com has been named the top news blog in the region for the second year in a row by the D.C. chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
Maryland Reporter stories were also honored with a top prize for Online News by the Maryland SPJ chapter and other stories were finalists in the online news and feature categories of the D.C. chapter’s annual Dateline Awards contest.
Pub crooner Martin O’Malley, watch your back. Del. Ron George is in the recording studio. The Republican delegate, who once pursued an acting career, has cut a new music video of the Rain Tax song. “No Taxation with Precipitation,” adapted from “Hanky Panky,”
Vendor apparently finds a loophole in the new speed camera reform law; Cecil County sample ballots list wrong polling place; Hershey Co. isn’t sending kisses to Steve Hershey for chocolate-colored campaign signs; in the contentious race for AG, whose accusations were correct?; Ruppersberger backs Cardin, Delaney backs Frosh; in governor’s race, Brown holds solid lead in new Post poll; if resumes could win elections, Craig would be the GOP nominee for governor; gubernatorial candidates on corporate income tax cut and roads funding; Brown airs ads in Spanish; and Blaine Young spends big time in campaign for Frederick County exec.
Little attention has been called to the political battle waging in Baltimore County’s District 6, comprising Dundalk and Essex. With two longtime Democratic incumbents — Sen. Norman Stone, who has served in the Senate since 1967, and Del. Sonny Minnick — calling it quits, a band of candidates from both parties has rushed to fill three open seats.
Twenty — 11 Democrats and nine Republicans — have filed to run for the three House of Delegates seats, while four will be competing for the Senate spot.
Our 10th and final pre-primary roundup of candidates for General Assembly shows the various groups that have endorsed in these races, updated with campaign finance information filed through May.
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