A synagogue auditorium, where the temperature was alternately too hot or too cold, hardly seemed like the place to gauge whether a mini-revolution is about to strike at the Maryland Democratic establishment.
Neither was the sight of four white guys in suits – two of them highly tanned from door-knocking all summer.
But the synagogue, in Annapolis, was host Tuesday night to a forum for the four candidates for mayor in advance of the city’s primary next Tuesday. And while the rhetoric was far more temperate than the room itself, it belied the fact that the Annapolis mayoral election may be the most important in Maryland this year, ahead of the big 2018 campaigns.
The topics the candidates discussed were fairly prosaic for a municipal election – planning and zoning, coastal flooding, police-community relations, and more. And it sometimes took some work to hear dramatic differences among the contenders.
