Lang Chan, a 21-year-old living in Bethesda, is looking forward to voting.

The senior marketing major at the University of Maryland admits he hasn’t been following local politics that much. “I haven’t seen the ads. I don’t watch TV that much,” he said.

But he knows what’s important to him: education and the war in Iraq. “The war in Iraq is getting out of control,” said Chan.

He said has been keeping an eye on two of the closets races in Maryland, the U.S. Senate race between U.S. Rep. Ben Cardin (D) and Lt. Gov. Michael Steele (R) and the gubernatorial race between Gov. Robert Ehrlich (R) and Baltimore Mayor Martin O’Malley (D).

While both candidates for governor have talked about the importance of funding education, what Chan wants to know is what real action they will take to improve the quality of education at the university while reining in costs.

“The government hasn’t really kept up with tuition, and they haven’t really invested much in education,” said Chan, a registered Democrat who transferred his registration from Brooklyn, New York, to Montgomery County.

--by Alan J. McCombs
 

His own words...

Lang Chan speaks of his skepticism of promises to support education by both Gov. Robert Ehrlich (R) and his challenger, Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley (D). (12 seconds, RealPlayer file).

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