You've been had.

It's official, Marilyn Goldwater has stepped down. Exactly as I warned you would happen. I predicted she would not serve if reelected, and she never cast a single vote this year. I also predicted that she would cross the finish line on election day and resign. It just happened. District 16 was cheated out of 1/3 of its representation for a full year in Annapolis.

Bill Bronrott, Susan Lee, Brian Frosh, the Washington Post, and The Gazette all told you that Ms. Goldwater could and would serve a four year term. They did not tell you the truth. Now they must be held accountable by the voters and the press. But don't expect much from the press. Predictably, neither the Post nor the Gazette contacted me - the candidate who lost as a result of the Goldwater fraud, for comment. Never mind that I had the highest number of votes behind the Democrats, and would have won had the voters known the truth about Marilyn Goldwater. Just a small detail, in the partisan, megacorporate world of the Post and Gazette.

Enjoy some quotes from today's soft-hitting articles:

‘‘I’m very sad to leave, but one has to know when to say goodbye,” Goldwater (D-Dist. 16) of Bethesda said in a telephone interview. ‘‘I hope that I’ve made a contribution that has helped people, and now it’s time to let other people do the job.” - from The Gazette

Wasn't 2006 the time to say goodbye and let other people do the job? Not after scamming our community out of 1/3 of our power in Annapolis? Why is now conveniently the time to say goodbye? Because the Democratic Central Committee - not you, the hard working taxpayer and voter - will choose your Delegate. That's right - they arbitrarily will choose your Delegate for you, after denying you that ability on November 7, 2006. So much for democracy.

"During the campaign, she denied speculation that if she were elected, she would resign and have the Democratic Central Committee appoint her successor. The Gazette endorsed Goldwater in 2006." - The Gazette

Well, at least they admit they endorsed her. Will they admit that they lied to you in that endorsement?

‘‘I think this was a good time to do it, to give [the committee] time to decide, and give whoever takes my seat time to get acclimated,” Goldwater said. ‘‘To wait any longer would have been unfair to everybody.”

‘‘To wait any longer would have been unfair to everybody.”

I couldn't have said it better myself. But why didn't Marilyn Goldwater say that in 2006 and just allow Reggie Oldak to fill the spot on the ballot? And why did Bronrott, Lee, Frosh, the Post and the Gazette deliberately mislead the public?

Remember that in 2010.

‘‘To wait any longer would have been unfair to everybody.”
-Marilyn Goldwater