Cranky Comptroller

Maryland's Cranky Comptroller is somewhat of a Maryland political legend.  He served several terms as Baltimore's mayor, Maryland's governor, and now comptroller.  He's beloved by many in Maryland, but the folks over at The Washington Post's The Reliable Source asks if his shtick is getting old and chronicles his misadventures through the years. 

January 1987: The newly elected governor marks his departure for Annapolis by stepping into a crate labeled "Baltimore's Gift to Maryland," which is lifted onto a ship. He then emerges, dressed in a white officer's uniform.

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March 1991: Angered by critical letters to the editor, Schaefer has state troopers drive him unannounced to the writer's home and harangues him for an hour.

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March 1993: At a news conference calling for a ban on some firearms, Schaefer points a 9mm pistol (unloaded, it turned out) at an AP reporter. "Some of you have never had it in your face. . . . I don't know what would happen to your pants, but I can imagine."

Read the story for a few more anecdotes.  Schaefer is running for re-election again this year.  He's 84 years old and has come into the news for, last week, having a 24-year-old governor's aide who had brought him a cup of tea to return.  When she came back, he told her to walk again so he could continue to leer at her.  When questioned by reporters (this was at public, videotaped meeting), Schaefer responded that they were making a big deal out of nothing and that the day he stops looking at pretty girls is the day he'll die.  We'll see how this plays out with voters later this year.  They seem to love the old curmudgeon.