Maryland Special Session II

The Maryland Coalition for Honesty in Radio Ads had their annual awards ceremony last night and there was a clear-cut winner. Sweeping nearly every category in a stunning upset, the Alliance for Tax Fairness, an uber ultra-left-wing liberal organization, took home a handful of awards.

If you're not familiar with the group, they are the ones running the radio ads on WBAL radio 1090. If you listen for 10 minutes, you'll hear it. These ads claim that Governor Bob Ehrlich destroyed the financial health of the state and unless we do something this week, our children will suffer the consequences. We'll all become uneducated, sick, and die. Fortunately for all of us, Governor Martin O'Malley has a magic wand and he'll make this all better.

O'Malley, the selfless governor who, instead of wishing to make himself even prettier, has waved his magic wand and will use it to punish corporations and wealthy families that make over $100,000. These heartless people will suffer the wrath of the working class and pay big time to help make our state move forward again. The Alliance for Tax Fairness praises their leader with flowery accolades.

The awards that this organization won last night include:

• Most Deceptive Political Ad
• Radio Ad With Most Inaccurate Information
• Most Condescending Radio Ad of 21st Century
• Most Unfair Tax Commercial
• Best Male Voice in Fraudulent Radio Ad
• Best Female Voice in a Fraudulent Radio Ad
• Best Radio Ad Produced By A Left-Wing Liberal Group
• Best Radio Ad Produced By A Group That Misuses Naive Contributors Money

Republicans continue to lag in communicating the most lies to the public and because of this, they will never win any of these coveted awards. Instead, they seem to focus on the truth and pointing out the flaws of the super-majority's objectives.

For example, O'Malley wants to put the slots bill up for a referendum. For those of you who attended schools in Anne Arundel County of Baltimore City, this means that the legislators are afraid to vote on something because you might not reelect them next time. Instead, they want you to vote on them in the next election.

Unfortunately for the super left-wing liberals that run our state, only ambiguous issues in the Maryland Constitution can be brought up for a referendum. And the last time I checked, the Maryland Constitution wasn't unclear about whether is should allow slots. In fact, I don't think the Maryland Constitution mentions it at all. To me, that's not ambiguous. It's just stupid.