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Showing posts with label MD Congressional Dist 1. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MD Congressional Dist 1. Show all posts
Many Republicans in Annapolis, including myself, have sponsored legislation to require voter identification with a photo i.d. at polling places on Election Day.
During the bill hearings, we are always met with a loud chorus by Democratic legislators that: "There is no evidence that voter fraud has ever occurred in Maryland!"
What a surprise then to learn today that the Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in C.D. 1 has engaged in voter fraud. According to TowsonPatch.com, Wendy Rosen has withdrawn from the November election because of evidence that she illegally voted as a resident of two states (Maryland and Florida) since 2006.
To read the full article on TowsonPatch.com, click here.
Democratic candidate Wendy Rosen (center) has withdrawn from the November election for Congressional District 1, MD.
10th term (61 percent) | Cash on Hand (Dec. 31): $343,000
In all honesty, we didn’t expect Bartlett to seek re-election given his district was redrawn to elect a Democrat. But the 85-year-old lawmaker is running and running hard. That doesn’t change the fundamentals of his new district, which underwent one of the biggest partisan conversions of any seat in the country. It’s possible that all of the ingredients could come together for Bartlett, who faces a primary next month, to pull off a win. But it just doesn’t seem plausible at this point.... http://www.rollcall.com/features/Election-Preview_2012/election/-213163-1.html
By Abby Livingston Posted at 12:02 a.m. on March 20"
With the April 3 primary only two weeks away, Maryland’s 6th district race has become one of the most heated in the country.
Democratic candidates are busy campaigning across the district — which covers western Maryland and stretches all the way to the Washington, D.C., suburbs — in hopes of challenging Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, the likely Republican nominee, in the fall.
The top two Democratic contenders, state Senate Majority Leader Rob Garagiola and businessman John Delaney, participated in a candidate forum on Saturday sponsored by the Washington County Democratic Central Committee. The event was held at the UAW Hall in Hagerstown. Garagiola and Delaney, along with the other three Democrats running, also participated in a debate Sunday in Gaithersburg to discuss issues ranging from Iran to women’s contraception... http://atr.rollcall.com/maryland-democratic-primary-to-face-bartlett-heats-up/
Although he is most remembered for his decades of fervent support for civil rights; he was also know as an advocate for the Chesapeake Bay, against the war in Vietnam, and his repeated clashes with the conservative wing of the Republican Party.
Mathias served in the U.S. House of Representatives for the 6th congressional district, which includes Carroll County, from 1961 to 1969.
Afterwards he served in the U.S. Senate until 1987. He was succeeded by Senator Barbara A. Mikulski, who still holds the seat to this day.
He was born into a politically prominent old Maryland family in Frederick on July 24, 1922, where he attended public schools and graduated from Frederick High School in 1939.
He was the son of Charles Mathias, Sr. and Theresa Trail Mathias. Several ancestors in the Mathias family had served in the Maryland General Assembly.
A recent Washington Post tribute noted, “Sen. Mathias's great-grandfather served in the Maryland legislature in the 1860s, and his grandfather was a state senator who campaigned with Theodore Roosevelt. When the future senator was a boy, his father took him to the White House to meet presidents Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover.”
He was living in Chevy Chase, Maryland, where his family reported that he died Monday from complications of Parkinson's disease.
Mathias also served in the Maryland House of Delegates from 1959 to 1960.
He graduated from Haverford College, Pennsylvania, in 1944; attended Yale University; and went on to receive a law degree from the University of Maryland in 1949
He served in the U.S. Navy, during World War II, from 1942 to 1946. After 1944, he was stationed in the Pacific Ocean theatre of the war and later in Japan, where he personally saw the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, after it was destroyed by an atomic bomb.
He returned home after the war and receiving his law degree, briefly practiced law in Frederick. He served as an assistant Maryland Attorney General from 1953 to 1954 and then moved-on to serve as the municipal attorney for the city of Frederick from 1954 to 1959.
It was while he served as the Frederick city attorney that he first developed a reputation as a stalwart advocate for civil rights.
While serving in the Maryland General Assembly in 1959, he worked hard to see that Maryland finally ratified the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Maryland had not ratified the amendment, which gave African-Americans certain rights and privileges after the Civil War, almost 90 years earlier. Maryland was one of several states that did not ratify the amendment in the 1860s.
In 1968, according to multiple sources, including a New York Times tribute: in “his first election, to the Senate … he defeated Daniel Brewster, a Democratic incumbent who was a friend and former classmate at the University of Maryland Law School. Mr. Brewster had been an usher at Mr. Mathias’s wedding in 1958, and Mr. Mathias had been godfather to Mr. Brewster’s son.”
The Washington Post noted that Mathias described “the future of the Republican Party in a 1996 interview with the Baltimore Sun, Sen. Mathias said (at that time): ‘I'd like to think there would be a place for Abraham Lincoln, a place for Theodore Roosevelt, a place for Dwight D. Eisenhower. If there's a place for them, I'd like to think I could find a small niche.’
“In 2002, Sen. Mathias announced his opposition to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and in 2008 he wrote an article for The Washington Post endorsing the presidential candidacy of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).
“Survivors include his wife of 51 years, Ann Bradford Mathias of Chevy Chase; two sons, Charles B. Mathias and Robert F. Mathias of the District. Other survivors include a sister, Theresa M. Michel of Frederick; a brother, Edward Trail Mathias of Baltimore; and two granddaughters.”
Stevensville, MD - Today, Queen Anne’s CountyState’s Attorney and Democratic candidate for Congress in Maryland’s First Congressional District, Frank Kratovil, received the endorsement of the Cecil Whig Newspaper.
The Cecil Whig praised Kratovil’s grasp of the issues affecting the First District and his ability to build consensus saying, “Agricultural concerns are a top priority. The poultry and seafood industry is vital to this part of Maryland. And environmental worries, especially saving the unique ecology of the Chesapeake Bay while at the same time balancing the needs of the agriculture, poultry and seafood industry, require a congressman capable of building a consensus among competing interests. We think Kratovil will be better able to fulfill that role."
