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School board race gets more expensive as primaries near
July 12, 2022 -

Candidates in the crowded and unusually expensive race for the Frederick County Board of Education have raised more than $70,000 and spent nearly $60,000. The latest campaign finance reports were due Friday and show candidates’ contributions and expenditures from June 8 through July 3. Sixteen candidates are vying for four seats on the school board. Eight of them will make it through the July 19 primary.

Read More: Frederick News-Post
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Outside political groups spending big in several Maryland primaries
July 12, 2022 -

Just over a week out from Maryland’s primary elections, a handful Democratic races are being shaped by contributions from influential outside groups — in some cases with little information publicly available about the groups behind the spending, or their motivations. Super PACs have mostly supplemented candidates in the competitive Democratic primary for governor, the premier race on the Maryland ticket this year, without shifting the balance of the field.

Read More: The Baltimore Banner
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Hogan adds $127M to expand broadband access in rural Md.
July 11, 2022 -

A grant program aimed at increasing access to high-speed internet is already reaping benefits, according to Gov. Larry Hogan. Hogan made the pronouncement Friday during a news conference in Harford County to promote $127 million in initial state grants aimed at expanding broadband. Those grants will go to 21 of the state’s 24 major political subdivisions including rural areas on the Eastern Shore and western panhandle as well as urban areas such as Baltimore. “Our goal is to ensure universal broadband to every single person in every single corner of the state of Maryland,” Hogan said during the first of a 10-stop day trip to Harford County.

 

Read More: The Daily Record
Baltimore County state’s attorney primary a choice about what kind of crime should be prosecuted
July 11, 2022 -

For 15 years, Baltimore County has been satisfied with their self-proclaimed tough-on-crime prosecutor, State’s Attorney Scott Shellenberger. But a former public defender believes the county is ready to embrace the progressive approach toward crime and punishment seen elsewhere in the country and has launched the first primary challenge against the Democratic incumbent since he was first elected in 2006. Private attorney and longtime Democratic politico Robbie Leonard, 40, has mounted an aggressive campaign against Shellenberger for his handling of low-level crimes, sex offenses and allegations of police misconduct.

Read More: The Baltimore Banner
Maryland’s 4th Congressional District primary features influential Prince George’s Democrats
July 11, 2022 -

This isn’t their first rodeo. Both Donna Edwards and Glenn Ivey, each Prince George’s County heavyweights, have led their share of Maryland political campaigns, even squaring off against each other once before. Edwards, who represented the 4th District from 2008-2017 as Maryland’s first Black congresswoman, also ran for a U.S. Senate seat in a nationally watched race in 2016 and bid unsuccessfully for Prince George’s County executive two years later. Ivey, who served as Prince George’s top prosecutor for nearly a decade, contemplated running against Edwards for her House seat back in 2009, and got into the race against her a few years later, dropping out several months before the 2012 primary.

Read More: The Baltimore Banner
Wes Moore Leads Democratic Governor Candidates in Fundraising; Schulz Tops Cox in Republican Contest
July 11, 2022 -

Democrat Wes Moore led gubernatorial candidates in fundraising during the waning weeks of the 2022 campaign. Between June 8 and July 3, Moore and running mate Aruna Miller, a former state delegate from Montgomery County, raised $576,054. The campaign spent about $1.9 million in the same time period, also the most among all candidates for governor. For the final weeks of the campaign, Moore and Miller also retain the most cash on hand across three campaign accounts: $809,659. Republican Kelly Schulz and her running mate, Jeff Woolford, both veterans of the Hogan administration, retain the second largest bank balance: $733,596.

 

Read More: Maryland Matters
Democrats running for Maryland attorney general argue their experience is more relevant for the job
July 11, 2022 -

On their campaign websites for Maryland attorney general, Anthony Brown and Katie Curran O’Malley both list addressing gun violence as one of their priorities. They both vow to defend reproductive rights and protect and expand voting rights. And they both back the legalization of marijuana. Brown, who’s represented Maryland’s 4th Congressional District that includes parts of Anne Arundel and Prince George’s counties since 2017, and O’Malley, who most recently served as an associate judge on the District Court of Maryland in Baltimore from 2001-2021, share another connection as they seek the Democratic nomination. For eight years, Brown served as lieutenant governor under former Gov. Martin O’Malley, Katie Curran O’Malley’s husband.

Read More: The Baltimore Banner
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Maryland governor candidates spend millions on ads as primary voters start casting ballots
July 11, 2022 -

Maryland’s candidates for governor, doing everything in their power to reach undecided voters in a heated primary season, combined to spend more than $5.3 million in new television, radio and online advertisements in the weeks leading up to early voting, new campaign finance reports show. Both the Democratic and Republican nominating contests to replace outgoing Republican Gov. Larry Hogan are coming down to the wire. One week of early voting began Thursday, and more than 90,000 voters had turned in mail-in ballots as of Friday.

Read More: Baltimore Sun
Maryland attorney general primary: O’Malley, Brown spar over legal experience in new ‘dark money’ TV ad
July 8, 2022 -

Political animosity between U.S. Rep. Anthony Brown and retired judge Katie Curran O’Malley reached a new level Thursday with O’Malley calling Brown a hypocrite over a new TV attack ad airing in the state. The ad, from VoteVets Political Action Committee, accuses O’Malley of dismissing Brown’s experience as a lawyer. VoteVets is a political PAC supporting progressive candidates with military experience. “Anthony’s Brown’s new dark money attack ad trying to shame me for telling the truth is the ultimate hypocrisy,” O’Malley told The Baltimore Sun.

Read More: Baltimore Sun
In Md., GOP governor’s primary sometimes seems like it’s Hogan versus Trump
July 8, 2022 -

A week before the start of early voting, Maryland Republican gubernatorial hopeful Kelly Schulz was looking for a knockout blow in her race against primary foe Dan Cox. A television ad paid for by Democrats highlighting Cox’s connection to President Donald J. Trump seemed the perfect cudgel for the former head of a state agency and Gov. Larry Hogan’s pick as his successor. A portion of Lawyers Mall between the State House and the house she hoped voters would elect her to live in seemed the perfect venue.

Read More: The Daily Record

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