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September 3, 2010

Brian Murphy spot to air during Glenn Beck

Bob Ehrlich isn't the only Republican gubernatorial hopeful with television news today. Underdog challenger Brian Murphy he will debut a TV spot tonight on the jumbotron at Frederick's minor league baseball team stadium, after throwing out the game's first pitch.

Murphy's spot will air during Fox's Glenn Beck show tonight, next week and on the day before the Sept. 14 primary election, said campaign spokeswoman Karla Graham. The campaign disclosed the ad buy in a release announcing the beginning of his "Refuse to Settle Tour."

The Montgomery County investor plays up that theme in the ad, saying small businesses have been "choked" for the past eight years, under Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. and Gov. Martin O'Malley, and that "our last two governors forgot their role." The ad includes text saying "Ehrlich = largest spending increase in state history" and "O'Malley = largest tax increase in state history."

Murphy, who started a successful Smith Island bakery, gained national attention when he attracted the backing of Sarah Palin, Alaska's former governor and a Tea Party idol.

Still, Murphy faces significant name-recognition challenges headed into the Sept. 14 primary. And the Maryland Republican Party has thrown its support behind Ehrlich, who has broader appeal than the more conservative Murphy. Registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by more than 2-to-1 in Maryland.

Murphy has self-funded much of his campaign. This is his first television advertisement.

Posted by Julie Bykowicz at 2:50 PM | | Comments (7)
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Julie, a lot of blogs are reporting that Murphy has been working with O'Malley's old and current people. Basically a front for the Dems to hurt Ehrlich. Have you looked into it?

While everyone is talking about how 2010 will be like 1994, Marylanders should remember a small subplot. Helen Bently, the prohibitive frontrunner in 1994, grossly underestimated her primary challenger, Ellen Sauerbrey, ultimately losing on primary day. Brian Murphy is making the rounds, and proving himself to be a serious candidate with firm grasp on the issues. He is not a heavyweight by any means, but Bob Ehrlich would be wise to take him seriously in a Republican primary.

Brian Murphy is a genuine Conservative, and a good man. Bob Ehrlich is also a good man, but pays only lip-service to many Conservative principles. The Maryland Republican Party (of which I am a member) is dead-wrong on this one. I urge all those who consider themselves as Conservatives to vote for Brian Murphy.

D. Andrew Cook

Allison: He worked for constellation enegry for goshs' sake. I don't think Murphy is anywhere near OWEmalleys team.

Americans need to wake up the fact that Beck is simply another opinion pushing charlatan who is a product of mormon cult theology and he mixes this with his personal make up as a dry alcoholic. On his radio show and Fox Network program he consistent demonstrates all the unstable behaviors of a dry alcoholic which include grandiosity, judgmentalism, intolerance, impulsivity, ADD and indecisiveness. Alongside that reality, Glenn Beck does not possess a single ounce of journalistic integrity, has no college degree, has no qualifications and he is definitely not a true conservative. But then, what can anyone expect from someone who can't find anything filthier than their own personal reflection. Since people like Beck cannot survive on the basis of any personal merits, they survive by putting others down with lies and half truths in order to feel good about themselves. The truth about Beck is that he a dry mormon alcoholic who never got the counseling required for alcoholics. To further complicate things and confuse people, Beck flippantly throws around Christian terms like "God", "Jesus","Holy Spirit" as well as voices of other so called "Spirit Powers" on his radio talk show. Beck is a mormon in active standing with the mormon church and is not a Christian. Mormonism teaches many gods, that the god of the earth was once a man who attained godhood status, there is no trinity, the cross of Christ means nothing and that Jesus Christ and Satan were brothers. Because Beck does not possess a single ounce of journalistic integrity, he is the perfect abortion poster child for Fox Network. The people who love what Beck says are no different than the impressionable sheep who loved every speech made by Adolph Hitler in his early years when he brought Germany into an era of economic prosperity These same sheep also blindly followed Hitler into one of the darkest chapters of world history. Beck and the Fox Network both cater to the same lowest common denominator of demagoguery. Beck would not know the first thing about God as he is a mormon. Someone should ask him which of the many mormon gods he kept talking about during his argument with himself on Saturday on the square in DC. Like a typical dry alcoholic, Beck even lied on national television when he spoke about holding a document signed by George Washington. That event never took Place. Unfortunately, people who love being led around by the nose do not realize that he is talking about a different god than that of Christianity, Judaism or Islam and that he has been a product of mormonism cultism from the day he started doing a radio talk show as an opinion pusher. You don't have to have a degree in psychology to see that he exhibits all the signs of a dry alcoholic. The only reason this unstable impressionable idiot fell into mormonism was because the woman he wanted to have sex with would not do so unless they got first got married and from that point, they joined the mormon cult. Glenn Beck is as big a charlatan as Josephs Smith or the 5th grade graduate (Charles T Russell) who started the Jehovah's Witness cult. This is Glenn Beck in a very accurate & concise nutshell. Considering the fact that Becks personal views are extreme Marxist Libertarian, his form of patriotism is false and he is a person who has no real substance or depth. It will not surprise many of use when Beck’s next big thing is to come out of the closet and announce his homosexuality to the nation.

I have also heard Murphy got fired from Constellation for fudging his expense accounts. Someone should finally report this.

Dennis anyone can copy and paste. Do you have any original thoughts?

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Annie Linskey covers state politics and government for The Baltimore Sun. Previously, as a City Hall reporter, she wrote about the corruption trial of Mayor Sheila Dixon and kept a close eye on city spending. Originally from Connecticut, Annie has also lived in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where she reported on war crimes tribunals and landmines. She lives in Canton.

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