Good morning & welcome to the Thurs./Fri. edition of #NotableMarylandBills. We've got a decent amount of bills from yesterday to cover & honestly not a bad amount for today so let's get going...
The Democratic Central Committees for Wicomico and Worcester Counties just designated a candidate to HD-38C, meaning that Dems now officially have a candidate for every House of Delegates seat, the first time since at least 1982.
How @jamestalarico.bsky.social and his team made history last night! Iβm so proud of our team!
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Mount Aetna, Maryland
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Here are 4 districts the TX GOP gerrymandered to gain seats in November, with the Dem and GOP primary vote. Dems outvoted GOPs in every one of them.
Good afternoon & welcome to another week of #NotableMarylandBills! The Senate's actually got a (*relatively*) manageable docket today, the House not so much. Guess which chamber we're starting with?
Del. Susan McComas (R-Harford) has withdrawn, leaving open a Trump+10 in '24 and Trump+8 in '20 district. Potentially competitive in a strong Dem year.
Netanyahu to the U.S. Congress, 2002: "If you take out Saddam, Saddam's regime, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region."
On the state legislative side, 16 Senators and 17 Delegates have no primary or general election opponents. All of these races weren't expected to be competitive in the general with 1 exception: Delegate Heather Bagnall in HD-33C, who won in 2022 by only 8%.
Attorney General Anthony Brown will not have an opponent in the primary or the general election. The last time a statewide office was uncontested was in 2010, when Attorney General Doug Gansler won re-election unopposed.
Speaker Emerita Adrienne Jones (D-Baltimore Co) is retiring, after missing most of the legislative session due to health issues. marylandmatters.org/2026/02/25/p...
Side note: Party Central Committees have until Monday to appoint candidates for offices where there are vacancies.
Case in point: Dorchester County State's Attorney, where neither party currently has a filed candidate.
For the 5-member Washington County Board of Commissioners, 8 Democrats have filed, the most since 2006.
Good morning and welcome to candidate filing day in Maryland. All candidates running in partisan primaries must file before 9pm EST today.
Delegate Nicole Williams (D-Greenbelt) is in for #MD05. www.nicoleawilliams.com
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Trump withdrawing his endorsement from Jeff Hurd, the Republican who won the competitive district in Colorado abandoned by Lauren Boebert, and backing a primary opponent. This comes after Hurd voted against Trump's tariffs on Canada
State Senator Arthur Ellis (D-Charles) has filed to run for #MD05. www.elections.maryland.gov/elections/20...
BREAKING: The Thames Valley Police say Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested on suspicion of public misconduct while in office. Officials say they're βassessingβ reports that the former prince sent trade reports to Jeffrey Epstein in 2010. bit.ly/4aHDsxs
Jesse Jackson, whose impassioned oratory and vision of a βrainbow coalitionβ of the poor and forgotten made him the nation's most influential Black figure in the years between the civil rights crusades of Martin Luther King Jr. and the election of Barack Obama, died on Tuesday at 84. Follow live.
I was today years old when I realized how much I enjoyed watching winter olympics.
A wide majority, 70%, of likely Maryland Democratic voters support and want a vote on the redistricting bill Senate President Bill Ferguson is blocking
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Charles County Commissioner President Reuben Collins has filed to run for MD-05.
Convenient timing.
I spent some time in Southwest Virginia, talking to people in a county that gave Trump his biggest primary victory in 2016 but which is now getting crushed by his 2nd administration. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Proud to be from Howard County today.
From NYT Politics:
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TRIGGER WARNING, because here is a US Marshal from Trumpβs Gestapo Force in Memphis kicking a puppy today in the Whitehaven neighborhood and breaking its rib. They were serving a warrant and I guess BIG MAN got scared of the schnauzer.
(I didnβt take the video, the dogβs person did)οΏΌ
While the political world waits for a winner Progressive
@analiliafornj.bsky.social leads in the Contest to replace Gov Mikie Sherrill by 0.8% over former Congressman Tom Malinowski β with a Divided field of former LG Tahesha Way, Essex Commissioner Brendan Gill, & others taking the rest
Interesting candidate for #FL13 - retired Brigadier General Leela Gray. Continues a trend I'm noticing of Democratic candidates who don't sound like traditional Democrats.
