Maryland 5th Congressional District Candidates Forum

On September 7th, 2010 St. Mary's College of Maryland hosted a forum for candidates running in the September primary race for the 5th Congressional District. The forum was sponsored jointly by the Center for the Study of Democracy and the St. Mary's County NAACP.

The candidates that attended this forum were Collins Bailey (R), Sylvanus Bent (D), Andrew Gall (D), and Charles Lollar (R). The incumbent candidate, Majority Leader of the House of Representatives Steny Hoyer (D) was unable to attend but submitted a short statement read by moderator Todd Eberly, Acting Director of the Center for the Study of Democracy and a professor of political science at St. Mary's College. Eberly's co-moderator was President of the St. Mary's County NAACP Wayne Scriber.


For more information on the candidates we invite you to visit their websites.

Collins Bailey: www.baileyforuscongress.com
Andrew Gall: www.andrewforcongress.org
Steny Hoyer: www.hoyerforcongress.com
Charles Lollar: www.lollarforcongress.com

(Sylvanus Bent does not have a website for his campaign.)

Please visit the Center for the Study of Democracy at http://www.smcm.edu/democracy/

and the St. Mary's County NAACP at http://www.stmarysnaacp.org/

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Maryland is a huge welfare state. It's not a donor state. That's the problem. It's totally reliant on all these federal government dollars whether it's military spending or government defense contracts with major private defense contractors. The federal government will shrink and when it does, Maryland will be one of the hardest hit states because it did very little to prepare by diversing its state economy. The federal government should not be more than 40% of Maryland GDP.