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Steele's Deal

Today, Michael Steele continues his descent into the sticky morass of partisan debt to George Bush and the Republican National Committee. After his campaign stumbled, they fired his staff and are now hand-picking successors. The record of Steele's major fundraisers shows how deeply indebted he is to Bush and his network of right-wing Republican extremists.

* Karl Rove, July 2005: Steele snatched around $75,000 from GOP insiders and lobbyists at an exclusive and secret inside the Beltway fundraiser

* President Bush, November, 2005: Steele brought President Bush to Baltimore and raked in about $500,000. Though a substantial sum, Steele's Presidential take is smaller than Bush has generated for other GOP candidates across the nation

* Andrew Card and Mallory Factor, March 8, 2006: Steele drew an undisclosed amount at a New York event starring President Bush's Chief of Staff Andrew Card. Presidential pal Mallory Factor called "the ATM for Bush's America" by New York magazine, hosted Steele and Card's soiree. Factor spends his free time working with Ken Starr in an effort to overturn the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation and defending tax cuts to the super-wealthy as an antidote to Hurricane Katrina relief

* Marvin Bush and Ed Gillespie, March 13, 2006: Former RNC chair Ed Gillespie and Presidential brother Marvin Bush team up to generate more special interest cash for Steele's campaign

Regulating Ehrlich

Governor Ehrlich once again proves he is a friend of special interests and not Maryland families. With electric bills on the brink of surging more than 50%, Ehrlich has sat back almost waiting for prices to inch further. Worse yet, Ehrlich replaced consumer friendly staff and appointed electricity industry allies to the Public Service Commission- a group which regulates public utilities.

Ehrlich points the blame at the General Assembly for passing the hikes. What he doesn't remember is that every Republican in Annapolis supported deregulation. Ehrlich must also be suffering from a memory loss as he voted 'yes' that same year when the matter came before him while serving in Congress.

The real question is not 'who' brought us into this problem, but whether Ehrlich can govern effectively by placing the people's interests first without being bought out by special interests.

Comcast Networks

First Lady Kendel Ehrlich might not be violating any laws but from an ethical standpoint she is guilty.

Mrs. Ehrlich receives a whopping $55,000 for a part-time gig she hosting a program about substance abuse on Comcast.

Comcast currently deals in million dollar contracts with the state and is regulated by the Public Service Commission.

In 2004 Governor Ehrlich vetoed a bill that would have outlawed a corporate tax shelter in Delaware. The bill would have prevented corporations from shifting their assets to Delaware, a move which would have cost Comcast millions of dollars.

To read more about this please visit: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/politics/bal-md.comcast08mar08,0,4009526.story?coll=bal-local-headlines

As a practicing attorney she should uphold ethical standards and recuse herself from engaging in practices that pose a conflict of interest.

*Letters to the Editor*

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