The newest Alliance member
If you had a sharp eye this afternoon or evening, you’d have noticed a new box on the left hand side of monoblogue with a Maryland flag up top. Yesterday I learned that I’m now the seventh and newest member of the Maryland Bloggers Alliance. I was invited by David of the Soccer Dad blog. He’s an occasional commenter here on monoblogue as I am on his blog.
So there’s a chance that I’m welcoming a few new readers from the other blogs in the Alliance (only my site counter knows for sure!) My blog is a little bit of a departure from theirs. Although we all generally have a conservative viewpoint, I think my blog is focused a little less on policy and more on process. My emphasis of late has been to get voters in the Eastern Shore area to inform themselves on those who seek their vote this fall. To that end, I’ve started two continuing features on monoblogue that I think would be good for the others to follow.
The first is called the Ten Questions. Back in early May, I sent a list of 10 questions on a variety of issues that will face them to each of the U.S. Senate candidates in Maryland, as well as Delaware and Virginia. Each Tuesday and Friday, I’m posting one set of answers from a randomly-chosen candidate. The bad news is thus far I’ve only posted answers from one hopeful (Democrat Allan Lichtman) out of the three who have had their turn. I do have three others who have responded but their publication date’s not come up yet. This series will continue through to the primary. In addition, I’m going to do another set of questions on state issues tailored to our state Delegate and Senate candidates in July after the filing period is over. Because of the death of one of our Lower Shore delegates (K. Bennett Bozman) in April, we’ll have an open seat for both parties to contend for. That seat’s now held by former Ocean City mayor Jim Mathias, it’s a question whether any other Democrats will covet the seat and seek to join his fellow Delegate Norm Conway (or a GOP successor) in Annapolis.
Second is a weekly political calendar that I debuted tonight (see below.) This will cover events on the lower shore, plus nearby Sussex County in Delaware. I’d like voters to see these folks and ask them the tough questions.
The second major difference between myself and the rest of the Alliance is simple geography. The rest are Baltimore-area blogs and I’m here on the Eastern Shore. We have a little different opinion on the shenanigans of the big city here, but we have our share of those urban problems, particularly gangs and drugs. There’s a thriving blogosphere here too, several are linked from my site.
Again, I’d like to welcome readers of my fellow Alliance blogs to monoblogue. And to my adoring fans here on the Eastern Shore, please partake in reading my fellow MBA cohorts.
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Well I’ve already found your blog to be useful. I had completely forgotten that Attorney General was an elected position, so now I’ve got to go back and update my blog to list the candidates for it. Keep up the good work!
Welcome to the Maryland Blogger Alliance! We’re beginning to extend to the edges of the state.