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Hogan Comes to Salisbury, Mathias Wins Money Race

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With the election less than two weeks away Republican gubernatorial candidate Larry Hogan made an appearance at the Chesapeake Shipbuilding Corporation in Salisbury yesterday.

His message reflected much of his campaign with criticisms of the O’Malley administration’s tax and regulation policies.

Hogan declared yesterday that Maryland was an anti-business state noting that the state had lost 200-thousand jobs.

The Republican is, of course, running against O’Malley’s Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown.

Hogan boasted that he has visited the Eastern Shore 34 times during the campaign taking a swipe at Brown.  

The race for governor in Maryland has now come down single digits in the public opinion polls.

Mathias Outspends Opponent

If it seems that you’ve seen more television ads from state Senator Jim Mathias’s ads than that of his Republican challenger the answer is money.

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Del. Mike McDermott (R) and Senator Jim Mathias (D)

The Democrat has ten times the cash on hand as opposed to Delegate Mike McDermott in the Senate District 38 race.  

During the last reporting period Mathias had raised over $135-thousand while McDermott raised just over $67-hundred.

By the end of the reporting period the Democrat had over $288-thousand on hand while his Republican challenger had $27-thousand.

And McDermott who decided to leave his District 38B in the House of Delegates to challenge Mathias says that fundraising is his greatest obstacle in seeking to oust the Democrat.

Democratic Voter Hotline

BALTIMORE (AP) - Maryland Democrats are reminding voters of their rights ahead of the Nov. 4 election and have set up a hotline to respond to any problems at the polls.

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The hotline was announced Wednesday by the Maryland Democratic Party, Sen. Ben Cardin and Congressman Elijah Cummings.

Cardin says there've been no major problems of voter suppression in Maryland, which doesn't have a voter identification law. But Cardin says no one knows what could happen this election cycle, and voters need to rest assured that suppression efforts won't be tolerated.

Amanda LaForge, an attorney with the Maryland Democratic Party, says the voter hotline will be staffed by attorneys who will take reports of long lines, voters being turned away, misleading literature, malfunctioning machines and other problems

The hotline is 1-888-678-VOTE.

Don Rush is the News Director at Delmarva Public Media. An award-winning journalist, Don reports major local issues of the day, from sea level rise, to urban development, to the changing demographics of Delmarva.