Franchot Wins AFL-CIO Backing

Good for Mr. Golden! I assume he's going to be sending a resume to Mr. Franchot any day now.....

I look forward to reading more dismissive quotes from Mr. Golden in the coming months.

It doesn't matter that the unknown Peter Franchot is within points of the legendary William Donald Schaefer. It doesn't matter that he was just endorsed by Progressive Maryland, the AFL-CIO, and SEIU local 1199.

I suppose it won't matter when teachers, enviros, women, and a zillion other groups endorse Franchot.

Except on election day.

It's good to see a progressive candidate doing well and getting an important endorsement. Congrats to Peter Franchot, kudos for Fred Mason and the MD-DC AFL-CIO: GOOD CHOICE!

I assume this will also come with money, volunteers, GOTV that will all propel Mr. Franchot's name recognition across the state. I think this could be important since you are going to have a lot of angry Democrats coming out in primary (angry over Republicans etc) and they will more likely than not support Mr. Franchot, given Mr. Schaefer's outburts and support for the Republican Governor and Former President Bush.

It's amazing, in just a few months Franchot has managed to solidify a huge based of institutional support....kudos!

Well, I think that in a just a few months Schaefer and his asinine behavior has managed to solidify a huge base of support for Franchot.....Thank God!

An endorsement--whoopee!!!

And the delegate has accomplished what in his years in the legislature?

And he's managed how many bureaucracies in his career?

And his knowledge of tax administration has been demonstrated how exactly?

And, Baltimore voter and others, how much influence in Annapolis do you want Montgomery County to have?

Governor Schaefer has accomplished, managed, demonstrated effective leadership in the Comptroller's office, and has been an independent voice in Annapolis.

An endorsement by the AFL-CIO means what? Perhaps the union and Mr. Franchot could team up to write a book entitled, "In Search of Relevance."

Schaefer hasn't accomplished anything except hand the state over to Ehrlich and his cronies....I never thought I'd miss the Glendenning days so much.

Laughable, your name is dead on, since what you say is so laughable. You and your ill-informed kind offer no examples of how Schaefer has handed "the state over to Ehrlich and his cronies." Give examples. You libs are no better than the right wing wackos who repeat lies about Al Gore and Bill Clinton. If you say it often enough it becomes true? Get your head out of your rectum and use it in the way God meant.

Yeah, I miss the Glendening days too. I wanna see more public officials boning their staff members while their unsuspecting wives are home with the kids. That's why I'm supporting Mayor O'Malley. As for Franchot, I'm not so sure...

Right on AFL-CIO! Franchot's the kinda guy we need to look after the interests of the working man. After all, he voted for the electric deregulation bill back in 1999 and look how well that turned out for us.

What about Schaefer's flipflop on property taxes! If that didn't STINK of election year smoke and mirrors. "Hey, take $40 dollars off this year and buy yourself something nice, oh but don't be shocked next year when we have to raise user fees because we took countless millions out of the general fund WHILE looking at a budget deficit."

Guess you haven't noticed Mercury, but those are the EXACT sort of cynical policies that people all over the country are fed up with.

Laughable, you crack me up. You talk about cynical policies; how about taking a hard look at Mr. Franchot's so-called campaign platform. Look up the word pandering in the dictionary and you'll see a picture of the fey wannabe next to the definition. He says he'll be a comptroller who will support a woman's right to choose; a comptroller who will support meaningful gun control, etc. What does any of that have to do with the comptroller's office? Nothing, but it sure plays well to the chardonnay set.