Progressive Maryland in the News - 2008
[Also see PM in the News archives for 2009 and 2007]
On Nov. 22, the Progressive Maryland Education Fund and allies convened the 2008 Progressive Summit in Annapolis, where hundreds of leaders from across the state met to exchange information, ideas and formulate a common agenda and strategic plan for collaboration in the coming year. See more photos and description...
"Following this election, the GOP needs to look in the mirror. It's finally paying a price for its crazy, trigger-happy foreign policy, driving the economy into the ground, exploding the budget deficit, and its nutcake views on social policies. If this continues, the GOP could end up a rump party representing a shrinking base of bible-thumping whites in rural backwaters..."
-Sean Dobson, Executive Director of Progressive Maryland, WBAL "C4 Show", Nov 7
"The Progressive Maryland Education Fund has rescheduled its Progressive Summit for 9 am to 4 pm Nov. 22 at Annapolis High School, 2700 Riva Road, to discuss an agenda for next year... visit www.progressivemaryland.org."
-Politicians with Md. Roots Hold Powerful Posts in House, Annapolis Capital, Nov 20
"The Progressive Maryland Education Fund is convening the annual Progressive Summit from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at Annapolis High School, 2700 Riva Road, as an opportunity for Maryland activists and organizations to learn, network, strategize over important issues and build consensus on a progressive agenda for 2009."
-Progressive Summit, Annapolis Capital notices, Nov 6 (details & RSVP)
"Health Care for America Now's goal this year is to get the next President and a majority of Congress committed to the principles of quality, affordable health care for all..." [Matthew Weinstein, Federal Issues Director for Progressive Maryland and HCAN state coordinator]
-WJZ TV-13 coverage, release and video of news conference, Oct 31
"... promoting unions... Living wage laws... Prevailing wage... Contractor accountability... Subsidy accountability... All these policies together would boost pay for Baltimoreans and rev up the city's once vaunted 'American Dream' engine..."
-The Audacity of Simplicity: Baltimore Needs Higher Wages, by Progressive Maryland Executive Director Sean Dobson, Audacious Ideas/OSI-Baltimore, Oct 6
"The American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland yesterday demanded that the state police disclose under public information laws whether 32 grass-roots advocacy and political activist groups that have held large public protests in recent years have been targets of spying by undercover agents… on behalf of groups ranging from Silver Spring-based Progressive Maryland…"
-ACLU Seeks Data on Spying for 32 Groups, Wash. Post, Oct 1
"The American Civil Liberties Union filed a freedom of information request on behalf of such groups as Progressive Maryland, which promotes liberal causes... to determine if they were among those infiltrated by state police..."
-Maryland ACLU Seeks State Police Spy Files, UPI, Oct 1
"According to a report released recently by the Maryland Budget and Tax Policy Institute and the Progressive Maryland Education Fund, Maryland's median household income has increased to $68,080 – the highest in the nation. And the state's rate of unemployment – 4.4 percent – remains lower than the national average of 4.7 percent..."
-Our Wealth Isn't Shared by All: In Maryland, Nation's Richest State, Many Struggle To Survive, Daily Times, Sep 29
"Meanwhile, Progressive Maryland, a liberal advocacy group, called the proposed sale a 'golden opportunity' for Maryland to undo electric deregulation [and seeks] a requirement that, 'as part of his purchase of Constellation, Buffett sell Constellation's Maryland power plants back to a regulated BGE at their new, affordable price… Buffett can keep the rest of Constellation's sprawling empire outside of Maryland…'"
-Pols See Silver Lining in Constellation Deal: Bailout benefits Buffett, but Not the State, Sens. Pipkin and Rosapepe Say, The Gazette, Sep 26
Leaders of ACORN, AFSCME, SEIU/1199 and True Majority oppose the blank-check bailout of Wall Street at a Baltimore news conference, coordinated by Progressive Maryland Sept. 25
"Unfortunately Maryland is now being affected by the national economic downturn... as a result of the real estate bubble and national policies since 2001... But even while the economy was growing... middle class families actually saw their real incomes fall by thousands of dollars during this decade under the Bush Administration..."
-Matthew Weinstein, Progressive Maryland Federal Issues Director, WMPT TV-22, Sep 26
"Progressive Maryland represents Americans outrage about the blank-check, no-strings-attached $700-billion plan. Matthew Weinstein said before Congress uses taxpayers' dollars to bailout Wall Street, leaders must help working people struggling to keep their jobs and homes..."
-Baltimore news conference videos: WBAL-11 eve. & morning & Fox-45, Sep 25
"The unbalanced, unfair story on the County Council's 7-2 vote to enact a prevailing wage... fails to mention the mountain of economic studies showing that prevailing wage, which is law at the federal and state levels as well as in hundreds of local jurisdictions around the country, does not drive up construction costs..."
-Prevailing Wage Does Not Increase Costs, Progressive Maryland Director Sean Dobson's letter to The Gazette, Sep 25
"Sean Dobson, director of the Progressive Maryland Education Fund, said this year's findings are 'sobering,' but next year's will be even more shocking. The report, which covered from 2001 through 2007, found great disparity among economic classes…"
-Economic Picture Worsens for Poor Marylanders, Southern Md. Online, Sep 21
"That is just one way of 'rewarding work' that is recommended by 'The State of Working Maryland 2008' from the Progressive Maryland Education Fund and the nonpartisan Maryland Budget and Tax Policy Institute..."
-Two Groups Call for an Increase in the State's Minimum Wage: Report Calls for Ending Tax Breaks for Corporations, The Gazette, Sep 19
"Multi-millionaires in Maryland will all sell their houses and pull their kids out of school and leave their friends and families behind and move to a third-world country if you dare raise their taxes by a few hundred bucks? I just don't buy it."
-Sean Dobson, Executive Director, Progressive Maryland, WBAL Bruce Elliott Show, Sep 12
"Unfortunately the state of working Maryland is not good... working families are paying the price for mistaken policies, mostly at the federal level..." [Matthew Weinstein, Progressive Maryland's Baltimore Region Director]
-Listen to the Interview on "Maryland Morning Show," WYPR, Sep 24
"From 2001-2007, Maryland experienced strong productivity and robust overall economic growth, but the fruits of this expansion did not trickle down to most Marylanders..." [Matthew Weinstein, Progressive Maryland's Baltimore Region Director]
-News Interview, Fox-TV 45, Sep 20
“Sean Dobson, director of the Progressive Maryland Education Fund, said this year's findings are "sobering," but the next year's will be even more shocking. The report, which covered from 2001 through 2007, found great disparity among economic classes..."
-Economic Picture Worsens for Poor Marylanders, Annapolis Capital/Capital News Service, Sep 21
"A report to be released today calls for the state to raise its minimum wage to $7.15 immediately and to $8.15 in July 2009... just one way of 'rewarding work' that is recommended by The State of Working Maryland 2008 from the Progressive Maryland Education Fund and the nonpartisan Maryland Budget and Tax Policy Institute..."
-Two Groups Call for an Increase in the State's Minimum Wage, Report Calls for Ending Tax Breaks for Corporations, The Gazette, Sep 19
"A similar study in Maryland, also released today [by the Progressive Maryland Education Fund and the Maryland Budget and Tax Policy Institute], found that although 250,000 fewer Maryland residents have health insurance than did in 2001, there was little change in the number of uninsured Marylanders from 2006 to 2007."
-Virginians Who Lack Insurance On Rise; Study Says Many Pay More of Health Costs, Wash. Post, Sep 16
"The bill has the support of County Executive Isiah Leggett, Progressive Maryland and the United Brotherhood of Carpenters..."
-Montgomery County Council Approves Contractor Wage Bill, Wash. Post, Sep 9
"How is it possible that the wealthiest state in the wealthiest nation in the world has a rising poverty rate and such a high poverty rate?" said Matthew Weinstein, Baltimore regional director of Progressive Maryland..."
-Maryland Still the Richest State in the Nation, Balt. Sun, Aug 27
"Only about a third of Anne Arundel's state lawmakers scored well on the Progressive Maryland Education Fund's annual legislative scorecard released this week and designed to show how lawmakers support working families...."
-Report: Arundel State Lawmakers Don't Support Working Families, Annapolis Capital, July 31
"We led the fight in last fall's General Assembly special session for new revenue for state government, to protect our investment in education, health care and the Chesapeake Bay. We fought to make sure the tax increases were fair...." [Matthew Weinstein, Progressive Md. Baltimore Region Director]
-Matt Weinstein Presses Lawmakers, Baltimore Jewish Times, Aug 1
"When lawmakers go down to Annapolis, they come under a lot of pressure from deep-pocket special interests to forget about the working families who elected them. The PMEF scorecard tracks their work in Annapolis to make sure lawmakers side with regular voters, not with the HMOs and electricity monopolies who write big campaign checks," said Sean Dobson, Executive Director of the Progressive Maryland Education Fund.
-CTV interview, July 28
"Nine bills went into the scorecard, and progressive income tax reform was weighted most heavily, [Progressive Maryland Education Fund's Sean] Dobson said. Two other bills — public financing of political campaigns and expansion of health care — were also more heavily weighted than the six other pieces of legislation..."
-Advocacy Group Puts Former Leader at Top of Legislative Rankings, The Gazette, July 28
"'As of July 24, the federal minimum wage is higher than Maryland’s minimum wage, and that’s simply unacceptable in this bluest of blue states,' said Sean Dobson, executive director of Progressive Maryland."
-State Criticized for Minimum Wage Lag: Advocates Hope to Leapfrog 70-Cent Bump in Federal Floor, The Gazette, July 25
"The plan is designed to target what USAction calls America’s “economic crisis,” with health care, energy and education being the center pieces. Marvin Silver, USAction’s campaign manager, described the plan as “long-term investments for our future.”..."
-Van Hollen, Edwards, Show Support for ‘Invest in America’s Future’ Plan, PolitickerMD.com, July 17
"The advocacy group says the agenda, called "Invest in America's Future," can be funded in part by saving billions of dollars by ending the Iraq war and by rolling back President Bush's tax cuts..."
-Members Of Congress Back Advocacy Group Agenda, Cox.net, July 17
"'In 2009, we will either have a guarantee of quality, affordable health care we can all count on or we will continue to be at the mercy of the private health insurance industry,' Elbridge James, president of Progressive Maryland, said...."
-Small Businesses Struggle to Provide Coverage, Community Times, Westminster, July 16
"President of Progressive Maryland Elbridge James speaks about the new national campaign to get quality affordable health care Tuesday in Annapolis."
-Taxes Could Be Next Frontier for Health Care: Latest Medicaid Expansion is the Foundation for Universal Coverage, The Gazette, July 11
"Progressive Maryland, Maryland Citizens' Health Initiative, and many other unions and organizations came together to champion the need for health insurance for all Americans..."
-Residents Lobby for Universal Health Care, Carroll County Times, July 9
"Tax dollars have an impact not just on the goods that they buy, but on where those goods are from,' said Matthew Weinstein, Baltimore regional director for Progressive Maryland, a member of SweatFree Maryland..."
-Report: Maryland Spends $8 Million on Clothing Sweatshops, Business Gazette, July 10
"'This is the year for affordable health care, or we're going to have the same old thing,' said Elbridge James, President of
Progressive Maryland..."
-Labor, Liberal Groups Press for National Health Plan, Washington Examiner, July 9
"Health Care for America Now... will launch the campaign in 52 cities. Progressive Maryland will kick off the campaign in Annapolis..."
-Maryland Groups Join National Affordable Health Care Push, Washington Business Journal, July 8
"Sean Dobson [executive director of Progressive Maryland] said the day will feature breakout groups and policy sessions to craft a united agenda..."
-Progressive Democrats Plan November Summit, The Gazette, July 4
"'We should ensure our tax dollars support good jobs and wages for workers,' said Matthew Weinstein, Baltimore region director for Progressive Maryland..."
-Coalition of Labor Organizations Urges Maryland to Sever Ties to Sweatshops, The Examiner, July 2
"I am honored to receive the 2008 Progressive Leadership Award and would like to thank USAction for this recognition," [Congresswoman Donna] Edwards said. "I admire the work of USAction and its affiliates, including Progressive Maryland."
-Edwards Receives USAction Award, PolitickerMD.com, June 12
"About the same time, a group of Iraq war veterans planted forget-me-nots near the foot of a giant American flag at the top of Federal Hill, overlooking downtown Baltimore. 'War is about people,' said Matthew Weinstein, Progressive Maryland's federal issues director, in a written statement. 'All too often we forget the soldiers who are on the front lines. We forget them by not addressing the hardship their service imposes on their families while they are gone. And too often we forget them when they come home and need help paying for health care and educational needs'..."
-A Day for Honoring a 'Legacy of Life': Officials, Veterans, Others Pay Tribute to the Dead of Past and Current Wars, Balt. Sun, May 27
"And in Federal Hill, a group planted plants instead of flags to remember Maryland's fallen heroes. Forget-me-nots were planted under the American flag overlooking the Inner Harbor in memory of the troops who died in service in Iraq and Afghanistan. That event was sponsored by VoteVets.org, Veterans for Peace and Progressive Maryland..."
-Services Held Throughout the State Remember Maryland's Fallen, WBAL-TV, May 27
"The issue has created unique partnerships and divisions, said Sean Dobson, executive director of Progressive Maryland, which has not taken a position yet. 'You're going to see normal allies working against each other and normal opponents in bed with each other on this issue,' Dobson said..."
-Teachers Vote to Remain Neutral; Other Organizations Mull Options, The Gazette, May 22
"For now, the talking is being left to participants in a series of 13 town hall meetings that the Maryland Citizens’ Health Initiative and Progressive Maryland are holding around the state. Participants are being given information about new health care programs and laws and are being asked for input on ways to expand coverage that will be pushed during the next year's General Assembly..."
-New Maryland Law Expands Health Coverage and Grads: Here's to Your Health: Advocates Tout New Law Letting Young Adults Stay on Parents' Plan until 25, The Gazette, May 2 & 8
"On April 24, 2008, a spirited antiwar protest was held in this city in the downtown area... sponsored by MoveOn.org and Progressive Maryland... Madeleine Mysko, a registered nurse and veteran of the Vietnam War ripped into Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), who has consistently voted to fund the Iraq War to the tune of $514 billion..."
-Sen. Mikulski and the Military-Industrial Complex, American Chronicle, May 5. This piece was also published by The People's Voice, Media Monitors Network, and Bay Area Indymedia.
"Sean Dobson, executive director of the Progressive Maryland Education Fund, said the report's findings about income disparity make the case for more proactive state government measures: broader access to affordable health care, expanded sales taxes to cover more services, further increases in the minimum wage and even voluntary funding of political campaigns to check the influence of special interests in Maryland..."
-Between the Haves and Have-Nots, a Widening Gulf: Report Finds Gaps Have Grown in Md., Wash. Post, May 1
"Sean Dobson, executive director of Progressive Maryland, said public-interest groups such as his can be at a disadvantage compared with business interests trying to make their presence felt in Annapolis. 'There are a number of ways to try to influence top lawmakers... Unfortunately, two of them – campaign contributions and hiring a lawmaker's friends as your lobbyist – both cost a lot of money'...'"
-Former Aides to Miller Now Lobby Him: Working for Long-Serving Senate President Enhances Résumés for Many, Wash. Post, April 20
Progressive Maryland executive director Sean Dobson was interviewed along with Steven Greenhouse, author of "The Big Squeeze" and workplace correspondent for The New York Times, on the widening income gap undermining the American Dream of upward social mobility. [NOTE: the link below downloads the 50-min., 47 MB MP3 audio file; the Dobson segment begins at minute 24]
-WYPR's "Mid Day" with Dan Rodricks, Apr 10
"Sean Dobson, executive director of Progressive Maryland, said, 'Had Wynn done the right thing and stayed until the term was over, the seat de facto would have been empty anyway because he would have been frantically trying to line up a corporate lobbying gig...'"
-Congressman Al Wynn Resigns Early, Public Radio WYPR FM, April 2
"'They've caught us with our pants down,' said Sean Dobson, executive director of Progressive Maryland. 'In the last 10 days (of the session), we will be scrambling to try to block this bill any way we can'..."
-Opponents Rally to Block Private School Tax Credit Bill, Delmarva Daily Times/Capital News Service, April 2
Donna Edwards, 4th District candidate for Congress, at Prince George's forum March 31
FOX 45 VIDEO of Sean Dobson, Executive Director of Progressive Maryland: :
"These huge corporate special interests have too much clout because they give so much in campaign contributions - that's why we think lawmakers must pass campaign finance reform."
Today Ratepayers Lobbied Lawmakers for Relief, Fox 45 Baltimore, Mar 27
"Sean Dobson[ Progressive Maryland Executive Director] calls power deregulation 'the worst policy blunder in modern history.' Maryland lawmakers passed it, he says, after collectively taking $300,000 from the utilities. He says they've gotten $1 million since, and an analysis published by Progressive Maryland claims that deregulation supporters got five times more power company campaign donations than deregulation opponents. 'You and I are feeling it now,' Dobson says. 'Our electric bills are going to go up 800 bucks a year right now.'..."
-A Long Campaign: Sean Dobson Is Trying to Change The System, But For Now, All He Can Do Is Work It, Baltimore City Paper, Mar 26
"Here in Maryland, Progressive Maryland is pushing citizens to support a public campaign finance bill that the organization hopes will put elections back in the hands of voters instead of special interest groups. Similar bills failed in the past three years. Check out SB 593 and give it your support."
-Fixing Government, Frederick News Post, Mar 24
"A survey by Progressive Maryland found that people living in predominantly black communities give about 5 1/2 times less in political donations than state residents in general. In other words, they have little clout in the corridors of power. By diminishing the need for such donations, public financing would help address a glaring inequity.
-The Color of Money, Editorial, Balt. Sun, Mar 20
"A report by Progressive Maryland showed that while the economy has been growing, wages in Maryland have been stagnant – even as income grows for those at the upper end of the scale. 'Average blue-collar families that work hard and earn a wage are not included in the bonanza,' Dobson said..."
-The Poor and Plenty: Maryland May Be Affluent Overall, But Poverty Traps Families, Including Children, Throughout the State, Balt. Sun, Mar 9
"Matthew Weinstein, Baltimore regional director of Progressive Maryland said, 'We have squandered $500 billion – $10 billion from Maryland taxpayers along – imagine what we could have done with that money'..."
-Iraq War 5-Year Anniversary Vigil, WYPR Public Radio, Mar 21
"Maryland has paid $10.1 billion for the war through the end of 2007... To put that in perspective, the special legislative session... last fall sought to increase state revenues by a total of $2 billion annually to finance... education, health care, transportation, and the Chesapeake Bay. "Five years of war in Iraq are five years too many," said Progressive Maryland's Federal Issues Director, Matthew Weinstein..."
-Iraq War Cost $5,000 per Maryland Household, Dan Rodricks blog, Balt. Sun, Mar 20
"Matthew Weinstein from Progressive Maryland helped organize the protest and said, 'It's incredible it's gone on this long we've also spent $500 Billion dollars in Iraq. $10 Billion of that came out of our pockets here in Maryland'..."
-5th Anniversary of Iraq War: 100 Attend Baltimore Vigil, ABC2-WMAR Baltimore, Mar 19
The meeting is one of a series of public forums throughout Maryland sponsored by two state organizations, the Maryland Citizens' Health Initiative and Progressive Maryland. The purpose of the forum is to allow the public to comment on what people would like to see in an overall plan to give access to quality, affordable health care for all Maryland residents."
-Health Care Laws Are Topic of Forum, Salisbury Daily Times, Mar 19
"City and state leaders are gathering in Annapolis today to discuss reforming the Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund (MAIF)... Progressive Maryland, an advocacy organization for local working families, is holding a press conference..."
-Possible Reform Underway for MAIF, ABC2-WMAR Balt., Feb 26
[Sean Dobson, Executive Director of Progressive Maryland]: 'Sen. Joan Carter Conway supports the bill and moved it out of her committee last year. We expect her to do it again now and we believe we have the votes to pass it...'"
-Public radio interview: WYPR-Baltimore, Mar 17 (MP3)
"...according to a report released Thursday by Progressive Maryland and Common Cause... 93 percent of campaign money given by electric utility companies to the General Assembly went to lawmakers who voted to deregulate the electric industry..."
-Report: Deregulation Vote Tied to Campaign Contributions, The Gazette, Mar 14
"'The guys who led the charge for electricity deregulation are the same lawmakers who got the lion's share of campaign contributions from the utility industry," said Sean Dobson, director of Progressive Maryland, which also worked on the report. "We don't think that looks good'..."
-PSC Chief Appeals for Lower BGE Rates; He Asks Lawmakers to Limit Passed-on Costs, Balt. Sun, Mar 13
"'They're good people in a bad system'...Dobson says his organization [Progressive Maryland] has expressed its willingness to delay implementation until 2014."
-We'll Bear Campaign Costs, Whether Bill Passes or Not, Howard County Times, Mar 13
"[Sean Dobson, Director of Progressive Maryland]: 'For folks who voted for the worst public policy debacle in modern Maryland history, you'd figure they of all people, out of embarrassment, would want to take steps to restore the public's confidence in the system, and the best thing they could do is pass public funding of campaigns'..."
-NEWS VIDEO: Groups Claim Link Between Deregulation, Contributions;
NBC-11-Baltimore, Mar 12 (www.wbaltv.com/video/15588685/index.html)
"...72 percent of Marylanders favor the legislation, which received little opposition in hearings... Sean Dobson, executive director of the advocacy group Progressive Maryland, said this system would provide a 'double hurdle' and keep all but serious candidates from receiving public funding..."
-Bills Would Create Public Financing of Legislative Campaigns,
Capital News Service/Southern Maryland Online, Mar 11
"What we were able to do to Al Wynn we will replicate in lots of Democratic primaries... there are plenty to go after."
-Sean Dobson interviewed by NBC TV at PM headquarters
"That record earned Edwards the enthusiastic support of the Service Employees International Union, the Sierra Club, the Friends of the Earth PAC, the League of Conservation Voters, Clean Water Action, Emily's List, the National Organization for Women, the Women's Campaign Fund, Progressive Democrats of America, Democracy for America, Progressive Maryland, ACORN PAC and many local groups."
-Progressive Upsets Compromising Congressman, The Nation, Feb 13
"Progressive groups that spent more than $1.5 million on independent efforts to oust Wynn took credit for the victory yesterday. They indicated that their successful cooperative effort to defeat a powerful incumbent will provide a template for holding Democrats accountable in future races – particularly those who, like Wynn, have accepted substantial corporate contributions."
-Rare Dual Losses in Md. Put Incumbents on Notice, Wash. Post, Feb 14
"...council candidates have spent about $100,000 and executive candidates spent close to $2 million. Civic and political watchdog groups - including Progressive Maryland, Common Cause and the League of Women Voters - are supporting the legislation... 'candidates tend to solicit large sums of money from those best able to provide it, the wealth and the special interest groups...'"
-Plan Would Allow County to Set Its Own Campaign Finance Rules, The Gazette, Feb 1
"Progressive Maryland, a liberal coalition of labor and religious groups that holds some sway in Annapolis circles, plans to lobby this year for legislation intended to lower costs for motorists covered by the state's insurer of last resort..."
-Progressive Md. Joins Md. Auto Insurance Fund Fight, Balt. Sun, Feb 1
"'We gave up control of our own energy future, and we are now subject to the tender mercies of BGE, Constellation Energy, their parent company, the federal regulators of the Bush administration,' said Matthew Weinstein with Progressive Maryland. 'It's a real thorny problem ... the mistakes that were made in 1999 are going to be difficult to correct,' Progressive Maryland believes the best solution is for the state to build and manage their own power plants, so customers can pay less for electricity..."
-PSC Says BGE Rates Heading 5.5 Percent Higher, WJZ-TV13, Jan 23
"Sean Dobson, the executive director of Progressive Maryland, said lawmakers should give O'Malley's plan a chance to work. 'But if it turns out to be insufficient,' he said, 'the state should construct, own and operate its own ultra-efficient, clean-energy power plants and force utilities to pass along this electricity to consumers at a regulated, affordable rate'..."
-O'Malley to Offer Energy Package: Plan Boosts Conservation, Balt. Sun, Jan.14
"...Del. Tom Hucker, former director of Progressive Maryland. He'll have some political star power on his side. Governor O'Malley and House Speaker Mike Busch will appear at a Hucker fundraiser..."
-Connect the Dots, Balt. Sun, Dec 30
"Sean Dobson, executive director of Progressive Maryland, cited Maryland's near-full economy and its status as the wealthiest state in the nation as evidence..."
-Marylanders Cross State Line to Find Homes, WTOP, Dec 24
"Opponents, including representatives from the National Association of Colored People, CASA of Maryland and Progressive Maryland, said ;[U.S. Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (MD-6)] stole Christmas..."
-The Grinch Welcomes SCHIP Present, Frederick News Post, Dec 20
