Kittleman, Krebs, Elliott will return to Annapolis

Thursday, Nov. 9, 2006

Carroll County voters in districts 9, 4B and 9B are sending their representatives back to Annapolis for four more years, according to Tuesday’s General Election results.

Republican Allan H. Kittleman of West Friendship secured a clear victory over Democrat challenger Rich Corkran of Ellicott City in the District 9 race, by a vote of 9,598 (67 percent) to 5,019 (34 percent). For his first Senate election, Kittleman said he was pleased with the margin of victory. Kittleman was selected in 2004 to finish out the term of his father, who died that year. ‘‘I’m pleased the voters of District 9 have chosen me to represent them,” he said. ‘‘I’m looking forward to going to Annapolis, serving the people of District 9, and I plan to work to get the commissioner districts because that’s what the people wanted.” Carroll voters decided in 2004 to elect commissioners by districts; however, the measure never made it out of the 2006 General Assembly for approval.

Wallace Thompson, Del. Susan Krebs, and Joshua Carroll, 10, all of Eldersburg, campaign outside of Liberty High School during Tuesday’s General Election. Krebs was successful in her bid to regain her District 9B seat in the Maryland House of Delegates.                        Bill Ryan⁄The Gazette

Kittleman added that he would continue to work for code home rule even though it failed to pass in Carroll County. Code home rule puts more local control in the hands of commissioners.

In the District 9B race for House of Delegates, Republican Susan Krebs of Eldersburg was returned to her seat, with 10,818 votes (72 percent) over Democrat Anita Lombardi Riley of Eldersburg. Riley received 4,235 votes (28 percent).

Krebs was pleased with her margin of victory, she said.

‘‘Last time I had 62 percent of the votes and this time I had 72 percent, and I expect it will increase with absentee ballots too,” she said. ‘‘I’m very, very pleased with my win.”

Krebs said she was disappointed that voters turned down code home rule.

‘‘It’s very counterintuitive in my mind why a Republican county, of all counties, would want to be controlled by a primarily Democrat-controlled Annapolis,” she said. ‘‘I think it’s all about the power, but I’m about the people having local control.”

Riley was disappointed but not surprised by Tuesday’s results. ‘‘It was not unexpected.”

‘‘I’m disappointed in the Republicans in Carroll County because they failed to look past their party and there were a lot of good candidates,” she said. ‘‘The Republicans as far as I’m concerned are the losers here because they may have voted the Democrat’s out in Carroll County but not statewide.”

In the District 4B delegate race, Republican Donald Elliott of New Windsor defeated Democrat challenger Tim Schlauch of Westminster by a vote of 7,960 (70 percent) to 3,370 (28 percent).

Elliott said Wednesday he is overwhelmed and pleased with his win. ‘‘I was pleasantly pleased with the overwhelming confidence that people in my district gave me,” he said. ‘‘I will do my best to give back that confidence to them over the next term and I am very grateful.”

Sen. David R. Brinkley of New Market ran unopposed. Schlauch and Corkran did not return phone calls by The Gazette’s Wednesday press time.