By Barry Rascovar July 7, 2014 — Did Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown run such a flawless Rose Garden campaign that his victory in Maryland’s June 24 Democratic gubernatorial primary was inevitable? Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown Or did his chief rival, Attorney General Doug Gansler, lose the election with an ineffective campaign that badly missed the […]
Maryland primary surprises
By Barry Rascovar June 26, 2014 — Statewide favorites won in Maryland’s June 24 Democratic and Republican primaries – Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown (D) and Larry Hogan Jr. (R) in the governor’s race and Brian Frosh (D) and unopposed Jeffrey Pritzker (R) in the attorney general contest. Most incumbents in lower-level primaries won, too. Yet […]
Eric Cantor Meet Bev Byron
By Barry Rascovar June 16, 2004–The stunning June 10 primary election defeat of the No. 2 Republican in the House of Representatives, Virginia’s Eric Cantor, robbed the Old Dominion of a dominant power in Washington who soon might have been Speaker of the House. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor Yet what happened to Cantor — too […]
Rushing Toward MD’s Primary
By Barry Rascovar WITH TWO WEEKS to go till Maryland’s June 24 primary for governor, here’s where we stand in the all-important Democratic race. (All-important because Republicans don’t count in most statewide Maryland elections due to the Democrats’ huge lead in registered voters.) The TV debates, all three of them, are over. So is the one […]
Marijuana, Politics & Public Health
By Barry Rascovar According to the mother of the man who crashed his stolen dump truck through the doors of WMAR-TV in suburban Baltimore last month and stormed through the TV station claiming he was God — her son had been a heavy marijuana user and that’s what caused his latest psychotic episode. The near-calamity brings new focus to the marijuana legalization […]