Committee sends Somerset County farmer’s nomination to governor’s desk
Kevin Anderson is a Princess Anne farmer and a close lifelong friend of the late Delegate Charles Otto (R-38A). Republicans are asking Gov. Wes Moore to appoint Anderson to the House vacancy.
In the summer of 2010, veteran Somerset County lawmaker Page Elmore lost his battle with cancer, creating a vacancy for his seat in the House of Delegates.
It was Kevin Anderson who pushed for his lifelong friend Charles Otto, the best man at his wedding, to campaign for the job.
“I kept begging him to file to run, and he wouldn’t do it,” Anderson recalled in an interview.
“On the final day, I called him at lunchtime, and said, ‘you have to go to Baltimore to file. You could win this.’ We made the agreement that if I would drive him to Baltimore, he’d file to run. So at 4 o’clock – the deadline was 8 pm – we left Princess Anne and we drove to Baltimore,” he added.
With Anderson by his side as his campaign manager, Charles Otto won not only that election for the District 38A seat, but another two more.
Otto had just filed to run for a fourth term when he died unexpectedly on Oct. 17 at age 61. State election rules say Otto’s fellow Republican Party members may nominate a replacement for Gov. Wes Moore’s final approval.
you know Moore isnt going to put any Republican in office
No! He’d much rather have a DEI democrat.