Wednesday, August 25, 2010

News and Info from Bob Ehrlich for Maryland

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Pledging Support for Military Retiree Tax Credit

Initiative will benefit 50,000 military families and boost Maryland’s economy

ELLICOTT CITY- As part of his plan to get Maryland’s economy working again, Bob Ehrlich today pledged that he will introduce legislation to exempt 100 percent of military pension income for qualified military retirees in Maryland. His plan will ...

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Pledging to Restore Portion of Local Transportation Aid Raided by Governor O’Malley

As part of his plan to get Maryland working again, Bob Ehrlich today announced that his first budget as Governor will restore 25 percent of the local transportation aid that Governor Martin O’Malley raided last year. The restoration will equal approximately $60 million and will help local governments ...

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Ehrlich-Kane Campaign Exceeds Fundraising Goal, Shows Strong Momentum Heading into Fall Campaign

More than 13,000 donors – 96 percent of whom reside in Maryland – contributed $3.2 million to the Ehrlich-Kane ticket for the reporting period ending August 10th, putting Bob Ehrlich and Mary Kane in a virtual dead heat with the O’Malley-Brown campaign for the period. The Ehrlich campaign exceeded its ...

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Ehrlich Campaign Proposes Five Debates

ANNAPOLIS -- The Bob Ehrlich for Governor Campaign today sent the O’Malley campaign the following letter proposing five debates with Governor Martin O’Malley before the general election on November 2. The debates would be sponsored by diverse groups and presented in locations around Maryland, but all would be designed to ...

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Pledging to Lower Sales Tax and Halt Tax’s Expansion to More Goods & Services

Regressive Tax Disproportionately Hurts Low Income Families and Small Businesses

Bob Ehrlich met with Baltimore County families today to discuss the need to roll back Governor Martin O’Malley’s 20% increase in the sales tax in order to boost Maryland’s economy. He also pledged that he would oppose any effort ...

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Discussing Threats to Services for At Risk Youths

Child Advocates Criticize State Moves to Centralize Control and Cut Funds for At-Risk Kids

Bob Ehrlich met today with parents, educators, and family advocates who expressed growing concerns about what they consider emerging threats to state services for Maryland’s at-risk children. Ehrlich ...

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Renewing Commitment to the Chesapeake Bay’s Restoration

On the shores of Maryland’s Back River, Bob Ehrlich today pledged to protect Maryland’s landmark Chesapeake Bay Restoration Act, which Governor Martin O’Malley has drained by $155 million during his tenure. The Bay Restoration Act is vital to fixing wastewater treatment plants, which dump 16 million pounds of ...

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Martin O’Malley’s “Choices”

In an effort to salvage his sinking poll numbers, incumbent Governor Martin O’Malley today released a television ad about “choices” he has made as Governor. Much like he has this entire campaign, Martin O’Malley “chooses” in this ad to change the subject from his legacy of massive job losses, record ...

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Bob Renews Call for New Nuclear Facility at Calvert Cliffs

ANNAPOLIS – Bob Ehrlich today reiterated his long-standing support for a proposal to build a third nuclear reactor at Calvert Cliffs in Southern Maryland. He urged the federal government to finalize approval of a draft environmental impact statement and approve federal loan guarantees so that ground preparation work can begin ...

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Bob Ehrlich Pledges Funds to Return TV & Film Jobs to Maryland

Tax Credit has been used to lure projects that employ hundreds, pay dividends

HUNT VALLEY -- Bob Ehrlich met with members of the embattled film and TV production industry today and agreed to invest $7 million in a key state tax credit to help bring back to Maryland the ...

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Bob Ehrlich on Jobs

Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) often refers to his tenure in Annapolis as one of "progress," implicitly arguing that Maryland is better off today than when he took office.

Nowhere could this argument lack more credibility than on Maryland's economic climate, which is unquestionably less friendly to job creation than ...

Gazette.Net: Where is the truth squad?

Blair Lee / My Maryland

Politicians fighting for their political lives can't be trusted to tell the truth. Ask them about their records, or their opponent's records, and you get mostly distortions, fabrications and outright falsehoods.

Here's a good example. Gov. Martin O'Malley claims that his opponent, Bob Ehrlich, ...

Baltimore Sun: Slots and opportunism in Anne Arundel

July 26, 2010

Mike Cross-Barnet

If former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. is looking for evidence to bolster his claims that current Gov. Martin O’Malley has been fiscally reckless, he need look no further than the Democratic incumbent’s public stance in favor of the referendum to overturn the ...

Ehrlich talks job creation with Howard County business leaders

GOP gubernatorial candidate brings anti-O'Malley message to Ellicott City
By Sarah Breitenbach
sbreitenbach@patuxent.com

GOP gubernatorial candidate Robert Ehrlich addresses Howard County business leaders during a roundtable discussion in Ellicott City Thursday morning. As he has done in similar meetings throughout the state, Ehrlich criticized Democratic Gov. Martin O'Malley ...

Ehrlich talk issues, sports and The Beatles

Published on: Thursday, June 17, 2010

By Paige L. Hill

Former Gov. Bob Ehrlich (R) announced in March that he would make a run to get his old job back in the Maryland gubernatorial elections in November. His plans mean a much-anticipated rematch with current Gov. Martin O’Malley, ...

Maryland Economist predicts taxes will go up, local aid will go down

CAMBRIDGE -- Economist Anirban Basu told members of the Maryland Economic Development Association that he foresees what some Maryland Republicans have been predicting for months.Taxes will go up next year, he said, and state aid to local governments will go down.

Basu, one of the most widely-quoted economic experts ...

Maryland Rematch

By Emily Esfahani Smith of the Weekly Standard

May 24, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 34

In 2006, Bob Ehrlich of Maryland was the only Republican governor to lose his seat to a Democrat. His defeat was no surprise. Maryland is a strongly Democratic state that before Ehrlich hadn’t elected ...

Why Northrop chose Virginia

Washington Examiner

May 12, 2010

After months of intense courtship, it wasn't Maryland or the District of Columbia, but their rival across the river that finally got the nod of approval from defense contractor Northrop Grumman, ranked 61st on the Fortune 500. The storied company -- maker of ...

Debt Capitals

By Edward Lee Pitts, Alisa Harris, Megan Basham, William McCleery
May 7, 2010

World Magazine

It's no secret that the federal government is running up an enormous debt, but many state governments are not doing much better. The recession, by reducing the revenues flowing into state capitals, has ...

Gazette.net: (Business) climate change

My Maryland By: Blair Lee

Scientists disagree on global warming. Is climate change natural or manmade? And can humans halt its course? I don't know.

But humans are certainly responsible for Maryland's business climate, which just lost Northrop Grumman to Virginia after an intense battle over where the ...

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