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When Red Maryland first started making endorsements four years ago,  one of the candidates we endorsed was a challenger in House District 5A named Justin Ready . At the time, we wrote: If there is one thing that best defines Justin  Ready , it's his ideological consistency. Justin  Ready  is a conservative's conservative. he is for reforming education spending so that we actually educate students instead of grow bureaucracies. He's a strong supporter of both the Right to Life as well as our Second Amendment rights. Justin believes in legitimate health care reform that will allow portability of coverage and real reductions in health care costs while increasing the availability of coverage. And like all of our Republican members of the General Assembly in Annapolis should believe, Justin  Ready  supports cutting wasteful spending, and providing meaningful tax relief to Maryland's middle and working class families. I'd say that we nailed that one. During his f...

In the middle of serious campaigns about serious issues, sometimes we get stuff like......this. On last week's Red Maryland Radio we talked about candidate mailers and how they are a peek into the soul of a campaign. One of the mentions we mentioned was that of Gus Kurtz, candidate for Delegate in District 31B, who included copies of his voter registration cards on his lit piece. The rumor mill had been swirling that he had recently been a registered Democrat, so the idea that he would incldue this information on his lit piece gave creddence to the concerns about this rumor. Well apparently there was more to it than just that, because the lit piece apparently became a full-blown kerfluffle thanks to one of his opponents, Meagan Simonaire: In April 2012 and November 2013 - the issue dates of the cards - Kurtz was a registered Republican, according to the State Board of Elections.     He was also a Republican from 1982 until 2002. But from 2002 to April 20, 2012, he was register...