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Delegation sets leadership

By Bryan P. Sears
Posted: January 18, 2010

The county’s House and Senate delegations wasted no time setting its respective leadership for the rest of the 90-day General Assembly session.

Stone

Klausmeier

Senators from the county’s eight districts met the first day of session Wednesday and elected Sens. Norman Stone and Kathy Klausmeier chairman and vice chairwoman.

Bromwell

DeBoy

The House delegation met Thursday morning and elected Dels. Eric Bromwell and Steve DeBoy chairman and vice chairman. Del. Jon Cardin was named secretary for the delegation.

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Holt considers county executive race

By Bryan P. Sears
Posted: January 15, 2010

Holt

After years of having his name bandied about as a potential candidate for all sorts of races, Republican former Del. Ken Holt says this time he’s really considering a return to politics and a run for Baltimore County Executive.

Holt served in the House of Delegates from 1995 to 1999. Since leaving the House Republicans break his name out of their hermetically sealed container of potential candidates every few years and whisper that Holt is running for (insert office here).

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It’s a lot of money

By Bryan P. Sears
Posted: January 15, 2010

Check out this story on WBAL.com for my discussion with Robert Lang about the $1.1 million in cash on hand raised by Councilman Kevin Kamenetz.

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Talking General Assembly

By Bryan P. Sears
Posted: January 15, 2010

Sorry for the delay in posting. There were some technical issues on my end. I hope to get you all caught up with some stuff that happened Thursday. Here’s the first of them

Here’s this week’s installment of my weekly chat with Maryland Morning News anchor Bill Vanko. We covered the county’s expectations for the 90-day General Assembly session that began on Wednesday and the politics of the competing pension reform bills before the County Council.

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Burns to offer bill prohibiting recognition of same-sex marriage

By Bryan P. Sears
Posted: January 14, 2010

Burns

Del. Emmett Burns said he plans to file a bill Thursday or Friday that will prohibit the state from recognizing same-sex marriages performed in other states.

The Democrat and Baptist minister represents the 10th district, including Randallstown and Woodlawn, and has been a staunch opponent of same sex-marriage. Burns has sponsored several bills related to the issue over the last few years.

“I’ve fought this fight over the last 12 years,” Burns said. “Now with Washington D.C. approving (same-sex marriage), it’s needed more than ever.”

Burns said his bill will ban so-called foriegn marriages — unions performed out of state if the couples are of the same sex.

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