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U.S. SENATE RACE
Both Candidates Assail Radio Ad
The two leading candidates for U.S. Senate in Maryland have not agreed on much during their campaign. But yesterday, they agreed that a radio advertisement sponsored by a national group for black Republicans should be pulled off the air.
In the 60-second ad, two women discuss black history, saying Democrats "passed those black codes and Jim Crow laws" and "started the Ku Klux Klan."
Republican Michael S. Steele demanded that the sponsor, the National Black Republican Association, halt the campaign on radio stations in Baltimore and called the ad "insulting." The day before, Steele said he had not heard the spot but generally does not oppose efforts to assert Republicans' "real place in history."
Democrat Benjamin L. Cardin also issued a statement, saying, "We expect the Republicans to run misleading and offensive attack ads, but not blatantly rewrite history. . . . This ad is a distortion of history and distraction from the important issues facing the people of Maryland."
The director of the group did not return a call seeking comment, but the group yesterday moved a copy of the ad to a less prominent spot on its Web page.
-- Matthew Mosk
MONTGOMERY COUNTY
Man, 59, Killed in Olney Collision
A 59-year-old Rockville man died yesterday morning as a result of a two-vehicle collision in Olney, Montgomery County police said.
Paul Ernest Myers was pronounced dead at the scene, near Georgia Avenue and Emory Lane, and the other driver, Eric Burlas, 18, of Brookeville, was taken to a hospital with serious injuries, authorities said.
