2002 ELECTION:
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. How did gun owners in Maryland do overall
in the 2002 races? Click to find out!
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ANTI's SHOW THEIR TRUE NATURE. One Montgomery County race showed
the true character of our opponents in legislature.
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FOLLOW THE MONEY. Find out who was on the front lines fighting
for our RKBA - and who wasn't.
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GUN OWNERS TAKE DOWN HOUSE SPEAKER Click to find out how
leadership can fall over the gun issue. (Previous press release
plus congrats to victor is here.)
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GUN CONTROL, CLASS OF 2000 Pictured at left is the bill signing ceremony for the omnibus package of gun controls rammed down citizens throats in 2000. Pundits warned at the time that leadership went too far. You be the judge. 
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1. Casper Taylor -- Speaker of the House and Delegate from District 1C.
Ousted after 28 years in office by a first-time candidate whose firearm
community backers vigorously attacked Taylor for his record on enacting
gun control. Taylor lost his bid by 71 votes. What a coincidence. That's
about the same number of votes he pulled together to pass SB211, the Gun
Control package, out of his House in Spring 2000.
2. Parris Glendening -- Governor and now-disgraced lame duck out looking for a job. When voters perceived Townsend's campaign as being a continuation of the Glendening years, they resoundingly said NO. (Good luck on that job after telling the truth about Townsend's campaign the day after the election!) 3. Mike Miller -- President of the Senate ... for now anyway. After telling rank and file legislators he could spare them from taking losses if they vote for gun control in 2000, he ended election night as the only member of legislative leadership left standing on his own. Miller is currently sucking wind in his race to find enough Senatorial votes to return as Senate President. (Good luck getting those votes from legislators who watched colleagues fall after having voted for gun control.) 4. Kathleen Townsend Kennedy -- Lt Governor whose bid for governor flopped after she turned the campaign into a referendum on gun control. 5. Bill Clinton -- Disgraced ex-President who spends his time helping left wing candidates make their campaigns into a referendum on gun control. | |
Pre-election reports resonated with voters:
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| GLENDENING-KENNEDY ADMINISTRATION WON'T COOPERATE WITH FEDS ON CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS. How about that! They can't find the cash to do criminal background checks for six months, they can't find the cash to analyze real crime evidence, but they can spend five million tax dollars on a ballistic registration system that has yet to catch a criminal. |
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| ADMINISTRATION SUED FOR STONEWALLING ACCESS TO TOWNSEND DOCUMENTS. Apparently the Townsend administration is willing to break the law (by denying access to public documents) rather than confirm there is no public policy basis to her election-eve gun control proposals. |
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| LISTEN TO RADIO ADS THAT TOOK DOWN THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE! |
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FERGUSON IS TOAST!
This state senator sold out the gun community he had promised to fight for, yet still claims to be our friend! UPDATE: In the primary election 9-10-2002 Ferguson's constituents overwhelmingly voted to oust him. David Brinkley won the GOP nod by a 52-39 margin, demonstrating decisively that gun ownership is as strong a political issue as ever in Maryland.
Click to listen for yourself! Hear Ferguson sell us out in his own words, recorded on the floor of the Senate of Maryland in March 2000. | Click for full details of Ferguson's betrayal, giving us a NEW gun ban starting January 2003. |
Click for details of what Ferguson's political demise does to the fall election landscape.