Blaine Taylor was a bit miffed when he read a Friday Baltimore Sun story
linked in our roundup Monday morning. It mentioned Republicans hoping
to challenge Democratic Sen. Barbara Mikulski, but no Democrats willing
to take on the four-term senator. Actually, it only mentioned those
Republicans who had raised some money.
“There WILL be a primary,” said Taylor by e-mail. He is a perennial
candidate for Congress, who filed April 16 for U.S. Senate. If money is
the qualifier, the reclusive Taylor, who largely runs his campaigns out
of his Towson apartment, plans on raising and spending no money.
He has no website, and there already is a Democratic candidate for
U.S. Senate with the same name from Baltimore County, Sanquetta Taylor
of Owings Mills. Other candidates in the race are Christopher Garner of
Severna Park and Billy Bob Jaworski of Kensington.
In an e-mail interview, Taylor, a Vietnam veteran, said he’s running
against Mikulski “as an anti-war candidate to give Marylanders an
alternative choice for their vote. U.S. troops are now in 135 countries
with 700 bases, according to Congressman Ron Paul, and many of these
can be brought home and/or closed. This would also help the economy. We
can end the war of terror on us by ending all our financial support to
Israel, as I've been saying since at least 2006.”
Taylor has written a number of military histories preoccupied with
Hitler, Nazi Germany and its vehicles, but he favors getting rid of the
internal combustion engine – no offshore drilling either.
He wants to wipe out all credit debt, abolish the Federal Reserve
Bank, end all state bond borrowing, and “reassert public ownership of
the nation's TV and radio airwaves via the FCC and offer free air time
to all candidates at all levels under a controlled-time format.” He’s
anti-abortion and pro-death penalty.
And what does Taylor think of his chances? “Remember the grocer who
embarrassed [Kathleen Kennedy Townsend] in her own "non-primary?"
Taylor asks. “Stay tuned.”
He just doesn't want reporters "announcing St. Barbara's coronation," as he puts it.
--Len Lazarick
Len@MarylandReporter.com