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Test Your Knowledge of Candidate and
Ballot Trivia
By Charmere Gatson
1. In the Nov. 2 general election, this office/category will not be included on the ballot.
U.S. Senate 2. Voters in this Maryland county will not see a school board office listed on the ballot.
Allegany 3. This Baltimore City Circuit Court associate judge is a philanthropist who volunteers at Christ Lutheran Church’s homeless shelter. She is running to hold her current seat.
Jane Brooks 4. With experiences as both a social worker and an activist, she is a U.S. Senate candidate who says she is guided by the principle: "It's better to light one candle, than to curse the darkness."
Jane Brooks 5. A Vietnam War veteran and a 2002 Howard County Council candidate, he now is a U.S. Senate candidate who uses a 1926 Model T to drive around and meet voters.
Ray Bly 6. Running for another term as a congressman, he says he literally got to where he is today by accident. His story: He survived a 1975 near-fatal accident with "luck" and the work of doctors. He says he ran for public office to help others and to repay the University of Maryland's Shock Trauma center for what it did for him.
Roscoe G. Bartlett 7. A U.S. Senate candidate, he is an international marketing consultant who says he made a goal of becoming a senator at age 10. Bob and Elizabeth Dole in 1985 encouraged him to enter public life, and as a result, he organized his first campaign for an office in 1988. Since then, he has run unsuccessfully for office in 1992, 1996, 1998 and 2002.
Sid Altman 8. A Crofton mom of four, she is a U.S. Senate candidate who says it was time to do something for herself now that her last son has finished college. She says she has always been interested in politics but has spent most of her time taking care of her family and baking cookies.
Carol Simpson 9. Born to an electrician and a cafeteria worker in Dundalk, Md., this U.S. Senate candidate used student loans to attend college and to receive the M.B.A. that catapulted him to Wall Street.
Steven R. Eastaugh 10. He's a candidate for Congress who is better known as the former harasser-in-chief of the NBA's Wizards and as a sponsor of property tax limitation amendments.
Benjamin L. Cardin Copyright © 2004 University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism Top of Page | Home Page |