Turns out Bob Ehrlich wasn't the only high-profile candidate filing Friday. An eager young candidate for Congress, who has been featured on National Public Radio and the BBC, sauntered in moments after Ehrlich, hoping to secure a place the ballot.
"Murray Hill is here," Jared DeMarinis, director of the Division of Candidacy and Campaign Finance told his colleagues. "What should I do?"
The complication: Murray Hill is a corporation.
The small public relations firm in Silver Spring has been waging its tongue-in-cheek campaign against Democratic Rep. Chris Van Hollen as a way to mock the Supreme Court's recent ruling that equates corporations to human beings when it comes to campaign contributions.
The Washington Post put it this way in a March