Michael S. Steele

Michael Steele, a potential Republican challenger next year for the Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Paul Sarbanes.

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Michael S. Steele's candidacy for U.S. Senate has intensified the feeling among African-American Democrats that their party must diversify its statewide ticket, or it will run the risk of losing its most reliable voting bloc. Growing a practice in the BioPark (The Daily Record)Walking along Baltimore Street in West Baltimore, from Saint Paul Street to Martin Luther King Boulevard, there's a 7-Eleven, a check-cashing place and a business called Millennium Cutz. Converting fairways to driveways (Baltimore Sun)Some neighbors are teed off as golf courses close, give way to housing Marc Norman lives on Golf Island Road in Turf Valley, a Howard County address he was drawn to four years ago by the attraction of living in a community with no less than three golf courses.A casual golfer, his home overlooks the lush 14th fairway of one of the courses.
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Steele says extending voting laws is critical (Baltimore Sun)Remarks to House suggest balance he aims to strike in campaign WASHINGTON // Maryland Lt.Gov.Michael S. Steele told a House subcommittee yesterday that key provisions of the Voting Rights Act should "absolutely" be extended in order to continue the progress made over the past 40 years in ensuring the right to vote for all citizens. O'Malley cultivates his roots in bid for governor's office (Baltimore Sun)On his rival's turf, Baltimore's mayor promotes his ties to vote-rich Montgomery County ROCKVILLE - Montgomery County, Md., is hardly Hope, Ark.

Michael S. Steele visits Thurmont

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Michael S. Steele.

At a meeting one evening last week of the Baltimore Jewish Council, Steele compared embryonic stem cell research to the Holocaust, sparking indignant reactions almost immediately from members of the council, state lawmakers and, most noticeably, U.S. Rep Benjamin L. Cardin, D-3rd.

Cardin, who is one of the many Democrats vying for U.S. Sen.Paul S. Sarbanes' seat along with Steele, held a press conference the very next morning.

By the end of the day Steele had publicly and "humbly" apologized.

But for the often erratic Schaefer, the rules seem to be different.

Though late Friday Schaefer sent a handwritten letter to the young woman saying he was sorry he had put her through a public ordeal - he had earlier apologized to her privately - he said there would be no public apology forthcoming.

"I am not going to apologize," he insisted.

Since being elected state comptroller in 1998, the former governor and Baltimore mayor has used the twice monthly meeting of the state Board of Public Works - until he came along, a tedious affair involving state spending - as a platform from which to sound off about whatever issue happened to be vexing him.

A visit to McDonald's two years ago during which two Spanish-speaking employees had trouble understanding him prompted a rant about immigrants who don't speak English.

People with AIDS, he suggested six months later, should be required to register with a statewide database because they represent a danger to society.

Though increasingly frequent and, some would say, harsh, such outbursts are nothing new for a man who endeared himself to generations of Baltimoreans with softer-edged antics, such as his celebrated leap into the pool of the Baltimore Aquarium clad in a turn of the century bathing suit while holding a rubber duckie.

Tie Ehrlich and Steele to the prez, and voila!Dems bet they,ll win
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Mike Steele in their respective runs for office next year.
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MoCo Council President Tom Perez and Steele have been named as ,,rising stars, by the prestigious Aspen Institute.
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Steele, who has become a superstar in Republican circles, is being courted by the White House to run for the U.S. Senate.
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Steele and Baltimore Mayor Martin O,Malley are two other politicians who checked ,,tour Rockville, compliment Giammo, off their to-do lists in recent months.
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In an op-ed piece sent to newspapers around the state in May, Foerster criticized the commission, chaired by Steele, for excluding the state,s two teachers unions, the state PTA, the state association of school boards and child advocacy groups.