Steele Loss

[OnBackground]

Josh Kurtz has a profile of Mike Steele that highlights his <a href="http://www.rollcall.com/issues/50_138/players/9843-1.html">losing race</a> for state comptroller just a few years ago.

<blockquote>Yet it wasn’t so long ago that Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele (R) couldn’t beat a couple of nobodies named Larry Epstein and Timothy Mayberry in a Republican primary for state comptroller.

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So just hours before the filing deadline, Steele, and a whole host of others, jumped into the comptroller’s race. Steele ran with the endorsement of Ellen Sauerbrey, the 1994 Republican nominee for governor who was the favorite for the GOP nomination that year as well.

---snip---

Steele did lose, finishing third in the crowded primary, with 21 percent of the vote. </blockquote>

[Frances]

1. I just read in the Baltimore Sun

that the Baltimore Police Union has endorsed Steele for Senator. What's up with that?

Also the article said that Ehrlich's grandfather was a Baltimore police officer and that the union is pro-Ehrlich but has not given him a formal endorsement.

I hated reading that the Baltimore police union is so Republican.

[Romulus]

2. law enforcement is a right-wing frat

Based on my observations as a former admin-type at a Fed agency, from what various unions put out in press releases, and lastly, from what my wing-nut police officer family members tell me . . .

[Sasha Undercover]

3. Mr. Steele walked in the July 4th parade

in Takoma Park today.

He was booed.

[nickshepDEM]

4. Ehrlich received a cold reception at the Dundalk parade too...

This shocked the hell out of me. Dundalk is like Ehrlich's second home.

[DaveinMD]

5. that is shocking

though Dundalk may be one of those places that would boo any politician.

[nickshepDEM]

6. Why do you say that?

[DaveinMD]

7. just conjecture

Ehrlich gets a lot of votes out of Dundalk. The blue collar base there hates most politicians.

[nickshepDEM]

8. Yeah, I know what you mean.

Dundalk must be a very hard place to please from a Politicans point of view. The ideal candidate would be a Socially Conservative/Economically Liberal candidate.

[DaveinMD]

9. Bob Casey

would do well there.