This is a new feature of the Wicomico County Elections 2010 Examiner: a look at political events coming up in and around Wicomico County.
These either feature political candidates whose district or jurisdiction lies in Wicomico County or regional/statewide candidates who schedule events in Wicomico County. For the first few weeks it will also highlight those who have newly filed for county or state office during the last week.
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There was little doubt that he would seek yet another term in the General Assembly, but longtime Delegate Norm Conway made it official Tuesday by filing for re-election.
The 68-year-old Wicomico resident is the first to file on the Democratic side as he seeks a seventh term in the House of Delegates. Last week Republican Mike McDermott, mayor of Pocomoke City in Worcester County, filed his papers as a candidate for the district, which covers all of Worcester County and roughly the eastern half of Wicomico. (While Conway has a website, it looks like it’s not been updated to reflect this news.)
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With the third in a continuing series of radio spots (playing in selected markets, I’m told WQMR-FM out of Ocean City is carrying the commercials,) U.S. Senate candidate Eric Wargotz looks at health care.
While the cutest line in the 60-second spot is, “Washington’s plan is about mandates and consequences, imposed by 16,000 new IRS agents. And the Internal Revenue Service is not known for having a compassionate bedside manner,” Wargotz stays with the fairly standard Republican and conservative prescriptions for change: medical savings accounts, the opening up of the insurance market by allowing sale of policies across state lines, policy portability and tort reform.
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With his entry into the County Executive race, GOP hopeful Joe Ollinger outlined his platform planks for this election.
The 64-year-old retired businessman, who moved to Salisbury to begin a computer services company in 1984 and sold it six years ago, provided details to several of his priorities should he be elected in November.
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I’m reserving the right to comment on specific planks because two are very interesting. But the Examiner page prefers I keep those posts strictly by the book so I’ll let this stub sink in first before returning to the subject.
I’m also told his website, joeollinger.com, will be online soon. It’s still under construction as of this writing.
This is the first in an occasional series talking about the media usage of local and statewide candidates.
While I haven’t heard these spots on a local station yet, the Senate campaign of Eric Wargotz just released the second of a series of radio spots intended for talk radio stations around the state.
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