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Campaign 2010
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Rebecca Weir Nelson For 7th District State
Senate
Rebecca Weir
Nelson is running for State Senate Candidate in District 7
(Baltimore/Harford counties)
Nelson is a ninth generation and is running for Andy Harris’s empty
Senate seat for Marylanders, veterans, our parks and our Chesapeake
Bay. They deserve our honor and respect!
Council Candidate Verch Releases Video
Regarding Term Limits, Reform on the Council
Saying he
has never run for office before, Steve Verch, a candidate for the
Baltimore County Council in the Sixth District, has posted a term
limits video on his campaign website www.voteverch.com and on his
campaign’s Facebook page.
“It’s time for new people with new ideas in County government,” said
Verch, who added he incorporates the term limits video in his pitch to
voters whose doors he knocks on.
Beard
For House of Delegates
Please allow
me to take a few minutes of your valuable time to introduce myself. I
am Jeff Beard and I am running for delegate in the 7th Legislative
District. I am a lifelong resident of Middle River. I have two
children, Jeff, 28, and Krystyn, 26, and I am the proud grandfather of
Jordan, 3 ½, and Ashton, 2 ½.
Candidate
Pledges to Cut Salary
Steve Bailey, Republican,
is running for Baltimore County State’s Attorney against incumbent
Scott Shellenberger. “Shellenberger is a competent attorney, but his
office is grossly overpaid with an annual salary of $214,000. The
office has the second highest pay of elected officials in the state,
more than Senator Mikulski’s $174,000 and more than county executive
Jim Smith’s $150,000.
Stavropoulos
to Run for State Senate
On July
10, 2010 at the Wild Duck Café with several hundred supporters in
attendance with the help of his friend Country Star Dean Crawford and
from American Idol Fame, Bucky Covington, community leader Jim
Stavropoulos Jr. announced his candidacy for Maryland State Senate in
the Seventh District.
Morrow
Announces Run for House of Delegates District 7 Seat
James
“Ward” Morrow has filed to
campaign for the Democratic Party nomination to challenge Republican
incumbents Pat McDonough and Rick Impallaria to represent District 7 in
the Maryland House of Delegates; denouncing their support for “extreme
right wing fringe issues.”
Cathy
Bevins and Rebecca Weir Announce Candidacy
Democrats
Cathy Bevins and Rebecca
Weir spoke at the Hawthorne Civic Association meeting on June 2 about
their future hopes for Baltimore County. Bevins is running for the 6th
District County Council seat. Weir, a Democrat, is challenging the
three Republican incumbent delegates and Republican candidate Kathy
Szeliga in the 7th legislative District.
Bill
Paulshock to Run for Fifth District County Council Seat
Bill
Paulshock, Perry Hall small
business owner and community leader, declared he will seek the
Baltimore County Council 5th District seat. The seat is being vacated
by Councilman Vince Gardina. The District includes parts of Perry
Hall, Parkville, Carney and Towson.
Cluster
Will Seek House of Delegates Seat in 2010
Former
Delegate
John W. E.
Cluster, Jr. will seek to return to the Maryland House of Delegates in
2010, campaigning as a Republican for the Eighth Legislative District,
which includes northeastern Baltimore County.
Cluster served in the Maryland House of Delegates from 2003 to 2007.
District 6 Legislators Announce
Re-election Plans
Senator
Norman
Stone and
Delegates Joseph “Sonny” Minnick, John Olszewski, Jr. and Mike Weir,
Jr. announced to supporters their intentions to seek re-election.
The “Forward Together” team, consisting of all four legislators,
represents the gamut of public service and work experiences - including
a retired firefighter and restaurant owner (both of whom are veterans),
as well as an attorney and educator.
Joe Bartenfelder
to Run for County Executive
Councilman Joe Bartenfelder officially announced his candidacy for
Baltimore County Executive at a rally at Towson University on April 30.
The room was filled with his supporters, including politicians
Delegates Sonny Minnick, Mike Weir, Todd Schuler and Senators Norman
Stone and Kathy Klausmeier.
Kevin
Kamenetz Announces Candidacy for County Executive
Second
District Councilman Kevin Kamenetz today formally announced his
candidacy for Baltimore County Executive, and in so doing became the
first candidate for County Executive ever to announce his candidacy in
Randallstown.
Ryan
Nawrocki Announces Candidacy for District 6 Baltimore County Council
Seat
Ryan
Nawrocki
officially kicked off his candidacy on April 6 for Baltimore County’s
Sixth Councilmanic District Seat which is located in Eastern Baltimore
County. Nawrocki has been endorsed for the seat by Governor Bob
Ehrlich.
David Marks of Perry Hall announced on
April 13 he will seek election
to the fifth district. A locally well-known community activist, he was
chosen president of the Perry Hall Improvement Association (PHIA) nine
times starting in 1999.
Ken Holt, a longtime community activist,
member of the Baltimore
business community and former member of the Maryland General Assembly,
has announced he is running for Baltimore County Executive.
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We Need to Stop Medicaid Fraud
- by Senator Norman Stone (D - 6) -
There are numerous reasons, mainly greed, why certain unscrupulous
people would defraud the public. One of the most publicized stories was
about Bernie Madoff who scammed the public in a $50 billion Ponzi
Scheme causing many people to lose their life savings.
Another form of fraud, while not widely publicized or as dramatic which
still has a detrimental effect on the public, are the numerous false
claims being made against Medicaid. Since the Federal False Claim Act
was passed by Congress, the federal government has recovered over $24
billion which had been filed in fraudulent Medicaid payments.
Since the reach of the Federal False Claims Act is limited because it
can only pursue the largest and most global cases of fraud, this
past
legislative session, Maryland passed the “Maryland False Health
Claims
Act of 2010” in an effort to strengthen existing law and to recover
millions of dollars in fraud, waste, and cost avoidance within the
Medicaid Program which the federal government is not pursuing.
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Pension Issues and Term Limits
- by Bill Paulshock,
Candidate Baltimore County Council - Fifth District in Perry Hall
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During my travels throughout the 5th
district, knocking on doors and
speaking with neighbors, two issues are paramount wherever I go. I keep
hearing about excessive pensions for County Council members and term
limits for elected officials. As a candidate for County Council, I
believe, with one easy change, both issues can be easily rectified.
In December of this year there will be at least four new members of the
County Council, a new majority on that seven member body. Because of
this, change is inevitable. The time is right for POSITIVE change that
will be in the best interest of the people of Baltimore County.
After people are in office for too long they become stagnant. Often
they focus on their political careers and not on the interests of the
people who elected them.
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Obama Should Sue Maryland
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by Delegate Pat McDonough (R - 7) -
President Obama’s lawsuit against Arizona
is directed at the wrong state. The allegation that Arizona’s new
immigration law is in conflict with federal authorities is completely
wrong. The Supreme Court and other federal Appellate courts have ruled
consistently that unless state law actually conflicts with
federal law, there is no preemption. The Arizona Law simply duplicates
the Federal Immigration Act and provides the state with the authority
to enforce its tenets. There is no conflict.
However, there is one state among many that creates policies
conflicting with federal law. Maryland’s Governor and other politicians
continuously impose policies that violate the Federal Immigration Act
by aiding and abetting illegal aliens. These misguided actions
are known as “sanctuary policies.”
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Elect Jim Stavropoulos Jr. Maryland State
Senate 2010
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by Jim Stavropoulos Jr., Candidate for Senate, Legislative District
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My name is Jim Stavropoulos, Jr. and I am
running for the MD. State Senate because the current representatives
have forgotten where they came from. Also, the Democratic Party needs a
viable candidate who represents the truth & good common sense when
it comes to handling the issues that concern the people of the 7th.
District
I believe I have what it takes to overpower the Republicans in the
District 7 race to win the Senate seat, because, if the people vote for
the person instead of the party affiliations I should win.
I have over 30 years of successful sales and management experience. I
have recently felt the pain of the approximately 220,000 unemployment
Marylanders. I have been laid off from four jobs in three years myself.
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How
Did They Vote?
Here is a
breakdown on how your
local delegates and senators
voted in the Maryland General Assembly on
some of the legislation for
the 2010
session.
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