20030106 Found: Frank DeFilippo One Honest Liberal by Junk Yard Blog

20030106 Found: Frank DeFilippo One Honest Liberal by Junk Yard Blog

FOUND: ONE HONEST LIBERAL

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Frank DeFilippo has been a Democrat consultant in Maryland for decades, helping to elect governors, congressmen, senators, mayors and just about everything else.

Since Maryland is likely the most Democrat-ic state in the Union, business has been very good for the self-described "yellow dog Democrat." But on January 15th, Bob Ehrlich will take up residence in Maryland's governor's mansion, the first Republican to do so since Spiro Agnew.

While DeFilippo probably didn't vote for Ehrlich, his farewell message to outgoing Gov Parris Glendenning is full of things other than regrets. To put it simply, the dyed-in-the-wool Dem DeFilippo detests Glendenning, and isn't afraid to explain why:

AH, THE loneliness of being Gov. Parris N. Glendening. He's spending his final weeks in office in neo-baronial isolation, an outcast within his own party and a reject by more than half of his constituents.

Mr. Glendening will depart the State House the most disliked governor in modern Maryland history, with 58 percent of his constituents disapproving of his job performance and a Democratic Party that is leaderless and lacking a central intelligence. His only influence on politics these days is bad karma.

He leaves behind a deficit of more than a billion dollars and a CliffsNotes sham to fix it…

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Glendenning has spent the weeks since Ehrlich's stunning victory setting the new gov up for a fall: changing regs here, shifting around budget priorities there, all in an effort to harm the new governor before he's even had a single day in office. DeFilippo's litany of the longer-standing charges against Glendenning should serve as a nice outline for Ehrlich as he drafts his first State of the State address, which he'll deliver in March.

Posted by B. Preston on January 6, 2003 11:56 PM

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Governor Parris N Glendening 1995 2003