While three Democratic Senate candidates protested their exclusion from a two-man Maryland Public TV debate Thursday night, there will be no debate at all for Republicans running for Senate.
“In that race, Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele is unopposed,” host Jeff Salkin told the TV audience after a Monday night debate for attorney general candidates.
He?s wrong.
Nine other Republicans are running for U.S. Senate, with probably the most flamboyant being Daniel “The Wig Man” Vovak, who took his candidacy to court Wednesday.
It is hard to tell if Vovak, 34, a Washington writer, is serious. He wears a white wig when he campaigns, and Wednesday, he asked an Anne Arundel Circuit judge to order the state to put the word “the” back into the “Wig Man” nickname he says he was given by a New Hampshire journalist. Judge Ronald Silkworth and Vovak were about the only two people in the court not laughing at the exchange.
Other candidates have raised virtually no money, compared to Steele?s $4 million, but several have their own Web sites, which is about the only way they are making their campaigns known.
