A Very Serious Problem that Should Cause Americans to Reject Hillary Clinton November 3, 2016 In the Presidential campaign there is a lot of breaking news regarding corruption in the State Department and in the Department of Justice. The allegations that are now being made expose corruption much worse than that which led to Richard […]
Supreme Court upholds personal right to bear arms by C. Paul Smith, July 3, 2010 I will make a couple of comments on the recent Supreme Court ruling in McDonald v. Chicago, which held that the Second Amendment right to bear arms applies to the states as well as to the federal government. For the most […]
By C. Paul Smith, July 3, 2010 In the true spirit of American freedom, I offer today some views on the state of our liberty. My friend Alan predicted that this writing would be too long. I guess he may be right. But for those of you whose attention spans have the capacity to consider […]
Letter to the editor, February 10, 2016. In their victory speeches(1) on Tuesday night after the New Hampshire Primary results were certain (projecting Sen. Sanders at 60% and Sec. Hilary Clinton at 40%), both Sanders and Clinton criticized the current law on campaign financing, as established by the 2010 Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United […]
Carol Krimm and Karen Young won the two State Delegate slots for District 3A in the November 4, 2014 General Election. Although we do not have the count from the provisional ballots (which will be announced on November 12th), we know that the results will not change. After counting the absentee ballots on November 6th, […]
I was not successful in capturing one of the two seats for State Delegate in District 3A. When the results were in at 10:30 p.m. Tuesday night, I was in third place by about 900 votes. Carol Krimm (at 28%) and Karen Young at (26%) were the two winners. I received 24% of the vote, and Vickie […]
The following ad will be printed in the Frederick News Post this Saturday. It is most appropriate that the spookiest, scariest day of the year should precede the General Election by just a few days. One of the attractions of Halloween is our fascination with distortion and ugliness—there is a place in our hearts for a […]
This is in response to three opinion pieces in Sunday’s Frederick News Post (FNP), supporting the State’s policies to clean the Chesapeake Bay, and one of which specifically criticized me. Stormwater I support reasonable measures to clean the Chesapeake Bay. The problem with Governor O’Malley’s excessive stormwater remediation policies is that A) they are too […]
Paul Smith responds to yet another attack piece full of falsehoods, the third that has been sent to Frederick residents in the last 6 days. Today, October 22nd, residents of Frederick received the third attack mailer from the House Democrats attempting to convince voters NOT to vote for me for Maryland House of Delegates. This one again […]
Below is a statement from Paul Smith correcting Jan Gardner’s misrepresentation that the BOCC is “giving away $160 million.” Jan Gardner, a candidate for County Executive, is repeatedly makes a false accusation that the current BOCC is “giving away $160 million” of taxpayers’ money to “out of state developers.” It is a major criticism in […]