Jessica and Dirk Haire, Republican power couple, offer a few parting words

Jessica and Dirk Haire want to set a few things straight. They’re not moving to North Carolina, as some have speculated. The porn industry did not fund her campaign for Anne Arundel County executive, as one opponent suggested. Jessica doesn’t drive a Range Rover, though she did appear in front of a white luxury SUV for a campaign ad in her failed bid to unseat County Executive Steuart Pittman. And Dirk, who ended his six years as Maryland Republican Party chair on Saturday, now feels free to speak his mind — about the Democrats’ strategy of propping up far-right GOP candidates and the state of his own party.