One Month Out

We are one month away from the filing deadline for candidates to run in this year's elections. And in the next 30 days, we are still a lot of questions that need to be answered in our District.

• Dwyer's Decision: Don Dwyer announced he was running for the State Senate in May. As of today, however, he is still a declared candidate for the House of Delegates. What gives? Is there some sort of deception going on here? His Senate website is still merely a placeholder. He did not show up to the Lake Shore parade on Sunday. And how will the rumors of a Nelson Sabatini candidacy impact what he finally does? Is Don Dwyer really going to run for the Senate, or was his announcement a bait and switch?
  
  
• A Slippery Slate: Speaking of Dwyer, he announced that he was creating a slate in March 2005 and announced that Pat Corcoran would join him as a Delegate candidate on that slate. Fifteen months later, the slate still consists of only Dwyer and Corcoran; no other delegate candidate agreed to sign on, before or after Dwyer's announcement. That's not to say that they haven't tried to add candidates; they have. Does anybody want to be associated with the Dwyer/Corcoran team?
  
  
• The Leopold Factor: Speaking of last minute decisions, John Leopold will have to file for some elected office, and will probably wait until July 3rd to do so. Will he actually finally run for County Executive after six false starts? Will he jump into the Senate race? How will his political connection to Dwyer (given the fact that Dwyer is on Leopold's steering committee despite their polar opposite stances on some issues) impact his decision to finally file?

Thirty days until the deadline, but still we have many more questions than we do answers in this chaotic election cycle.