Former Prince George’s County executive Wayne K. Curry, backed by five black members of the Prince George’s County Council, today endorsed Republican Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele’s campaign for the U.S. Senate.
Mr. Curry, a Democrat who became the first black Prince George’s county executive in 1994, and served two terms, is influential in Prince George’s, the state’s second-largest county, with about 846,000 residents, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Council members David Harrington, Camille Exum, Samuel H. Dean, Marilynn M. Bland and Tony Knotts joined Mr. Curry in backing Mr. Steele, who is black.
Prince George’s is also 65 percent black, and is expected to play a key role in Maryland’s Nov. 7 U.S. Senate race between Mr. Steele, who is from Prince George’s, and Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin, who is white and from Baltimore.
Mr. Curry signaled his dissatisfaction with Maryland’s Democratic Party last spring, when a Democratic poll was leaked to the press, calling Mr. Steele a “unique threat” to the Democrats.
The poll advised Democrats to “knock Steele down” by linking Mr. Steele to President Bush and national Republicans, to turn Mr. Steele “into a typical Republican in the eyes of voters, as opposed to an African-American candidate.”
Mr. Curry was incensed by the poll, and said at the time that Mr. Steele’s candidacy presented an “enormously historic” opportunity for blacks that “may ultimately break this sort of vices grip by Democrats who feel entitled to black votes regardless of how they treat black voters.”
This is huge. Little by little, Steele is making inroads in the black community, and that’s got to be making the Cardin campaign squirm. Democrats count on over 90% of the black vote being theirs. Even just a few points going Steele’s way could make all the difference next week.
Hat tip: MKH, who has much more news on the unstoppable Lt. Gov. Steele. Oh, and check out the latest campaign ad by Michael Steele here. Smack!
Speaking of little by little, the Robert Plant song by the same title is one of my favorites:
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Well done, Mr. Steele!
Superb political coup on your part!
Curry still holds a lot of sway over PG County voters.
Cardin’s just taken a massive hole below the waterline
I’ve a feeling that Schumer, Dean and the rest of the MoonBats have just lost the Senate!
Jack.
Comment by Jack Deth @ 10/30/2006 - 8:56 pm
This is wonderful news, especially for intelligent black Americans, they are now understanding the big LIE being told to them by the dems and Mr. Curry sounds like a very enligtened leader. I’m sure the moonbats are shittin a brick and I love it.
Thanks for the Robert Plant song, you should have been a DJ, you’re good at this.
Comment by Drewsmom @ 10/30/2006 - 9:04 pm
Hooray for Steele. The dems wouldn’t spend any money on voter turnout in Prince George’s because they throught (correctly) that MUfme would win if they did. The threw Stu simms out as a sacrificials lamb and NOBODY want any part of Anthony Brown who spends little time in Prince Georges. Oh well–it will all work out one way or another.
–Quismartin
Comment by John Quismartin @ 10/30/2006 - 9:50 pm
I once lived in Prince George’s County where wealthy blacks and whites live in racial harmony, far from the cocktail chattering-class inane psychobabble of Montgomery County “liberals” who are all appendages of the US government sugar-daddy in D.C.
The Maryland Dems are dependent on the black vote, but throw only occasional political crumbs to their single largest constituency. The unions and old-time Baltimore white nabobs control the party, and have selected one of their hacks, a party-line white limousine liberal, instead of a qualified black who was narrowly beaten in the primary.
I hope Steele pulls out a victory, as the hypocritical smug stand-patism of the liberal Maryland Dems needs a shake-up very badly.
Comment by daveinboca @ 10/31/2006 - 10:21 am