MD Senate Executive Nominations Committee hears HPRB Appointments

[DC-W]

23 is half the actual body... the abstention may have killed him. Was Miller afraid to vote green, because he saw no reason to vote red??!

It didn't matter. He needed one more vote. Miller abstained from the committee votes as well. You can bet safely he would have voted against if he didn't abstain.

We essentially had a tie vote.

 

[Jim12]

It didn't matter. He needed one more vote. Miller abstained from the committee votes as well. You can bet safely he would have voted against if he didn't abstain.

We essentially had a tie vote.

You can be pretty sure that any votes resting on a one-vote margin are counted and orchestrated in advance. That's why it was delayed.

 

[Mr H]

There are 47 Senators, are there not? That's probably why the number is 24 to pass, as that's a majority of the body.

My mistake... I was looking at vote totals for the other nominees.

I forgot Gladden was out...

 

[moojersey]

23 is half the actual body... the abstention may have killed him. Was Miller afraid to vote green, because he saw no reason to vote red??!

LOL pretty sure you are joking. I doubt Miller is voting yes for Jurgena.

 

[Rack&Roll]

It didn't matter. He needed one more vote. Miller abstained from the committee votes as well. You can bet safely he would have voted against if he didn't abstain.

We essentially had a tie vote.

Yes, Miller said as much from the podium that the board was "not diverse".

He is such a weasel.

 

[DC-W]

Yes, Miller said as much from the podium that the board was "not diverse".

He is such a weasel.

I would have loved to know how the previous boards were "diverse".

 

[Rack&Roll]

A tranny or two. Plus that board member with the manicured nails and huge mafia pinky ring.

Gonna try to dig up that photo.

 

[moojersey]

I'm going to replace Jurgena I hope

 

[Rack&Roll]

C'mon, you're all hat, no cattle, moo man.

 

[rambling_one]

This email seemed apropo -

Dear Friend,

I’m writing to ask for your help to elect my close friend Jamie Raskin as our Democratic nominee to congress to replace Chris Van Hollen.

For a decade, Jamie has been the State Senator from Silver Spring and Takoma Park and he has been correctly described as “one of the nation’s most talented state legislators” (the Huffington Post), Montgomery County’s “most responsive state legislator” (Silver Spring Voice), and “smart, passionate, and progressive” (Washington Jewish Week).

Jamie and I served together in the Senate for many years, and I can tell you that he has the legislative skill, work ethic and passion to replace Chris in the 8th District. He will rapidly become a significant intellectual force in the national Democratic Party.

Jamie is a renowned professor of constitutional law at American University and I came to rely on his deep constitutional knowledge, his parliamentary skill and his ability to bring people together to make positive change. We worked closely in the Senate to pass important legislation, including one of the toughest gun safety laws in America. Together we made sure Maryland banned military-style assault weapons and instituted a fingerprint licensing program for handguns. With firearm violence out of control in America, we need Jamie in Washington to challenge the NRA’s phony constitutional claims and bring common-sense Maryland-style reforms to Congress. I also watched Jamie lead historic fights on the Senate floor to pass marriage equality, abolish the death penalty, restore voting rights for ex-felons and enact important voting and campaign finance reforms.

I hope you’ll join me in supporting Jamie’s campaign today by signing up to help spread his message of effective and proven progressive leadership. Click here to join Jamie’s grassroots campaign and make sure that every voter in the 8th District knows about his “string of legislative accomplishments”.

I believe Jamie’s extraordinary record in Annapolis and brilliant career as a law professor make him a worthy successor to Chris Van Hollen, who himself spent more than a decade in Annapolis learning the art of the legislative process before running for Congress.

We need Jamie in Congress because unlike his competition he is a leader with a proven record.

I was just out last weekend knocking on doors for Jamie. It’s a lot of fun and I hope you’ll join the effort. Click here to sign up for a volunteer shift to benefit Jamie Raskin’s surging campaign for Congress.

Best,

Brian Frosh

P.S. To learn more about Jamie, his record of effective progressive leadership, and his exciting grassroots campaign, please visit his website www.jamieraskin.com.

 

[Mr H]

Don't get a paper cut on your O'Malley while wiping with that!!

 

[Rack&Roll]

I would have loved to know how the previous boards were "diverse".

A tranny or two. Plus that board member with the manicured nails and huge mafia pinky ring.

Gonna try to dig up that photo.

Took awhile but here you go: a freeze frame from Delegate Mike Smigiel's video of his rejection by the old HPRB.

I take it this is Made Member Chairman Thomas with the fine nails and beautyful jewelry? (Cross-dressing pal J. Edgar Hoover would be soooooo envious).

 

[swinokur]

I got the same email from Frosh. I just didn't have the stomach to post it.

 

[PJDiesel]

Really now. I've seen that video several times. A man with such finely manuicured hands simply CANNOT be trusted. I can't be the only guy here who smashes his shit at least twice a month.....

So smug, so arrogant, the facial expressions alone are enough to anger me.

 

[Jim12]

This email seemed apropo -

Dear Friend,

I’m writing to ask for your help to elect my close friend Jamie Raskin as our Democratic nominee to congress to replace Chris Van Hollen.

For a decade, Jamie has been the State Senator from Silver Spring and Takoma Park and he has been correctly described as “one of the nation’s most talented state legislators” (the Huffington Post), Montgomery County’s “most responsive state legislator” (Silver Spring Voice), and “smart, passionate, and progressive” (Washington Jewish Week).

Jamie and I served together in the Senate for many years, and I can tell you that he has the legislative skill, work ethic and passion to replace Chris in the 8th District. He will rapidly become a significant intellectual force in the national Democratic Party.

Jamie is a renowned professor of constitutional law at American University and I came to rely on his deep constitutional knowledge, his parliamentary skill and his ability to bring people together to make positive change. We worked closely in the Senate to pass important legislation, including one of the toughest gun safety laws in America. Together we made sure Maryland banned military-style assault weapons and instituted a fingerprint licensing program for handguns. With firearm violence out of control in America, we need Jamie in Washington to challenge the NRA’s phony constitutional claims and bring common-sense Maryland-style reforms to Congress. I also watched Jamie lead historic fights on the Senate floor to pass marriage equality, abolish the death penalty, restore voting rights for ex-felons and enact important voting and campaign finance reforms.

I hope you’ll join me in supporting Jamie’s campaign today by signing up to help spread his message of effective and proven progressive leadership. Click here to join Jamie’s grassroots campaign and make sure that every voter in the 8th District knows about his “string of legislative accomplishments”.

I believe Jamie’s extraordinary record in Annapolis and brilliant career as a law professor make him a worthy successor to Chris Van Hollen, who himself spent more than a decade in Annapolis learning the art of the legislative process before running for Congress.

We need Jamie in Congress because unlike his competition he is a leader with a proven record.

I was just out last weekend knocking on doors for Jamie. It’s a lot of fun and I hope you’ll join the effort. Click here to sign up for a volunteer shift to benefit Jamie Raskin’s surging campaign for Congress.

Best,

Brian Frosh

P.S. To learn more about Jamie, his record of effective progressive leadership, and his exciting grassroots campaign, please visit his website www.jamieraskin.com.

We know about Raskin's sordid career as a politician in Annapolis. Maybe his "brilliant career as a law professor" preparing young legal minds isn't all it's cracked up to be, either.

Why Did American University’s Law School Plunge in the Rankings?
Posted by Will Sommer on August 20, 2014 at 7:26 pm
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/...niversitys-law-school-plunge-in-the-rankings/

"American University’s law school woos its students with a chance at the kind of international law jobs in which they might handle classified documents. In the spring of 2012, however, one graduate says his classmates got some practice being secretive about something decidedly less important to national security: their own job prospects.

In order to avoid offending classmates who faced unemployment after racking up more than $150,000 in student debt—nine months after graduation, just 42 percent of the class had jobs that required passing the bar—students who actually had offers had to engage in their own cover-ups. “Everything was sort of hush-hush,” says the graduate, who asked not to be named to avoid so as not to damage his new, nonlegal career.

Lately, the prospects for American University’s Washington College of Law have looked just as grim. Since 2013, the school has plummeted down the U.S. News and World Report law-school rankings, dropping 23 positions from 49th in the country to 72nd. Thanks to its graduates’ dubious employment prospects, meanwhile, Washington College of Law has become a target for activists who see it as one of the worst examples of a law school that dupes students with unlikely legal ambitions, only to stick them with a mountain of inescapable debt when they graduate..."

 

[Schipperke]

that is not Thomas

Interesting why Ms West got the most votes, coin tosses?

 

[protegeV]

This email seemed apropo -

Dear Friend,

 

[ironpony]

Please refresh my memory - Van Hollen = ?

My neighbor just put up a Van Hollen sign.

 

[Schipperke]

The language in the MGA link has been updated:



http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmSchedules.aspx?pid=schedpage&id=0&stab=06&tab=subject2

I can no longer find the vote with this link

 

[Mr H]

Please refresh my memory - Van Hollen = ?

My neighbor just put up a Van Hollen sign.

According to the mailer we just got, the "ONE CANDIDATE to carry on the legacy of Barbara Mikulski."

Seriously... bold blue and all.