Tuesday's Primary Election Results Of Interest

Maryland
Dashing the hopes of Mad Professah and others for an all-Black male United States Senate race, U.S. Rep Benjamin Cardin has apparently edged out former U.S. Rep Kweisi Mfume for the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate in Maryland by less than 25, 000 votes out of nearly half a million cast in a crowded field of sixteen hopefuls to replace retiring Senator Paul Sarbanes. Cardin will now face Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, a conservative right-wing ideologue in the mold of Ohio Secretary of State R. Kenneth Blackwell and Pennsylvanian Gubernatorial candidate Lynn Swann on the November 7th ballot. Mad Professah encourages the substantial African American community to vote for Cardin! In addition to the Senate race, Maryland had the opportunity to nominate (and in all practical purposes elect) the Nation's First Every Black Gay State Representatives yesterday. According to The Victory Fund, both candidates Anthony McCarthy and Mary Washington failed to place in the top 3 of their respective districts. Looks like we'll have to wait a little longer to reach that milestone.

Brooklyn, New York
In the hotly contested Democratic primary to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Major Owens in the Flatbush/Crown Heights/Park Slope section of Brooklyn, Jamaican-American City councilwoman Yvette Clarke beat Jewish City councilman David Yassky 31.2 to 26.2 percent despite being significantly out fundraised in the race. Yvette Clarke is the daughter of Una Clarke, the first Caribbean-born woman to serve on the New York City council. The 11th Cnogressional district of New York was once represented by Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman to run for President of the United States and was originally created after the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 to increase minority participation in representative government. The district, which once was almost three-quarters Black (with a large percentage of Caribbean/West Indian immigrants) has been redistricted to include more White voters from gentrified sections of Brooklyn like Park Slope, Cobble Hill and Brooklyn Heights with the results that nearly 21% of the residents are White and only 58% are Black. Clarke beat out the retiring officeholder's son Chris Owens (who placed fourth) along with a popular State Senator who represents significant portions of the district and the well-funded Yassky to win the political dogfight which gained national notoriety for the racial politics involved.