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News and Politics
June 2022 Maryland Gubernatorial Power Rankings: Less than a month until the field is winnowed.
Cox Chickens Out of Forum With Schulz: Dan Cox and Kelly Schulz were supposed to share a stage. Until Cox backed out at the last minute
Cox Refuses Opportunity to Speak to Voters on MPT: Other Republican Candidates Agree to Segments
Anne Arundel Library Includes Left-Wing Group in Pride Celebration: One Pasadena was specifically invited by one library to participate in official library events
Cox Botches Schulz's Name in New Ad: Cox Campaign Continues Inability to Spell
Schulz Laps Cox, Ficker on Fundraising: Schulz has nearly four times as much cash on hand as Cox
Weirdness Abounds in Cox Expenditure Report: Duplicate Entries. Curious Choices. What's Going on Here?
Schifanelli Misleads Again on Natural Immunity: It is irresponsible for Schifanelli to continue to post bogus medical information
Still A Clear and Present Danger: How January 6th Relates to the Maryland Gubernatorial Election
Car Parades Come to Cox World: The World's Most Useless form of Campaign Tactic is Coming back to Montgomery County
Sports
The top 7 things about your favorite team's minicamp: Congratulations on all of your offseason improvements
An America's Game for All America: More cities should be added the rotation for Army-Navy
Voodoo Cursed No More: In their third straight tournament final, club picks up first win of 2022
The Monday Thought
On January 6th, 2021, Delegate Dan Cox infamously Tweeted this.
As the January 6th Committee still does its business, it’s fair to ask: does Dan Cox still think Pence is a traitor?
Does it matter to Cox that Donald Trump’s own staff thought that the entire plan to decertify the election was “nuts”?
Trump’s closest advisers viewed his last-ditch efforts to halt congressional certification of his loss as “nuts,” “crazy” and even likely to incite riots if Pence followed through, witnesses revealed in stark testimony Thursday…
…Trump aides and allies warned bluntly in private about his efforts, even as some publicly continued to stand by the president’s false election claims. Nine people died in the insurrection and its aftermath.
“Are you out of your effing mind?” Eric Herschmann, a lawyer advising Trump, told Eastman in recorded testimony shown at the hearing.
“You’re going to turn around and tell 78-plus million people in this country that your theory is, this is how you’re going to invalidate their votes?” Herschmann said. He warned: “You’re going to cause riots in the streets.”
A text message from Fox News’ Sean Hannity to Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows about the plan in the run-up to Jan. 6 read: “I’m very worried about the next 48 hours.”
Trump campaign adviser Jason Miller said those around Trump called the plan “crazy.”
The committee has said the plan was illegal, and a federal judge has said “more likely than not” Trump committed crimes in his attempt to stop the certification.
Does it matter to Cox that some of the rioters whom he marched with that day were looking to kill Mike Pence?
Does it matter to Cox, who purports himself to be a “Constitutional Attorney”, that conservative judge and scholar Judge Michael Luttig, says that had Pence followed Trump’s advice that that country would have been plunged into a Constitutional crisis?
And does it matter to Cox that with all of the evidence that we have seen that Judge Luttig believes that Donald Trump, who has endorsed Cox, is a “clear and present danger to the Republic?”
Maryland voters deserve to know if Dan Cox continues to believe Mike Pence is a traitor despite all of the overwhelming evidence to the contrary.