Beware: Mikulski Funder in Baltimore
Sen. Barbara A. Milkulski is holding a big hometown fundraiser for her 2010 re-election on the Ides of March.
The other 12 Democratic women senators are invited guests. Mikulski, first elected to the Senate in 1986, is proud to be known as their dean.
Tickets to the March 15 event at the downtown Hilton overlooking Camden Yards go for $500. The VIP reception, a chance to mingle in a more exclusive way ahead of time, costs $1,000 to $2,400 a head.
Several hundred people will attend, according to campaign manager Simone Ward.
Ward wouldn't say what they expect to clear from the event, but you can do the rough math. Of course, everyone there may not be a paying guest. Then again, some who give are typically no-shows.








Comments
Why lead with the "Beware" headline? Who writes these headlines? What's their agenda?
Posted by: Patricia | March 13, 2010 4:28 PM
And Milkulski is another long time joke that needs to be replace this November !!!
Posted by: bob | March 13, 2010 6:24 PM
Patricia, never heard the phrase Beware the Ides of March before?
Posted by: Q | March 13, 2010 9:38 PM
Patricia--it's a nod to the line from Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar"--"beware the Ides of March."
Posted by: fellspointer | March 13, 2010 10:08 PM
i say throw out all of the career politicians, they have to go because thwey ignore the needs of their
constituants. I went to the office of a well known Democrat, whom I voted for
and I WAS TURNED AWAY BEFORE
I GOT TO HIS DOOR ! Another well known Demorat wanted me to put my
concerns in writing and mail it to her
before I would be allowed to meet with
her to dicuss my issues. I known that
that big business constituants aren't treated like this.
Posted by: teelee86 | March 14, 2010 5:52 AM
Babs needs to be put to pasture in Nov. Wake up Baltimore. Clean up your House. Bye Bye Babs Remember R.E.N.O. REELECT NO ONE
Posted by: 1bigdog1 | March 14, 2010 5:16 PM
As always a fund raiser for the common man!
Public financing is essential now more so than ever.
It is the only way we, the people, can reclaim the electorial system.
Buying tickets at these prices means only one thing access to the movers and shakers in DC.
We need true reform in DC>
Posted by: jay | March 15, 2010 12:24 PM
Why does B deed to raise funds? She is running unopposed. also all the Nasa companies have already given her PAC Funds millions. What does she do with all that money? she surely does not give it to the needy.
Posted by: Dave | March 16, 2010 9:17 AM
Will never vote for her again - and believe it's high time for term limits.
Posted by: Ellen | March 16, 2010 1:45 PM
Thanks for the warning. It would be good for the citizens of Maryland to know who is giving her money. I'd bet they don"t want anyone to know who they are. The silence by Mikulski is deafening over ALL of our national issues in Washington. She is afraid to tell us her views because she knows that her Senatorial future will more than just be over in November. She will have to deal with the selling out of Maryland tax payers well into her retirement. At 73 years old she should be retiring now.
Posted by: Bill Mohler | March 16, 2010 4:24 PM
Ironic, isn't it, that Babs made her reputation as defender of the 'little guy', the 'ethnic American' against the government Establishment? She fought against the bureaucratic federal government that sought to destroy Fells Point with an expressway -- but now after all these years, she IS the very bureaucratic federal government that she fought against! It is well past time for Mikulski to be replaced.
Posted by: Observer | March 16, 2010 6:33 PM
WAKE UP MARYLAND.........SHE HAS GOT TO GO........ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!!
Posted by: Joe Mess | March 16, 2010 8:21 PM
I am voting against all Democrats, city, state and federal. The DNC is a Marxist group.
Posted by: magnoliabel | March 19, 2010 5:12 AM
I am voting against all Republicans, city, state and federal. The RNC is a Fascist group.
Posted by: skip | March 19, 2010 12:16 PM
There is no way to make a "fundraiser" look ethical, in either party.
It's a corrupt quid pro quo any way you slice it.
Who gives $500 to a politician? (Hint: it's not people who believe in good government). It's people who want favors. And it works.
Why this isn't illegal is beyond me!
Time for public financing of campaigns (the federal Fair Elections Now act).
Guess who hasn't co-sponsored this legislation yet. Mikulksi. She likes this dirty money system just the way it is.
These fundraisers are I was born at night, but it wasn't last night.
How dumb do they think they are?
I love it when they say, "all of these campaign contributions couldn't possibly influence my decisions!"
Here's some news: the developers who gave you the money certainly thought so.
Posted by: Howdydoodah | April 4, 2010 4:02 PM