Maryland politics

9/01/02

By MARK POWELL

Maryland’s Ag Fund — a political action committee affiliated with Maryland Farm Bureau issued — its first ever endorsements last week.
A committee of 12 board members, half Democrats, half Republicans, met in Randallstown, Aug. 26 to hammer out a list of agricultural-friendly political candidates for the Maryland House of Delagates and the State Senate.
Kent County farmer Pat Langenfelder said the group “wanted to support and endorse candidates who are supportive of agriculture.” The group relied on county Farm Bureau committees in many cases. She said the group looked at the voting records of incumbants on issues of importance to the farming community in making the picks.
The group did not yet endorse a candidate for governor. However, counties are being polled and a gubernatorial endorsement may follow.
The agriculture fund was created in 1999, making this the first opportunity the fund has had to endorse candidates.
“We looked at a whole spectrum of issues,” Langenfelder. “No single issue dominated.”
She also said in some races, picks weren’t made when the committee wasn’t comfortable choosing.
Here are the endorsements:
State Senate
District 1— John Hafer (R-Frostburg)
2 Donald Munson (R- Hagerstown)
4 Timothy Ferguson (R- Taylorsville)
5 Larry Haines (R- Westminster)
7 Andrew Harris (R- Cockeysville)
8 Katherine Klausmeier (D- Perry Hall)
9 Robert Kittleman (R-West Friendship)
13 C. Vernon Gray (D -Columbia)
15 Jean Roesser (R-Potomac)
20 Ida Ruben (D- Silver Spring)
27 Thomas V. Mike Miller (D-Chesapeake Beach)
28 Thomas McLain Middleton (D- Waldorf)
29 Roy Dyson (D-Great Mills)
30 John Astle (D-Annapolis)
32 James DeGrange, Jr. (D-Glen Burnie)
34 Nancy Jacobs (R-Abingdon)
35 Robert Hooper (R-Street)
36 Walter Baker (D-Elkton)
37 Richard Colburn (R-Cambridge)
38 J. Lowell Stoltzfus (R-Crisfield)
39 Patrick J. Hogan (D-Montgomery Village)
42 Martha Klima (R-Lutherville)
Maryland House of Delegates
District1a George Edwards (R- Grantsville)
1b Kevin Kelly (D-Cumberland)
1c Casper Taylor (D-Cumberland)
2a Robert McKee (R-Hagerstown)
2b Christopher Shank (R- Hagerstown)
2c John Donoghue (D-Hagerstown)
4a Paul Stull (R-Walkersville)
4a Louise Snodgrass (R-Middletown)
4b Donald Elliott (R-New Windsor)
5a Carmen Amedori (R-Westminster)
5a Nancy Stockdale (R-Westminster)
6 Joseph Minnick (D-Dundalk)
6 Jake Mohorovic (D-Dundalk)
6 John Arnick (D — Baltimore)
7 Nancy Hubers (D-Essex)
7 Donna Felling (D-Glen Arm)
7 J.B. Jennings (R-Phoenix)
8 Alfred Redmer (R-Baltimore)
8 Eric Bromwell (D-Parkville)
9a Gail Bates (R-West Friendship)
9a Robert Flanagan (R-Ellicott City)
9b Larry Helminiak (R-Sykesville)
10 Emmett Burns (D-Baltimore)
10 Adrienne Jones (D-Woodstock)
10 Shirley Nathan-Pulliam (D-Baltimore)
12a James Malone (D-Arbutus)
13 Shane Pendergrass (D-Columbia)
13 Frank Turner (D-Columbia)
14 Michael Kelley (D-Olney)
15 Jean Cryor (R-Potomac)
15 Brian Feldman (D-Potomac)
15 John Young (D-Potomac)
16 Marilyn Goldwater (D-Bethesda)
17 Michael Gordon (D-Rockville)
18 John Hurson (D- Chevy Chase)
19 Carol Stoker Petzold (D-Rockville)
20 Sheila Hixson (D-Silver Spring)
22 Anne Healey (D-Hyattsville)
22 Tawanna Gaines (D-Berwyn Heights)
25 Dereck Davis (D-Upper Malboro)
26 Obie Patterson (D-Ft. Washington)
27a Joseph Vallario (D-Upper Malboro)
27a James Proctor (D-Brandywine)
27b George Owings (D-Owings)
28 Tim Hutchins (R-LaPlata)
28 Van T. Mitchell (D-LaPlata)
28 Gary Hodge (D-White Plains)
29a John F. Wood, Jr. (D- Mechanicsville)
29b John Bohanan (D-California)
29c Anthony O’Donnell (R-Lusby)
30 Virginia Clagett (D-West River)
30 Richard DíAmato (D-Annapolis)
30 Michael Busch (D-Annapolis)
31 John Leopold (R-Pasadena)
31 Joan Cadden (D-Brooklyn Park)
32 James Rzepkowski (R-Glen Burnie)
32 Theodore Sophocleus (D-Annapolis)
32 Mary Ann Love (D-Glen Burnie)
33a David Boschert (R-Annapolis)
33a Elizabeth Vicky Overbeck (R- Gambrills)
33b Larry Myers (R -Tracy’s Landing)
34a Mary-Dulany James (D-Havre de Grace)
34a Charles Boutin (R-Aberdeen)
34a Daniel Riley (D-Edgewood)
34b David Rudolph (D-Rising Sun)
35a Barry Glassman (R-Churchville)
35a Joanne Parrott (R-Fallston)
36 Wheeler Baker (D-Chester)
36 Mary Roe Walkup (R- Chestertown)
36 James Crouse (D-Elkton)
37a Doug Scott (R-Hurlock)
37b Addie Eckardt (R-Cambridge)
37b Kenneth Schisler (R-Bozman)
38a Charles McClenahan (R- Crisfield)
38b Bennett Bozman (D-Berlin)
38b Norman Conway (D-Salisbury)
39 Joan Stern (D-Montgomery Village)
40 Salima Marriott (D-Baltimore)
40 Howard Pete Rawlings (D- Baltimore)
40 Tony Fulton (D-Baltimore)
41 Wendell Phillips (D-Baltimore)
42 Emil B. Pielke (R-Timonium)
42 Walter R. Hayes (R-Baltimore)
42 William Frank (R-Lutherville)
43 Michael Dobson (D-Baltimore)
43 Kenneth Montague (D-Baltimore)
43 Maggie McIntosh (D — Baltimore)
44 Jeffrey Paige (D — Baltimore)
44 Ruth Kirk (D — Baltimore)
45 Hattie Harrison (D — Baltimore)
46 William Cole (D — Baltimore)
46 Carolyn Krysiak (D — Baltimore)
46 Peter Hammen (D-Baltimore)