{"id":1873,"date":"2014-02-21T15:12:15","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T15:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=1873"},"modified":"2014-02-24T05:17:56","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T05:17:56","slug":"update-edith-patterson-files-for-delegate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=1873","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Edith Patterson Files for Delegate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/EdithPatterson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1875 aligncenter\" alt=\"EdithPatterson\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/EdithPatterson.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/strong><em>MHEC Commissioner Dr. Edith Patterson<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: <\/strong>As always, readers provide the scoop and are quick to catch errors&#8211;very helpful since situations can quickly change. Since I wrote this piece, Edith Patterson has filed for delegate, thus setting up for a more exciting contest between her and Kelly for the third delegate seat in District 28 (Charles).<\/p>\n<p>While Kelly has little money, Patterson has filed an affidavit attesting to less than $1K. On the other hand, that could change&#8211;Patterson was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somdnews.com\/article\/20140212\/NEWS\/140219864\/1084\/patterson-honored-by-state-naacp&amp;template=southernMaryland\">honored by the State NAACP<\/a> and has a network. Nevertheless, though Patterson is unquestionably a known name, Kelly won the last round.<\/p>\n<p>If Middleton slates with Kelly, as his donation suggests he might (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=1848\">previous post<\/a>), that would give her a concrete advantage. It would also require African-American Del. C.T. Wilson to join the slate, as it is politically unthinkable for Middleton to form an all-white slate in today&#8217;s Charles County. It gives Wilson some interesting political power. I don&#8217;t know Wilson&#8217;s relationship with either Middleton or Patterson. However, one could reasonably think that Wilson sees himself as the first African-American senator from Charles in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MHEC Commissioner Dr. Edith Patterson UPDATE: As always, readers provide the scoop and are quick to catch errors&#8211;very helpful since situations can quickly change. Since I wrote this piece, Edith Patterson has filed for delegate, thus setting up for a more exciting contest between her and Kelly for the third delegate seat in District 28 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=1873\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UPDATE: Edith Patterson Files for Delegate<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[392,394],"tags":[396,400,395,1615,397,1614],"class_list":["post-1873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles","category-district-28","tag-c-t-wilson","tag-candice-quinn-kelly","tag-charles-county","tag-district-28","tag-edith-patterson","tag-mac-middleton"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-ud","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1873"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1878,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions\/1878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}