Bob Ehrlich: Maryland's most corrupt governor since Spiro Agnew

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Monday September 13, 2010 · 1:33 AM PDT

2010/09/13 · 01:33

Two months before Election Day, a high profile Democratic state senator gets indicted, and Bob Ehrlich strangely sits on his hands, just like he did last January when Baltimore’s Democratic mayor, Sheila Dixon, took a plea and resigned.

This is a striking contrast with his first gubernatorial race, when Mr. Ehrlich campaigned hard against what he called, "a culture of corruption," never mentioning that the principal culprits were two lobbyist friends of his. This year Mr. Ehrlich is too busy blaming Gov. O’Malley for the global recession caused by eight years of Republicans gone wild to talk about corruption, or for that matter, his record of raising taxes by $3 billion and proposing the largest annual spending increase in Maryland history.

But the real reason Bob Ehrlich will not dare to mention corruption this year is that he knows doing so will invite exposure of his own record, revealing that...

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Wednesday August 11, 2010 · 7:51 AM PDT

2010/08/11 · 07:51

Pretend for a minute that you’re a national Republican party icon and you want to help a political newcomer win your party’s gubernatorial primary in one of the most liberal states in the country against a former Republican governor who raised taxes and proposed the largest annual spending increase in that state’s history.

Keep in mind that the largest voting bloc in that state’s Republican primary is in one of the country’s most liberal counties, which elected the pro-choice and pro-gun control but fiscally conservative Connie Morella to Congress eight times.

When you dramatically endorse this political newcomer on your facebook page, would you.......

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Tuesday August 03, 2010 · 9:57 AM PDT

2010/08/03 · 09:57

As Bob Ehrlich circles the state making empty promises to business owners and shooting "man on the street" videos with GOP ringers not disclosing their ties to his campaign, the truth is never far behind....

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Thursday July 29, 2010 · 9:06 PM PDT

2010/07/29 · 21:06

Last week’s Maryland court of appeals decision placing the Arundel Mills slots question on this November’s ballot forced Bob Ehrlich to hide from the truth about his lobbying activity once again.

He told the Washington Post’s John Wagner that he and his staff didn’t "lobby" for the Cordish Cos. on slots, but he won’t say whether or not he and his staff attended meetings or communicated with elected or appointed government officials on behalf of the Cordish Cos., otherwise known as lobbying.

Mr. Ehrlich blew his credibility earlier when he and his operator in chief, David Hamilton, told the Washington Post and the Baltimore Sun that no one from their firm’s office ever registered to lobby. Ha!.....

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Wednesday July 07, 2010 · 10:27 PM PDT

2010/07/07 · 22:27

Magellan Strategies, the firm behind the “poll” claiming Bob Ehrlich leads Gov. O’Malley, is not a legitimate pollster. In fact, they're not pollsters at all.

Instead, they're a Republican consulting firm on the payroll of the Republican National Committee and Americans for Prosperity that publishes polls tailor made to boost Republican candidates. Their tagline is,“Magellan Strategies Helping Republicans Win Elections.”

In this case, they're supporting a campaign theme that Team Ehrlich has been pushing for a few weeks--overstating Ehrlich's numbers to bolster fundraising, scare the opposition, and distract attention from Mr. Ehrlich’s running mate...

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Thursday June 17, 2010 · 7:10 PM PDT

2010/06/17 · 19:10

Allow me to shed some light on the running dispute between Bob Ehrlich and my friends at the Maryland Democratic Party over whether or not Bob Ehrlich is a lobbyist. Mr. Ehrlich says he's not a lobbyist because he hasn't registered as one, but as you'll see below, you don't have to register as a lobbyist to be a lobbyist.

Mr. Ehrlich blew his credibility on the question when he lied to the Baltimore Sun. In April, the Sun's Julie Bykowicz reported,

"Ehrlich is not registered as a lobbyist at the state or federal levels, however, and said he does not meet with his former colleagues in Congress or the State House to push legislation. None of the 21 other employees in Womble's Baltimore office lobbies either, he said [my bold].

But he wasn't telling the truth....

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Tuesday June 15, 2010 · 3:27 AM PDT

2010/06/15 · 03:27

Ehrlich & Md GOP need to return $144,000 from convicted felon

If you think Bob Ehrlich doesn’t listen to Maryland Democrats, you’re wrong: In 2006, when the Maryland Democrats asked Bob Ehrlich to return $16,000 contributed to his campaign by disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, Mr. Ehrlich honored their request the very next day.

Today we’re going to find out if Mr. Ehrlich only returns felons’ dirty money when he’s flush with cash and it’s not enough money to hurt his campaign, because yesterday the Maryland Democrats asked Mr. Ehrlich to return the $60,000 of stolen money that convicted felon Alan Fabian contributed to Mr. Ehrlich’s campaign. The Maryland Democrats also asked the Maryland Republican party to return $84,500 contributed by Mr. Fabian, who is presently serving 9 years in federal prison for stealing $40 million from businesses in a computer sale-leaseback scheme.

Why do contributions from Mr. Ehrlich’s last campaign matter today, and why should he return them?

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Monday June 07, 2010 · 9:06 AM PDT

2010/06/07 · 09:06

Today Bob Ehrlich unveiled a package of campaign promises to business owners, and once again his record contradicts his rhetoric.

Start with his dismal record on businesses leaving Maryland, downsizing, failing, and choosing neighboring states when he was governor, then see...

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Thursday June 03, 2010 · 2:31 AM PDT

2010/06/03 · 02:31

Yesterday’s arrest of a former Florida GOP chairman charged with stealing $125,000 from his party’s coffers should revive interest in an unfinished story here in Maryland. The Florida GOP chairman was indicted for paying party funds to a bogus company that allegedly didn’t do any work.

If that doesn’t sound familiar, you may have missed a report last year from WBAL-TV’s Jayne Miller uncovering $417,000 in payments from campaign accounts controlled by Bob Ehrlich and Michael Steele to Allied Berton LLC, an inactive company owned by Washington lawyer Sandy Roberts, a friend and confidant of Michael Steele who never claimed to be in any kind of campaign services business. Mr. Roberts’s website depicted his firm as a commodities trader, and no other campaign ever reported any payments to Allied Berton.

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Sunday May 09, 2010 · 9:41 PM PDT

2010/05/09 · 21:41

Bob Ehrlich can’t contain his excitement over Northrop Grumman’s selection of a site in Virginia near the Pentagon instead of a site in Maryland for its new corporate headquarters. Right out of the box he issued a statement blaming his successor, followed by a YouTube video, and in recent appearances he can’t finish a sentence without mentioning it. He must think Northrop Grumman’s choice really boosts his re-election bid because he’s been openly talking about transition teams only three weeks after announcing his candidacy for a race he isn’t going to win.

Before he puts his house on the market, he should check his own record. Whether the issue is raising taxes, the largest spending increase in Maryland history, cronyism or corruption, Bob Ehrlich’s term in office contradicts his 2010 campaign rhetoric, and his latest attack fits the pattern. No matter how much Mr. Ehrlich sounds off today, he can’t hide from the fact that when he was governor, a steady stream of businesses located their headquarters elsewhere, downsized, or shut down.....

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Tuesday April 27, 2010 · 4:37 PM PDT

2010/04/27 · 16:37

Red Maryland's Mark Newgent, a friend of mine on the right who appears more often than any other guest on gubernatorial candidate Bob Ehrlich's weekly radio show, told me I don't post frequently enough to be called a blogger. He has a point, so here's a post fact checking his latest piece that started with this:

Maryland Democrats are having a jolly old time criticizing Bob Ehrlich’s budget record. They slam his FY 2005-2007 budgets proposals for exceeding the limits set by the Spending Affordability Committee, while claiming all four of Governor Martin O’Malley’s budgets came in under SAC limits. While a review of the data easily debunks this clever little Democratic trick [WRONG!], it also reveals a deeper deceit a our politicans to spend beyond the state's means while pretending to be fiscally responsible.

Here's my friend's mistake [warning: boring fiscal minutia]....

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Wednesday March 31, 2010 · 10:06 PM PDT

2010/03/31 · 22:06

justdafacts readers shouldn't be surprised by Daily Caller reporter Jonathan Strong's discovery that Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele considered buying a private jet with money from the party's treasury.

This is the same Michael Steele who, together with his ticketmate Bob Ehrlich, stuck their donors for $417,000 in payments to a friend of Mr. Steele who had never been in any kind of campaign services business. The money was hidden in 28 payments to a defunct commodities trading firm registered to Mr. Steele's friend from four state and federal accounts Mr. Ehrlich and Mr. Steele controlled in the final weeks of their last campaign.

But where did Michael Steele acquire his taste for private charter jet travel?

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