After holding state-wide caucuses (not funded or operated by the state, in order to ensure accuracy), the Maryland Green Party has nominated Ed Boyd for governor.
Ed served his country in the U.S. Navy in the 1980s. After his service he did outreach work with homeless veterans with the Community for Creative Nonviolence in Washington, D.C. He is actively involved in the antiwar movement.
The Boyd campaign has taken on Baltimore Gas and Electric Co, which recently announced a 70% rate increase. Boyd advocates public ownership of the utility, noting that 2000 electric utilities are now community owned, that the number grows every year, and that community owned utilities consistantly offer cheaper rates than stockholder owned utilities.
The Democratic and Republican candidates for governor, who have all taken tens of thousands of dollars from the utilities, have offered plans that would phase in the increase, then make consumers pay the deferred amount over time--with interest.
Only Boyd has stood up to this new Enron. In November, voters may very well vote their pocketbooks, and vote against candidates that are in the utility's back pocket.