{"id":2642,"date":"2014-04-01T08:30:13","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T12:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=2642"},"modified":"2014-04-01T09:53:33","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T13:53:33","slug":"robin-frazier-praying-for-reelection-in-carroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=2642","title":{"rendered":"Robin Frazier Praying for Reelection in Carroll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/launch.newsinc.com\/?type=VideoPlayer\/Single&amp;widgetId=1&amp;trackingGroup=69016&amp;siteSection=sebaltimoresun&amp;videoId=25756265\" height=\"332\" width=\"590\" frameborder=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Carroll County Commissioner Robin Frazier opened a meeting of the Commission with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/carroll\/westminster\/ph-commish-prayer-20140327,0,531268.story#\">a prayer invoking Jesus Christ despite a federal court order<\/a>. She views the order as a wrongly issued violation of her First Amendment rights. Interestingly, two of Frazier&#8217;s colleagues were not present based on the video.<\/p>\n<p>Frazier is &#8220;willing to go to jail&#8221; and said that America will soon be &#8220;all the way to Communism if we don&#8217;t start standing up and saying no.&#8221; She lumped the anti-prayer ruling with plots to take away guns, palm scan her children, and take away property rights through Plan Maryland. No wonder two of her colleagues skipped.<\/p>\n<p>Frazier represents Council District 1 along the Pennsylvania border. She served a previous term on the Commission prior to four years in the Ehrlich Administration.<\/p>\n<p>Remembering the time when Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore erected a surprise monument to the Ten Commandments, I couldn&#8217;t help but think she must be running for something. In Moore&#8217;s case, he ran for governor unsuccessfully at the next election after being removed from office.<\/p>\n<p>And sure enough, Frazier has three challengers in this year&#8217;s primary for reelection: Cynthia Foley, Tina Mawhinney, and <a href=\"http:\/\/stevewantz.org\/\">Stephen Wantz<\/a>. The first two seem like less promising challengers with no money in their campaign accounts. Foley is a former unsuccessful candidate for the Board of Education. Mawhinney ran as a Democrat in 2010 and lost with just 24%. (If you have reason to believe otherwise, let me know.)<\/p>\n<p>However, Wantz poses a serious threat. At the time of the January campaign finance filing, Wantz had $6100 in his campaign account compared to $3500 for Frazier. Moreover, she won the primary with only 41% in 2010, rather weak for someone who held the seat previously and with connections to a Republican governor.<\/p>\n<p>Wantz has been very active in Carroll County both fighting fires and in emergency ambulance services. Not a bad record for a prospective candidate. In contrast, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobinBFrazier1\">Frazier tweets <\/a>about the &#8220;Bathroom Bill&#8221; and Second Amendment rights.<\/p>\n<p>Frazier also chose to sing part of the 2014 State of the County address, a moment fortunately saved for posterity (check out around 3:20):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lv09oE5Dy08\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In comparison, Wantz seems less interested in grandstanding but actually focusing on Carroll County&#8217;s real issues <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevewantz.org\/index.php#recent\">based on his campaign video<\/a>. A welcome approach from candidates of either party in any county in the State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carroll County Commissioner Robin Frazier opened a meeting of the Commission with a prayer invoking Jesus Christ despite a federal court order. She views the order as a wrongly issued violation of her First Amendment rights. Interestingly, two of Frazier&#8217;s colleagues were not present based on the video. 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