Some of you may remember the interview we did on Red Maryland Radio back in September of 2013 to discuss what Barry Rascovar opined was the imminent demise of the Maryland Republican Party.
As the former minority leader in the House of Delegates, Tony O’Donnell told us at the time, Barry Rascovar had no idea what he was talking about and there were even then many signs of what was about to happen in November 2014. As Delegate O’Donnell reflects he puts it this way:
The MDGOP picked up the Governor’s office, 2 additional MD Senate seats, 7 additional MD House seats, now control 5 of 9 county executive seats and made even more gains in local government elected positions across the state on November 4, 2014. The election results obviously speak for themselves. I thought it would be fun however to revisit these two offerings from 2013 as 2014 winds down and see which commentator got it closer to actual a full 14 months before the election. I hope you enjoy as much as I did reading and revisiting these two past columns (copied below) predicting the electoral future in Maryland. Enjoy!“
Score one for Delegate O’Donnell!
And let me say what Delegate O’Donnell is too gentile and modest to say, Barry Rascovar is a know-nothing, knee-jerk leftist who epitomizes the out of touch conventional view which dominates so much of Maryland’s media. His colossal failure to see what was going on in Maryland politics in this election cycle forever destroys whatever credibility the remaining few in the media still believed he had.
The successes of our state party are the result of years of hard work by many dedicated Republicans and visionary party leaders like Delegate O’Donnell.
And if doubt the truth of Delegate O’Donnell’s prescience, read his piece linked above or, better yet, listen for yourself from our show in September, 2013
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