Hello, again!
Had she lived, I would be voting for the former nominee of the Green Party for United States Senate—the late Ms. Natasha Pettigrew—on General Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 2nd, but—tragically—she was killed by a hit and run driver a week after the Primary Election.
Thus, I believe that she enters Maryland political history as perhaps the only undefeated US Senate nominee in Free State annals.
Having read Ms. Pettigrew’s online SUN blogs, she was, like me, an antiwar candidate.
I went through this once before, in 1968, with the murder of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. Now, as then, we are once again stuck with an incumbent who never meets a war funding bill that she doesn’t like.
On the gubernatorial front, I will be voting for Democratic incumbent Martin O’Malley for reelection.
In 2002, I both endorsed and voted for now former GOP Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr., but—BRAC aside—in my view, his four-year term in office was mainly a waste of time, and also too many missed opportunities.
In addition to that, he let loose the so-called “Prince of Darkness,” Joseph Steffens.
Thus, in 2006, I voted for then-Mayor O’Malley of Baltimore for Governor of Maryland.
Somewhere along the line, Gov. Ehrlich ceased being a mainstream Republican and became instead a closet fascist. Too bad!
As we experience the pre-2nd Civil War era of red and blue state rhetoric, calls for armed insurrections by the GOP/Tea Party candidate for US Senate in Nevada, for outright secession by the Governor of Texas, and secret militias nationwide, it is well to remember the basic difference between the two majority party candidates for Governor this year.
That’s Democrat O’Malley versus fascist Ehrlich—that is the choice!
I find myself at odds, however, with Gov. O’Malley on one major issue: his alleged “New Americans” are, in reality, the Latino Invaders, now some 11 million strong-plus within our frontiers—not good!
Casa de Maryland I see as an enemy alien group that ought to be investigated by the FBI as a subversive organization of law-breaking, foreign-based spies.
We used to execute same.
Regarding democracy, you can’t undermine it the way that Gov. Ehrlich did, and still be FOR democracy!
Gov. Ehrlich and I both took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States from all enemies, both foreign and domestic: he as an elected official, I as a soldier in wartime.
I kept mine! He didn’t—and should go!
Not only should he be defeated in this election, but in every future election he ever runs in.
His record is clear: the man simply can’t be trusted to safegaurd democracy, period.
Thus, I will vote for O’Malley-Brown with enthusiasm!

Good evening!
Today I was informed by THE SUN that defeated candidates can continue to blog on their sites until the General Election of Tuesday, Nov. 2nd.
First, I thank the 10,783 voters who honored me with their vote in the recent Democratic Primary Election for United States Senate.
Second, I congraulate the incumbent winner Sen. Barbara Ann Mikulski on her victory. I wish her well.
Third, it was my intention to endorse her Green Party challenger—the late Natasha Pettigrew, 30—in the General Election over Sen. Mikulski because, like me, she was also anti-war, as I discovered upon reading some of her blogs on her own SUN site.
Sadly and tragically, however, Ms. Pettigrew was killed a week after the primary by an SUV driver while riding her bike near her home.
I recall Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s murder in 1968 when he was an anti-war candidate like us. I send my condolences to her family, friends, and supporters. Hers was a life of great promise cut short in its prime. She enters the history of her country and state as an undefeated candidate for the United States Senate. I salute her, and honor her memory!
The Green Party is meeting this weekend to name a successor to Ms. Pettigrew, and I will await that development.
Meanwhile, the day after the recent primary, I announced that I will run again for the US Senate in 2012 against incumbent Sen. Benjamin Cardin.
As in 2006 and 2010, in 2012, I will again stand as THE peace candidate.
I will come before you again in late October with some endorsements for statewide offices.
Until then, hail and farewell—and thank you all again!

Blaine Taylor, Former Candidate for United States Senate, 2010. Authority: Paul Gorman, Treasurer.

Good evening!
I was defeated, but I thank everyone who honored me with their vote.
I shall see you all again in 2012, when I will run against Sen. Ben Cardin for the United States Senate again, as I did in 2006.
Hail and farewell—for now.

Blaine Taylor, Citizen candidate 2010.

Good evening!
Tomorrow is Primary Election Day, and I urge all registered members of all parties to vote for the candidates of your choice.
Naturally, I hope that I am one of them. If I am, as your elected United States Senator in January 2011, I shall start right away accomplishing all the things that I’ve discussed with you thus far, both here and elsewhere, during my Primary Election campaign to be your nominee of the Democratic Party for United States Senator from Maryland.
In fact, I have a past track record that I can quote: as an elected—and then appointed—Student Government Association Senator at then-Towson State College (now Towson University) during 1970-72, I passed more legislation than any other SGA Senator in the entire history of that body up until the time I graduated, and thus left office.
I was in my early twenties at the time, and a decorated Vietnam War Army combat veteran before that.
One of the things that I will be voting against as your elected US Senator is the extension of the infamous Bush tax cuts for the RICH only that helped get us into the financial mess we are in now.
They are due to expire this December, and so they should. President Obama is now waffling on this, but I am not: they go! A tax cut extension for the middle class I will vote FOR.***
Tomorrow night at this time, I believe, will witness another Marylamd political revolution, of the type we’ve seen many times before regarding incumbents who overstayed their welcome.
In 1970, incumbent US Sen. Joseph D. Tydings was defeated, and so was his incumbent colleague, the late Sen. Daniel B. Brewster, in that anti-war watershed year of 1968.
In 1974, 1978, and again in 1990, I was the press secretary who helped defeat three “entrenched” Democratic incumbents that no one thought could be beaten, least of all them: a delegate, a state senator, and a Baltimore County executive. It can be done again, and will, too!
In 2006, I accurately predicted that both incumbents Maryland Comptroller William Donald Schaefer and current gubernatorial candidate Gov. Robert Ehrlich would also go, and they did.
Candidate Obama blew out Sen. Hillary Clinton in a landmark electoral whacking in Maryland in 2008, just 2 years ago.
You—the voters—are going to make historic electoral changes again tomorrow!***
One of these should be the retirement of current incumbent US Sen. Barbara Ann Mikulski, whom I first met and was a guest in her home in 1969, before she entered the Baltimore City Council.
I could not vote for her then, but I could and did several times after that, for Congress and then for the US Senate, the seat that she has held since 1986.
We were both anti-war in those days, but along the way of those 24 years, she changed—what happened?
First, she became owned—as she always was, but even MORE so—by the international, national, state, and local Jewish Lobby: lock, stock, and barrel, as the saying goes.
She ceased being the US Senator from Maryland, and instead became Israel’s Senator from Tel Aviv.
Second,—as revealed by the Baltimore SUN decades ago—she took to running her offices on Capitol Hill and in the Free State by the tenets of radical lesbian feminazism.
That in itself is a national disgrace, and for that alone, she should be run out of Washington, DC on a rail, period.
Third, about 15 years ago, it was revealed by the prestigious WASHINGTON MONTHLY magazine that she had the worst employee retention and turnove rate of ALL 100 US Senators on Capitol Hill!
Why IS that? I wonder. The answer is that she runs it like a spoiled brat prima donna, plain and simple, with irate temper tantrums.
She also runs them along the lines of shameless lesbian political ideas that are hardly in the thinking and beliefs of the vast majority of Marylanders who simply do not know of this odious record of hers that is unique in its being beneath contempt.
She has, however, created the self-myth of the all-knowing, all-caring, lovable “Senator Barb” whose feisty, quirky, and sometimes even funny personality conceals this grim reality behind its cunning facade, like the man behind the curtain in THE WIZARD OF OZ, an illusion.
I submit to you that is NOT the person Marylanders think is their US Senator.
After 24 years in the US Senate—and with all that seniority!—it is also unique that, at age 74, she has never chaired a single major Committee of the US Senate.
Why IS that, truly?
The answer is because her Senatorial peers have no confidence in her ability, either to lead, or to get things done, pure and simple.
She’s a gaudy showboat, all sizzle, but no steak.
Can I do better than that? You bet I can! Aside from those bills passed long ago, I’ve also managed to publish nine books since 1989, in one of the toughest and most competitive industries on Earth—book publishing—and before that and now also, literally thousands of articles in both magazines and newspapers worldwide, no easy task, either.
Now, let’s look at the issues on which she is so very WRONG.
First, she backs ALL these vastly expensive, foolish wars of ours overseas of the kind that she never supported back when I first met her, and that’s not just me saying that, either. Since at least 2005, her DC office has been visited numerous times by anti-war activists who used to be pro-Sen. Barb, but no more!
She promotes an aberrant lifestyle that is anathema to the vast majority of people not only in Maryland, but also all across this nation.
Legalizing so-called “gay” marriage will NOT happen on my watch and with my vote as your elected US Senator.
She is also for the killing of unborn, innocent babies, a practice not endorsed by Nazi Germany, nor Fascist Italy, not militarist Japan, and not even by Stalin’s Red Russia!
They did not back the killing of these innocents, yet Sen. Barb DOES, and wants its murderous scope expanded, not lessened, to boot.
Catholics especially should be voting against her on this alone. I will vote to repeal Woe (that’s Roe) versus Wade!
Now we come to her alleged base: poor and middle class working class blacks and whites, those who, reportedly, are the bedrock of her supposed support.
Since her coming to the US Senate, we have witnessed the near total demise of the once mighty US heavy industrial manufacturing base that used to employ most of these very people, with all those jobs shipped overseas.
If that didn’t happen on HER watch, than on whose DID it happen?
She can’t have it both ways without SOME responsibility on her part!
Owned by the Jewish Lobby, overly beholden to the unions, bound hand and foot by the “affirmative action” policies that benefit no one—least of all the blacks they are supposed to help!—THIS is the REAL Sen. Barbara Mikulski, not the jovial folk heroine of myth and legend.
Truly, this empress is naked without all that false clothing. She should go***
Tomorrow, the decision is yours, as it should be. Over the past several months, I’ve tried to frankly discuss all of the many issues with all of you that I thought interested you first, then me.
Doubtless, you disagreed with me on many: that’s both normal and healthy.
In contrast to my opponent’s reported $ 4.7 million warchest, I raised NO such money AT ALL, and accepted not one cent in contributions from anyone, anywhere. I am NOT owned. I never will be, either.
I paid the legal filing fee myself, and bought myself a single, small ad in THE TOWSON TIMES—my hometown newspaper—to honor my parents, period.
I advocate the abolition of all lobbyists and all PACSc/Political Action Committees. It’s also time to get ALL the money OUT of politics, too.
If not now, when? If not by us, then who? It’s our job to do—let’s get it done!
My platform has been honest, direct, plain, and understandable by all: End ALL the Wars, Dump Israel, Bring the Troops Home, End the Latino Invasion, Deport All the Illegal Aliens, Guard our Frontiers, Pro-Life, Save the Planet, and—with all that money saved—Rebuild America with a Marshall Plan FOR America—charity begins at home! Go USA!
If you want things to continue as they are, then by all means, vote for Sen. Barb.
If, however, you want a change and have had enough, I ask you to vote for me as your elected United States Senator.
Vote for yourselves—it’s that important!
Good evening, good luck, and thanks to all of you who took the time to read these thoughts of mine.
I respectfully ask for your vote.

Blaine Taylor, Democratic Candidate for United States Senate, Primary Election Tuesday, Sept. 14th—TOMORROW!—blainetaylor@comcast.net; Authority: Paul Gorman, Treasurer.

Good afternoon!
That’s what the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy said in the eulogy to his assassinated brother Sen. Robert F. Kennedy at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City in June 1968, over 42 years ago. That seems like yesterday to me! I’ve been trying to do the same thing since I first entered public life as a college student in September 1968.
As Lady Gaga said in a recent TV interview, “It’s always bad to hate, and always good to love.” I concur.
Although it is little recalled now, RFK was NOT murdered because of his anti-Vietnam War stance, but because he supported criminal Israel in its Six-Day War of June 1967. That month also saw the first American victims of the current bogus “war on terror” when US Navy sailors were killed by the Israeli Air Force on a US Navy spy ship, the LIBERTY.
The Israelis lied when they said they didn’t know it was a US vessel. They knew it, all right, but didn’t want us to know what they were doing with their Arab prisoners-of-war, hence the criminal bombing and strafing of our ship.
From there has “progressed” their successful foreign policies to drag us into their wars. Enough—end ALL our wars on their behalf! Bring home all the troops and guard our own frontiers from the massive Latino invasion.
As your elected United States Senator, I will vote to cut off ALL US funding to the State of Israel in January 2011, and also to end the odious “special relationship” between our two countries that has been a disaster for the US ever since it started in 1948.
I will also vote to end ALL US citizens having dual citizenships with other countries, like Israel.
You cannot serve two masters, and houses divided against themselves fall. I do not want us dragged into World War III so that criminal Israel can keep the West Bank that it stole in 1967, and all the other territory that it stole since 1917-on.
Imprisoned Israeli spies should be executed as such: traitors to the United States, period. The last time we did this was under Ike in 1953, the Rosenbergs. Time to do it again.
These gangsters can stand or fall on their own, period, without us. We’ve already done far too much for them as it is.
It’s time to dump Israel, and put our own interests ahead of theirs for the first time since 1933.
Good afternoon!***

Blaine Taylor, Democratic Candidate for United States Senate, Primary Election Sept. 14th, blainetaylor@comcast.net; Authority: Paul Gorman, Treasurer.

Good evening!
“Give me a place to stand,” said Archimedes, “and I will move the world!”
So can we all—you and me, all of us, really—but we must first find within ourselves the courage to do so.
Those moments came for me many times in this life: I survived my childhood with a trio of stepfathers who made life miserable for me. They thought that they’d break me, but I outlasted them all.
In grade school, I was beaten up every day after school for a year by a trio of classmates, but I outlasted them, too.
Now, they are in history’s dustbin, and I stand before you, and for you, as candidate for the United States Senate.
During the Segregation Years of 1957-62, I grew up in rough and tumble Waverly in downtown Baltimore, where gangs roamed our streets, and rats our alleys: THOSE were MY playmates!
By the time I entered the National Army, I’d already seen all of that, plus drug dealers and their victims, minor gangsters, prostitutes and their pimps.
Truly, I sprang from the gutter, but out of that I learned that if you looked for the good in people, you may find it; but if you look instead for humankind’s worst, you shall surely fimd that, too: in yourself and in others.
I chose the former. I was and remain an idealist: so may I always be!
After having experienced the above, the Vietnam War for me was, by comparison, a garden party for polite young ladies.
Returning home from that in late 1967, I looked forward to Robert Kennedy being elected President in 1968.
The morning he was shot, my sister told me. I asked, “Where was he hit?” She answered, “In the head.”
I replied—as the former combat soldier I’d just been—”He’s done. It’s over.” 40 years passed before another like chance came again, and thus a whole generation was robbed of its leader.
Those were our bitter formative years.
In January 1969 at age 22, I foresaw most of what has come to pass since then in our poor country these past trying four decades.
I decided then and there that I would run for President someday, and in 2008, I fulfilled that vow.
Who—in January 2008—would’ve predicted that I would be on that November ballot in Maryland, and Hillary Clinton would NOT be? No one, but thus it came to pass!
Thus are the vagaries of history—and fate—but we it is who must push off the boat from the safe shore to reach the other, far shore. It will not happen of its own accord!
Now I come again, raising the banner—to whom all can repair!—to stop these wars foisted upon us, the common people, by the elite at the top who’ve made such a God-awful disaster and horrific mess of the great military and political victory that my parents and yours won for us in 1945.
We—the victors’ children, no less!—must have the guts to turn our history since then on its head, and restore the Consitutional rule of law and order as best exemplified by our Pledge of Allgeiance to the Flag that we all do know.
As I was not afraid of running against Clarence Long in 1982 for Congress—and garnered fully 12,000 votes from our citizens in my first Federal election race a whole generation ago—so, too, now, I am not daunted by running against a woman 11 years my senior whose votes for these unending wars are on the WRONG side of progressive and peaceful politics.
Only by voting her OUT can we vote peace IN. It’s just that simple. I have been beaten many times in this life.
It took me 40 years to publish the books I conceived at age 20 as a student at then-Towson State College, but now published they have been!
I passed my first legislation as a 22-year-old elected TSC Student Government Association Senator. True to form, I ran for SGA President in 1971.
I can be beaten and I will die, but I do not quit, give up, or run away when things get dicey, as they usually do.:)
My mother arrived at a downtown Baltimore bus station at age 23 with me as a baby in her arms: no job, no friends, no place to live, and with $ 32 in her purse.
She’s left an abusive husband, my father, whom I later “met” at age 14 in a courthouse.
And so we began, she and I, and we made a life for each other. As SHE was with ME at the start, I was with HER at the finish!
And when my heart’s dearest died, I—her knight-errant son—was at her side in full uniform, all decorations affixed.
Truly, I AM my Mother’s son!
When I seek inner courage, I look no further than to her, and to my maternal grandmother, whose husband left her in the depths of the Depression to raise four children, starting out at age 40 in the workplace, never having worked a day of her life outside her home.
She retired as an honored civilian employee at the Pentagon, and reclaimed her ancestral farm in the rugged mountains of East Tennesse.
When comes such another?
Sustained by the many years that I shared with them—and by those priceless memories—I soldier on, shoulder to the wheel.
The stone is at the bottom of the hill, truly, but together we will get done what NEEDS to be gotten done, starting with ending ALL these foolish wars, thereby reversing our economy to boot!
To those who say, “You can’t, you mustn’t, you wouldn’t dare, it’s impossibel!” I say, “Come on then, I’m ready for the next round! I got shot at by the Communist Viet Cong—you didn’t!
“I am ready—and I am not afraid.”
Outside my window right now, fireworks are going off, celebrating the 1814 Maryland victory of common citizens who beat the greatest standing army in the world to a standstill, thereby saving Baltimore from being burned to the ground.
We were great then—and in 1945—time to be great again!
Let freedom ring!
End ALL the wars!
Give peace a chance!
Good night!

Blaine Taylor, Democratic Candidate for United States Senate, Primary Election Sept. 14th, blainetaylor@comcast.net; Authority: Paul Gorman, Treasurer.

Good evening!
Three of the most tragic and important dates in recent American history are Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963, and the attacks on America of Sept. 11, 2001.
Many of you remember all three personally, more of us recall the last two—like me—and most of you remember the last one most vividly or only, because you were born after JFK’s death.
Tonight, I put politics aside to remember the dead and wounded of all three occasions, as well as our relatives and friends fighting on our behalf far from home and their loved ones, those of us here, left behind.
As a former combat soldier and wartime veteran, all of this resonates deeply with me.
I recall my late Mother crying as I left the family home in Govans late in 1966 to enter a cab that would take me to the airport and back to military duty, destination Vietnam.
As a former worker in the US Graves Registration in World War II—with her own two brothers also having served—she thought that I would be killed, and that she would never see me again.
Naturally, I am glad that I wasn’t, but even more so for her, as my death would’ve just killed her as well.
She would never be right again. I thank God every time I think that it didn’t happen, and that she never experienced it, as she had a tough enough life as it was.
I think, too, of my wartime buddies who were killed, however, as well as a Towson bartender I knew who was killed a year after he told me he was joining the Army at 42, and I tried to talk him out of it.
I think also of someone else whom I didn’t know personally, but whom I knew OF, through a mutual friend.
I followed this young man’s career from afar—step by step—until he, too, was killed in our current wars.
No one who knows what I know about war in person can take it lightly in any way.
In my mind’s eye, I still see myself as a 19-year-old soldier in Vietnam, a little girl in my arms who’d been injured in a traffic accident when I happened upon her and her already dead father, a South Vietnamese soldier who’d just retired from his army.
As we rushed her to the nearest aid station in my jeep, she died in my arms, and that was just that.
She was about seven years old. Death is the great leveler of politics!
Prior to arriving in Vietnam, I’d met at Ft. Benning, GA at Infantry Officer Candidate School, a young man who was then junior to me.
He’d been a star football player at Calvert Hall College High School, when and where he was everything, and I was nothing.
He was killed in Vietnam in the fall of 1969, about two years after I’d returned home, and today his name is on the wall of remembrance outside the Baltimore County Courthouse in Towson.
Whenever I’m there, I visit it—and him. I lived and he died, and that was just that, too.
I remember them all, and I honor them all—and I always will, too.
Good night!***

Blaine Taylor, Democratic Candidate for United States Senate, Primary Election Sept. 14th; blainetaylor@comcast.net; Authority: Paul Gorman, Treasurer.

Good morning!

From now on, build only energy efficient everything: cars, buses, trains, planes, buildings, ships, and all else—save the Earth!

Blaine Taylor, Democratic Candidate for United States Senate; Primary Election Sept. 14th and Early Voting Today, the 9th; blainetaylor@comcast.net; Authority: Paul Gorman Treasurer.

Good evening!
The Bush tax cuts should be allowed to expire in 2011 after their 10 years has run out. They should never have been enacted in the first place, and are largely responsible for having turned the Clinton Era budget surplus into the current deficits started under Bush 43.
I would not have voted for them as your elected United States Senator.***
Tonight, I want to emphasize the major points in my platform:
1) End ALL the wars,
2) Rebuild America with a Domestic Marshall Plan,
3)Restore the Constitutional rule of law, and
4) Give peace a chance!
Good night!

Blaine Taylor, Democratic Candidate for United States Senate, Primary Election Sept. 14th; blainetaylor@comcast.net; Authority: Paul Gorman, Treasurer.

Good evening! That is what I determined was needed in this country when I first entered public life as a college student at-then Towson State College back in 1968, 42 years ago—or was it when I quit high school, and enlisted in the United States Army Infantry in 1965, knowing that I would most likely go to Vietnam, as I did?
That was “public life,” too, and I was following John F. Kennedy’s 1961 dictum: “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.”
In running for the United States Senate in 2006, and again now, I am still attempting to fulfill that mandate of long ago, which—to me—seems like just yesterday.***
As I listed for the League of Women Voters in its Candidate Questionnaire re: my qualifications, “Common sense, decisive, courage.”
A friend of mine recently said regarding my chances of being elected, “You know, people may just walk into that voting booth, see your name, and say to themselves, ‘OK, he’s been down the road before. Let’s give him a chance, and see what he can do.”
We’re all going to find out on Election Day Night, Tuesday, Sept. 14th, in what is still the greatest free transfer of power anywhere on Earth—and what a magnificent thing that is!***
Today, I heard on the television news that the President is pumping $ 50 billion into the economy to help fix our ailing infrastructure. That’s a great start.
Like all of you out there, I, too, am concerned about too much government spending, and the growing menace of our vast National Debt—not for your grandchildren alone—but for all of US, too, in the here and now—no way can that be good!
All my Republican friends whom I see daily here on the streets of Towson where I live, chant their mantra of “Stop spending!” and that resonates with me, truly.
I remember very well also that when two past Presidents cut taxes—JFK in 1961-62, and Ronald Reagan in 1981-82—revenues increased , but I am also wary of what former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said on TV’s MEET THE PRESS a few weeks ago: “Tax cuts with borrowed money” (i.e., from China or elsewhere) “is disastrous. Tax cuts do NOT pay for themselves.”
As of today, unemployment is at 9.6 % officially, but I suspect that the real number is actually much higher. Having been unemployed in my career, I know the drill. So do you.
As I’ve said above, what’s needed is, “Common sense, decisiveness, and courage,” to find that Middle Way that has always been THE hallmark of positive, effective American politics at all levels of governance: may it always be so!
As Lyndon Johnson told the nation in some of his very first words as President on the night of Nov. 22, 1963: “I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help—and God’s.”
In my case, I reverse that order. Self-confidence aside, the times demand of all of us in public life the truest sense of humility to acknowledge the daunting tasks that we all face. I will not be found wanting!***
In conclusion tonight, I will share with you a decision that I reached last night.
If I go to Washington, DC this coming January as your elected United States Senator, I will continue this nightly blog “fireside chat” as a daily way of keeping all of you informed.
At the end of each day, I will say, “OK, here’s what happened today on your behalf. This is what I did, and why. Here’s where I fell short, and where I hope to pick up the ball tomorrow, and go forward.”
The great thing about being the “prolific writer” I’ve always been called is that I CAN do this. It’s a great feeling.***
I’ll see you tomorrow. Good night!

Blaine Taylor, Democratic Candidate for United States Senate, Primary Election Sept. 14th and also Early Voting days; blainetaylor@comcast.net; Authority: Paul Gorman, Treasurer.