Annapolis Capital Punishment

At a breakfast meeting in Annapolis today, House Speaker Mike Busch and Senate President Mike Miller spoke to state business leaders about election issues and reform. Over fifty bills are currently being considered in our General Assembly ranging from voter-verified paper records to campaign finance and absentee ballots. The next big--really big issue will be the constitutional referendum allowing early voting which will appear on the 2008 ballot.

According to Miller, some thirty other states allow early voting. Busch noted that despite being such a wealthy state with an educated populace, only about 50% of Maryland’s eligible voters actually register, and about half of those numbers of voters actually vote. CP thinks this is a sad commentary on our political prospects. CP ought to know. CP ran for office.

The meeting was sponsored by The Maryland Prosperity Project(MDP2), a nonpartisan coalition founded in 2006 by a number of Maryland employers and business trade associations to help educate our state’s employers and workers about issues that impact job security, wages and benefits – and ultimately our future prosperity.

MDP2 provides employers and their employees with materials that explain, in a nonpartisan way, the importance of state and federal elections. Materials prepared by MD P2 give employers and employees objective information on candidates, statewide ballot issues, and on public policies that affect job security and the economy – information to consider when they and their family members go to the polls to vote.
Visit MDP2 at www.marylandprosperity.org .