Tag: Election
Annapolis Fails Voters
What REALLY Happened When Zina Pierre Quit The Race? Politics is a dirty business. It has been said that Washington delights in ruining the lives of people and apparently some of that sentiment has run over the borders into Annapolis. Over the past 24 hours, we have had the first black mayoral candidate celebrating her [...]
Annapolis Mayor’s Race
Zina Pierre Looks To Have Won Democratic Nod And now the race begins. In yesterday’s primary election, Zina Pierre edged out Josh Cohen and Trudy McFall to win the Democratic nod for mayor heading in to Annapolis’ general election on November 3, 2009. Pierre, a relative newcomer to Annapolis politics clearly demonstrated that she was [...]
Top Ten For The Week
Top Ten Pages At Eye On Annapolis Politics, stunts by Mayor Moyer, and violence in Lothian dominated this week’s top stories. But, rounding out the list, were some good news stories from Candles Off Main, Chick & Ruth’s Delly and even our site, Eye On Annaplolis. Catch up on all the popular posts by clicking [...]
The Mayor Steps In It
Mayor Moyer May Have Gone Too Far NOTE: See Correction Below Rumors are swirling of an ethics violation against the lame duck Annapolis Mayor Ellen Moyer. It appears that City Hall has been busy for the past 24 hours trying to remove the Mayor’s foot from her mouth and cover up her vitriolic comments on [...]
First Time Voter
Candid Comments From A New Voter Last night, my son and I attended the Annapolis Mayoral Candidate Forum held at West Annapolis Elementary School. Since he will be a legal voter a few days before the general election, I felt he probably ought to at least experience politics to a degree. After the forum, I [...]
Annapolis Elections To Get Messy
Union Endorsements A Shot Across The Bow While the blogosphere has been speculating and commenting for months, the main stream media has finally taken note. And with that, the gloves appear to be coming off. The latest flare up is over the endorsement of Josh Cohen by two unions. One will be negotiating with the [...]
How Long?
The Annapolis Countdown Clock Have you ever wondered when Annapolis might be free of the rampant cronie appointments? Or absolved of ridiculous legislation like extending the terms of office and issuing golden parachutes for slackers? Are you wondering when things will be changing? We all know that January 20, 2009 was when change came to [...]
Annapolis Candidate Forum August 20, 2009
Annapolis High School PTSA To Sponsor Forum Candidates for Mayor have been invited to participate in a forum panel discussion on Thursday, August 20 at 7:00 PM in the Annapolis High School Auditorium. This event is being sponsored by the PTSA as a public service to the members of the Annapolis community. We are interested [...]
Mayoral Candidate McFall Addresses Market House
Ownership, Governance, and Operations Are Key “I rejoice at seeing the Market House beginning to come back to life and serve, as it should, as the heart of our historic downtown community. As I have talked to voters all over the City, the Market House has been the issue of greatest concern to them. The [...]
The Face Race
Should Facebook Decide The Mayor’s Race? Well, a few months ago, we took a lighthearted look at the Mayoral candidates and the number of fans they had on their facebook pages. Have they learned anything? Have they grown? If you look at the past presidential election, it would stand to reason that the candidates who [...]
And Then There Were Five
HACA Mayoral Debate Well Attended There were probably between 100 and 200 people in attendance at last night’s Annapolis Mayoral debate (sponsored by The Housing Authority of City of Annapolis, HACA) held at the Eastport Community Center. The evening started off with a moment of silence for Annapolis City Firefigfhter John P. Smith who passed [...]
Here We Go Politics As Usual
Bogus Email Attempts To Withdraw Candidate Legum’s New Line is reporting that Annapolis City Hall received a bogus email purportedly from Republican Aldermanic Candidate for Ward 3, Scott Bowling asking to be removed from the ballot. I am a Democrat and Scott is a Republican. We disagree on many issues. But we do agree that [...]
Partisanship In Politics
Hello my fellow Annapolitans. There are a host of major issues facing our Annapolis this election year as most of you know. I would like to address a problem that is hurting our city tremendously, but really isn’t being discussed thoroughly by any other mayoral candidate for obvious reasons: The problem is political partisanship. I [...]
McFall Expresses Concern Over City’s 2010 Budget
Promises, when Mayor, she will make sure the City will “live within its means” As a candidate for Mayor, I have a great concern about the Fiscal Year 2010 budget adopted Monday night by the City Council. The new budget will take effect July 1 of this year. After weeks of deliberation, the City Council [...]
Chris Fox Declares Candidacy
Annapolis Business Owner Draws Crowd On Saturday at 11:00am, local Annapolis resident and business owner Chris Fox officially threw his hat into the ring for Mayor of Annapolis. Running as an Independent, Chris has some very concrete ideas on how to reverse the trend the City has seen in the past eight years and bring [...]
Did You Hear The One About….
Annapolis Threatens To Cancel Election The Mayor that refused to leave when her term ended? The Mayoral Candidate that needed more time to raise money? The other Mayoral Candidate that needed some time to finish his County Council term so it would not look so bad if he left mid-term? The political machine that decided [...]
Jim Conley To Enter Ward 5 Race In Annapolis
Conley to enter the Annapolis Ward 5 race for Alderman We have learned that Jim Conley will seek another aldermanic slot in the upcoming election running as a Republican. In the 2007 special election, Conley lost to Sheila Finlayson (D-Ward 4) by a scant 27 votes and has since moved into Ward 5. It appears [...]
The Capital Claims To Know Voter Intent
By now, we all know about how messed up the bids are for slot machines. The Capital Gazette never hid its disdain for the slot referendum leading up to election day in its editorial pages. And apparently, the disdain continues today. In today’s Editorial, The Capital alludes that it knows what voters think. And to [...]
Annapolis Facebook Race
While some candidates have not really established their websites yet (Cohen), and others have not even formally declared their intentions (Pierre and Fox), they certainly are working behind the scenes on Facebook to gather up some supporters. I guess the message about social media, blogging and the Barack Obama experience fell on some ears that [...]
Elections And The Board Of Education
A glitch has come up for the upcoming elections. It seems that the Board of Education has determined that the schools are no longer an appropriate place to host the Annapolis City elections later this year. The story was originally reported in The Capital, and followed up by a column by Eric Hartley and an [...]
Calling All Mayors
With the upcoming Mayoral election in Annapolis beginning to heat up, Eye On Annapolis would like to extend an open invitation to all of the candidates for Mayor to communicate their platforms to the readers of Eye On Annapolis. We will offer five separate opportunities to each candidate to discuss your platform, the issues your [...]
