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Now that the 2010 elections have been over for more than a month, and the nasty commercials have stopped, I feel most people should be over the election fatigue. So, it’s safe to write about politics again.
When Editor Phil Jacobs and I interviewed Gov. Martin O’Malley just before the vote, I offered him an icebreaker question: With large crop of young Jewish politicians now in office, who do you think will be the next Jewish Governor:
• Attorney General Doug Gansler (reelected without opposition)
• Howard County Executive Ken Ulman (handily reelected)
• Baltimore’s newly elected City State’s Attorney Gregg Bernstein
• Baltimore County’s newly elected Executive Kevin Kamenitz
· Or newly appointed Judge Karen “Chaya” Friedman
The Governor politely dodged the question, saying that there were a lot of strong Jewish politicians out there.
(FYI Maryland’s one and only Jewish Governor was Marvin Mandel, who served from 1969-1979. He was sent to jail for mail fraud and racketeering, but had his conviction overturned in 1987.)
Who do you think will be our state’s next Jewish Governor?
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