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Rally at Maryland Capitol 2/22 - Free Speech for People, Not Corporations!

Submitted by davidswanson on February 19, 2010 - 11:27am

Free Speech for People, Not Corporations!
RALLY to Take Back Democracy!
Lawyer’s Mall, Annapolis (near Church Circle)
Monday, Feb. 22nd, 2010   6 - 7 PM

Marylanders are responding to the shocking new Supreme Court ruling that corporations, for the first time, can spend unlimited funds to influence any local, state or federal political campaign, a ruling the state Senate president called "offensive" and "devastating to democracy."  Incredibly, the ruling establishes that corporations are like “people,” protected by the constitution to spend unlimited sums to sway political campaigns as if this were “free speech.”

Democracy should be about actual votes by actual citizens.  Now, any legislator who stands up to corporations like Exxon, United Health Care, Goldman Sachs, or Philip Morris can expect a challenger in the next election financed with hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars.

a little reading before and after June 25 torture accountability rallies

Submitted by jon4061 on June 24, 2009 - 9:31pm

A little reading before the rally in Wash DC 11am John Marshall Park 501 PA ave, NW (next to Canada Embassy). Tabling beginning at 9am continuing after 12pm. March to Justice Dept 12 noon.

I first heard Repub talking points against transferring GuantanamoJTF camp x-ray terror suspects to USA prisons in a May 9, 2009 weekly radio response to one of Pres Obama's weekly radio addresses. c-span.org does archive weekly Pres addresses and opposing party responses.  Can also watch at youtube.com/watch?v=pqtDIEH_Jpo .

 

Impeachment Committee MD 1st District

Submitted by will8c on November 11, 2007 - 4:43pm

Anyone interested in forming am impeachment committee for Maryland District 1 (Wayne Gilchrist's district)?

    Thanks

Group plans 'Honk to Impeach Bush, Cheney' demonstration

Submitted by BBinMD on July 26, 2007 - 9:01am

 Carroll County Times - July 26, 2007 - By Heather Cobun

http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/articles/2007/07/26/news/local_news/newsstory5.txt 

Voting machines

Submitted by granny6x on January 15, 2007 - 7:55am

Maryland faces two choices this session. Purchasing new touch screens with printers added, or purchasing optical scan machines to count voter filled out paper ballots.
The touch screen (at 5 to 8 times the cost) machines
produce continuous rolls of thermally-printed paper. They are difficult to
load, difficult to handle after they are removed from the machines and
extremely difficult to read and tally. They bear almost no relationship to
the ordinary individual paper ballots of the past.

All of us need to understand this distinction, because there's a strong
likelihood that the State Administrator of Elections (probably supported by

Is Bob Ehrlich running to be mayor of Baltimore?

Submitted by maddlizz on October 15, 2006 - 11:21am

Governor Bob Ehrlich has been mainly an obstructionist Governor. The only real progress in the State of Maryland has been push through by the Democratic Legislature. In the O'Malley versus Ehrlich debates, Ehrlich could point to no accompolishments he initiated as Governor. Ehrlich focused on attacking Baltimore MD as if it was a part of another country. You would have thought he was running for the position of Mayor of Baltimore. His whole negative line of attack on the people living in Baltimore was disgusting. He may have thought that he was hurting O'Malley but he was only hurt himself by