{"id":8367,"date":"2017-08-11T14:08:11","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T18:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=8367"},"modified":"2017-08-11T14:08:11","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T18:08:11","slug":"is-an-incumbent-delegate-getting-pushed-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=8367","title":{"rendered":"Is an Incumbent Delegate Getting Pushed Out?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Adam Pagnucco.<\/em><\/p>\n

In 2006, Senator P.J. Hogan and Delegates Nancy King and Charles Barkley became fed up with their District 39 colleague, Delegate Joan Stern.\u00a0 Four months before the election, Hogan, King and Barkley announced that they would not be running with Stern for reelection.\u00a0 Barkley told the Gazette<\/a>, \u201cShe\u2019s being dropped\u2026 I would say it just was not working as a team. I think the three of us [Hogan, King and Barkley] really work well as a team, but not the four of us.\u201d\u00a0 That left Stern vulnerable to challenger Saqib Ali, who later picked up the Apple Ballot and defeated her.<\/p>\n

Is this happening again in Anne Arundel County?<\/p>\n

Legislative District 32<\/a>, which occupies the northern tip of Anne Arundel, is currently represented by four Democrats: Senator James \u201cEd\u201d DeGrange (first elected in 1998), Delegate Ted Sophocleus (1998), Delegate Pam Beidle (2006) and Delegate Mark Chang (2014).\u00a0 The Republicans have not come close to knocking out DeGrange in recent years, but they sometimes come within a thousand votes or so in the House races.\u00a0 (Chang ran unsuccessfully as a Republican in 2006<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Democratic Central Committee Member Sandy Bartlett is running for Delegate in District 32<\/a> and here\u2019s where it gets interesting.\u00a0 Since December, Bartlett\u2019s campaign account has received contributions from DeGrange ($1,000), Beidle ($500), Senator Jim Rosapepe ($500) and Delegate Joseline Pena-Melnyk ($500).\u00a0 Rosapepe and Pena-Melnyk represent a district that includes parts of Prince George\u2019s and Anne Arundel.\u00a0 Soon after Bartlett\u2019s announcement, Beidle wrote on Facebook, \u201cSandy Bartlett for Delegate in District 32!\u00a0 Happy to have her join Team 32.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Wait a minute!\u00a0 DeGrange, Beidle, Chang and Sophocleus are all members of the Team 32 Slate account<\/a>.\u00a0 Bartlett is not.<\/p>\n

Unless a fourth House seat is magically created (it won\u2019t be!), someone is on the outs.\u00a0 The Capital Gazette notes that none of the incumbent Delegates has announced plans to retire<\/a>, although it reports speculation that Sophocleus (who is 78) might leave.\u00a0 Let\u2019s remember that Sophocleus had bypass surgery in 2014<\/a>.\u00a0 Additionally, Bartlett (who is African American) brings diversity and gender balance to the delegation ticket.<\/p>\n

All of this begs the obvious question.\u00a0 Is Sophocleus getting pushed out the door?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Adam Pagnucco. In 2006, Senator P.J. Hogan and Delegates Nancy King and Charles Barkley became fed up with their District 39 colleague, Delegate Joan Stern.\u00a0 Four months before the election, Hogan, King and Barkley announced that they would not be running with Stern for reelection.\u00a0 Barkley told the Gazette, \u201cShe\u2019s being dropped\u2026 I would … Continue reading Is an Incumbent Delegate Getting Pushed Out?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[151,64],"tags":[1545,1494],"class_list":["post-8367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-pagnucco","category-anne-arundel","tag-adam-pagnucco","tag-anne-arundel"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-2aX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8367","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8369,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8367\/revisions\/8369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}