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Democratic U.S. Senate candidate and current Maryland state Sen. Anthony Muse is railing against House Minority Whip Rep. Steny Hoyer and Maryland Democratic Gov. Martin OMalley for what he calls endorsement intimidation.
OMalley and Hoyer both endorsed incumbent U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin, who Muse is challenging as a fellow Democrat, during Tuesdays annual Maryland Democratic Party luncheon.
The Maryland Democratic Party and President Barack Obama broke the state partys bylaws by endorsing Cardin over Muse and the others who have filed to run in the April 3 primary.
According to a statement from Muse, during the luncheon, after Hoyer and OMalley endorsed Cardin for re-election, Muse took to the podium in protest. He said party officials cut his microphone before he was given the chance to make a case for why hes better than Cardin.
We have gone from voter suppression to endorsement intimidation, Muse said in a statement. Those in control assume that if they say lets go this way then the rest of us must fall in line with their suggestions. That is not democracy.
Muse argued that if Hoyer and OMalley are going to break party bylaws by making endorsement at an official Democratic luncheon, he and other candidates on site should have been allowed to as well. He said his invitation to the luncheon came with a message: that he was to be seen but not heard.
There were many views and candidates in the audience, Muse said. If you are here to give endorsements, then there was absolutely no reason why I was not afforded an opportunity to express another view to my own party. As an elected official and a senior member of the State Senate, that was completely disrespectful.
Read more: Black US Senate Candidate | Maryland Democratic Leaders | The Daily Caller
OMalley and Hoyer both endorsed incumbent U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin, who Muse is challenging as a fellow Democrat, during Tuesdays annual Maryland Democratic Party luncheon.
The Maryland Democratic Party and President Barack Obama broke the state partys bylaws by endorsing Cardin over Muse and the others who have filed to run in the April 3 primary.
According to a statement from Muse, during the luncheon, after Hoyer and OMalley endorsed Cardin for re-election, Muse took to the podium in protest. He said party officials cut his microphone before he was given the chance to make a case for why hes better than Cardin.
We have gone from voter suppression to endorsement intimidation, Muse said in a statement. Those in control assume that if they say lets go this way then the rest of us must fall in line with their suggestions. That is not democracy.
Muse argued that if Hoyer and OMalley are going to break party bylaws by making endorsement at an official Democratic luncheon, he and other candidates on site should have been allowed to as well. He said his invitation to the luncheon came with a message: that he was to be seen but not heard.
There were many views and candidates in the audience, Muse said. If you are here to give endorsements, then there was absolutely no reason why I was not afforded an opportunity to express another view to my own party. As an elected official and a senior member of the State Senate, that was completely disrespectful.
Read more: Black US Senate Candidate | Maryland Democratic Leaders | The Daily Caller
