See Vallario's desk drawer for any PRO FIREARM legislation and you will see he needs more desk drawers.

I have a question along those lines, was there any investigation done on why Miller and the several other Senators changed their votes on the speed camera issue? Rumor was Miller used the vote to tweak O'Malley. Was there any Quid Pro Quo for Miller's change of heart?

There is no one more petty than O'Malleywatcher. Reduced to posting youtube videos of Nancy Jacobs provided by one of Joe Steffen's aptly named "young turks" of the Maryland GOP.

Speaking of Committee Chairman's power... about that $200,000, Chairman Currie? Why do you think Gov. O'Malley never said much about this?

Relationships with committee chairman make or break lobbyists, legislators and governors alike.

On reflection I was wrong. There is someone more petty than O'Malleywatcher. His name is Bob Ehrlich. His pettiness cost Republicans a MD Congressional seat.

You want to see the power of a committee chairman to pass a bill, look at who is sponsoring the Verizon bill to overturn the recent PSC ruling that passed the House with only 3 no votes! We'll see if the Senate has the spine to stand up against this unprecedented power play by Verizon's

And how is that fair? Why hasn't the media covered this more in depth? That's the real problem that a large portion of the community has with Frosh and SB420. One man should NOT be able to circumvent the will of the entire General Assembly.

Senator Frosh has done this to SB420 and 3 earlier versions for the last 4 years. He also was reported by another newspaper as saying he wasn't holding the legislation up but has on his own blog that he will do whatever he can to stop it. The legislative process has been hijacked by these chairmen.

Why is there still no mention by the Sun of Chairman Frosh's killing SB420? Numerous citizens have come forward to voice our stance on this matter and Chairman Frosh still refuses to address it.

Sen. Brian Frosh is a Tyrant and blocks/kills bills that he does not agree with regardless of unanimous support in the house. (ie SB420) to further support his private law practice and his pockets.

Brian Frosh is the king of Maryland dictators. A major news outlet really needs to write a story on why he won't schedule votes on laws that benefit Maryland Citizens. He believes his personal views are more important than those of the citizens, OR the House of Delegates. Dig up his record on SB 420 for more information or go to http://www.marylandshallissue.org/curact.html for more info.

Senator Frosh is ignoring his constituents in the interest of personal gain. He ignores SB420 because he is a lawyer with a personal injury practice. Blatent conflict of interest, blatent self serving antics of the kind the American people are sick and tired of. Is Nov. 2010 here yet?

The Sun has continued to completely ignore the Civil Immunity Bill and Chancelor Frosh's desk drawer veto for four straight years. How can a bill pass UNANIMOUSLY in the house four years in a row and NEVER even be brought up for a Committee vote? Every Democrat and every Republican in the House supports this legislation yet he claims it's "flawed". Mr Frosh, if the bill is so "flawed" why not bring it up for discussion and make ammendments if needed? But then, we all know the reason he won't bring it up - because it will easily pass committee and easily pass the full senate thereby denying his private law firm the ability to get new criminals, err, I mean clients. Come on Sun, wake up on this abuse of power by one man circumventing the will of the entire legislature year after year...

Frosh is just another example on how SCREWED

I yern for the days of the old west where you could just go down and give this idiot a good talking to.

2nd in national crime, 4th in the most "Non-Free" state.. hello morons, your methods dont work, here's proof!

The public needs to be made aware of Senator Frosh's tactics.
How can Frosh be the sole person to decide which bills do or do not get a vote?
Not whether it pass's or fails. A vote if allowed will decide that.
This "power" in the hands of one person is an unfair to Marylander's. Allow this bill at least the chance to be voted on.
Let the democratic proccess work.

I have noticed that if things don't fit within his PERSONAL agenda, he doesn't care. He has sat on many bills, to include SB420 and he has voted against items such as Jessica's Law.

He's a liar, and a Tyrant.

It seems that if he doesn't personally benefit from something he is against it.

Well, I'm against him and he will NOT get my vote.

Pilot. It's obvious that Frosh is out to line his own pockets.

I also think that the reason why he opposes concealed carry by law-abiding citizens is because his clients will get shot when they are trying to rob us if such a thing were to pass = Less money in his pocket.

I wouldn't call O'Malleywatch.com petty. To the contrary, they have exposed O'Malley for exactly what he is - all talk and no action. Owe'Malley has broken all but one of his campaign promises (yeah, big surprise there) and has run the state of Maryland deeply into the red, and it's getting worse by the week. The only campaign promise he managed to keep was to lo-jack sex offenders so that we could keep track of where they are - all other promises he broke. Why should we be surprised? He did the same thing for the city of Baltimore - his tenure as Mayor was one dismal failure after another and yet the good people of this state put him in the Governor's mansion anyway. What were they thinking? (Wasn't my fault - I voted for Ehrlich, the guy who took the state out of the red and put us back in the black.)

Senator Frosh is running scared on SB420. He knows that the people of Maryland are fed up with his running of the General Assembly like his personal fiefdom. His blog is full of political double-speak when he says that this bill will actually CAUSE more lawsuits and that he's actually doing maryland citizens a favor by holding back this legislation.

It's insulting for him to classify citizens of this state as a "special interest group" and that we lack the sophistication to understand the nuances of the law.

What we understand is that he has a conflict of interest with this bill because it will limit the types of lawsuits that his firm practices.

139 members of the House of Delegates voted for this bill. An overwhelming majority of the Senate is in favor of this bill, including a majority of his own committee.

It's time for a constitutional convention that enumerates far more limited powers for these chairmen.

Frosh is a political bully. He doesn't follow the rules of the political process at all. He needs to be reminded that he represents the p[ublic opinion and not his own agenda. People have had enough of this type of action and are finally taking steps to insure it will not happen again.

We should probably vote to have a Constitutional Convention next year so we citizens can change the Senate procedures to end Frosh's tyrrany on bills like SB420 which he stopped single handedly in spite of a majoirty of both houses wanting it passed (the companion billin the House passed unanimously).

To Andy Green and the Baltimore Sun
Doesn't this look like you should get involved. the people of maryland are getting fed up with this Joker, Senator Frosh. I am starting to look into the Constitutional Convention possibility too, and I bet a lot of maryland can see the need now. Get this in print before others do and you get the scoop. Or are you all in it for yourselves just like Senator Frosh, why haven't you done any articles on this.

Well look at this .After a day without posts the omalleywatch crowd spam this board with anti-Frosh posts within a few minutes of each other. Or is this the work of the Womble Crisis Communications team? Can't tell seeing how sloppy the work is.

Chum, it is not spam if it is numerous people. Can't you recognize grass roots effort when you see it? Many of us average Marylanders are pissed about Frosh and want to change his dictatorial practices which have effected all of us.negatively, paticularly not allowing us the civil immunity protection which is in SB420 and the other three bills the House passed unanimously for years which Frosh has single handedly blocked with a desk drawer veto.

Hey Chum, tell us what you see as "sloppy work"? I see a bunch of people who are upset about an issue that was brought up in the original article and you jump on them/me since we are fed up with Senator Frosh. I see entries the day after the article is posted running for over 14 hours +, not just a few minutes worth. If i was a thinking person that would look to me like people found out the content of the original post and started replying. OOPs i guess people aren't supposed to let others know what they read, huh? I don't know about the others but I had never been to the omalleywatch site till after I read this article. So get your facts together before trying to blast others, or better yet just stick to the concept covered in the post.

Hello all,

The discussion here has been great, but I'm wondering if you'd mind going to this post and telling us more about about the bills you've been writing about on this thread. People might want to know, say, what SB 420 does.

Personal attacks against Frosh instead of discussing the merits of the bill. That is so omalleywatch-ish. Grassroots or-organized cookie cutter responses. it's all the same. How's Ryan Nawcoski doing these days?

It's absolutely mind boggling how in a country with a government that is suppose to be influenced by the citizens that a person such as Sen. Frosh have the ability to completely turn his back on the majority vote and make whatever decisions he sees fit. SB 420 is just one example of a bill that after effortless climbing the political ladder can be so easily knocked off by one person with no explanation needed.

I have to say, this has nothing to do with grassroots, or omalley watch, or any special intrest group, or even any specific bill. This has EVERYTHING to do with a single chairmen having the ability to pretty much veto a bill.

Doesnt anyone read the constitution or bill of rights anymore? Arent we the people in charge here? Isnt everything brought up for a vote? I honestly don't know what happened to the America I once stood up so proudly to defend. Now I want to go hide in the middle of the country somewhere and hope my kids lives arent ruined by politicians.

See here's the test for ultimate free speech, we'll see if it works.

Andy, you and any other intelligent reader would be able to garner enough information about SB 420 from this thread to figure out what it is about.

Chum, you really are a chump. The question is if you're an ACORN chump. You see, there is enough like minded people that don't need petty little trolls like you to "tell them how to think." Additionally, there those that actually believe in the Constitution, the process, and knowing that one person's ability to usurp (which means to hijack) that process, basically isn't what the intent of the founding documents or process is about.

It's nice that you think we shouldn't get the truth and information out, when we have a lopsided newspaper in Baltimore telling half the story, yet, we are supposed to yield to it like it's the (oh gosh I said it) the Bible, and believe all that is written in it without looking for an alternative source.

Perhaps you should realize that if Senator Cardin's "newspaper revitalization act" get's through, I own this newspaper just like every other tax payer, and I have the right (yup, a RIGHT, both natural and Bill of Rights given) to express my views.

Please go and read the federalist papers, the anti-federalist papers, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence again before posting!