Four Ron Paul Republican's win Congressional Primaries in Maryland

[tekkierich]

I am pleased to report that we have four Ron Paul Republicans who will be running the general election in Maryland. This is four of eight districts.

District 2 - Richard Matthews - http://www.richardmatthews.org
District 4 - Peter James - http://peterjames08.com/
District 5 - Collins Baliey - http://www.baileyforuscongress.com/
District 7 - Mike Hargadon - http://hargadonforuscongress.com/

[tommyzDad]

All right!! Great job, guys!

[WilliamC]

This is how the rEVOLution grows....

FANTASTIC!

[brandon]

wow, awesome! Good luck. Let us pa guys know if you need any help canvassing

[Dustancostine]

Great Job,

I lived in Annapolis in 2005. It was nice.

--Dustan

[jlizgar]

Awesome Awesome news!
Did Jay Roberts in district 8 not win ?

[Bradley in DC]

Great news! What are the chances for any of them? I know MD is pretty Democratic.

[Mystile]

nice! this has a lot of potential!

[weslinder]

This is awesome. This is how we take back the government, one Congressional District at a time.

[robmpreston]

Now we just have to beat the democrats :|

[Mystile]

Now we just have to beat the democrats :|

that could be difficult :eek:

[zadrock]

Great news! What are the chances for any of them? I know MD is pretty Democratic.

First impression is that James has the best shot because he's not facing an incumbent. Al Wynn lost the primary to challenger Donna Edwards, so District 4 will get a new rep either way.

The other three opponents - Elijah Cummings, Dutch Ruppersberger, and Steny Hoyer - are pretty well known and will be well funded. Hoyer is House Majority Leader and Cummings is in his 10th term in what used to be Kweisi Mfume's district. Dutch is the least experienced of the group, running for his fourth term.

Just looking at the primary numbers gives a pretty good indication of the D/R split here. Cummings got 91000 votes, Hargadon got almost 10000. Hoyer got 64000 votes, Bailey got 11000. We're going to have to make serious inroads in the Democratic community. And if McCain is the nominee, we're also going to have to a good GOTV for Republicans, especially those who think about staying home.

Hopefully with four RP Republicans in a geographically small state, we can RP himself here a few times to campaign, maybe with all four candidates together.

Z

[zadrock]

Hey, Elijah Cummings is on TV (CNN). He's grilling Roger Clemens. Great use of his time and taxpayer money.

Z

[jumpyg1258]

Al Wynn lost the primary to challenger Donna Edwards, so District 4 will get a new rep either way.

I got to vote in district 4 and the only people handing out literature at my voting place were Edwards people, no one that was supporting a pres candidate was there and no one that was supporting anyone else was there for that matter. Im so glad though that Wynn lost the primary, I could not stand that douchebag.

[jumpyg1258]

BTW where can I find detailed results of the vote yesterday? I looked at mdgop.com and couldnt find anything!

[NinjaPirate]

Great job! Keep going! :D

[klamath]

James, doesn't quite sound like a RP republican. It sounds like he is supporting the Iraq war?

[Bern]

W00t!

[life_boy]

BTW where can I find detailed results of the vote yesterday? I looked at mdgop.com and couldnt find anything!

The Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/elections/2008/general_md.html#congressional)

[Richie]

BTW where can I find detailed results of the vote yesterday? I looked at mdgop.com and couldnt find anything!

http://www.electionsmaryland.com/

[tangent4ronpaul]

Great news! What are the chances for any of them? I know MD is pretty Democratic.

Slim to none. Dem to Repub votes were like a 10:1 ratio...

-n

[tangent4ronpaul]

Hopefully with four RP Republicans in a geographically small state, we can RP himself here a few times to campaign, maybe with all four candidates together.

Z

Would be nice, but we've tried several times and the only time he's been here is for the debate. No rally, just the debate.

-n

[TastyWheat]

Finally, some good news.

[AFM]

Awesome Awesome news!
Did Jay Roberts in district 8 not win ?

I voted for him but I guess he lost.
Van Hollen is VERY popular here. His kids go to school here.

[Margo37]

This is just for Talbot County, not sure where to find the others, took forever to find this:

http://www.talbotcountymd.gov/uploads/File/Electionboard/2008/1-5.pdf

[life_boy]

Good work, guys. Congratulations Collins, Richard, Peter and Mike. Now the challenge of facing the Democratic opponents. Get organized and get out there! For all of us who are patting these guys on the back for winning their primaries, we should donate to their campaigns. DONATE!!! They are fighting uphill battles against some major opponents and won't have a shot with $2,000 of their own money in the bank.

Also, each of the candidates should look at getting associated with the Republican Liberty Caucus (http://www.rlc.org/). Could be helpful.

And for anyone with basic web-designing skills, would you be so kind as to donate a few hours to design Peter James a decent website. I'm sorry, but what he's got is not the introduction to a Congressional candidate that is going to win him any voters.

[tajitj]

I found this at ronpaulforum.com

How about the growing field of Ron Paul Congressional candidates.

I won Maryland's 4th district primary and the incumbent lost the democratic primary. So I have an open seat in November.

It gets better.

The incumbent decided to leave office early so now I have a special election. As week speak the governor is asking the state legislature to change the election law to get rid of the special primary and just have a special general election to fill the vacant seat in as little as six weeks.

The was just a special election last week in my district to fill a county council seat and there was very low turnout(less than 8%). THis means I may be able to take office and join Ron Paul in Washington with as little as 15,000 votes.

check me out www.peterjames08.com

Please send checks, I need a donation widget and website designer and other help too. We are starting an alternative currency and weekly local paper thet we hope will become a national model for winning seats for Liberty candidates.

Peter James
301 916-5722

[specialkornflake]

I found this on the ronpaulforum.com as well.

"I just won my Congressional primary in Maryland's District 4. We have 4 Ron Paul candidates running in the general out of 8 Congressional seats.

If we can raise significant funds. We could make history and get Congress to sit up and take notice. I am the only Maryland primary winner not running against an incumbant.

I got 39% in a four way race. I would have gotten 60% to 75% if I didn't have to split votes with these "RP" candidates.

I had one declared Ron Paul opponent who had no contributions to the Ron Paul campaign listed on the FEC web site and he favored national helathcare among other big government proposals. He didn't even live in our district. He did however, publicly declare his support for Ron Paul but was far afield from Ron Paul on big government issues.

The fellow who came in second was a Ron Paul candidate on this site and others as he took several thousand in Ron Paul supporters donations while he was an organizer for Fred Thompson and a Thompson delegate. He is still listed on libertycongress.com. neither of these two opponents believes we should abolish the fed. In the end he said he voted for Ron paul, and I actually believe him.

www.libertycongress.org still has all three of us listed under a B rating(still don't know what criteria was used).

Please be more discerning when indentifying a Ron Paul candidate.

My web site is at www.peterjames08.com so you can check out were I stand on the issues.

I am running against a "progressive" (that's code for socialist) democrat Donna Edwards who is funded from by the ultra liberal billionare's club. read her FEC report and do a little digging. You will find several banking family trust fund babies, and banking families like the Rockerfellers, Lehmans, Carnegies, as well as other wall street investment bankers and their foundation fronts. Edwards rode in on the $3.5M "money train" to dislodge the moderate liberal incumbant. Most of her money came from NY and west coast liberal like Barbra Striesan.

One of her wealth contributors runs a non profit to fight "wealthism" http://inheritance-project.com/relate/intro07.php .

My district is predominantly African American and one of the most affluent minority district in the country but this really means middle class not wealthy by any means.

Ron Paul needs funds now for his Congressional race. but if you have maxed out on both his campaigns, please send me something.

Peter James
make check payable to:
Peter James for Congress
12700 Found Stone Road #105
Germantown, MD 20876"

http://ronpaulforum.com/showpost.php?p=325836&postcount=22

Posted on February 19th.