Originally Posted By TomSawyer Sorry to pull a Darkbeer here, but this was too funny to pass up. GOP candidates in MD are associating themselves with Democrats in order get more votes. Even better, at least some of the people that the GOP hired to hand out these misleading papers were recruited from homeless shelters from Pennsylvania and Delaware. Here's a party that not only has no ideas, they don't think they can win without lying about their party affiliation. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/07/AR2006110700740.html" target="_blank">http://www.washingtonpost.com/ wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/07/AR2006110700740.html</a> Inaccurate sample ballots describing Republican Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. and Senate candidate Michael S. Steele as Democrats were handed out to voters in at least four polling sites in Prince George's County this morning. The ballots were distributed by people who said they arrived by buses this morning from Pennsylvania and Delaware. Erik Markle, one of the people handing out literature for Ehrlich, who is seeking reelection, and Steele, the current lieutenant governor who is campaigning to replace retiring Sen. Paul Sarbanes (D), said he was recruited at a homeless shelter in Philadelphia. After a two-hour bus ride to Maryland, Markle said the workers were greeted early this morning by first lady Kendel Ehrlich, who thanked them as they were outfitted in T-shirts and hats with the logo for Ehrlich's reelection campaign. Nearly all of those recruited, Markle said, are poor and black. Workers traveled to Maryland in at least seven large buses. (snip) The Ehrlich and Steele campaigns yesterday acknowledged sending out an election-eve flier, sporting pictures of Prince George's County Executive Jack B. Johnson, his predecessor Wayne K. Curry and former NAACP president Kweisi Mfume. The mailer, declaring itself an "official voter guide" and criticized by Democrats, suggested the three Democrats backed Ehrlich and Steele. Curry has endorsed Steele; none has endorsed Ehrlich. Democrats were quick to criticize the distribution today of the inaccurate sample ballots. "I think it's pretty low that Ehrlich and Steele would print up a fake ballot and bus in unemployed people and exploit them," Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley, the Democratic candidate for governor, said this morning as he greeted voters as a polling site in Greenbelt. "It doesn't get much lower than that."
