Posted by Phil Lee (64.24.95.33) on November 17, 2002 at 15:58:
ANNAPOLIS -- House Speaker Casper R. Taylor Jr. brought home the bacon to Western Maryland for 28 years, and thought mistakenly that he would coast to an easy victory over Republican businessman Leroy Myers Jr.
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"The Republicans from downstate took advantage of the target that the gun lobby created against me by singling me out as a trophy to defeat," said Taylor (D-Dist. 1C) of Cumberland. "They did it with a tremendous amount of carpetbagger distortions ... [They] distorted the issue so badly that people in Washington County were convinced that I was singlehandedly trying to confiscate their guns, which was an outrage."
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