<p><a href="https://www.the-chesapeake.com//wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Doug-Gansler-campaign-stop-092513.jpg"><img src="https://www.the-chesapeake.com//wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Doug-Gansler-campaign-stop-092513-300x282.jpg" alt="" title="Doug Gansler campaign stop 092513" width="300" height="282" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2924" /></a>The first visit by a candidate for Governor in the 2014 election in Maryland took place on Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2013, when Attorney General Doug Gansler drew about two hundred people to a breakfast sponsored by Leonardtown attorney Phil Dorsey.<figure id="attachment_2927" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2927" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="https://www.the-chesapeake.com//wp-content/uploads/2013/09/DSCF8475.jpg"><img src="https://www.the-chesapeake.com//wp-content/uploads/2013/09/DSCF8475-300x116.jpg" alt="" title="DSCF8475" width="300" height="116" class="size-medium wp-image-2927" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-2927" class="wp-caption-text">Richard Fritz, left, States Attorney of St. Mary's County, left, with Attorney General Doug Gansler</figcaption></figure><br />
A political odd-couple, Fritz, a Republican and former Democrat, appeared and endorsed the candidacy of liberal Democrat Doug Gansler. Fritz, who came in third in a three-way race for Circuit Court Judge in 2004, railed against liberal Democrat Judge Karen Abrams, an appointee of Maryland Governor Parris Glendening, a Judge with much of the same views as Gansler. Fritz also has the distinction of likely being the only States Attorney in Maryland who <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y-fjCyinfM">pleaded guilty to carnal knowledge,</a> along with two other young men, of a 15-year-old girl, in an incident that the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNHUfu67okE">victim claimed was a gang rape</a>. Fritz advised then-Sheriff Richard Voorhaar and a band of deputies that their plan to seize all copies of St. Mary&#8217;s Today newspaper the night before the election in 1998 would be lawful. That action led to a civil rights case that was decided against Fritz and the Sheriff, costing the taxpayers over one million dollars.<figure id="attachment_2271" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2271" style="width: 200px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="Read more about Richard Fritz and the newspaper raid "><img src="https://www.the-chesapeake.com//wp-content/uploads/2013/09/The-Story-of-the-Rag.jpg" alt="" title="The Story of the Rag" width="200" height="200" class="size-full wp-image-2271" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-2271" class="wp-caption-text">Available in Kindle, paperback and soon in audiobook edition at Amazon</figcaption></figure><br />
In addition to Richard Fritz endorsing Gansler were former St. Mary&#8217;s Commissioner Dan Raley and longtime waterman Tucker Brown, who knows a lot about Maryland&#8217;s critical seafood industry and regulations administered by the heavy hand of state agents.<figure id="attachment_2929" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2929" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="https://www.the-chesapeake.com//wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Tucker-Brown.jpg"><img src="https://www.the-chesapeake.com//wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Tucker-Brown-300x225.jpg" alt="" title="Tucker Brown" width="300" height="225" class="size-medium wp-image-2929" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-2929" class="wp-caption-text">Waterman Tucker Brown, of the Seventh District.</figcaption></figure><figure id="attachment_2930" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2930" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="https://www.the-chesapeake.com//wp-content/uploads/2013/09/DSCF8472.jpg"><br />
<figure id="attachment_2932" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2932" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-2932" class="wp-caption-text">Dorsey Machine chieftain Phil Dorsey continues the family tradition of hosting state-wide candidates in St. Mary's County. THE CHESAPEAKE photos</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.the-chesapeake.com//wp-content/uploads/2013/09/DSCF8463.jpg"><img src="https://www.the-chesapeake.com//wp-content/uploads/2013/09/DSCF8463-300x225.jpg" alt="" title="DSCF8463" width="300" height="225" class="size-medium wp-image-2932" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-2930" class="wp-caption-text">Tucker Brown, left, with Maryland Governor hopeful and Attorney General Doug Gansler, right.</figcaption></figure><br />
<figure id="attachment_2936" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2936" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="https://www.the-chesapeake.com//wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Fall-is-time-for-politics.jpg"><img src="https://www.the-chesapeake.com//wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Fall-is-time-for-politics-300x225.jpg" alt="" title="Fall is time for politics" width="300" height="225" class="size-medium wp-image-2936" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-2936" class="wp-caption-text">Fall is time for politics in the land of the flask, the fiddle and the dark roasted possum.</figcaption></figure><br />
The GANSLER GATHERING&#8230; was held at St. Phil&#8217;s, which is a former church, that Phil Dorsey bought when the Episcopal parish opted to restore and renew the old St. Andrews Church on St. Andrew&#8217;s Church Road, which is the final resting place of both Dorsey&#8217;s father and grandfather, from whom he inherited the much ballyhooed &#8220;Dorsey Machine&#8221; of local politics. </p>