The crowd included a large contingent of people representing the African American church, some Hispanics and then conservative Republicans and Tea Partiers all joining forces to oppose Martin O’Malley’s primary legislative initiative this year — a bill to legalize gay marriage that was defeated by a similar coalition last year.

The Governor’s wife, Katie O’Malley, came in for extra criticism after she called opponents from last year’s fight “cowards.”

Check out this good report, hear some of the speakers, at 9 News Now!

From the Law Enforcement Examiner:

Deputies in Knoxville, Tennessee working with Maricopa County Sheriff’s deputies served a search warrant and seized computer and other evidence from the home of Adam Eugene Cox after an investigation into an internet death threat against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio came to light, according to a report from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office on Friday.

The 33-year old Cox was arrested Friday and taken into custody on an unrelated arrest warrant for an aggravated assault and is currently being investigated as the prime suspect in the Arpaio death threat investigation.

In that threat, Cox stated Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his family would be killed.

Cox is described as a fanatical Obama supporter who is angry that the Sheriff had launched an investigation of the Obama birth certificate question.

The suspect’s mother confirmed to investigators that her son is a fanatical supporter of Obama. According to Knox County Sheriff’s deputies, Cox has a history of violent hehavior.

Arpaio’s investigation into the Obama birth certificate question has received a fair amount of press coverage since the investigation began late last year. The case is being handled by the Sheriff’s volunteer cold case posse, made up of retired police detectives and lawyers, and at no expense to the taxpayer. Their initial findings are expected to be announced within 30 days, Arpaio says.

Then this little nugget interested me.  I’ve reported several times on Holder and Thomas Perez (Maryland’s gift to Obama) and their allegations against Arpaio and Maricopa County for the Sheriff’s handling of the 287 g program.  Well, well, this author suggests it will be back on the front pages to coincide with the US Supreme Court hearing in the ‘Arizona law‘ case the Justices agreed to hear—of course giving Obama an opportunity to suck up to Hispanic voters just in time for the November election.

In addition to repeatedly blasting Sheriff Arpaio, the Justice Department is expected to file a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Arizona asking a federal judge to order changes in the sheriff’s office.

Critics of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Obama believe the Arpaio case is designed to coincide with the U.S. Supreme Court’s hearing on Arizona’s immigration law (SB1070), and as strategy to strengthen the president’s position with the Hispanic voting base.

What a surprise!  Not!

The White House says NO!  Here is the denial story in the Mail:

The White House today issued an angry denial following claims that Michelle Obama indulged in a $50,000 shopping spree at a luxury lingerie boutique in New York.

According to a report in the Daily Telegraph today, Agent Provocateur’s boutique in Madison Avenue, New York, was partially closed off for the U.S. First Lady.

But Kristina Schake, director of communications for First Lady Michelle Obama told MailOnline this morning: ‘This story is 100 per cent false.’

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The Telegraph claimed: ‘Michelle Obama has risked the wrath of cash-strapped Americans by indulging in a $50,000 shopping spree at Agent Provocateur…

Maybe it was only $5,000 (or $500), but for Michelle the problem is that because of past extravagances anything is now believable.  The Mail continued:

Mrs Obama has come under fire from critics of late, who have taken issue with her taste for expensive designer labels and lavish parties.

A new book by New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor, The Obamas, fuelled widespread criticism when it emerged that she had hosted a high-octane Alice in Wonderland Halloween party in 2009, a time when the country was in the midst of a recession.

The expensive wardrobe she packed for her $4million Hawaii Christmas break, including a $2,000 dress and $1,000 skirt, also sparked a reaction.

Come to think of it where were those Occupy Wall Streeters?  If they had been on the job staking out Agent Provocateur and on the lookout for the 1%, we might know if the story is true or not!

Darn! I was planning to direct you to one comment I saw earlier, now buried among the hundreds of comments to both stories, where a commenter remarked that this was a sign that Michelle was having an affair because surely she wouldn’t need expensive undies after having been married to “bamma” (or was it “the bammer”) for a long time.

* Kerfuffle—British synonymous with fuss, hoop-la, furor, blather and lots more fun words!

Here is the story at the Huffington Post (Hat tip Doug):

WASHINGTON — A liberal super PAC is set Monday to launch what it is billing as a multimillion dollar campaign to “Take Down the Tea Party Ten.”

The effort by the progressive outfit CREDO aims to use the new big-spending super PAC model, which can accept unlimited donations, to back extensive local organizing and “education” aimed at defeating 10 members of Congress seen by the left as the worst of the worst.

“We’re talking about some of the most odious members of Congress. Even for Republicans these guys are low,” said Campaign Manager Matthew “Mudcat” Arnold in a statement.

Western Maryland Republicans have had the pleasure of meeting two of the ten—both Allen West and Steve King were featured speakers in Carroll County and Washington County in the last year.  We love them!

The first six lawmakers targeted by the group are Reps. Sean Duffy (R-Wis.), Steve King (R-Iowa), Allen West (R-Fla), Joe Walsh (R-Ill.), Frank Guinta (R-N.H.), and Chip Cravaack (R-Minn.). Four more will be chosen by CREDO’s members.

We also heard today that establishment Republicans in Florida are working to re-district Allen West out of his seat.

Let me just say, if the Republican Party doesn’t come to the defense of these Tea Party members of Congress, then it’s good-bye Republican Party!   And, if the ousted Tea Party members then become the leaders of a new political party we might be thanking ol’ “Mudcat.”

They think they are smarter than you, that they know what is best for all of humanity and in this case they think that a $16 million dollar (minimum price tag for grading 23 miles and rebuilding 14 bridges)* bike trail in Southern Washington County is just the ticket.  Never mind that it would affect the property rights of landowners for its 23 mile length!

I was shocked to see the news in Saturday’s Hagerstown Herald Mail, that a plan that was soundly defeated in 1993 and 1994 has once again reared its head—and in the middle of a statewide financial crisis to boot—to create a new 23 MILE biking/hiking trail in a county that probably has more trail miles then any county in Maryland; and it is actually being considered by a REPUBLICAN county commission!  What could they possibly be thinking?

Here is the story:

Sen. Christopher B. Shank said this week that he is “extremely concerned” about an idea for a 23-mile bike trail from Hagerstown to Weverton that is being considered by county officials.

The Washington County Board of Commissioners agreed Tuesday to reopen talks about building a “Civil War Railroad Trail” that would follow the former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad line from Hagerstown to Weverton.

The project was proposed in the early 1990s but abandoned amid widespread opposition from south county residents and other groups.

Shank, R-Washington, said he is concerned that the project would dramatically affect the people living along it.

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The trail would link Hagerstown’s City Park with the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal towpath, passing the state prison complex and running through Keedysville, according to proponent Dick Cushwa.

Cushwa, a bicycle advocate with the City Bike Advisory Committee, appeared before the commissioners along with county Public Works Director Joseph Kroboth III and City Engineer Rodney Tissue to ask the commissioners’ blessing to initiate discussions about the project with state, federal and other interested parties.

Please read the whole article.  I was happy to see that some of the property rights advocates from nearly two decades ago are still kicking!

Because I tend to keep papers too long (ask my family), I dashed to my files and pulled out my folder on the controversy from back in 1993.  People who lived along the corridor were furious.  Some of their homes are within literally a few yards of the old railroad bed.   I wish there was some way I could get across to you (the readers) that I am shouting as I write this!

It is called ‘greenlining’:

These ribbons of trails that Washington DC environmentalists are threading throughout America are called GREENLINING (or greenways).   Back in the early 1970′s when the likes of Rep. Mo Udall (also the guy who locked up Alaska, btw) tried to get national landuse planning into federal law (and failed), the environmental statists switched to the concept of ‘greenlining’ to put national landuse in place piece by piece.

Rail-trails are one of the mechanisms they use.  Some local people may see the trail as innocuous (or as a boon to the local economy which will not be true in Washington County!), but what follows will be a clamoring for controls on the land in the VIEWSHED of the trail.   It won’t be long and the county will be pressured into re-zoning land along the trail, or the state will come in to buy more land.  Some yuppies from Washington, DC will say NO hog farms where I want to ride my bike!  And, damn, I don’t want to see old farm machinery or a lot of laundry hanging on peoples’ clotheslines!

And honestly there will be confiscation of private property as Washington County residents learned the hard way when the C & O Canal and the Appalachian Trail passed through their yards and farms many decades ago.

Part of O’Malley Plan Maryland and Agenda 21—you betcha!

Because conservatives aren’t interested in controlling people, we don’t think like the hard Left that is constantly strategizing about how to put their plans in place.  Consequently, we are always playing defense as schemes like this Weverton rail trail can sit dormant for decades and then reappear again when they hope the first opponents have begun to die off (and they have had more time to soften up the next generation in our miserable school system).

Here is what I mean.  I looked up the Rails to Trails Conservancy—its been around since about 4 years before the last time this trail idea raised its ugly head.  The groups longtime President is Keith Laughlin.  Here is his bio.  Check out the fact that he has a lifetime career in the “sustainable development” movement.

“Sustainable development!”  Where have we heard those words before?  Oh yeh!  O’Malley’s Plan Maryland!

Just for fun I googled ‘Keith Laughlin and Agenda 21.’  I wasn’t surprised to find this 2007 paper on “sustainable development” (a United Nations paper on Agenda 21) and how local governments can carry the water for the international (socialist) environmental movement.

Here is what they say about Laughlin on Page 10:

Biking and hiking trails are part of the overall mix in terms of open space and recreational amenities, and the main organization behind many of these initiatives is the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, headed by Keith Laughlin, who was Executive Director of the President’s Council on Sustainable Development and Deputy Director of the White House Council on Environmental Quality in the Clinton-Gore Administration. Part of the idea is to convert unused railroad right-of-way to biking and hiking trails, both in urban and rural areas.

Trails, like this 23 mile stretch through Southern Washington County, are all pieces to a larger plan to control us and take away our property rights and thus our freedom and we need to get it through our heads that the Left (Socialists and Marxists) never stop, they may go quiet for awhile, then they push again, but they never stop!

Good for you Senator Chris Shank for raising a red flag and shame on any Republicans who would entertain a project like this that is one more step to take land use decisions from local government and cede it to the state, the federal government and the United Nations.

Washington County Commissioners hired a lobbyist to fight Plan Maryland and then don’t immediately say NO to this backdoor property rights grab—go figure!

* This post would get too long if I addressed the financial part of the plan, but bear in mind that someone connected to the plan will benefit financially—maybe an excavating company or engineers—but because of requirements for minority workers for government contracts in Maryland, it might not even be any local contractors.  We call that corporatism, where businesses work hand-in-glove through insider knowledge with government.

I remember very clearly how scared the environmentalist were in the mid 1970′s when Time magazine ran a couple of stories about the pending ice age, here (Newsweek too, here).  They weren’t worried about their global warming hypothesis being shot to hell, they hadn’t yet settled on that theory as a means to control us.  It was more like OMG we are going to die!

Now comes word, hat tip Gateway Pundit, that new statistics have been quietly released that indicate, oops! it definitely is not warming across the globe!

From The Mail:

The supposed ‘consensus’ on man-made global warming is facing an inconvenient challenge after the release of new temperature data showing the planet has not warmed for the past 15 years.

The figures suggest that we could even be heading for a mini ice age to rival the 70-year temperature drop that saw frost fairs held on the Thames in the 17th Century.  [go to the article and check out the painting of an ice fair on the Thames in 1684--ed]

Based on readings from more than 30,000 measuring stations, the data was issued last week without fanfare by the Met Office and the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit. It confirms that the rising trend in world temperatures ended in 1997.

Time magazine could now just recycle its cover stories from nearly 4 decades ago!

As for you, throw away the bike, drive a big honkin’ (polluting) SUV—save the planet from freezing!

It could be perfectly innocent, but when I saw this completely un-newsworthy story about exiting Obama Chief of Staff (and former mayor of Chicago), Bill Daley, tossing a White House good-bye party replete with artery-clogging pizza, buttery popcorn and cheesecake (flown in from Chicago), I saw a message to White House food czar Michelle.  Take that ……!

Here is the “news” about Daley’s “surprise:”

In an exclusive chat with Sneed this week, former White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley sounded relieved and happy his tour of duty was finally over.

“I can’t wait to come back,” said Daley, whose abrupt resignation earlier this month flummoxed President Barack Obama.  [Daley had said he would stay until November 2012, but he suddenly remembered he had grandchildren to play with!--ed]

◆ Update: Now that all the hoopla over Bill’s decision to quit “has quieted down,” Daley tells Sneed he plans to spend time figuring out “what I really want to do.”

But before Daley heads home Friday, he has a surprise in store.

◆ Upshot: “I’m tossing a party to say goodbye to the White House staff with a ‘Taste of Chicago,’ ” he said.

◆ To wit: Daley told Sneed he has ordered a late-night air shipment of pizza, popcorn and cheesecake sent to the White House mess (cafeteria) for a noon surprise Friday.

Remember Jodi Kantor’s book!  It came out in the same week Daley resigned!  Kantor painted a very troubling picture of a White House staff in constant squabbling mode often roiled by complaints from First Lady Michelle Obama and her staff, particularly Valerie Jarrett.  The Daily Beast makes that point here.

But, I think the final straw for Daley was Kantor’s revelation that when Michelle and Valerie Jarrett worked for Daley in Chicago in 1991 they complained about the “white” boys running Chicago.  Here is Lynn Sweet writing at the Chicago Sun-Times about that incident two decades ago:

Mrs. Obama worked in the Daley administration between Sept. 16, 1991, and April 30, 1993, according to City of Chicago personnel records. She was hired by Jarrett, then Daley’s deputy chief of staff.

Kantor writes Mrs. Obama “disapproved of how closely Daley held power, surrounding himself with three or four people who seemed to let few outsiders in — a concern she would echo years later with her own husband.

“…She particularly resented the way power in Illinois was locked up generation after generation by a small group of families, all white Irish Catholic — the Daleys in Chicago, the Hynes and Madigans statewide.”

When Jarrett was forced out of City Hall in 1995 — even though she was close to Daley — “the Obamas were horrified, their worst suspicions about the world confirmed.”

Don’t you think it’s a fascinating coincidence that Kantor’s book release and Daley’s resignation occurred on the same day—January 9th, and a day after Lynn Sweet wrote that column above.

* Kantor also has lots of stories in “The Obama’s” about how Michelle and Emanuel were constantly at loggerheads in the White House too!

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The Hagerstown Herald Mail today reports on where the Plan Maryland controversy stands:

At the heart of a battle over a new state planning initiative is whether anything in it is new.

On Thursday, another round played out, as legislators from rural areas insisted PlanMaryland will mean a significant shift toward centralized control, while the state’s planning secretary assured that criticism is misguided and exaggerated.

The fight is expected to intensify as opponents recruit more lawmakers to their cause and try to combat the plan through legislation. A hearing on one bill is scheduled for Thursday.

O’Malley administration: go to sleep, go to sleep…there is nothing to worry about!

Many legislators and local governments aren’t convinced by the state’s assurances.

Four dissatisfied counties — Washington, Frederick, Carroll and Allegany — have formed a Maryland Rural Counties Coalition and hired lobbyists Bruce C. Bereano and William R. Miles to represent them.

Bereano said Friday that opponents have made a good deal of progress with their plans to file legislation and testify at bill hearings.

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Even though Hall told the Environmental Matters Committee that PlanMaryland doesn’t create any new regulations or laws, Bereano said there’s “a very strong feeling” it should go through the legislature for review. Opponents have filed bills that would make that requirement explicit.

Del. Michael D. Smigiel Sr., R-Caroline/Cecil/Kent/Queen Anne’s, and Del. Galen R. Clagett, D-Frederick, filed separate bills in October that would require the General Assembly to approved a state development plan.

Two Republicans in the Washington County delegation — Dels. Michael J. Hough and Neil C. Parrott — co-sponsored Smigiel’s bill.

Clagett’s bill is scheduled for a hearing before the Environmental Matters Committee on Thursday.

There is more, read it all.

]]> http://potomacteapartyreport.wordpress.com/2012/01/29/plan-maryland-update-hearings-in-annapolis-this-week-more-to-come/feed/ 0 acorcoran http://potomacteapartyreport.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/the-poison-in-the-veins-of-the-catholic-church-was-injected-by-atheist-saul-alinsky/ http://potomacteapartyreport.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/the-poison-in-the-veins-of-the-catholic-church-was-injected-by-atheist-saul-alinsky/#comments Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:55:00 +0000 acorcoran http://potomacteapartyreport.wordpress.com/?p=25262 ]]> Update January 30th:  Oh, the irony, now we have the Roman Catholic Church screaming bloody-murder over Obama when they have only a whole portion of the American church that brought him to power in the first place.  Frankly, I have no sympathy—you know what mama said:  “you make your bed (take the government’s money!), you sleep in it.”  Well, you know what I mean!

And, we are seeing its fruits right here in Maryland—-specifically on Tuesday, January 10, 1212 when the Diocese of Wilmington held a community organizing “training” session on the highly charged political issue of in-state tuition for illegal aliens in Maryland.

The US Conference of Catholic Bishops is using “training” techniques designed and perfected through the work of radical revolutionaries beginning with the father of “community organizing” himself, the atheist Saul Alinsky.

The phrase “community organizer” first came to the attention of the general public in 2008 when we were told that that is what Barack Obama was—first and foremost a community organizer.  Most of us said, Huh?   Sadly, we know so much more now.  [Is Alinsky hanging in the White House?]

Before I get to the classic political “training” session Catholics are receiving in Maryland, let me tell you about this presentation on Real Catholic TV (Catholic Investigative Agency) entitled, the CCHD and Saul Alinsky.  I knew a good bit of the information presented but never had clearly in my mind the time-line for the “injection of the poison” where the church became a conduit for the whole concept of the ‘redistribution of wealth’ and was set adrift from its stated goal of focusing on life and the evils of abortion.

The TV production is a little over an hour in length, but presenter Michael Voris shows us the time-line for the creation of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops and its now notorious political work through the Catholic Campaign for Human Development which funds groups that promote abortion and gay marriage.   Its roots are traced back to Alinsky.

Voris tells us that the USCCB operates on a budget today of abut $140,000,000 and that it receives $50-60 million from you—the taxpayer.  They take your money to organize against you!

You really must watch the film. But, briefly we learn that Alinsky early on “married the church to the labor movement” in Chicago.   He organized first the Back of the Yards Council (1938) and then the Industrial Areas Foundation (the IAF) in 1941.  The IAF was founded as a “school for professional radicals.”   It went on to train such Leftwing luminaries as Heather Booth (Midwest Academy) and of course the now famous Barack Hussein Obama.    Today, Voris says, the IAF* gets as much as 16% of the CCHD’s pot of money.

Alinsky understood he had to work through a large network of people who would be soft on what came to be known as “social justice.”  He befriended a young priest in Chicago and through him a whole line of Catholic priests who met at Notre Dame over the next 14 years sending the “poison” throughout the church in the US.   In fact, remember when Obama spoke at Notre Dame and a controversy swirled about a pro-abortion President giving a commencement speech at a Catholic university?   Voris contends that Obama was giving his victory speech with his shout-out to the deceased cardinal who helped him come to power.

Again, watch the presentation at Real Catholic TV yourself, there is just too much for me to do it ‘justice’ here and I want to get on to how all this is now manifesting itself in Maryland.

“Community organizing” by the religious Left in Maryland

On January 10th, one of three political activist training sessions was held with the Rev. Chris Posch ‘officiating.’ Posch is the director of the Office of Hispanic Ministries at the Diocese of Wilmington.  You can see a photo of him, here, in a July 2011 newsletter of the Global Solidarity Project.

At the outset I want to do away with this notion that it is the humane and Christian thing to do—to defend the poor and struggling illegal immigrant—fine, but don’t dare foist your view on others.  I can respect that view as long as their “Christian” desire to be good people recognizes that the illegal alien has by definition broken the law!   If Catholics individually still wish to defend those illegal actions, that is fine, but those of us who do not condone law breaking should not be forced (shamed!) to pay the law breakers!

I would respect the Catholic Church leadership (and maybe even return to the church myself) if they said, we will give them charity through our own private money!   Don’t priests, such as the good Father Posch, see that it is STEALING  to take tax dollars from one group of people with modest incomes and redistribute it to another group, especially a group that is here illegally?

How about if the Catholic Church pays for the college educations of illegal aliens!

Here is an idea!  Right now the Catholic Church pays no taxes.  How about if the state of Maryland taxes them on their income and taxes their real estate.  Then that money (surely a substantial sum) could go into a special fund for all sorts of handouts to illegal aliens!

O.K. I digressed, back to the January 10th training session.  Mary Ellen Russell, Executive Director of the Maryland Catholic Conference, kicked off the session.  But, also speaking were Christopher Ross and Kathy Dempsey.  Looks like they brought almost the entire staff!

They proceeded to present a session on your basic Alinsky-style community organizing strategy that has been perfected now over decades (while the average conservative American went about our daily lives of work and family).   They want what they call “Parish Advocates” in every parish in Maryland for their ‘Justice for Maryland Immigrants’ campaign to defeat a referendum on the Dream Act should Joseph Sandler and the DNC fail to win in court and the Dream Act is on the ballot in the fall.

They even supplied a script political activists could use when calling the parish priest for permission to place important activist announcements in church bulletins.

The over 25 pages of materials handed out to meeting attendees is a treasure trove of information on the Catholic campaign to defeat Maryland taxpayers.   One document of interest to me is the one entitled, The Movements Dark Origins that could have been written by the hate mongers at the Southern Poverty Law Center but appears under the authorship of Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien.   It is an attack on the three major immigration control groups—Federation for American Immigration Reform, NumbersUSA and the Center for Immigration Studies.

This is incredible material, 25 plus pages, and too much to write about here.  If any reader would like the whole sheaf of documents, please let me know.  Write to Ann@vigilantfreedom.com and send me your mailing address and I’ll get it off to you as soon as possible.

So, the bottomline for me, is that if the Catholic Church wants to get involved in partisan political lobbying and campaigning, let’s start collecting tax dollars from them so they can help pay for their Leftist dreams.

Frankly, the political non-profit Left would wither and die if they had to pay, without taxpayer support,  for their own political campaigns.

*The Industrial Areas Foundation is operating in Maryland as I mentioned here back in March.  Action in Montgomery is an IAF affiliate.

CASA and unnamed plaintiffs (illegal aliens!) are trying to keep the so-called Dream Act off the ballot in November after 130,000 signatures were collected asking that the law be subject to a referendum.

Gov. O’Malley happily signed the bill last spring surrounded by illegal alien props.  Check out the post I wrote at the time where one O’Malley prop (a kid with the fictitious name “Dustin“) admits he entered the US on his own steam three years ago without any parents—not as a young child as propagandists would have you believe—and is now demanding we subsidize his college eduction.

Here is the WBAL/AP story today:

Attorneys have given arguments about whether a Maryland bill to allow in-state tuition for illegal immigrants under certain circumstances should be put to voters in November.

Joseph Sandler, who argued on behalf of the measure’s supporters, said Friday the bill is not subject to a referendum because it involves funding of state government programs.

“Just as any bill that provides for the state’s operations is not subject to referendum because it cannot be interrupted, this is that kind of situation,” Sandler told WBAL News after today’s hearing.

I find it so interesting that no reporter ever comments on who Sandler is!  See his photo at the story—just your average baggy-suited old lawyer-looking guy, right?  Here is the caption:

Joe Sandler, one of the attorneys for the plaintiffs, leaves the courthouse after today’s hearing.

Just “one of the attorneys!”   Underscoring how important this case is to the hard Left, CASA is represented by the long-time general counsel of the Democratic National Committee!   I have an entire category on Sandler* here at PTPR with 27 posts on the guy you might call the DNC’s hitman or silencer.    Here is a little rundown of his bio I put together last summer:

Harvard-educated Sandler is well-known for his role as a “silencer” as we noted in a post here in June.

~Sandler tried to silence Glenn Beck—to keep him from talking about Van Jones.

~Sandler silenced those clamoring in 2008 for Obama’s birth certificate.

~Sandler tried to silence Robert Spencer and keep him from talking about Muslim extremists.

~Sandler tried to silence the real Tea Party with the dirty trick of setting up phony Tea Parties.

~Sandler was involved in legal challenges to silence critics of gay marriage (by endorsing the plan to post all their names on the internet and thus subject them to potential harassment).

~Sandler is trying to silence those who want photo IDs for voting.

So you see CASA de Maryland, O’Malley and the Democratic Party cannot afford to lose this in Blue Maryland.  Consequently the Washington, DC big dog Sandler was in Annapolis today.

Now back to the WBAL story.  Lawyers for the defendants (which includes MDPetitions.com) asked why some of the plaintiffs are anonymous and here is what the court heard:

The plaintiffs in this case include CASA of Maryland and several illegal immigrant students whose names are listed as John Doe and Jane Doe.

Lawyers for the petition drive argued that those anonymous plaintiffs  should not have legal standing to bring the lawsuit.

Another attorney for the plaintiffs, Brett Marston, argued that the students remained anonymous because they feared retaliation from anti-immigration activists.  Marston mentioned the group Help Save Maryland by name. Marston noted the Southern Poverty Law Center has called Help Save Maryland a “nativist extremist” organization.

Birds of a feather!

Everyone knows that the Southern Poverty Law Center is a hate group that uses thuggish tactics on anyone or any group it disagrees with.  They are the masters of personal destruction.  Indeed, Sandler himself, as I pointed out above, is famous for his intimidation tactics.   So, it is understandable that these two—Joseph Sandler and the Southern Poverty Law Center— have teamed up to call other groups “extremists.”  And, they assume since they use intimidation, we would too!

Finally, Sandler and O’Malley are rich guys, maybe they could pay for “Dustin’s” college education out of their own deep pockets instead of stealing from hardworking Americans (the 99%!) to pay for their new Democrat voters.

LOL! If Dustin would announce that he was planning on becoming a Republican, that would be the end (de pronto!) of his subsidized college education!

*  When you review the posts on Sandler, be sure to note his connections to the now defunct CAIR Maryland.