Dyson Wins;
Hambone Souped
Veteran public official Senator Roy Dyson wins convincing 68% of the vote in landslide despite dirty campaign of Hambone McKay...even Hambone's newspaper couldn't keep Humpty Dumpty from breaking apart on his campaign of fraud and deceit.  Last minute attack ads of McKay on issue of Dyson's support for commuter rail and second span over Patuxent was highlighted by bridge being closed the day before election...McKay's ads simply boosted public approval of Dyson's efforts to unsnarl region's traffic woes...

Kenny Dement (R. Piney Point) was the clean up batter as he hit a home run for a second term as a Republican County Commissioner, joining Larry Jarboe in attracting Democrats by the thousands to win in a Democratic year.  Dement, left, joined by Dan Raley (D. Great Mills) will be on a much happier board, with Jackie Russell replacing Hambone who will be going down in record books for his spending on a losing race to defeat Roy Dyson.  Tommy McKay's campaign was marked by his daddy starting a new newspaper, his son being arrested for  counterfeiting twenty dollar bills and the revelation that his own claim to having a degree in business from the U of Md was a fraud.  McKay's attempt to add to a GOP General Assembly for Gov. Bobby Ehrlich was joined by the failure of Calvert Commissioner David Hale to beat Del. Sue Kullen. Above, new St. Mary's Commissioner President Jack Russell, with his fellow Democratic Commissioners Raley and Tommy Mattingly (D. Leonardtown).
Hambone broke down into tears when he called his family retainer, George Forrest to comment on his loss while Forrest was running the county govt. tv coverage....were Hambone's tears real or just another fake?  Only The Shadow knows for sure!
Democrats celebrate at Breton Bay Inn

Senator Roy Dyson with Democratic Governor-Elect  Martin O'Malley at Mama Leone's in Callaway during the campaign.  ST. MARY'S TODAY photo by
Results from St. Mary's and now Dyson wins Calvert County too:
Dyson 5,065 to McKay 4,025
St. Mary's results:
Dyson, Roy - DEM - 17,501
McKay, Thomas F. - REP - 8,204

Final Results for St. Mary's

preliminary results
Larry Jarboe, Kenny Dement clobber opponents as voters separate a few local Republicans amid Democrat rout which stretched from St. Mary's to Annapolis to Washington, D.C.
Jackie Russell is next commissioner president, Mattingly coasts to easy victory and Dan Raley won a tough race against no one. 
Precinct by precinct breakdown
*  Cameron Defeats Zylak
SHERIFF
Cameron, Tim - REP - 12480
Zylak, David D. - DEM - 9436

St. Mary's Sheriff Dave Zylak lost by a decisive margin, amazingly still defending the role his wife played in the Sheriff's Dept. After failing to fire corrupt cops in his department in the Loot Scandal, Zylak paid the price for allowing the taint to stain the agency and for letting his wife run the department.   Zylak joins Ben Burroughs, Larry Williams and Joe Lee Somerville as one-term Sheriffs since 1966.  Zylak nearly lost the Democratic primary to Kevin Darryl Somerville.  The new Sheriff, Tim Cameron, right is shown with GOP central committee member Tom Haynie. 
ST. MARY'S TODAY photo

Davis Loses Shocker
in Charles County
Boozing Delegate Danny Mayer goes down to defeat
Election Summary Report
Gubernatorial General Election

Evans Holds On to Calvert Sheriff's Post:
Evans - 15,022 to McKenny - 11,538

Calvert County Results

* Redden and Williams running neck and neck for
St. Mary's Clerk of Court
* Results from Calvert show Del. Sue Kullen with wide lead over David Hale; final votes for Kullen 7,555 to 5,629 for Republican Calvert Commissioner President David Hale
Hale and McKay Both Take the GOP
Bomb-ride to Political Oblivion
GREAT MILLS --- Two Southern Maryland Republicans who are serving out their terms as commissioner presidents tried in vain to move up to the Maryland General Assembly. Tommy McKay of Hollywood, lost by a big margin after spending nearly a half million dollars on his effort to buy a seat in the Maryland State Senate.  Depending on his final vote total, McKay may have spent as much as $50 per vote.  Hale lost by a convincing margin in his effort to oust Del. Sue Kullen in Calvert County.  Kullen was appointed by the Democratic Central Committee two and half years ago to replace Democrat George Owings who resigned the seat in order to become Maryland Secretary of Veterans Affairs.   McKay called Senator Roy Dyson at his headquarters and conceded about 10:30 pm.
St. Mary's election board screws up yet another election results reporting... at 10:25 pm, the election supervisors have yet to issue final results, the county's website went kaput twice tonight, the last emailed results went out at 9:38 pm and a reporter has been standing outside the front door of the election office for 2 hours and 15 minutes and yet Catherine Countiss can't manage to hand out a single sheet of paper showing results... the election board has an obligation to conduct and open and honest process and once again, the results are incomplete.  Just before 11 pm, the St. Mary's election office emailed a listing of vote totals which showed that a record 50,000 plus voters took part in the election.  But they didn't.  The election board screwed up somehow in releasing the figures as they earlier reported that about 52,000 people were registered to vote.   A wholesale revamping of the election office is needed.
During September's primary, electronic voter-registration machines manufactured by Diebold Election Systems rebooted without warning in every precinct in Maryland.

Hollywood delivers 2-1 victory to Dyson in the area of St. Mary's where they know Hambone best...

Busted Voting Machines Pulled from Lexington Park Precinct

Steele Melts With Latest Vote Count
, 1721 of 1793 precincts

B. Cardin (Dem)	M. Steele (GOP)
819,205 54.00%	674,296 44.44%

Maryland Lt. Gov. Mike Steele with St. Mary's Republican Woman of the Year Jackie Miller at Maryland Day in St. Mary's City.  Right, Congressman Ben Cardin on a visit to Lexington Park during the campaign.
ST. MARY'S TODAY photos
Influence of black Democrats in PG County supporting Steele was zilch ....as Cardin netted best county vote total in the state on home stomping ground of Wayne Curry, turncoat to Democratic Party.  Black Democrats knew Cardin was on their side and that Mike Steele was simply a good actor who knows how to make nifty tv ads.
O'Malley Lays
Claim to Win
as Votes Roll in from Democratic Strongholds; even cleans up with big votes in PG and Montgomery Counties

828,862 54.20%

676,739 44.25%

Rail & Democrats
Winners All!  
Del. Anthony Brown, Del. John Bohanan, Sen. Roy Dyson, Congressman Steny Hoyer, Sen. Mac Middleton, Governor-Elect Martin O'Malley and Del. Sally Jameson, pledged to bring commuter rail to Southern Maryland. They joined together at the CSX tracks in Waldorf to make the pledge.
ST. MARY'S TODAY photo

Democrats Claim Statehouse
BALTIMORE --- On stage at the campaign election night gathering, Del. Anthony Brown, the new Lt. Governor of Maryland said "365 days ago, tomorrow, Martin O'Malley asked me to join him on this campaign and I can't tell you how honored I am to have joined him."
"For the working families of Maryland it is time to move Maryland forward again," declared O'Malley when he was introduced by Brown. 
"We are one Maryland, we are going to recruit people, men and women, regardless of party, who are competent to work for you, that is the kind of government we are going to give you in Maryland".
Ehrlich Concedes
Early projections indicate big victories for Democrats O'Malley, Cardin
"We just don't know folks, we just don't know."

National results show Democrats near control of Senate, in charge of House

Democrats on Verge of Winning House  24 and counting...Hoyer will be next Majority Leader...

O'Malley Wins Maryland; Cardin Beats Steele

Webb leads Allen by 7,000 votes in Virginia voting with 99% of the vote counted tally
* Win Menendez wins in New Jersey senate race, keeps seat for Democrats
* Win Santorum loses Penn senate seat to Democrat Casey
* Win  Brown wins senate seat in Ohio over Republican Mike Dewine
* Win  Rhode Island tosses out liberal Republican Chaffe and goes for a Democrat
*Win  Missouri now in the win column for Democrats as Talent goes down in stem cell battle
* Win Montana still close for Democrats in order to take over Senate
* Win  Virginia goes into the Democrat column with Jim Webb beating Sen. George Allen, who, up until he opened his big mouth, would have been planning a run for the White House about now...


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