“Bagel Brain Jews Want Your Bullets and Your Guns”

This anti-Semitic attack on myself and Senator Brian Frosh is the handiwork of the Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership.

I ignored this foul slur when I first learned of it from a Google News Alert.

After it was mailed to residents in Senator Frosh’s neighborhood, a Sun reporter asked me about it.

He accurately quoted me as saying: “I’m not going to allow them to deter me from what I believe we should be doing, nor is it going to prompt me to fall into the gutter with them.”

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bal-md.flier13mar13,0,3259898.story

It was front page news that my committee and my chairman were criticized for “rude behavior and ravaging witnesses” by the president of the Women Legislators of Maryland.

As I’ve written in this diary, witnesses need to be asked more tough questions, not fewer.

One constituent wrote me: “80 million of law abiding gun owners knows this [my bill is “just a political agenda rather than what’s best for the citizenry.”] and they sure remember it at re-election time.”

My 28 years in Annapolis have taught me otherwise. If the voters know that you make your decisions on controversial bills after serious thought, they won’t throw you out of office because of one vote.

Advocates on the right and the left may wish that were so, but it rarely is.