Obama and Huckabee in College Park, MD

From baltimoresun.com:
Obama, Huckabee plan events in College Park
Clinton also plans to campaign in state on Monday, aides say
By a Baltimoresun.com staff reporter

12:25 PM EST, February 8, 2008

Presidential candidates Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee plan to hold rallies in College Park in the coming days, and Hillary Clinton's campaign said the candidate will be in Maryland on Monday.

Huckabee, one of two remaining major candidates for the Republican nomination, announced today that he will speak Saturday at noon at the Stamp Student Union Building on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park.

Obama will be in College Park on Monday to host a "Stand for Change" rally at the University of Maryland. The event is set to take place at the university's Cole Field House on Campus Drive. Doors will open at 10:30 a.m. The event is free and open to the public, but an RSVP is strongly encouraged. To RSVP, click here. For security reasons, no bags are allowed inside the event. No signs or banners are permitted.

Obama is also expected to attend a town hall meeting on Sunday at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria. Doors open at 12:30 p.m.

A rally for Sen. Hillary Clinton is planned today at noon outside the Maryland State House in Annapolis, with Gov. Martin O'Malley and Sen. Barbara Mikulski planning to attend.

Clinton isn't planning to be at the event, but aides said that she will campaign in Maryland on Monday, one day before the primary.

For a complete list of scheduled campaign events and appearances, click here.

The Associated Press contributed to this article

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(AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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The city with Two Mayors-Elected and Unelected

is Kevin Knuth the unofficial Mayor of Fort Wayne Democrats clique ? How strange that a voter who steps up to run for Mayor is turned away! Sean Collentine is no stranger to the Democratic party. The Democrats need all the members they can get, but Kevin was not having it.

These folks won't be able to run for any political office, either.

The 4,300 residents in Fort Wayne’s Carroll Road annexation won’t become part of the city until Sept. 30, but that likely won’t keep them from voting in this May’s primary election.

, wrote Ben Lanka of the Fort Wayne.com. But the unofficial sidekick, and unofficial Democratic Deputy Mayor Andy Downs drops the bomb after the time for filing for candidacy has expired that yes these folks can vote. Yes they can vote.

And once again we understand why Fort Wayne is ranked the dumbest city in the United States

Political Fallout

The candidates are slowly falling out of the woodwork. Republican Ivan Hood joins Nelson Peters and Matthew Kelty in running for Mayor. Frederick Steinke, the lone Democrat must feel like the Lone Ranger in representing the Democrats in the primary so far for Mayor.

Charles Langley, a Democrat so far is uncontested in the 4th District. So is Mitch Harper, as the sole candidate for the Republicans. Did Karen Goldner, a Democrat filed to up seat Don Schmidt, Republican, in the 2nd district? Goldner still has time to file, the deadline is February 23, 2007.