UPDATE: A Maryland Juice reader provides a contrast with how another MoCo lawmaker's office handled the lobbying from marriage equality opponents: "Saw your post about Sam Arora -- my Delegate met with the catholics tonight as well (25 of them in a small, confined office!). When marriage equality came up and the group said it was wrong, my Delegate came back with another reason why it was a big accomplishment to vote in favor of it on Friday. And kept advocating for marriage equality for 10 minutes."
Boy this makes my blood boil. An anonymous source in Annapolis tells Maryland Juice that
temporary Delegate Sam Arora appears to be defiant about lying his way into office. Last Friday, the dishonest lawmaker broke a campaign promise to support marriage equality --
and he never found the courage to tell his constituents why. But apparently he has time to meet with the Catholic Conference -- one of the groups leading the charge against marriage equality in Maryland. Their newly promoted archbishop has been
trying to stoke anti-equality feelings in Maryland. Check out the online chat dialogue below:
Aide: Sam Arora. Jeez. The Catholic Conference was in his office and he was giving some speech to them.
Juice: Did you hear any of it?
Aide: No. Just the multiple rounds of loud applause. He's walking around all cocky. He doesn't care.
SAM ARORA GOES VIRAL: Unfortunately for Sam Arora, his donors and colleagues care. In fact, in just two days,
Maryland Juice's round-up of attempts to defeat Sam Arora has become our second most popular series of all-time. The story of Montgomery County's notorious backstabber has gone viral, making it a more popular story than
Delegate Nic Kipke's hypocritical affair and even more popular than the release of
Maryland's new Congressional districts. In fact, based on readership rates, only
the issue of censorship pisses off Maryland Juice readers more than Sam Arora's backstabbing.
WTOP radio recently covered the story, and included the following comments from some of Sam Arora's Montgomery county colleagues:
