"Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. is scheduled Monday to announce a "small-business initiative to help revitalize Maryland's economy."

Let me guess, tax cuts, right? Ok, how's he going to pay for them? The old tax cuts pay for themselves argument won't wash because the budget has to be balanced in a given year. So what taxes... ahem, sorry, FEES... is he going to raise to take its place. Or what cuts is he going to make. Slick Bobby won't be straight with us.

Bob Ehrlich's record contradicts his campaign rhetoric. When he was governor, a steady stream of businesses left Maryland, downsized, or chose neighboring states instead of us.

For the full scoop read "In the Corporate Headquarters Game, Bob Ehrlich Lives in a Glass House."

- Steve Lebowitz, Annapolis

Is Ehrlich doing this on company time? Has he filed yet.

Creating a commission to study something isn't leadership and, fankly, it isn't helpful. Everyone knows what the issues are - small businesses need access to capital, help developing a realistic business plan.

If he really thinks these commissions are a good idea, why didn't he create them when he was in office?

Examining fraud , looking for waste and abuse in goverment agencies, helping private buisnesses compete with surrounding states by comparing our revenues to those with lower tax rates.
Sounds like Gov. Ehrlich is bringing back practical ideas lost over the past 4 years!

Steve Lebowitz must be taking a break from sending out false Ehrlich twits to post more of his bias nonsense.

Contrast Ehrlich's record to OMalley's record of luring new business right Steve?
With your hero raising the sales tax, business tax and the personal tax where has Governor OMalley succeeded in getting new business to move into Maryland?

John - do you know the record? How many companies came to town under Ehrlich? Don't start lobbing those bombs if you're not prepared to back them up with facts.

Ehrlich just proposed commissions, task forces, and studies - and absolutely nothing new. I hear that's his new slogan. "Bob Ehrlich for Maryland: Absolutely Nothing New."

So, let me get this straight, Ehrlich's "plan" for small business is to create a bunch of commissions to "study" their problems?

Isn't finding out what the problems are, and how they can be solved, all a part of the grand "listening tour"?

Transalation: "I want to pay lip serviice to small businesses so I will pretend to listen to them and then propose to create commissions to study them so I can avoid coming up with concrete easily measured proposals lest I be held accountable for actually accomplishing something."

Who thought it possible that he would actually run a worse campaign than he did in 2006?

Scottie, do you have any specific examples of Steve posting anything false? It's easy to make accusations, but back them up? That's another matter altogether. You truly mark yourself as an Ehrlich supporter if you can't back up your assertions. Let me guess... you support tax cuts, too? How do YOU think Ehrlich would pay for them.

Mr. Ehrlich claims he's interested in listening to entrepreneurs and helping them solve their business problems. I'm one of those entrepreneurs who, during his first (and hopefully only) term as Governor, trusted him to listen to me about the fraud and abuse in the BWI concession program. Not only did he turn a deaf ear to me, it turns out all along he was part of the problem, along with Mr. Steele, and the goal was to get my business out of BWI so his politically connected friends could have a very lucrative and exclusive contract. Listen to this entrepreneur now, Mr. Ehrlich: your misdeeds will catch up to you in November!!

Hey, could someone please show Martin O'Malley and Bob Erlich a U-tube video of New Jersey Governor Chris Christy and ask them if they could try and grow a pair too.

when exactly did this career politician achieve a level of expertise on entrepreneurship that makes him feel entitled to lecture the rest of us that we don't have the right attitude?

Or maybe copying and pasting bullet points from a press release was easier than asking something along those lines.

No surprise IPFrehley is posting his usual anti Ehrlich sound bites. How much is the gov paying you for your efforts. Every one says the same thing, so I hope the Gov. is not paying much

Here is your proof IPFrehley regarding false twits.

There’s a tradition of satirical Twitter feeds about politicians, such as @fakesheiladixon, which tweeted its way through the former mayor’s trial in November with bits like, "The @baltimoresun wonders how I am going to pay my lawyers? Mostly through raising your taxes and raiding the piggy banks of small children." (Democratic activist Steve Liebowitz fesses up to being @fakebobehrlich, but GOP wiseacres take note, @fakemartinomalley is available.)

Taken from Second Opinion May 14, 2010
who is@bobehrlich

http://maryland-politics.blogspot.com/2010/02/maryland-democrats-plan-media.html

In short order we see the same themes emerge from the Maryland Democratic Party's Rapid Response Team and not one iota of a rebuttal to the very detailed plan offered by Bob Ehrlich.

Ehrlich's clearly thinking outside of the box. Having MBA students staff a DBED info/attraction data center? Meanwhile O'Malley's law students are suing small business owners/farms in Maryland.

Or how about establishing contacts to help businesses navigate the red tape and to get straight answers across agencies. Anyway who has balanced a book in Maryland knows that MDE, DLLR and the Comptroller will tell you three different stories.

Wow, so Bob Ehrlich's big policy rollout is a whole lot of NOTHING.

I can't believe that his solution is to create task forces and panels to study what MIGHT be done to help small businesses in the future. Translation = don't do anything and when recession is over, take credit and claim that commissions/task forces saved the economy.

At least NO'Malley is out there making substantive changes to help some businesses. This plan by Ehrlich isn't going to help anyone, except himself in trying to get elected.