Rosenberg is “probably to the left of Bernie Sanders,” writes a blogger on mdshooters.com.

Mr. Sanders is a Democratic Socialist and a member of the United States Senate.

I meet one of the criteria in Alvy Singer’s cultural stereotype of a Jewish left-wing liberal in “Annie Hall.” I lived on the Upper West Side of Manhattan during law school.

But my father doesn’t have Ben Shahn drawings, and I didn’t go to socialist summer camps. It was Reform Judaism summer camp instead.

As to the blogger’s political stereotype, I succeed in Annapolis when I seek common ground.

I raise issues that others may not – gun control and civil rights, among them, but I’m not a majority of one.

Incremental progress is better than press releases bemoaning unfavorable reports.

By the way, The Almanac of American Politics has called Senator Sanders a “practical” and “successful legislator.”

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Clarification: I wrote last week that “the alleged SLAPP [Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation] is the suit filed by the Cordish Cos., asserting fraudulent acts in the referendum petition drive opposing a slots facility at Arundel Mills.”

The only defendant in that suit is the Anne Arundel County Board of Elections. Maryland law defines a SLAPP suit as an action “brought against a party who has communicated with a federal, State, or local government body or the public at large.”

However, Stop Slots at the Mall, the coalition that led the referendum effort, has filed a motion to intervene in that lawsuit.