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  Another Iraq Vet [MD St Del Anthony Brown] is Touted For Senate
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Last EditedArmyDem  Sep 08, 2005 02:03pm
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News DateThursday, September 8, 2005 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionBy Josh Kurtz
Roll Call Staff

September 8, 2005

MITCHELLVILLE, Md. — In the minds of most political professionals, the Democratic Senate campaign in Maryland has just entered phase two.

Phase one began right after Sen. Paul Sarbanes (D) announced in March that he’d be retiring in 2006. That’s when two veteran officeholders, Rep. Benjamin Cardin (D) and former Rep. Kweisi Mfume (D), jumped into the race.

This month, four unconventional Democrats are poised to enter the primary: Forensic psychiatrist Lise Van Susteren, real estate developer Joshua Rales, historian Allan Lichtman, and former Baltimore County Executive Dennis Rasmussen, who has spent the past 15 years as a prosperous Annapolis lobbyist. At this point, each could run an interesting campaign and be a factor in the primary outcome, but Cardin and Mfume still must be seen as the frontrunners.

But the possibility of a phase three might be most intriguing of all: Anthony Brown, the state House Majority Whip, is also contemplating joining the race.

“I believe I have the potential of putting together a statewide campaign, a campaign in pursuit of statewide office,” he said in a recent interview. “I have a sufficient amount of support.”

Brown is no ordinary state lawmaker; a 43-year-old Harvard-educated lawyer and lieutenant colonel in the Army reserves, he just returned from a nine-month stint in Baghdad.
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