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Here is a snapshot of recent news media coverage of Ed Priola's run for Maryland House of Delegates.

Breaking Through

By Larry Carson

The Batimore Sun, July 17, 2010

Republican Edward J. Priola, 56, says he's working hard to crack the solid threesome of experienced District 13 Democrats who represent southeastern Howard County in the Maryland House of Delegates. Although the incumbents — Guy Guzzone, Shane Pendergrass and Frank Turner — say they are confident they've served the people well and will be reelected.

"Every day at 7 a.m. I'm waving [signs] at traffic," Priola said, wearing a colorful tropical shirt and a big smile at his "Aloha Priola" Hawaiian Luau fundraising event at High Ridge Park in North Laurel on Sunday. The event drew about 50 to 60 people, including other Republican candidates and officials, and raised "a couple thousand bucks," Priola guessed.

But he's relying more on sweat and shoe leather than money, he said, and now the veteran Republican is working full-time at it, having resigned his job as communications officer for the Washington-based Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. Priola ran once before for delegate, in 1994 in Anne Arundel County, but was unsuccessful.

This time, he said he and supporters are dropping 300 to 500 campaign door-hangers a day. He's hit 20,000 doors since October, he said, and returns to sign waving at commuters each afternoon rush hour.

"I think we're making an impression," he said. "I do think we're the hardest-working campaign in Howard County." Priola is one of four Republicans, including Jeff Robinson, Loretta Gaffney and J'Neanne Theus, competing for three GOP nominations for House of Delegates.

Priola is pushing term limits and fiscal conservatism along with a friendly climate for private business.

"It's not a Republican year," Priola said. "It's a fiscal conservatives' year."

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Dist. 13 Candidate Seeks Better Business Climate

By Sarah Breitenbach

Columbia Flier, June 24, 2010

[...] Ed Priola, also a House of Delegates candidate in District 13 who recently filed his candidacy, said he believes spending is out of control at the state level.

However, Priola, a Republican from Owen Brown, said he wants to be known as the "term-limit candidate."

"I think we've got too many career politicians in office," he said. "I think they've lost sight of (the people they represent)."

Priola pledges that if elected, his first piece of legislation would limit senators and delegates to two terms of office.

Priola, who is focusing on his candidacy full-time, previously handled public affairs for the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. He teaches communications at the University of Maryland, University College. [...]

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Term Limits Movement Catching on Among Challengers

By Alan Brody

Gazette.net, May 21, 2010

If Ed Priola is elected to the House of Delegates in November, he doesn't plan to get too comfortable around State Circle.

With the public's confidence in government in the tank and criticism toward entrenched politicians becoming louder, challengers such as Priola, who is running in Howard County's District 13, are hoping to woo disenchanted voters by pledging to honor self-imposed term limits.

"We've got Jurassic government in Annapolis, and we've got to stop that," the Republican said. "Term limits are one answer."

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Delegate Candidates Host Roundtable with Reporters

By Sarah Breitenbach

Columbia Flier, April 20, 2010

Four Republican candidates for the Maryland General Assembly invited reporters out to lunch this week to discuss their fiscal priorities and desire to reduce spending by the state government.

The get-together was an opportunity for candidates in District 13, which includes southeastern Howard County, to introduce themselves to the media.

Senate candidate Kyle Lorton and House of Delegates candidates Ed Priola, Jeff Robinson and J’Neanne Theus used the roundtable forum to discuss how concerned the voters are about government spending and taxes. [...]

While candidates dined on soup, salad and a breaded chicken dish, Priola used his discussion time to talk about reforming the legislature by limiting lawmaker’s terms and extending the annual 90-day session.

Maryland’s existing legislative process is set up for an agrarian society and creates a lack of concentration on key issues, he said. [...]

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