Jacobs Forms Exploratory Committee, Examines Challenge to Ruppersberger
Nancy Jacobs, a Harford County Republican, announced Monday that she's formed an exploratory committee to examine a challenge to Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger.
Jacobs, a four-term state senator, is the second Republican to consider challenging Ruppersberger, a Democrat, for the 2nd District seat he has held since 2002.
The district, as redrawn for the 2012 elections, stretches from southern Harford County through southeast Baltimore County and northern Anne Arundel County to Fort George G. Meade. A portion of the district also wraps around I-695 to northwestern Baltimore County.
Last month, Larry Smith, a Timonium resident and aide to Republican freshman Rep. Andy Harris, announced he would seek the Republican nomination to challenge Ruppersberger, a former two-term Baltimore County executive.
The announcement by Jacobs allows her to raise some money and conduct other activities not considered to be actual campaigning without formally filing as a candidate. She must file as a candidate once she begins to conduct campaign activities or raise or spend more than $5,000.
Robert Armstrong
1:48 pm on Monday, December 5, 2011
How's her Giraffe House coming along?
http://cecilcountyspending.com/2011/06/disappointment-mdgop-leaders-supported-earmarks-in-2011-session/
Cathy Simpson
3:51 pm on Monday, December 5, 2011
Because Ruppersberger has never earmarked money for something that sounds rediculous??? Let my google count the ways.....
Cathy Simpson
4:26 pm on Monday, December 5, 2011
http://www.examiner.com/campaign-finance-in-baltimore/rep-dutch-ruppersberger-and-others-supported-earmark-for-one-of-bentley-s-clients
thunderroach
10:24 pm on Monday, December 5, 2011
At least he's creating jobs rather than pumping money into a black hole like Plumpton! Jacobs does not want that job,she would have to show up!
Tom Barnes
8:42 am on Sunday, December 11, 2011
My thought is that she may be making way for David Craig to run for her Senate seat. Ok, I can go for that. She will lose to Ruppersberger, hopefully losing the Senate seat at the same time. Let's face it, the Senate seat she holds (that she think belongs to her because of DNA) will be republican for a long time yet to come. So, David Craig is a Republican that I can actually vote for & stomach. At least he isn't a malicious phony 'christian' like Jacobs. If she runs for the representatives seat, seriously look into her political background. She is a charlatan; a do nothing hack with absolutely NO track record, the epitome of laziness, with a bigoted streak a mile long (you don't smirk at a 9 year old child and because he has two gay parents tell him that you don't consider him to be in a family! There are ways to be "Christian" AND kind at the same time... not a witch). This is a prime opportunity to get her out of hair. I say "GO FOR IT NANCY!"