There’s not much to add to this week’s version of the Election Calendar, so I’ve taken the liberty of placing a little bit of First District election-related news and notable quotes at the tail end of this post.
First the events:
Wednesday, October 17: Frank Kratovil is slated to be the speaker at the Wicomico County Democrat Club meeting, they meet at the Knights of Columbus in Salisbury from 7-8:30 p.m.
Thursday, October 18: It’s still on the Joe Arminio calendar that he’s supposed to be speaking to the Dorchester County Republican Women’s Club up (I would assume) in Cambridge. Yes, that’s all I have on the event.
Thursday, October 25 (tentative): Once again it’s Wayne Gilchrest‘s biweekly turn on WICO-AM 1320 at 7:40 a.m. I suspect host Bill Reddish will change topics this time since most of the conversation last Thursday centered around Gilchrest’s recent Middle East trip. In it, Gilchrest called for a “immense surge of diplomacy” with Iran and Syria but also said that “no one wants to see troops leave the Middle East.”
On the other hand, Reddish’s Friday talk with challenger Andy Harris centered mostly on domestic and state issues. Among the notable quotes:
“Wayne’s a nice guy, but he votes for taxes.”
“The government really shouldn’t be in the healthcare business…SCHIP is about single-payer healthcare (and) the President was right to veto it.”
Andy also vowed to do two other items in the monoblogue playbook: co-sponsor a bill to implement the FairTax and serve no more than 12 years, stating, “if you can’t accomplish what you want (in that time) you should step aside.” Obviously it was a slam at Gilchrest, who’s seeking a tenth Congressional term.
Thus ends this exercise in the killing two birds with one stone department. I’ll certainly have another event to add for next week as the date will fall within the two-week timeframe so readers have that and hopefully much more to look forward to on next week’s calendar.
