Oh
goody. Donna Edwards is, thanks to Democrat gerrymandering, my
congress critter. Unless she's challenged by the Sarbanes (50 yr
old)
kid, I'd say she's automatic. I say that because, statewide,
nobody
knows who the hell she is; so if Rep. John Sarbanes goes for it, he's a
shoe-in Why? This is how the Baltimore Sun announced John
Sarbanes
bid for congress:
Eventually,
the family business would have an opening. When Paul Sarbanes announced
last year that he would not be seeking a sixth term, Democratic Rep.
Benjamin L. Cardin declared his candidacy for the seat. Sarbanes lives
in Cardin's district.
Maryland voters still think Paul Sarbanes is who they're voting
for. And Family business,
said with nary a blush, says everything about elected Democrats
today. Because, like any good businessmen they want to see
the business grow. You see the problem. They do not. But I
digress.
Sen. Barbara Mikulski ,
like Sen. Paul Sarbanes had a formula. Stay under the radar;
don't do
anything. In Sarbane's case it was something of a joke, in my
mind
anyway, that every six-years the Sunpapers would remind Marylanders
that he was running for another six years, and while he was not much in
the public eye, he was seen by his colleagues in the Senate as
behind-the-scenes cerebral. For her part, Mikulski who to my
knowledge
never did anything but vote 100% Lib, was seen by her colleagues as a
4'11" martinet with an
"in-your-face style" that made her office a hotbed of fear. When
something wasn't done just right (i.e., a desk with a stool for her
feet) she'd "flip out." Also called a bitch. In 1985 I met a
(female) school teacher from, I think, Catonsville who was Mikulski's
lover. I wasn't so much scandalized to discover that Mikulski was
a
lesbian as that anyone could possibly want to put their face into hers,
let alone nether regions. Ugh.
Anyway, if I thought Edward's leaving her House seat for the senate
would help get us representation that was even close to AA County's
general conservatism, I'd be okay. But there's scant chance of
that.
No, the only hope we have here in Maryland is for a meteor to fall on a
car carrying, preferably, both senators so our Republican Gov.
can appoint me (and a friend?) to the Senate.
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