I leave you with this quote to read and read again. Perhaps maybe you will be able to process this and actually appreciate those who do put their hats in the ring vs anonymous post inaccurate statements, attempt a character assassination, including the Whig who also should be ashamed of themselves for the poor journalism. It’s as if this county is a giant high school full of adults who did not grow up. God bless whoever is elected to office because it’s an impossible job to lead fools!

“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

-Theodore Roosevelt

Editor’s Note: Yes, Joe you are correct. Maryland election law has a “sore loser” provision that bars a candidate who previously appeared on the ballot in a party primary from filing a certificate of candidacy to run as an Independent whose name would appear on the November general election ballot. (There is an exception only for judicial candidates.) So the only option would be to file a certificate of candidacy as a write-in candidate, which would require the elections board to count your write-in votes. If no certificate of candidacy is filed, the board does not have to count and tally the names and vote numbers of write-in candidates.