Update on Marty Pusey’s Run for State Delegate and the Final List of Contenders
Daily Times reporter Jenny Hopkinson has written a very informative article on Candidate Marty Pusey who is running for Delegate for our District 38B.
Marty Pusey, a Snow Hill resident, will join Pocomoke City Mayor Michael McDermott in attempting to take the two Worcester and Wicomico delegate seats out of the Democrats’ control.
“The needs and the values and the concerns of the Lower Shore are not being represented in Annapolis and the culture of tax and spend continues by the dominant party,” Pusey said. Democrats, she said, “have had control of the assembly for a century, and as a result we’ve become one of the most highly taxed states with the fewest liberties. I feel the people in our area deserve better.”
If elected, Pusey said she would push for tax breaks and decreased regulation for small businesses — moves she said will help to restart the economy — and be an advocate for agriculture.
“I’ve spent over 30 years on a farm and have raised chickens, and I’m very concerned about what’s happening to our farmers and the extra regulations being put on an industry that is already struggling,” she said.
If policies don’t change, Pusey warned, many farmers could be pushed out of the industry by over-regulation and narrowing profit margins.
A lifelong Worcester resident, Pusey currently works as the director of prevention services at the Worcester County Health Department, where she has been employed for about 20 years; serves on the local Drug and Alcohol Abuse Council; and owns a bridal store in Salisbury with her daughters.
Here is the lineup for Elected Office since the deadline last week …
Republican :
Governor: Bob Erlich
Congressional Seat District 1: Andy Harris and Rob Fischer
State Senator: Micheal James
Delegate 38B: Marty Pusey, Kaye Kenny, John Schanno , and Mike McDermott,
County Commissioner: District 1: Jerre Clauss, Merrill Lockfaw, Bill McDermott and Larry Ward
District 2: No Republicans have filed
District 4: Ted Elder
District 5: Commissioner Judy Boggs and Bob Thompson
District 6: Commissioner Linda Busick and Jimmy Bunting
Worcester County Sheriff: Reggie Mason, and David Lee Catrino
Worcester County States Attorney: Beau Oglesby
Clerk of the Court: Mary Burgess
Democrat:
Governor: Martin O’Malley
Congressional Seat District 1: Frank Kratovil
State Senator: Jim Mathias
Two other candidates, Charles Mickey Lehrer of Crisfield and Rick Carey, who is unaffiliated and from Pocomoke City, have also filed for the seat.
Delegate District 38B:
Incumbent, Norm Conway, Berlin Mayor, Gee Williams, Bernard John Hayden
County Commissioner: District 1: Jimmy Schoolfield
District 2: Incumbent, James Purnell and Former NAACP Pres. Eddie Lee
District 4: Incumbent, Virgil Shockley and Tommy Tucker
District 5: John Bodner
Worcester County Sheriff: Bobby Brittingham and Carroll Overholt
States Attorney: Incumbent, Joel Todd
Clerk of the Court: Stephen V. Hales
The Board of Education is expected to remain the same unless they vote to keep Donnie Shockley and Elect McDermott Campaign Treasurer, Craig Theobold.
Orphans Court Judges are running unopposed as are Commissioners Bud Church and Louise Guylas.
Register of Wills: Charlotte Kerbin Cathell, will face George Colburn in the election.
The primary election is Sept. 14, and the general election is Nov. 2.
But now with our screwed up early voting program, one can vote over a week before the actual election.
Whatever you do, study the agendas of the candidates and make an informed vote.
I will not be voting along party lines this year, I will be voting for who has and will do the most and the best for our county and state.
posted on: Saturday, July 10th, 2010 @ 8:16 pm
Who is this Bill McDermott that is running is District 1?
posted on: Saturday, July 10th, 2010 @ 8:23 pm