Time for Bartlett to go

By Deborah Carter

People are known by the company they keep. Congressional hopeful Andrew Duck is one of a noble company of veterans who served his country in Iraq and now wishes to serve in Washington. In addition, he's endorsed by a wide variety of nonpartisan organizations, such as the Maryland State Teachers Association, the AFL-CIO, and several newspapers.

Incumbent Roscoe Bartlett, on the other hand, prefers the company of folks like Sun Myung Moon, Tom DeLay, and others steeped in the far right's culture of corruption. Despite -- or perhaps because of -- a 14-year record in Congress, he is endorsed by only a small circle of wealthy and fiercely partisan special interest groups.