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Can Josh Cohen send out any more mailers??? maybe....this is a long post with a lot of upcoming events listed so...please turn the page


Oh God please make it stop!!! We get the point that all the bigwig Democrats are pulling out all the stops to endorse and campaign with you. Okay. Okay. But please...the junk mail is too much!!! (And it's not in the least bit "green" either....) By the weay, I absolutely loved the way Josh brushed off and joked about Dave Cordle's remark about his college experience 18 years ago at the forum last week. Very funny. I think it was a Lloyd Bentsen moment. Then Dave tried to dig it in again. St. John's President Chris Nelson must have been as amused as was the rest of the audience.



I got a postcard from Dave Cordle showing an elderly couple worried about their property taxes as a way to show how he is the one mayoral candidate supporting a tax cap. True. True indeed but with a tax cap, maybe we should also show how their buses will shut down, trash won't get picked up, home inspections will be stopped, police will be sent home, firefighters will get rusted trucks, water will be turned off and aliens will overrun the border to steal their cheap medications. Okay so you think I am being alarmist? Perhaps. But so is the photo of the worried elderly couple. Of course, how can we expect serious discussion of the tax cap in a postcard? Answer: We cannot. But the point is well taken. Along among the candidates, Cordle supports the tax cap. Beware of the law of unintended consequences.



Lots of signs up....my next door neighbor has two Cordle signs and I don't even think she knows what Ward we live in or the difference between a Kennedy liberal and a Goldwater conservative.  My neighbor across the street has a big Fox sign. At Cohen's old home around the corner, there is now a Cordle sign. Well-that's private property baby! Maybe a Republican used to live in Cohen's current home. Find any old issues of National Review in the cellar? And I have not mentioned about the Hunt Meadow sign situation.


Ward Eight's Rock Toews has created an electronic town hall of sorts and says "Just go to my campaign web site, www.rocktoews.com, and scroll down until you see the Google Groups logo on the right. Enter your email address in the box and click "Subscribe." You will almost immediately receive a confirmation email at that address, whose simple instructions you then follow to complete the process. 

TONIGHT!!!  The Black Chamber of Commerce of Anne Arundel County, Inc. in conjunction with the NAACP, Anne Arundel County Branch will sponsor a Mayoral Forum on Monday, October 26 at Asbury United Methodist Church, 87 West Street, from 7 to 9 PM. All three mayoral candidates will  attend. There will be a paneled question and answer period immediately followed by community participation. Questions may be submitted in writing or asked directly to the candidates.

Tuesday, October 27, The candidates for Mayor of Annapolis will present their views at this meeting to The Anne Arundel County Commission on Disability Issues will meet from 1 to 3 p.m. Oct. 27 in the Heritage Complex, Chesapeake Room, second floor, 2664 Riva Road.

The commission regularly meets on the fourth Tuesday of the month at this location. The next regular commission meeting will be held Nov. 24. For more information, call 410-222-4464.Tuesday, October 27th, West Annapolis/Admiral Heights Mayoral Forum, West Annapolis Elementary School, 7:00 pm

District 30 Democrats--Wednesday, October 28 (the fourth Wednesday of the month) at Asbury United Methodist Church, 87 West Street, Annapolis. Doors open at 6 p.m.; the meeting starts promptly at 6:30 p.m.  Democratic mayoral candidate Josh Cohen will be with us for the start of the meeting, and Speaker Mike Busch and Delegate Virginia Clagett will speak with us.  We'll hear from the mayoral and aldermanic campaigns about the final push before the November 3 election in the City of Annapolis. We look forward to seeing you there.  Meanwhile, please volunteer to help elect our Democratic candidates!....and at the same time, renegade Democratic activist and rabble rouser Chuck Weikel, in  deliberate snub of his own party, is hosting some sort of a fundraiser for candidates Kenny Kirby, Ian Pfeiffer and Mat Silverman at the same time at CastleBay Pub....while I can understand why Kirby would go, I would think the other guys would run in the opposite direction....Silverman, a county policeman, is working that night and did not even know he was being featured at the event. As for Pfeiffer--well he must see some kind of benefit....

Wednesday, Oct 28, 7:00 to 9:00 PM, League of Women Voters and WNAV Mayoral Debate at BayWoods Retirement Community, 7101 Bay Front Drive (off  Edgewood Rd near Port Annapolis Marina)



Thursday, October 29, SIP n" BLOG with DAVE CORDLE at Zu Coffee, Bay Ridge Giant Shopping Center, 8-9 am. PLEASE!!!! Join us for a 60 minute educational tour of Annapolis Transit. Hear first-hand from former Annapolis Transit Marketing Specialist PAUL FOER about what's right--and what's not so right about our bus system. Because of the limited service and scheduling at Bay Ridge (I'll explain later) let us drive with participants back to the Eastport Plaza bus customer shelter by 0930 on Monroe Street and take the Green Route at 9:40, transfer at Spa Road at 10 to the Yellow bus and return to Eastport on the Yellow Route by 10:20 or so.  YOU WON'T BE DISAPPOINTED...


Friday, October 30th, Candidates Breakfast and Live Q and A on 103.1 WRNR, exact time TBD
Tune in to hear the answers to your questions!
  
Friday, October 30th, Truxtun Park Recreation Center Ribbon Cutting Ceremony...our 85,000 square foot "green" building....it's exciting but I have mixed feelings about this for many reasons, but hey--check it out...273 Hilltop Lane...4:30 open facility, 5:30 dedication, 6:30 reception...


LISTEN TO CP Publisher Paul Foer on 1430WNAV at 8:15 every weekday morning.
READ CP Publisher Paul Foer's "The Ninth Ward" every Wednesday in The Capital
JOIN US EACH THURSDAY 8-9 am for our Sip N' Blogs normally at ZU Coffee, 934 Bay Ridge Road in the Giant Shopping Center. Oct 29--Dave Cordle at Zu Coffee. Stop by on your way to work for your morning latte and meet other local activists. Zu now has a drive-through window!