As a result, she was able to tap into pools of money unavailable to Glendening, who opposes gambling. But Rehrmann raised only half that amount and then spent most of it without buying a single TV ad, said campaign spokesman George Harrison. But after would-be donors saw polls showing that Rehrmann badly trailed Glendening, they wanted proof that their money was not going to a lost cause. Well, we can only show them we can win with money. We could only have shown them if we could have gone on television.
Television is where it is.
That was roughly the total amount Rehrmann had in her campaign kitty at the end. She's a hard-working, honest politician. And it didn't happen. Rehrmann's abrupt withdrawal raises new questions about her most high-profile Democratic supporters, Prince George's County Executive Wayne K. Curry and Baltimore Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke. Political activists are privately debating whether Curry, Schmoke and other Rehrmann supporters miscalculated by overestimating Glendening's weaknesses, or whether they knowingly embarked on a hopeless crusade in order to register their unhappiness with the governor and possibly try to gain concessions from him.